<p>^ Don’t you just hate moments like that. I’m entering the Kenyon Short Story contest this week, and I’m so nervous. I read through the top three from last year. It’s a fact I will not place. Oh well. It’s worth a shot. My story is pretty good for me though.</p>
<p>Lol, good luck.</p>
<p>Isn’t the Kenyon Short Story contest for <30 (i.e. for grad-age students and not teens)?. P.S. Sent you a pm!</p>
<p>Ha, it seems that way, but they didn’t state that. I took their site as literal as possitble. I’m not making any assumptions on that one. (Plus, I figure, either or, they’ll end up reading my story, and if they like it that increases my chances into the youth summer program. :))</p>
<p>Ohhh. They sent out decisions yesterday. :)</p>
<p>No, they extended until tomorrow.
[Untitled</a> Document](<a href=“http://www.uiowa.edu/~iyws/tableofcontents.htm]Untitled”>http://www.uiowa.edu/~iyws/tableofcontents.htm)</p>
<p>D: Nuuuuuuuuuuuu. Not only must we wait longer to find out, but “unusually large number of applications” doesn’t sound good. I really hope I got in. :(</p>
<p>I just know I’m rejected. As much as I want to hope otherwise, I was rejected.</p>
<p>Don’t think that way. We’ll all find out in a few days. Maybe you’ll get a nice surprise in the mail. :)</p>
<p>^ I have to.</p>
<p>It’s going to be too dissapointing otherwise.</p>
<p>I’m a slightly obsessive person, so I have to tell my self ultimatly I will fail (at something like this…acceptances kind of thing) but put my soul into applying regardless, otherwise, if I am rejected/waitlisted I’m not heart broken. 
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<p>It’s how my messed up mind works.</p>
<p>I suppose I do that a lot too. xD I just tell others not to do it, I guess.</p>
<p>There’s something really scary about confidence. It’s too fragile. So I guess that’s why we choose to expect the worse. :P</p>
<p>Probably. </p>
<p>I think lack of confidence tends to become a coping mechanism. Even over zealous confidence falls in this too. We care so much that we make ourselves feel like it doesn’t matter and that we don’t have a chance, or that we make ourselves feel better than that thing we’re up with, </p>
<p>Ah, the philosophy of a 16 year old. I should probably stop. :)</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from the program yet?</p>
<p>Yup. In for Session 1! :)</p>
<p>I haven’t heard yet, but I’m really hoping something comes from them tomorrow. Hopefully an acceptance, but I don’t know. >.<</p>
<p>I shouldn’t get mine until Wednesday due to my distance in comparison.</p>
<p>Haha. I’ll probably have to wait a week or two since I’m on the other side of the world… askldfjlksdjf</p>
<p>to fashioncapital - is the iowa acceptance letter a big envelope?</p>
<p>One more try: My son is in at Iowa, Kenyon, and UVA. Which would you recommend, and why?</p>
<p>pretzellogic: Yes, it is!</p>