<p>This entire year I've been so happy about the prospect of going to school and the entire application process... most of my conversations with my friends centered around college and I read these forums way more than was healthy, I'm sure. However, now that all my acceptances are in and I've made my decision, I just don't feel the same excitement. Its not the school, I think, because when I imagine changing my mind to my other choices, I don't get excited either. I just visited where I will be going next fall the other day, and while I felt comfortable and interested by the info & tour etc., I wasn't overcome with some big feeling of, "this is the right place for me" as I've heard others describe. Maybe it was the weather, maybe I'm just tired.... but I don't know! Is this normal? Does anyone have any insight? Anyone feel the same way?</p>
<p>Definitely normal!!! All the excitement and build-up and anticipation and then..... normal letdown, and maybe a twinge of anxiety about what lies ahead. You'll regain that excitement in a while, and you'll be happily getting ready for your new life as a college student. :)</p>
<p>Agree with anxiousmom.</p>
<p>My D is ready to close the door on HS and is excited about college, but I understand your feelings. </p>
<p>It's a big change, with a higher level of personal, individual responsibility. With change comes some anxiety and trepidation. Just approach it an a positive opportunity and a fresh start filled with possibilities and you will do fine.</p>
<p>All the prep is over, the decisions are in, and now you are acing leaving your friends and a life you know and are comfortable with. And it's a let-down that you aren't going right away. Instead, you have finals, AP tests, and high school to get through, which in the back of your mind is over already. But wait until this summer, when you start palnning and shopping! You will be excited again. And your parents will be the ones in let-down as they face your entering a new chapter of your life, and growing up and away. So be gently with them - remember this time as you look at them when they go through it.</p>
<p>Your excitement will come back when it's time to pick classes, meet your room mate, buy stuff for your dorm room, etc.</p>
<p>Normal Normal Normal :)</p>
<p>Agree 100% with all the above responses. You are SO normal! :)</p>
<p>Right now, it's a bit like the day after "the big wedding". You spent months planning and talking of nothing but choices. Now, that part is over. BUT...... the excitement will return as "move in day" and registration day approaches.</p>
<p>I think there is something about having choices and the possibility of the unexpected (i.e. which schools will take me, where will I end up?) that is exciting and wonderful. Now that your choices are made and your future is more concrete in terms of where you will be and when you will go, it's only natural to be less excited. I felt that away about my son's decision last year. It was anti-climatic. Give yourself time to just feel numb or blah or whatever. You might also start to feel really sad about what you will be leaving behind and scared about what's ahead. That's all normal stuff. I bet your friends feel the same way! At any rate, there are seniors all over the country feeling the way you do.</p>
<p>i feel the exact way. i was just going to post about it. it seems like everyone is excited about going to their college, except me. i visited one of my colleges this weekend and lost all the excitement. it's not like it was bad. i'm not sure why i was feeling like that. i guess it's the stress of having to chose the right college takes all the fun away.</p>
<p>wannagotocornell:</p>
<p>If you went on a weekend, you probably didn't get the "buzz" one usually gets when one visits on a school day. There is an excitement that is generated when you see the kids rush from class to class, chatting in a dining room, laying on a blanket doing homework on a laptop. </p>
<p>We have done all of our college visits on school days..... I really think it makes a difference.</p>
<p>yea, but the campus was still pretty active/full because it's a rural school. i think i was just bummed because i can't go to cornell for various reasons, and i kept comparing the school to cornell ( i did an overnight there in october), and it was not the same. not sure how to move on and accept other choices i guess.</p>
<p>I feel like I have reached low levels of excitement at certain points in the admissions process. I remember being REALLY excited and learning tons about schools the summer before junior year, but then in the midst of junior year I didn't look at my Princeton Review book once until late spring of Jr year, and now I feel like the excitement is all diminished again and I'm "just goin' off to college" like I'm supposed to. Orientation will be fun though :)</p>
<p>Totally normal! As it came closer to the time to actually move, the excitement began to build up again. Now she's still excited and it's 3rd quarter of freshman yr!</p>