Has anyone written a Common App essay and after sending it, began hating it?

College Essays
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<p>I'm rereading my Common App essay and parts of it are making me gag, lol. :x</p>

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<p>Haha yes. I feel like that probably happens to a lot of people, though, after reading and proofing it hundreds of times (it certainly seems like that many!). I still like mine, I’m just sick of it. lol</p>

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<p>Now that mine has been sent, I try not to think about it under any circumstances.</p>

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<p>^ Wise words, coolstorybro.</p>

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<p>YES! omg when i re read it im like WHAT WAS I THINKING?!? haha, but when other people read it they think its good, so its probably just that i have read it so many times it just sounds bad to me now.</p>

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<p>Oh my god, yes. Especially because I wrote another essay for a different school recently and couldn’t reuse my CA one, and it was just about 10000000000 times better…!</p>

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<p>

This.
If you’re done with your apps, then be done with them. Go outside. Walk your dog. Learn French.
Stop obsessing.</p>

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<p>Haha, I made sure that I didn’t read over my common app essay after I’ve submitted it because I know I’ll end up hating it otherwise. I couldn’t resist the temptation to read over the application itself though; I’ve already found four mistakes:(</p>

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<p>I wrote my essay over my insatiable desire to be Robin Hood.
If your essay made sense/ got the point across
and wasn’t filled with really awful errors
then I’m sure you’ll be fine.</p>

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<p>After I submitted my essay and read it again
I just felt nauseous because I have read it so many times…</p>

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<p>Me! I keep thinking about what I should have added onto it…</p>

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<p>I liked mine except for one paragraph could have been phrased better.</p>

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<p>I reread it and realised just how much my formatting was off. It was a brilliant idea in theory, but given the week I gave myself to write it, I don’t think I pulled it off as wonderfully as I thought I did when I submitted my applications.</p>

<p>But there’s nothing left to do anyway. And I don’t feel the need to log into the CommonApp anymore. So it’s just waiting from here on out.</p>

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<p>Mine is a really dramatic essay, but I’m sure at least one of the adcoms are going to completely miss the point. :P</p>