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it must be great to be accepted into your dream school already. but honestly, i don't envy you. if i was accepted now, i would be daydreaming 24/7 and would probably kill myself trying to suffer through this agonizing semester. after my HS body of work has been completed, i know it's definitely not going to be anti-climactic for me when i get my decision in the Spring (hopefully!).
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yeah pretty much summed up my feelings. wow.</p>
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i was eccstatic for the first 2 weeks, but now things are normal.
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<p>Well, most of life is boring — if all of life was exciting... well, it would either be TV or it would get boring pretty quickly. But I know exactly how you feel. I was walking on air when I got into Columbia early and actually hyperventilated when I read "Congratulations!" on the letter, but now life is about the same as it was before. It also really irritates me when people see me studying for a calc test or something and they say, "What are you doing THAT for, you're INTO COLLEGE! YOUR GRADES DOESN'T MATTER!" And I'm just like, seriously, I still have standards for myself...</p>
<p>one thing that i've learned during the application process was that there's much to life than just getting admitted to college. i had the chance to look back on myself while writing the essays and my life wasn't so bad as it was then, although it may not be action and fun-packed like the movies. I feel grateful for all i am and all i have at the present and i am HAPPY!!!</p>
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It also really irritates me when people see me studying for a calc test or something and they say, "What are you doing THAT for, you're INTO COLLEGE! YOUR GRADES DOESN'T MATTER!" And I'm just like, seriously, I still have standards for myself...
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<p>Exactly. Many of my classmates do that as well to me. They say that, then I think, "And that's why you are going to a crappy underfunded state school next year..." Harsh, I know, but true.</p>
<p>First of all, congratulations! It's great that you got into your dream school. Many people end up getting rejected by all of their dream schools. But you made it. </p>
<p>Yes, like anything, happiness over it doesn't last too long. Although not getting into your dream school or a school you like can make things worse (like my case last year). That's why I'm applying to colleges again as a freshman (it's a long story). Again, congrats! It's normal for enthusiasm to go down because it usually dwindles down for awhile then goes up once it's your first week of college.</p>
<p>congratulations! i do agree with everyone else though that this seems to happen with most built-up events. i was so nervous when my team was picking our captains next year and when i found out i was one, i wasn't as excited as i thought. slightly disappointing... but i know where you're coming from</p>
<p>It's all about perspective. Going from one place to another.</p>
<p>Just as you have people who live in the inner-city who work damn hard to get out of it and become rich and live in the suburbs, while you have hipsters who live in the suburbs and dream of living in the city and dress in messy, old clothes to dress the part.</p>
<p>lol I understand ur point, I got in ed to my top choice. However, i went through so much stress during the college admissions process that I'm forcing myself to be happy and not stressed at all. The college admissions process completely drained me, so I refuse to feel unhappy about anything.</p>
<p>In addition, what I've learned is that one of the main advantages of getting in ed is what you DON'T feel, not what you do. You don't feel nervous that you won't get in anywhere, depressed that ur dream school doesn't liek u, jealous that ur friends got into ur dream school, overwhelmed that u have to finish ALL of ur reg decision apps and send scores and make sure everything got in everywhere, disappoingted that ur grades still matter (cuz honestly, if id gotten deffered id want to send my thrd quarter grades to the colleges to improve my chances of admission), and dizzied by the fact that you will have to deal with where to choose to go, whether to accept spots on waitlists, and making endless college tours to see where you want to go. </p>
<p>Seriously, ppl who didn't get in ed need to count their blessings, and though they may not feeel "ecstatic" anymore, what they are NOT feeling is extremely gratifying. get it?</p>
<p>also, it feels good to watch my friends be nervous haha jk</p>
<p>Those two weeks were the climax, that feeling can't last forever. Just remember, like theendusputrid said, it's the things you don't feel that are in many ways the benefit of ED.</p>
<p>i love the point of this thread...</p>
<p>my ferrari is getting old after two weeks
my diamond shoes are too small
my helicopter is in the repair shop so it can't take me to my island mansion!!</p>
<p>grrr...</p>
<p>for me it is still THRILLING - and each day I find another reason to be happy about it!!!</p>
<p>I am still riding the high. I sit in my awful physics class and thank the Lord I am going to my dream school. Everytime I look at my college apparel I get excited again. It never gets old for me.</p>
<p>Two whole weeks? I fell off my little cloud within a day. My next goal in life is a PhD, and I still don't even know for sure what I'm going to major in undergrad... :)</p>
<p>At least you got a chance to have a cigarette and relax afterward.</p>
<p>Life is about the journey, not the destination :)</p>
<p>From the perspective of decades after graduating from my dream school, getting in is the obverse of an anti-climax. It is a perpetual fountain of joy and satisfaction from the moment the acceptance email is read to your dying breath. Nay, beyond your dying breath, as with luck and proper mate selection, your acceptance bequeaths that same ineffable and unquenchable joy onto your legacy progeny.</p>
<p>lol...that's a great response...where did you go to school? Schools dream of producing alumni as effusive as you!!</p>
<p>Schools dream of producing alumni as effusive as you!!</p>
<p>I'd have been a lot more effusive if my beloved alma mater hadn't rejected S#1. If S#2 gets rejected, my panegyrics will become philippics. ;-)</p>
<p>^^ Ha! Someone in the adcom office needs to be shot - that's criminal!</p>
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Someone in the adcom office needs to be shot.
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<p>Uh, well...while, uh, [nervous laughter] I was disappointed, let me make clear that such thoughts as these were furthest from my mind. I do hope, for the physical well being of the admissions committees considering Matt, that everything goes well for him.</p>