<p>IE
- just you and the computer screen.
- loud music to stifle any emotions, you, and the computer.
- a phone buddy.
- lots of people around you and the computer screen</p>
<p>ALSO... are any of you logging in and IMMEDIATELY looking at what it says?
I know I won't. I'm going to make the browser window really small so I can only see the upper left corner, and slowly drag the corner out so I can see the tops of letters pixel by pixel or just use the scroll-thing on my mouse and make the font really small and make it bigger and bigger (Mozilla feature) ... yeah, I'm weird. of course, I'll be alone with Ben Kweller's Falling in the background.</p>
<p>if you're the idiosyncratic type and prefer the envelope-size-guessing-game thing, feel free to elaborate on that too.</p>
<p>Ambrosia, you're as crazy as I am! I went over this in another thread because I'm a crazy person, but I have a plan laid out for what I'm going to do. ;) I'm going to type in my name and password, then turn off my monitor and hit enter. Then I'll do ctrl+P and enter to print, so that I can run downstairs to my printer to find out the result. If the first page after the login doesn't say the result, I'll come back upstairs, turn on the monitor, put the cursor over whatever is the link to the result, turn off monitor, click, then do my printing stuff. Good to know there's another person with a weird plan!</p>
<p>Chances are, since I'm in the Mountain time zone and it will be earlier here when they post the decisions, I'll still be in school. I'm planning to check the website during my free hour, and it just so happens that my two best friends have the same period off. I plan for the three of us to huddle around the computer screen, in the atmoshpere of total library silence. When my fateful decision comes up, I won't hesitate to look at it, yet I really don't know how I'll react... I suppose it depends on the decision. But my heart will be racing, to say the least.</p>
<p>I'm going to be home late Wednesday night. I plan on being alone in front of my computer checking the decision. I don't want to make a big deal about it and end up being rejected! After that, I'll visit CC and hopefully I'll see a myriad of the regulars here get accepted :)</p>
<p>my 4 best friends will be at my house. I'm going to be so nervous. we've had 'get-togethers' each day for each other. They've all been accepted, now (hopefully), it'll be my turn. I have a lot to live up to.</p>
<p>Snowboardbuddha, what school do you go to in CO Springs?</p>
<p>Yah, I think I am going to risk the evident chance for cardiac arrest and just let the screen pop up at me. This way, I get it over with. Although I do kinda like the printer idea.</p>
<p>suburbian: Yes, officially, it does. However, most of us are speculating that the decisions will actually be posted Wednesday evening...that's what happened last year.</p>
<p>EDIT: As for me...</p>
<p>My mom might be home (if the decision comes at 5 PM) - I might ask her to delay coming home from work so I can be alone. If I get to be by myself, I'll have music playing (the same music I listened to when I visited Yale - have to have consistency). If I get in, I'll scream and start calling the 200+ people on my "to call immediately" list. If I don't...!)*$&#)(%</p>
<p>I want to be alone, so I've decided to wait until about 11 on Wednesday night, when my family is asleep. I'll then arrange all of my other apps around my computer, so if I'm deferred or rejected, I can work on them right afterwards.</p>
<p>I read somewhere on a post that if you got in, the mascot bulldog barked at you as soon as you opened the link. maybe there was a song, too? So maybe what i'll do is login and turn off the monitor but turn on the speaker. That way, if there is sound, I won't be afraid to turn on the monitor. If there is no sound, I will be gently let down. Maybe I'll wait a few minutes until an acceptee posts on cc if there is sound or not so I can use my plan.</p>
<p>I wouldn't do that, suburbian. There probably is not sound (or it may not work), and that would be cruel to yourself if it didn't happen. If you want, check the board first on what is going to happen, and then decide on the sound idea.</p>
<p>I'm telling you guys, waiting for the mail is the best plan. You get to watch CC, then have a few days to prepare yourself for reality. By the time the mail comes, I will have accepted the fact that I won't get in, and (hopefully) it won't be too bad to see the small envelope.</p>
<p>Sara, my theory is that the sooner I know, the sooner I can start moving on and start finding things to love about my other schools and envisioning myself as a student there. Thus, I want to know ASAP. I think waiting is the hardest part.</p>
<p>im not really doin anythin weird. when i got my SAT scores the song "Beantown" by the Addison Groove Project was playing in the background, so for good luck ill play it when i check my result. or maybe ill just play the song if i get in.</p>
<p>um, whenever i log onto cc and see something to the effect of "decision are in" i'm going to log in and find out immediately. patience really isn't my thing.</p>
<p>i'll probably try not to do it when other people are in the room, but really...who cares? its not like the decision is going to be any different.</p>