It’s 3:15 in the morning at my country and I just cant sleep. I stayed awake in my bed for the last 3 hours, without even dozing off for few minutes. As the decision deadlines draw nearer, the frequency of these insomnia attacks is certainly increasing.
I log into CC four times a day. Check my email inbox within a 3 hrs interval every day .I am very very stressed out. Sloppy at work, sore with friends, emotional outburst and wht not!
I don’t say that other’s are not going thru the same or even more difficult phases. But this amount of stress and nervousness is actually brain racking.
I have tried counting sheep, meditations, counting backwards, humming…but sleep never comes to me…
I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself!
Help Meeee!
<p>Blip, I can totally empathize... I was just like that back in December waiting for my ED decision. All I can say is at this point, things are beyound your control. Nothing you do will change anything, so why worry? Just relax and Im sure everything will work well for you in the end.</p>
<p>For desperate times like this waiting period, I'd reach for the sleeping pills. Unless you can get some other natural supplement to relax you (aromatherapy? lavender?), the level of those stress-induced chemicals in your system are just way too high to allow you to sleep.</p>
<p>LoL I've never taken the sleeping pill route, by the way. I'd usually run it all off in my backyard or around my house (not a very big house, so I just run around). Running works for me.</p>
<p>um. I guess this isn't going to ring particularly true, since I'm here as well, but it might be worth thinking about: "you are not your SAT score." And it sounds lame and pompous and hypocritical, but really-- if you don't get in to your first choice college, you won't die. You won't be a complete failure. You'll go someplace else and you'll make the best of it, you'll get a solid education and probably enjoy it, and you'll learn to go through life without thinking about it very often, if at all.<br>
And no, I haven't gotten in anywhere yet, and I'm waiting on a Harvard app. I sleep fine.</p>
<p>i totally understand...when i heard wash u decisions were coming out soon i felt sick to my stomach and broke out in a fever overnight...and it wasn't even my first choice or anything...but what do you know, 3 days later i found out i got in! (but i am still sick...lol...but much less so)...anyway what i tried to think of to calm myself down was that the situation was out of my hands...i did everything i could do. be happy knowing you did everything you could do, you filled out your apps and took your SATs etc, and now the situation is not in your hands. take comfort in that and the fact that wherever you go, you'll make the most of your education.</p>
<p>blip - we don't have long anymore : ). Hang in there, hang in there. I go through a miniexplosion every day dreading april's arrival, then begging it to come faster. Cycles and cycles and cycles:</p>
<p>"Gonna get in."
"There's no reason I can think of that they woudl take me."
"I know I'm worth it."
"Holy **** I'm going to be rejected from everywhere!"
"You'll be fine"
"I'm going to die!"
"My app had lots of personality"
"omg my app SUCKED."</p>
<p>To help with the wait, I've set myself three goals to throw myself into:</p>
<ol>
<li>STOP BITING MY NAILS. </li>
<li>Tone my midsection.</li>
<li>Get another issue of the sch newspaper published.</li>
</ol>
<p>See? That way, even if I get rejected from the schools I desperately want to be accepted to (KNOCK. ON. WOOD.), in the process I'll have cured a nasty habit, put on some muscle mass, and done something semiproductive ;).</p>
<p>Wow! Awesome! Thts one of THE most wonderful suggestion I have ever received in CC. I hope you will have tons of acceptance letters by early April:D (just being hyper nice).......</p>
<p>thank you for empathizing with my situation.....and I really meant it when I hoped abt, u receiving tons of acceptance letters!
:)</p>
