<p>Is anyone here freaking out about their college decisions? </p>
<p>For me, I find myself afraid that I might get rejected for not having all of my pre-reqs done (im taking one right now) by the end of fall. This paranoia has resulted in me thinking negative about what might happen once i get rejected at random moments (kind of like those imagination moments in Scrubs). I would literally freeze and become all depressed afterward. </p>
<p>What about you guys? Post your stories and what you are doing to get your mind off of the dreaded wait.</p>
<p>^^^ about the starving children, Kind of make things worse…poor kids. </p>
<p>I find myself constantly thinking of the pending decisions and constantly logging onto CC.
To get my mind off the waiting, I just do something entertaining that I enjoy and can relax to like watch some TV.</p>
<p>yes i freak out every now and then. I was more freaked out in January than I am now. We have this month and april to hear from the schools. Just keep yourself occupied by doing interesting things.</p>
<p>Focus on finishing strong in school and enjoying your last semester at the CC level. You have done everything you could and put yourself in excellent contention for the top tier UCs. Try to turn your anxiety to excitement. This time next year, we will all be at a beautiful UC campus getting a first rate education.</p>
<p>I think a lot of the paranoia people have with college admissions has a lot to do with this site alone. I’ve noticed that a good chunk of the people in this community are very competitive and ambitious, which in itself brings more worries for others. I believe the best thing you should do is take some time off from the future, haha, especially talk.collegeconfidential.com. But in the end, who am I kidding, I’m just as nervous as anybody else.</p>
<p>lol, funny advice. it’s weird, like whenever i try not to think about it, i end up doing so. but it’s chill.</p>
<p>i think my paranoia comes from the fact that this is my last chance to really make it somewhere. i started my community college journey early with the intent on showing people that i am capable of doing well in my education. i had to prove to people i was just as smart as anyone else. if i dont get into ucla (my dream school since ever), im really going to let down many people especially myself. lame, huh?</p>
<p>for a lot of us, i feel like this is the first time in a long time that we haven’t had any direct objective, any goal, aim, purpose or the like… as has been said, we’ve done what we’ve done, it’s out of our control, and though most of us are still taking classes, that end toward which we’ve strived to date has already been realized – we’ve applied. we’ve updated, we’ve unreasonably calculated ‘reasonable estimates’ for our shots at admission and we’ve repeated. now we wait for the opportunity to define our next ambition and if i can say only one thing about this time spent in limbo, it is that i’ve been made more anxious now than i’ve ever been, EVER.</p>
<p>in passing the time, i currently:</p>
<p>bask in the glory of our lord and savior, barack obama.
abuse my body with poisons that make my brain tingle.
let my neuroses get the best of me.
reverse my sleeping habits weekly.
juggle being compulsively social with being compulsively reclusive.
pay too much attention to politics.
fiend for confrontation.
spend too much time at the same starbucks, playing chess with old russian men.
write raps and poems about sex, drugs and college admissions (soon to replace rock n’ roll).
ride my fixie through hollyweird and buy tickets to $hows i can’t afford.
have too many existential mind F’s for my liking…</p>
<p>grey, only because it shows people that i’m hip and edgy when it comes to playing into the inescapable conformity that is my life.
i’m also really into ed hardy and celebrity gossip.</p>
<p>because i have expectations to meet that ive placed upon myself. the only reason why im going to the cc i am at now is because they have TAP. if i didnt care about going to UCLA, i could have easily gone to UCI out of high school after getting in through appeals. but instead, i chose to go to cc and do 9 classes a semester with the intent of making it into UCLA.</p>
<p>granted, the world isnt over if i dont get into UCLA. but still, if i didnt get in, i would have let myself and others down. </p>
<p>pinker, i see you and i are in a common state for once - hella anxious. good advice, lol.</p>
<p>chibi_loopi: same story here! i chose cc so i could transfer in a year. i totally know how you feel. just dont worry about being accepted or not though, there’s nothing you can do at this point</p>