@azwu331 and @52balletvieta I’d like to be a decent distance away from home, although I’m not sure how convenient the whole flying back and forth deal is. It’s definitely much easier to be within a comfortable driving distance. Gah, why must I live SO far away from Princeton? But ugh, you guys don’t know how much I really want all of us to get in. And other people on this thread that I’ve made friends with. groans really loudly WHYYYY can’t that happen?
@meaa7130 I really wish that could happen as well. I guess that, with the exception of the kids who get in from the Northeast, all Princeton students have to commute a long way to go back home. Google Maps says that driving from my house to Princeton would take a little over 9 hours, and that’s a lot better than many other kids who live in the West or the South. I think that I’ll have to prepare for many plane rides if I do attend, but I have to prepare for my decision on Wednesday before any of that can happen. 
Oh my goodness I really would love for all of us to get in. That would be so amazing! @meaa7130 I live smack dab in the middle of the US so anything is pretty far haha. I would actually prefer to be farther away from home though; I feel like I need the push of independence. I also do prefer flying over driving. I wish we could all FaceTime or Skype or do a live chat before and after our decisions, but that would also be extremely nerve-wracking.
@azwu331 Sometimes I get lost in la la land and wonder “Oooh what will it be like at Princeton? Will it be snowing now?” (Since I never get snow where I’m from) and I just imagine all the fun I would have there in their really cool libraries and science centers. Then I slap myself and try to wake myself up from my dreaming and tell myself I’m deferred. I literally stood in front of my bathroom mirror and told myself that many times when I get too caught up in the fantasies of Princeton. Gosh, I sound like a lovestruck nerd. :x
EDIT: Speaking of libraries at Princeton… have you seen pictures of the Julian Street Library? swoon
@meaa7130 Up here we usually experience snow every day, but this year it has been particularly quiet. It does get a bit cold up north, so if you do get in, prepare yourself for the sometimes freezing temperatures! I would like to experience what it feels like to live in warm temperatures all year, but I guess that’ll happen if I ever move to Florida or something… Princeton sure isn’t going to give me a new climate. :)>-
17 hour drive to Princeton from where I live, no big deal.
@meaa7130 The Julian Street Library is absolutely amazing. 
@meaa7130 been reading over mine in the pas few days as well! I’ve been paranoid ever since I noticed a typo in my Siemens paper after I submitted it hahaha ~:>
@morrisk It’s often the grammar mistakes that get me! I freak out when I notice a misplaced comma or something…
@azwu331 Ahh lucky. right now where I’m from it’s in the mid-sixties… I don’t think winter is going to come anytime soon. At least not a white Christmas. ~O) I like that coffee emoji
@morrisk I hate when I make mistakes that spell check doesn’t detect. Like “to” vs “too” or the infamous “your” vs “you’re.” Those are so easy to get mixed up when typing fast and I hardly detect them when I read through my essays.
@meaa7130 I also daydream about the snow!!! I am southern FL born and raised, never experienced a day below 50
Comment 1111!!! Also really want to meet yall people you are all so cool. @52balletvieta I think it is so cool that you do ballet. I’m a former ballerina who dearly misses it!
@Mel1997 @APrincetonian Okay so here is where I get confused - if the financial aid office is completely separate from admissions, how will they know my family’s financial status (and thus whether or no I could have/should have taken the subject tests)??. I also did not submit them, and have been agonizing over it for weeks. While financially we could have afforded them, my small parochial school guidance counselor never suggested them for me, and when I talked to my parents about taking them, they refused to pay thinking they were “stupid and useless” (I was already self-studying APs, which they paid for me to take the exam, and they also sacrifice a lot to send me to parochial school). So basically am I automatically rejected/deferred because I don’t have subject tests? I submitted the ACT if that makes a difference.
@morrisk Ahh that must be nice! If a bit boring I like the changing seasons, but I only like winter around Christmastime. I’d much rather it switch to a warm spring in January because after Christmas I’m not in the “warm cuddly sweaters and hot cocoa by the fire” mood.
@meaa7130 I would love to have temperatures in the sixties right now! It’s currently around forty degrees right now here, but this is warmer than normal. Winters here can get as low as -15 degrees. In fact, we’re so used to cold temperatures and heavy snow that school doesn’t get cancelled unless the wind chill goes below -20 or snowfall exceeds 5-6 inches. I sometimes see schools close in the South when they receive an inch of snow or if temperatures go below 30… it’s quite strange since we go through that every day! It’s one of those moments where the South seems rather appealing; no wonder why so many people move to Florida during the wintertimes here. I’ve gotten used to it though… I’m pretty sure temperatures down where you live get really bad during the summertimes!
@52balletvieta @azwu331 Only because some really bad things happened to our son this past year did we have the requirement that he had to be within a day’s drive for his first year. After that, he’s free to go wherever he wants. We’re low-income and can’t afford plane tickets, let alone last minute ones. Our son was fine with that. (He had considered Standford, but wasn’t set on it. He visited Princeton and fell in love.)
Princeton is the perfect mix of far enough away from home for him to have the independent adult college student experience, yet close enough to come home for the first break-up or a hug when the stress gets to be too much. We won’t be helicopter parents (never have been.) It’s his life. Not ours. We raised him to be okay on his own. He says living in a dorm will teach him how to live with roommates in grad school and while working his first jobs. We’re here if he needs us, and if not, that’s perfectly fine too. We’re thrilled at the thought of the new adventures he’ll have and ways he’ll grow.
I understand the need to not be around your hometown or parents though. I graduated at 17, moved to another state the second I turned 18, and never looked back. (Couldn’t go to college until I was 21 and entered as an independent student.)
@azwu331 Son says he’ll Skye or FT me if he gets homesick. He was very firm on this.
@morrisk Thank you!! I love ballet so much-- I find it hard to breathe without it! I’m glad there is someone hear that can relate to my ballet endeavors.
@azwu331 Don’t lose hope yet! So many people did not get that email, and I stand by the fact that there is no correlation between the two (after all, the financial aid and admissions office are separate right??). You are such a qualified candidate and Princeton would be lucky to have you. You are constantly supporting everyone on this thread, and offering any advice and knowledge about the process that you possess. Thank you for that! No matter what happens, all of us are going to go on to great places. Good luck to everyone, and we all just need to BREATHE and adopt the “prepare for the worst, hope for the best” moto as we inch closer towards decision day (Now I just need to take my own advice 
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@azwu331 Yeah it gets pretty cold in the winter. And when we get days off, we mainly get them off because the roads ice over so easily, so it’s a driving hazard. Once in a blue moon we’ll get enough snow to build a snowman, but that’s if we scrap every little piece from our yard. And half of that is dirt
This conversation is seriously attaching me to the school even more, which is the opposite of what I want.
I can’t believe it’s already 11; time flies when you’re on CC! I’ll probably go to bed now, since it’s really late here. I’ll see you guys on Monday after I finish up my other applications over the weekend. Hopefully things go well until then!
@meaa7130 Usually we can build a snowman here every time it snows. I’ve gotten a bit old for snowmen now, but I remember back in the days, I built snow tunnels, mountains, and sledded in the backyard. It was fun shoveling all the snow from our driveway and stacking it all up on one mountain (although if the mountain fell, it would result in a giant mess :P). As for the icy roads, we deal with them all the time. I guess that the drivers are more prepared here where I live, so the potential for danger isn’t as high.
The good thing about building a dirtman is that dirtmen don’t melt (unlike snowmen, which collapse right when temperatures go back up above freezing).