Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

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But if you take it to extremes and make yourself look like a fool, I will yell at you.

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<p>That was my initial reaction upon reading this topic. </p>

<p>Dragon45: </p>

<p>Your last post seems very confused and hastily written, so I skimmed through it. One point I'd like to address is your implication that the reason I'm saying this is because I got into my top choice school last year. This simply wasn't the case. I enjoy my present school a lot, but it wasn't my top choice at the beginning of the last school year.</p>

<p>There are a lot of things I did last year that I regret. There are a lot of ideas I had last year which I laugh at the stupidity of now. </p>

<p>However, of my many faults and misconceptions, I can honestly state that complaining about college rejection from my top choice school, whether on the Internet or in real life, was not one of them.</p>

<p>I may have been an idiot then, but this was one mistake I managed to avoid. (And yes, I fully expect to go back and consider my present self an idiot in a few more years)</p>

<p>And finally, you seem to have an overblown sense of your own self-importance. You write about your negative opinion of me and how I make things worse as if I or anyone else actually gives two rat carcasses about it. </p>

<p>Here's a hint: you're even less qualified to judge these things than I am, and no one cares.</p>

<p>let them complain on a message board, comfort them, it really probably feels bad to get rejected. I don't see why we have to tell them they are whiners (especially considering most of us are admits or current students)
also different people take things differently emotionally, one person may be crushed and view rejection as a judgement on them as a human being. Tell them this is not true. Don't bring up people in africa starving or whatever because that is not their perspective. (i mean obviously you can say... be happy people die due to starvation) but don't say (stop whining people die due to starvation)</p>

<p>Just to clarify: I have no problem with people being upset over rejection - that is perfectly normal/ok. But to imply that being rejected from MIT is a "traumatic" experience? That's absurd. More absurd than my telling people to be grateful for what they have, since many people have far less, and experience real trauma. Being a victim of war, witnessing death, etc is real trauma; not getting into a certain college is not. And I never said "stop whining people die due to starvation".</p>

<p>hehe yeah i think i over-reacted...</p>

<p>Just to clarify, I wasn't being serious with the title of that post. I wrote it hastily after my rejection, and ok I admit, I wasn't THAT traumatized.</p>