<p>It's suddenly hitting me and the wait is TERRIBLE!!! basicly i've been slacking off on my homework, haven't filled out any other applications, and generally am obsessing. I know that I need to keep my grades up to even have a chance at attending Swarthmore, but I keep feeling like it doesn't matter any more. Also, I know I need to finish up my other applications, but it's so hard to do with this uncertainty about Swarthmore, I find it hard to think of applying to the other schools when my main concern is if I got in yet or not. What are you all doing to combat the waiting?</p>
<p>Lol, I have no clue, I came to this thread because I thought you had ideas.</p>
<p>Right now I am trying to look at other schools and try to love them a little too, because December 15th will be too late to start my other applications- I need to have them done by then.</p>
<p>oh, hmmm, here's some ideas i came up with, while procrastinating:</p>
<p>Take up fishing
Make a list of all the cures for melaria and the problems with them
Write a poem
Walk the dog
Invent a new kind of sandwedge
Shoot squirrels with a shot gun
Make a new friend
Adopt a pet
Contruct a life size suit of chain mail from paperclips
Eat an entire box of raisens (taht should keep you occupied for a while)
Start a ticktack collection</p>
<p>ANy other ideas? lol</p>
<p>I already fish! So ha! Just not now, so that doesn't really help me. Maybe ice fishing?</p>
<p>Ooooh, the chain mail sounds good. I'd do that. I'd wear that.</p>
<p>-Make a pair of pants out of duct tape
-Breed snails
-Build houses for gnomes in your backyard
-Build a snowman... or mudman, whatever material is available
-Create a stop action movie
-Cut your own hair
-Make a collage
-Paint your walls
-Read the comics in the newspaper
-Do the macarena</p>
<p>Pick out your next favorite two or three colleges and set a goal of having the apps ready to drop in the mail on December 15th.</p>
<p>That way, you won't be facing the prospect of doing the entire stack over Christmas break.</p>
<p>The problem, of course, is that all other colleges pale in comparison to Swarthmore!</p>
<p>Yeah, and although that's practical, Interesteddad, it would actually be productive, and well, we just don't do that.
So let's play a game instead of building a house for gnomes (my personal fav, brillar).
Umm, 20 questions. I'll start.
What am I?</p>
<p>are you an animal, a person, or a thing</p>
<p>I am a thing.</p>
<p>you are a frisbeee, i am sure of it</p>
<p>ehhhhh!
this is 20 questions, not ask one question then take a genius-swat-applicant-guess.
plus this game has to last us to Dec. 15
keep asking</p>
<p>are you a pair of socks?</p>
<p>i appologize lol, i just decided i have no patience, so i'd take a random, wild stab. i think you must be a can of tuna, or possibly a foot stool</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't really have the patience for twenty questions either.</p>
<p>A quark? Glass eyeball? Eyeball made out of tuna (for those times you just can't decide between a can of tuna and a glass eyeball)?</p>
<p>You're an ED ACCEPTANCE LETTER from your top choice school.</p>
<p>briller, believe it or not you just made my life. best of luck to you with swat, you seem like you would make the social life a ltitle more fun :)</p>
<p>You caught me! I'm a glass eyeball!
No, no I'm not.
Lstern you mindreading little devil, I was gonna be that, but I changed my mind.
Keep guessing guys you're really really close.... (not at all)
Want a hint?</p>
<p>i want a hint i want a hint!--apparently my "pair of socks" guess is no where near the caliber of the others...i have some work to do lolol</p>
<p>Yeah, Alexsmol, if we both get in we'll have to hang out and make weird jokes together. </p>
<p>I have no clue where that tuna eye came from, maybe it's the lack of sleep? I'm sure I'll have plenty of that at Swat, so I should continue to be clever if I'm accepted there.</p>
<p>Well, since my all my energy previously used for creativity has gone into desperately waiting, it has to do with Swarthmore.
That's my hint.
Brillar and Alexsmol, go have your love affair somewhere else.
(just kidding, I'm only jealous that I can't be as funny as you two)
10 days.</p>