<p>I am a mother of a future college student that will hopefully be attending one of the best universities in the mainland and hopefully with the most best scholarship!! Faith is my strength. </p>
<p>How can one manage the waiting!!!</p>
<p>My daughter is soo anxious and I always am telling her don't worry, you will have get that acceptance letter, but now, I'm the one with the anxiety attack. Funny.</p>
<p>Chocolate. Lots of chocolate.</p>
<p>^^ Hopefully the OP and her D are done waiting and has heard by now (since the post is from 2009).</p>
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I think the join date is 2009. The post is from today.</p>
<p>^^ Whoops - you’re right.</p>
<p>Thanks, Im eating as much chocolate as I can to relieve myself. Been getting lots of headaches lately because of the “waiting period”, but as long as I don’t let my daughter think otherwise, I will continue to eat chocolate… LOL.</p>
<p>Any kind of stress reducer can help - long walks, yoga, planning a fun project together. Volunteer in your community, maybe with your child. Work with her on organizing, cooking and laundry skills. Do things that are unrelated to her college choice (although they could be related to moving out in general, like shopping for a new computer or other items for the dorm). Go all out for her final events as a high schooler. Bite your tongue often, and love the kid you have, no matter what happens April 1!</p>
<p>Get a hobby (let’s see how many Afghans you can crochet before decision time).</p>
<p>Make yourself so busy that you don’t have time to think about college (that’s what I’m doing for the next two weeks).</p>
<p>thanks for understanding… Its soo hard to let your child go and have a life of their own. Specially, when I have two and one of them is a special needed child. She is my friend and my daughter.</p>
<p>^^ But you’ll be able to take pride in her and your own parenting when you see her out able to be on her own, making her own (hopefully sound) decisions, and growing as a person. You might also be able to live a little vicariously through her if she’ll share some of her experiences with you.</p>
<p>Put the whole college process on the back closet shelf of your mind. Ignore it. Take a break from it. Focus on the final senior semester doings. Stop obsessing… Your family will appreciate a change of focus.</p>
<p>I had some pictures of the college I hoped to attend that I had taken on a college visit. I stuck them up next to my bedroom door. It gave me a little positive reinforcement for the day, and once I looked at them, I just put it out of my mind and went on with my life.</p>
<p>I just realized yesterday that we have nothing to do but wait. </p>
<p>We finally got everything done this weekend. I originally thought it would all be over by January 1st, but come January all the interviews began for my D and the multitude of financial aid applications began for me. Would this never end?</p>
<p>I was so sick and tired of it. I couldn’t wait until everything was finally done. And, this past weekend, it finally ended. The last interview occurred and I sent off the last financial aid document. You think I would be happy, right?</p>
<p>But, now I wish now I had something to do to occupy myself with through March…</p>
<p>How about doing a March Madness bracket or two? This has worked every time for me haha!</p>
<p>I seem to have found a new hobby during this time of anxious waiting–reading CC forums! Of course, now and then I run into a topic that sends me into a panic concerning a deadline or whatever so it’s not necessarily a relaxing passage of time… :-]</p>
<p>I, too, am waiting for D to hear, and I feel like this college stuff has been going on FAR too long. The one thing that helped was signing up for a writing class once a week a few weeks ago. It’s something I wanted to get back into, and now that all her apps are in, I don’t feel guilty doing something that’s just for me.</p>
<p>My S is now a college freshman, but last year this time was pretty tough. I would hang out at CC, of course. Check the college specific forums. Log in to the colleges status pages to see the non news. </p>
<p>Log into Naviance and endlessly study the scattergrams, much like reading tea leaves, to see which way fortune might shine upon S. :)</p>
<p>I got accepted ED, so this is a little different, but I found the wait after being accepted to be just as tough as the wait to get accepted. One thing that helped, I taped up a few pictures of Smith that I had taken during a college visit, and every morning on my way to school I would look at them as I left my room. It put me in a good frame of mind for the day and then I was able to forget about it and focus on the rest of my life.</p>
<p>My D got an invitation to visit the University of her interest, but because of $$ I couldn’t afford that event. We called letting them know about this and the understood, she took a virtual visit but we know its not the same feeling… </p>
<p>Praying its all we are doing and waiting, waiting with faith.</p>
<p>OK, my daughter received an email indicating to her to check her inbox on March 31, because she will be receiving an email from the university. One of them (the one of her first choice, well she had two first choices) but this one in particular, send her this email. Is that a good thing? </p>
<p>Leap of faith, right?</p>