<p>I, for example, have not told anyone that I am getting my decision on Thursday - not even my parents. I just gave anyone who asked a vague date sometime in the future. So when I get back from mock trial at about 5:10, assuming the servers aren't down, I am going to discreetly check my decision, then casually saunter downstairs and deliver some pithy, transcendentalist saying to the effect of, "You know how Emerson said to not waste yourself in rejection?" then when my mom gives me the sympathy eyes and braces to be bombarded with emotion I scream, "WELL I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE I'M GOING TO COLUMBIA!" Then I cry, we embrace, and I drive to my dad's to inform him. Repeat above scenario. :)</p>
<p>my parents don’t know about thursday, but my friends do.</p>
<p>i kiiiiiiinda have a strong feeling it’s gonna be good news…but we’ll see. i’m really optimistic because i wanna channel all the good energy hahaha</p>
<p>And it appears that someone is full of MEAN! Confidence and arrogance are not the same, and I hope that you do not interpret our refusal to be pessimistic as the latter. Good luck to you, though. :)</p>
<p>Realistically speaking, I don’t have much of a chance at all. But someone once told me of a strange happening that if people behaved as if something had happened and believed it was going to happen, it had a much higher chance of happening. We’ve got over 24 hours people, let’s make this theory work!</p>
<p>I will call my parents and my sister and yell and scream that I got in. I’ll call all my friends and tell them I got in. I’ll run through my dorm and the library telling anyone who’ll listen that I got in. I’ll go to dinner and announce to everyone at my dinner table that I got in. I’ll eat lots of cake left over from the birthday party last night, and not do my homework. If my teachers ask why, I’ve got an excuse. I’ll take the grade damage because hey, I got into Columbia!!! I’ll blast Frank Sinatra and Alicia Keys and that song from Sex in the City. I’ll make my parents take me to Columbia over Christmas break and I’m buying a sweatshirt and other paraphernalia, and I’ll go to an info session and tour. When they talk about admissions policies I’ll just sit there with a smug grin on my face. I’m going to collect as many types of viewbooks as I can find so I can stick them up in my room when I get back to school. My mom will probably let me get a NY shopping spree and I might even convince my parents to take my sister and me to a Broadway show. We’ll have dinner at a really nice restaurant before the show too. I’ll also go up the empire state building again and shout “I GOT INTO COLUMBIA!!!” and have everyone look at me weirdly. I’m going to have grin wrinkles on my face and some very sore smiling muscles. Or maybe I won’t do these things. I don’t really know how I’ll react. But it’s going to be amazing, I’m sure.</p>
<p>If I get in, my parents and I will go to a nice restaurant for dinner.
If I don’t get in, my dad with drive me to a McDonald’s Drive Thru and Ill order 30 things off the dollar menu so I don’t eat my feelings.</p>
<p>Hm. I’ll probably first sit and stare at the screen, rereading it over and over to make sure I didn’t make some kind of mistake, start screaming/crying then call my mom and my best friend. I think that’s what I’ll do anyways.</p>
<p>I think regardless of the decision, sobbing and profanity will be involved. It just depends on whether it’ll be sobs of thrilled disbelief and enthusiastic profanity or legitimately sad sobs and a use of profanity to express extreme disappointment.</p>
<p>Also, my horoscope (Gemini) says: There’s nothing that you can’t accomplish now, nothing at all. Heaven help anyone who tries to tell you about your limitations right now. You won’t be shy about letting them know exactly how wrong they are. No fair doing that in front of their loved ones, though, okay?</p>
<p>My horoscope tomorrow (cancer) says that not everything that will happen tomorrow will be good and that I should keep my head up and stay active in spite of it. I refuse to believe it. But then again cancers aren’t supposed to be spontaneous and can’t move on from setbacks quickly. I don’t fit that description at all. So maybe I shouldn’t be a cancer, and so my horoscope is invalid!!</p>
<p>Hard work yields pleasing results and proves that momentum is the key to your success. Once you get going, you may find yourself exceeding expectations long before you’re ready to quit. This is a great time to start a new health program or an art project. Once you get underway, people around you are bound to take notice. Share your new plans with friends or family; they will provide you with useful help and suggestions. Take the time to rest up and build your enthusiasm, then don’t let anything stop you! </p>
<p>If I get in, my mom’s going to let me borrow her credit card and order three things from the bookstore online. I’ll probably call a couple people and post my status on facebook. I won’t eat anything because I’ll need to make weight in a couple of days…okay, maybe I’ll have a brownie or something. couldn’t kill me.
If I don’t get in, I’ll probably pursue the same course of action, come to think of it–minus the bookstore part. but I’m not thinking about that right now.</p>
Let’s chance each other…as comrade-applicants