<p>As per order of @PhotographerMom, here is the 2014 Anxiety Thread! I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to write here, so I'm hoping she will chime in. My hope is that this thread can be the kid version of Miscellaneous Ramblings in the Parents subforum, stemming from the fact that we are all anxious! I can't believe March 10 is just three weeks from Monday. Three weeks is seriously nothing... c'mon guys, be anxious with me!</p>
<p>Good luck and much love! :o3 <3</p>
<p>Ahhh only three weeks! This is making me nervous and excited. </p>
<p>I’m so excited! I’m sure I’ll be nervous March 9th and when I wake up and check my email.</p>
<p>Last M9 was a Saturday, and I was at a Bar Mitzvah party at a bowling alley and I saw a guy with a Middlesex shirt and I was going to tell him I might end up at Groton… but I didn’t. It was nice to be able to have fun the night before. My anxiety causes run-on sentences.</p>
<p>Last year on M9 I worked out and played the saxophone the whole day just to take my mind off the WL letters. It didn’t work very well…</p>
<p>My mind was on the WL for months… long story.</p>
<p>However cheesy this may sound, I’d just like to thank the CC prep school community for helping me get through tis tough period in my life. I honestly cannot fully express my gratitude towards you all and I’m sad that by April, the forum is going to be deserted. I really hope I’ll end up at the same school as some of you (and once you make your decisions PM me will you?). Just keep in mind we’ve all put a ton of effort into applications, and it’s all over now. Your fate is in someone else’s hands, and nonetheless, you should all be proud of yourselves for making it through. </p>
<p>And I’m not sure if I’m the first one to admit this, but all of you people out there competing for spots for class of 2018, I’m actually nervous because you seem like an incredibly talented bunch. I just accidentally closed this tab so thank god for auto-save. </p>
<p>I’ll be writing myself a letter of encouragement for the possibility of rejection.</p>
<p>@swimmergirl Don’t worry, it’s not too deserted come April! It’s just full of waitlist threads. :)</p>
<p>I really like the letter of encouragement idea. I’m going to write one and open it the morning of March 10! My mom and I are both going to write down which school we think I’ll end up attending and put it in the safety deposit box for April 10.</p>
<p>If I get accepted, I will have so much free time come April because I won’t be on here nearly as frequently.</p>
<p>@needtoboard Same here!</p>
<p>I rolled a die for each of the seven schools I applied to. If the die rolled above a three, I “got in”. If it rolled below a three, I “got rejected”. If it landed on three, I “got WL’d”. </p>
<p>I addressed my letter of encouragement to “Post-M10 swimmergirl3” </p>
<p>@swimmergirl3 I did the exact same thing! I wrote mine on January 15th, but it’s a letter to myself if I don’t get in. And to be honest, I’m incredibly intimidated too. I’m only applying to Middlesex (which is a huge risk applying to one school with a 18% acceptance rate), and having everyone in my family going “you’ll get in, don’t worry”. I feel like they are setting me up for disappointment. But as of right now there are officially 21 days left according to my 3 different countdowns. So, three more weeks. Three more weeks of not paying attention in class because I’m thinking about M10, three more weeks of torture. But hey, at least it’s only three more weeks! </p>
<p>this is my first M10! HELP 
:-S but the encouragement letter is a good idea hehe</p>
<p>Well, we’ve planned on taking Moosieboy out for dinner either way - if he gets in, it’ll be a celebration dinner. If he doesn’t, then we’ll make it a “cheer up” dinner! LOL! He’s actually pretty prepared for a rejection because all along we went into the process as a long-shot. I mean, heck, he only applied to one school!!! But we’ve got contingency plans if he doesn’t get in, and he’s pretty excited about the possibilities that will open up if he doesn’t get accepted - mainly a lot of EC that he will be eligible next year as a 9th grader that he won’t be able to take part of if he goes to prep school. He also LOVES his Logic class, and the school he’s applied to doesn’t offer it. So we’re trying REALLY hard to think of "best case scenarios’ if he doesn’t get accepted. But who are we kidding? It’ll be a blow no matter what if he doesn’t get in, and a total party if he does!!! We all have a really good feeling about it, but you know how far that gets anyone these days…</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>17 dayss!!!</p>
<p>^ of torture!</p>
<p>heartwrenching torture</p>
<p>terrible, terrible torture</p>
<p>appalling, dreadful torture. These 16 days honestly cannot pass fast enough </p>