<p>I'll be honest, I'm scared crud less for this upcoming fall. Oddly, I am a pretty outgoing and confident person, but at the same time the thought of meeting so many new people and getting shoved out of my element is absolutely, 100% nerve wracking. Thus, I was wondering if any of you all were doing anything in particular to stay pepped up before being shipped out of the house into the unknown.</p>
<p>I'm applying, so this is different... But I'm just going through everything in my head, thinking through my next applications to-do list or what I would bring to school next year or something. I like visualizing a lot.</p>
<p>Me too, it's just hard to imagine what you know practically nothing about. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>i know,
i try to imagaine what anything after september 5th will be like,
and i have NO IDEA at all,
its so weird</p>
<p>if you've gone to summer camp im expecting it's like that
i think for the first three days or so it's ok to just say "hi! my name's ____" to anybody randomly without any consequences (that said, it may depend on whether the person finds it amusing or annoying)
but usually in people meet, find friends (if your roommate doesn't express any interest in you, go next door. simple :D), go to meals, meet more friends, go to class, meet even more friends, and then by the second week in the smaller schools just about everybody's found their people :P</p>
<p>i know for a fact that's what happened with groton-ers. but they only had like 30 people in second form so im guessing memorizing names wasn't too much of a problem</p>
<p>God, for the Exeter revisit day I felt like such a dunce. My tour guide was introducing me to all her friends the whole day and I just constantly was like 'Hi, I'm ____', so when she was having PE and I was awkwardly sitting on the bleachers with two other girls and the guys lacrosse team came in (or maybe squash...the one with the long stick with a pouch at the end) I said that to someone I already met. It was really embarrassing. Reading it now it doesn't sound like it would be, but oh lordy it was. Fortunately said person (I can't even remember his name now even after the amount of times I remet/made fool out myself) just laughed at my embarassment. I can memorize hundreds of useless facts (really, I have three of the official four books), but if you ask me to remember someones name the first time around I'm screwed.</p>
<p>It's a lacross stick. I believe, although I'm not positive, a squash racket looks like a tennis racket...for all I know though they don't use rackets. </p>
<p>This is a bit off topic (sorry for hijacking) but what did everyone where for their interview? I haven't even applied but that hit me today as a wierd question...
My suit?
A dressy shirt and nice jeans?
A skirt and nice blouse?
Slacks and a sweater?</p>
<p>Just curious.</p>
<p>Whatever will remind you that the even is professional, but will also have you be comfortable. Also, I advise you make sure it lines up with the school you interview for. If you are doing an off campus interview for Exeter I know they mail you with who your interviewer is and depending on whether the person is male or female you could decide from there. (Professional/Casual is different from gender in my opinion.) Out of your options, slacks and nice shirt.</p>
<p>You have a suit? Seriously? Cool.
If the school has a dress code, by god, follow it! If it does not, wear something crisp and clean. Just follow the code and you'll be fine.
Being the amazing child I was, I wore a British schooldress (summer) and a turtleneck and plaid jumper (winter) to my interviews. Good times. Sorry, I tell amazing stories, I know. But seriously, follow the dress code and look studious and nice, and you'll be fine.
Boys on tours are always wearing the same uniform: khakis, white, light blue, or pink shirt, navy blue jacket, and tie. They look twice as formal than 75% of our boys. Every once and a while we see a boy with a tee shirt and jeans on a tour, and we always go "Yesss!"</p>
<p>I definitely know what you mean about nervous? part of me is copletely flipping out, but the other part knows that EVERYONE is flipping out and is going to be desperate to make friends! i think it'll be okay!</p>
<p>and for my interview i wore this completely boring beige skirt and a pretty brown tank top and these shoes that were SOOOOOO uncomfortable and gave me blisters the size of jupiter. walking around the campus was not fun in those, haha.</p>
<p>yeah, that's another thing. Girls: wear flats. It's just not worth it. Admissions officers will not like 2-inch heals better than ballet flats. You, however, will care.
A few girls brave wear gorgeous heels during the school year. Emphasis on the few. Everyone else admires with awe. They're not necessary.</p>
<p>OMG i am so nervous!!!!!!
It just occured to me that im going away the other day.
I keep asking myself if i can handle it....We will all see on Sept. 4 -8
Those will be the hardest days for me
Choate here i come....
:)
Peace.</p>
<p>i'm wearing 2 inch shoes whether anybody likes it or not =/
it makes up for my lack in height :P</p>
<p>tubachick, i'm doing the whole blouse and skirt thing, because most schools don't allow "jeans" (quite a lot allow jeans, just not if they're blue. weird, but true. but to be on the safe side, i'm not going to wear them to the interviews) and well, i guess i don't really like any other types of pants EXCEPT for jeans (i'll need a radical change of heart if i plan to survive winters in new england a year from now)</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>my interveiws were in winter,
so i wore some kind of nice pants and a sweater....</p>
<p>My interview was in the fall, so I wore black gauchos (really comfy, and dress-upable) with a striped white oxford under a loose brown sweater vest with long pearls and silver flats...I thought that it worked perfectly!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who responded. Sorry again to hijack. It was easier than starting my own thread...again. Good imput. I'm going to have an off-campus interview for every school. I live in the west and will barely consider a Californian school, and the rest this way I can't afford. I'll work with my local temperatures I guess too. Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, I have a suit, it's a debater thing. :) I'm buying a new one or two more for the new season, except they have to be school colors (blue and gold/yellow...uuuhhhgg). I probably won't though so I'm prepped for debate at my new school, whichever one it may be. :)</p>
<p>hahaha,
whenever i first started thinking about clothes for bs,
my dad was like,
what do kids wear, suits?
could you imagine showing up in a suit when all the other kids are wearing like,
not suits?
akwardddddd
lol</p>
<p>Hmmmm.....despite the titles of threads, many of them seem to be ending up on the same topic of clothes for girls........</p>
<p>Sorry, it's well, a negative gift I guess. :)</p>
<p>I feel more comfortable in a suit than anything else oddly enough. I won't wear that for interviews though, a bit too much from the sound of it. :)</p>
<p>Well, I will use my handy dandy inferring skills and just take that everyone is so nervous that their excitement is in the back of our minds. Glad I'm not the only one. It is like I knew that I wasn't the only one feeling aldkfjeixnlckje, but I couldn't convince myself. In a couple of days we will be right back at the beginning with Square A of Freak-Yourself-Out! Sigh...</p>