<p>Haha okay I guess I’m not AS nervous… Yale EA sorta prepped me pretty well for checking decisions, even tho i only got deferred…
=/</p>
<p>pakalypse,
if you don’t mind, could ya tell me where all you applied, and where all you’ve got in (so far)?</p>
<p>I’m unfreaky too. Also TiTs don’t study :P</p>
<p>Gary,
I can attest that you ARE in fact, freaky. 
:P</p>
<p>Applied to HYP, a couple of lower Ivies, Amherst, Williams(before they went need aware)… basically I applied to the schools in the states that were need blind to Canadians… I have been accepted 0 places… been rejected from MIT thus far… my safeties are in canada(uoft + mcmaster)</p>
<p>I tried, I tried.</p>
<p>It’s not working anymore though, chillness. Aaaaaaah.</p>
<p>Edit: TiTs don’t study, I agree.</p>
<p>Down with Williams. <em>halfhearted smile</em></p>
<p>Okay… well, here’s hoping you get something to balance out that MIT rejection soon…! :D</p>
<p>Quasi,
I commend you for at least trying. I gave up on that vain pursuit a couple of months ago… :(</p>
<p>Happens I guess. :(:(:(</p>
<p>Where did all that time go?!</p>
<p>My strength lies in my essays I think, but since the whole process is so subjective and depends on how the admission officer feels that day, I am reassuring myself by saying that it is entirely possible to get rejected from a couple of schools and get accepted in all others or vice versa… (also some schools, including amherst, due to their restrictive supplement essay prompt, got a pretty crappy essay of mine =P)</p>
<p>and Thanks! haha lol</p>
<p>Boards. Last days of school. All the paperwork for FA.
Stuff.</p>
<p>Pakalypse,
See, I’m pretty sure that as long as your language was lucid, and you backed your points up well enough so that the admissions officer could at least get an idea of where you’re coming from, it’d work out.
Which Amherst prompt did you use, btw?</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel like they SHOULD prepare themselves for rejection, but they have too much hope in them to crush prematurely? :/</p>
<p>After Chicago, I really should have learnt my lesson and armed myself to see the letter starting with “We regret to inform you…”. But every time I tell myself, “you’ll be rejected, silly” I start dreaming of how happy I’ll be if I get in. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Meghna,
I’m in the same boat as you. My mind tells me to be pessimistic- if you don’t expect anything, a rejection won’t hurt, and an acceptance will make you happy twofold.
But somehow, I always inevitably end up hoping, hoping, hoping.
Until now, I’m just burned out on it. I’m nervous, but the underlying causes, the foundational worry, it’s all gone, so just the base, primal, distilled nervousness remains.</p>
<p>Stereotype one… described how I went from the stereotypical math/science asian into somethin else =P… But yeah, its just my first essay(which is about all sorts of things) gets my voice/humor across perfectly well and the second one, not so much. Who knows though, meh, we shall see in around 4 hours. I think the decisions are more likely to arrive by 5 rather than 4:30.</p>
<p>What about you? What were your essays about?</p>
<p>I chose the one about science being beautiful and all. I think it was a pretty impressive piece of writing, and that, in my case, my supplement essays serve to demonstrate my intellect more aptly than my main essay, which was anecdotal in nature, and was written in simple yet lucid English.
About the decisions, well, I’m already obsessviley pressing F5 on my email inbox.</p>
<p>I did the one about literature, predictably enough. </p>
<p>Right now I hate my essays, my grades, my scores, my ECs, my recs, and most importantly my essays.</p>
<p>AHHHHHHH.</p>
<p>Sorry you guys, feel free to ignore my downerness. :D</p>
<p>@nintendodsfreak: YES EXACTLY! Guh. I don’t know WHAT to feel anymore. I SHOULD be studying accounts…if Amherst won’t work out, I doubt Williams or the Ivies will, which means I HAVE to do well in the board exams for a decent college…but my head is so clouded and there are little knights knifefighting in my stomach. :/</p>
<p>I wrote about the Literature one. I didn’t interpret the quote too literally, and I basically spoke about how the Mahabharta changed my perception of religion and life (connected it to how the quote said Literature is a way of saying this is what I think, this is what I am, etc). BAH IT WAS PROBABLY HORRIBLE :S. (I used the same essay, with tweaks, for Brown’s intellectual curiosity one)</p>
<p>Heh, no. Misery loves company, Quasi.
And, well…
Okay, so the question of course is: how long do you figure we can keep this up?</p>
<p>I really need to be studying right now. :S</p>