<p>dudes and dudettes,</p>
<p>has anyone else noticed that this wait for acceptance (or in my case, rejection) made you lose your will to continue on?</p>
<p>uuuuugh this is really the worst wait ever...impending doom. any of those who have experienced this want to comment on how to make the time go by faster and less painfully?</p>
<p>cheers (or not?)</p>
<p>Go to a movie. Go skiing. Build a Habitat for Humanity house. Go tutor some kids.</p>
<p>Get out of your own head and check out what else is going on.</p>
<p>hard to do. my head is under massive lockdown security. :(</p>
<p>If you can't unlock your head, then unlock your body.</p>
<p>Go for a jog. Go to the gym. Go lift weights.</p>
<p>Make dinner for your folks tonight.</p>
<p>Under NO circumstances should you play video games!! It keeps your mind stupid and just increases the adrenalin, which increases the anxiety. (I don't know what I'm talking about, but it sure sounds authoritative . . . )</p>
<p>I can't get out of my head either. I can't commit to doing anything (be it painting or exercising) because I feel guilty about all the work I should be doing, so I sit at the computer wasting time online and worrying myself crazy about the five essays I have to write for Wednesday that I'm unable to produce because I've hit a wall and am no longer capable of academic writing. The end result is that my eyes hurt and my contacts feel like cornflakes, I've had a miserable weekend slash post-application life in general, and I still haven't accomplished anything remotely useful.</p>
<p>I think I've whined enough for now.</p>
<p>haha thanks for the advice</p>
<p>^^yes this would basically be me as well, right down to the contacts like cornflakes. my teachers are all wondering what happened, and why im no longer like miss motivated in every class, and the truth is, its because all i can think about is march 29. but i must say that watching movies really helps. a lot. reading, not so much, too easy to get distracted. so go rent the movie versions of classic novels, so that when you get to dartmouth (or another pretigious school of your choice), you can sound ridiculously well read!</p>