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I can’t wait for this to be over…
Yesterday I even had a dream about it
@SephardicJewESA it’s on my mind 24/7
Ugh I need to stop reading my essays over and over again. I feel like they’re so bad but hopefully that’s because I could probably recite them all word for word
@wilguen i’ve just completely avoided revisiting anything i submitted. i feel that the more i think about it all, the worse things are.
OMG… Same here. I feel like I could’ve made my essays A LOT better now:(
@easycadence It’s so hard but I totally understand what you’re saying. Every time I look at one of my applications I can’t help but think of EVERY little thing I could’ve changed
Yeahhh. I guess that’s the whole writing process. Weeks of crafting essays into what seems like the best you can do, only to step aside after submitting and weeks later notice all that could make it better. I think time enables you to be a more objective editor. At least for me, I feel like a stronger critic as time passes and distances me from the intimacy with which I once had with the piece. <3 Oh well. I’m sure my essay won’t make a difference with Harvard. After being waitlisted by Duke and Amherst and rejected by Georgetown (granted, I believe my application was incomplete), I don’t have any hope for Tuesday.
Good luck to all as we near our fate and finally put an end to this distressing purgatory.
Lol wondering whether to look at my Stanford essays and going:
“Yeah. Yep, okay that right there. Mmmmmh, oh yes and this here too. Oh yes, this is why I was rejected. That’ll do it for you.”
@cvisser96 “purgatory” is RIGHT. ON. XD
so let’s talk about how phantom of the opera is now on netflix
@wilguen Dude, I thought I was the only one who did that! I’ve dissected my essays into pieces and critiqued it (to myself) to death. When I first wrote it, I would have given an average score of 9. Now I wouldn’t give the combined score of 2 lol Anyways, it’s out of our hands now.
@easycadence same. Even after I submitted my app and was going through the “oh my god why did I just do that those were terrible” phase, I didn’t reread any of them. I don’t want to reread them and have a heart attack when I truly realize how bad they were. Maybe after, if I get a good decision, I’ll read them, but otherwise…
@CSGoddess yeah i know!! and i can just tell that i’ll freak reading my essay because i know i wrote it during a time when i was going through some personal struggles
@Sajidur4 always there to back me up!
@easycadence nothing like that for me… i just don’t want to look at them. I spent so long working on them, so I’m sick of them, and I really just don’t want to see all of my weak points. Distance is everything.
@CSGoddess i feel though that we are all too critical of ourselves… like if any of the people on here read each other’s essays, the rest of us would be wow’d but that one person would be meh’d or ugh’d
@easycadence No, man. My essay will make you go “ughhhhh”
@Sajidur4 u mean “ughhhhh… why can’t i write like that?!” lol but if you insist
If we get accepted, we should make a “Confederation of College Confidential Committee” (CCCC) at Harvard!! haha. Would be nice to see all the cool people I met on this site.