<p>ahhh i hate that they're not releasing online!
it's just painful... having to continue the waiting after hearing from everywhere else.
oh princeton, why do you do this to us?</p>
<p>these past two weeks have been hazardous to my health everyday the mail comes... my non ivy schools all sent out in those two weeks and every day when id see a big envelope my heart would start beating like crazy and id get all jittery.... they were all just financial and bank info for my parents and college info for my hs jr brother... no fun. my one acceptance letter was in a funny shaped envelope... the waitlist and the rejection were in reg small envelopes...
i think i did 8 marathons worth of heart beats tho.... ill be glad when this week is over, no more heart fluttering and whatnot... hehe, i dont have the money for a cardiologist or an ER visit... i need to save it all for tuition anyhow. ...</p>
<p>haha and when i did get my acceptance letter i was so busy dancing in the back hall by the mailbox that i got hit with the door when my dad came home from work cause i didnt hear him coming.... i had to explain why i was wearing a "Mac bandaid" on my arm. </p>
<p>hopefully ill get a Princeton bandaid too!! :) </p>
<p>GOOD LUCK everybody</p>
<p>but dont they send it out through fedex for internationals? meaning that if it is a an acceptance, i'll get it at the same time as domestic students right?
but if it is a rejection then i'll have to wait for 7 or 10 or 20 days???
ok you can kill me right now. go on, stab me.</p>
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ok you can kill me right now. go on, stab me.
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UGH. What a horrid situation to be in. Go on, drown your stress in chocolate and try not to think about the Fed Ex man, like it's that easy.</p>
<p>AHHHH. This thread continues to stress me out... Must not click on it again when it appears in "My Control Panel." <em>takes solemn vow with the intent to break it</em></p>
<p>thanx for the advicegracilisae!
<em>goes to box full of leftover chocolate from easter</em>
ahhh the beauty of comfort food....</p>
<p>Ah, I don't even need to "go to the box" - my basket is getting systematically emptied from where it sits next to the laptop. Every time I reply to a post on CC, two more chocolates go into my mouth....</p>
<p>And yep, that vow lasted long. All 45 minutes of it...</p>
<p>sucks for us jewish kids here... we don't have any candy from easter...
<em>desperately looking around trying to find a couple scraps of someone's brightly colored treats...</em></p>
<p>Oh, I'm sorry about that, Soanyhows. But CVS does have good post-Easter candy sales, so go pick a bag or two up to get you through this week!</p>
<p><em>tosses over some pastel-colored chocolate eggs to tide you over until you can make a drugstore run</em></p>
<p>awe, thanks gracilisae. Hmmm, yea, getting late tonight for the run to somewhere-with-candy shop. (10:08 - and what have i done since i got home... ate... showered... posted on cc board... posted on cc board...) </p>
<p><em>imagining self snacking on the e-chocolate eggs</em></p>
<p>yummy. Xmas and Easter: the great downfalls of being jewish in america. Well, there is channukah Harry... And the... Purim Bunny (funny story, the head of my school, a jewish school, dressed up as the "purim bunny" in a giant easter bunny suit for purim. Note: purim is a jewish holiday celebrated with festivities, happiness, complete with costumes, etc)</p>
<p>I went to Eckerd (which bought Genovese, which is similar to CVS) right after church on Easter to get some Easter chocolates, and..... there were none!!!! I could only find the small, single chocolate marshmallow bunnies... but no chocolates! No crunchy chocolate eggs with the pretty tinfoil wrapping... I had to settle for Reese's Peanut Butter "On the Go" stuff or whatever. I was sorely disappointed.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the Chunnukah aardvark on Friends?</p>
<p>haha, i haven't heard about that one. but that is funny. <em>still snickering... channukah aardvark... hehe</em></p>
<p>I don't watch friends, but we've made our own customs...</p>
<p>Easter eggs for Bedikat Hametz, before Pesach. </p>
<p>And I like Midnight Mass so much that we go every year, just to listen to the music. We hum the words we don't believe in.</p>
<p>Each year, I ask for a Christmas tree - now it's a tradition. No luck, though.</p>
<p>My parents are both rabbis, by the way. At least the Christmas tree thing ended up making a good newspaper article: "Abba, Can I have a Christmas Tree?"</p>
<p>You are Jewish, and your parents are rabbis, and you go to Easter service?</p>
<p>hahaha. that is good. good title. heh, abba... b'vakashah! my dad got so mad one year when we half-jokingly asked for a channukah bush. wow... he... freaked...</p>
<p>oh c'mon suburbian - not that weird. the rest of the universe seems to be going to mass. what's it hurt? besides, 1. a cultural experience. 2. the rabbi's families are sometimes the most educated, open, deeply religious, respective of other religions, more so than the rest of jewry. note: my family has no rabbis in it. my dad also is very close-minded. fine examples we have here.</p>
<p>i know more jewish people on the cc forum than i do in real life. it's kind of strange. i really like the religion a lot but i heard at the yale forum that it's really hard to convert and even then some people don't consider you to be fully jewish because you're not actually born jewish. oh well, i guess i'll stick with buddhism :)</p>
<p>Hao - yeah, we don't proselytize (sp?) much. But you can always come and eat! </p>
<p>Clarification - Easter -> bedikat hametz; Christmas -> midnight mass</p>
<p>And, yes, I know it's strange. But my dad's best friend is a priest, so we've gone to mass at his church each Christmas since I was five. Except for one, when it was snowing to badly... Portland, OR isn't too good with managing snow on the roads.</p>
<p>all of the friends i've had since 6th grade were jewish, but a lot of their mothers were actually christians who converted after they got married, so I guess they technically don't count (passed down maternally).</p>
<p>I'm sorta "half-Jewish", my dad's Jewish and my mom's christian, so we do all the holidays....easter, christmas, channukah, passover....but it is always a little weird on years when channukah and christmas overlap to be lighting a menorah in my Christian grandparents' home while the rest of the family's off at mass......</p>
<p>in new york I lived in a predominantly jewish town so I know what that can be like.... we had 5 synagogues in a town of 10000
we had school days off for rosh shashana(sp?) and Yom Kippur</p>
<p>I didnt even know the meaning of Hanukah until my jewish karate instructor told it to me after hiring my on as an assistant.
Though since everything had to do with a lot of religious stuff there I felt a tad left out :(</p>