The Official Emo Thread

Colleges & Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>My experience with Yale:</p>

<p>The moment I stepped on campus, I got that "feeling." The tingly, surreal, subtlely provoking idea that "Oh, I really could spend four years here. I could spend four years just sitting on the corner, staring at the buildings around me."</p>

<p>Before my visit, Yale had just been one of those aloof Ivy League Schools. One of the unattainables. One of the most prestigious colleges in the country. I didn't know prestige. My mom had bought a copy of US News and World Report, and I threw it down, frustrated. They all looked the same on paper. I wanted to visit each school that interested me, and wait to see if that feeling came along. All I knew about each college was a name, and maybe a family member or student who had gone there. </p>

<p>During the visit, every new aspect of Yale amazed me: the libraries, the breathtaking architecture, the buildings soaked with history, the bizarre traditions, and the residential colleges. When I heard about the competition between the residential colleges, I nearly jumped for joy. I am extremely competitive; I try as hard as I can to win in gym, and I get upset when my team doesn't win in Current Events Sweepstakes. I could only imagine campus-wide competition.</p>

<p>And now, I can only imagine it. I'm not going to Yale. After spending hours on the site and scouring the pages of the Blue Book to find my specific major, after two visits and two interviews, after a painful deferral and months of uncertainty, I had an answer-- No. </p>

<p>The very fact that I let myself fall blindly for a school upsets me. The fact that one of my best friends can go there, and I cannot, is painful. I know she deserves it (because she is amazing), but I feel like I deserve something for years and years of hard work. And I know I'm going to a very good school... But it's something about seeing other people, who maybe didn't work as hard, who went out and smoked and drank on the weekends, who aren't as articulate as I am, have more choices in schools, and are attending better schools-- this is what upsets me.</p>

<p>Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know that the college I sent my deposit to is a good one. I know that I will fit in there, socially. I can even play field hockey there. I'm not planning on transferring; I know that I will be happy where ever I go. I just know that I would have been the happiest at Yale.</p>

<p>I don’t know the point of this post. I needed to get my feelings out. I started writing a waitlist letter to Cornell, and this came instead. I have been holding this inside for a couple weeks because there has just been so much more to deal with in life…
I don’t really care if anyone reads it, but thanks if you do.
And feel free to post your own emo rants.</p>

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<p>...Oh...my...gosh. Dude...I am turning Emo. That is really sad! :( I wish you luck in your future endeavors...</p>

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<p>As an emo kid, I got really excited when I saw this thread. I thought we were gonna talk about Dashboard Confessional. : [</p>

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<p>I'm so emo...i get made fun of all the time for listening to fall out boy :)</p>

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<p>loaded god complex, **** it and pull it</p>

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<p>I gues c-o-c-k is a bad word, because it got deleted in the above post, or is it caulk it.... ooops</p>

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<p>Fall Out Boy!!!!!! <3333
Being from Chicago AND and emo kid, I love FOB.
despite not /really/ being an emo band.
but still -dance dance-</p>

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<p>we're going down down......im going to see them in a few weeks. </p>

<p>i love them, but theyre waaaaaay too overexposed (literally, in pete's case).</p>

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<p>^^ Aww... reading the OP made me sad. Kayrlis, I know how you feel: Yale was my dream school, EA deferred, then rejected. I cried for maybe 2 hours, and I thought that I would never be able to find a school that I would be as happy as if I went to Yale. I even seriously contemplated taking a gap year or transferring. But then I visited my other 3 schools (Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth) and I fell in love with Dartmouth. Now, I can't imagine going anywhere else and, even if Yale out-of-the-blue accepted me, I would turn it down to go to Dartmouth! If there's one thing I got out of this chaotic, crazy college application process, it's that God works in mysterious ways (not to get all religous on you). Who knows? Maybe you would've been miserable at Yale, had you gone. Maybe there's smthg. wonderful and amazing waiting for you at the school you put your deposit in. College is what you make of it!
Hehe... I hope this helped. :-)</p>

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<p>to the FOB- okay, I always get their lyrics wrong. I thought for the longest time that it was "we're going down down, in a merry-go-round." my team still makes fun of me for it.</p>

<p>Thanks felix. Rereading my post, thanks for being so tolerant. I was going super emo on everybody, and it's totally unfair. I don't think I would've been so nice to an OP like me :)</p>

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<p>whenicomearound-
HAHAHAHAH on the overexposed.
wow</p>

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<p>^^haha kayrlis, no problem, I go to a very emo school I'm used to it :-)</p>

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<p>So ... where are you going? (I have to ask)</p>

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<p>Vassar College, unless I get off the Cornell waitlist.</p>

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<p>You should just listen to Death Cab and everything will be okay.</p>

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<p>edm-
i feel bad hijacking this thread, and i sincerely wish the best to the OP, who im sure will enjoy vassar in spite of the fact that that may not have been where she originally wanted to go. that being said, have you seen the luleelurah video? its quite possibly the funniest 3 minutes online.</p>