<p>@phamsank: You’re Vietnamese right? May I ask where are you originally from cause I’m Viet too :D</p>
<p>@laura: I haven’t actually decided…on Common App I just put “pre-med studies.” I was originally thinking of doing biomedical engineering, but I don’t want to have my college life to be centered only around math. Now I’m thinking biochemistry or public health but otherwise I’m not so sure! I want to minor in English or maybe international relations…overall I have a big picture but the details aren’t as clear yet…
@HPdaKing: Yes, my ethnicity is Vietnamese!..but I was born and raised in the U.S. My mom hails from Saigon and immigrated here when she was young.</p>
<p>Eleven days
!!!</p>
<p>Is it just me, or is this extremely funny because it’s just so true: [Urban</a> Dictionary: College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=College%20Confidential]Urban”>Urban Dictionary: College Confidential).</p>
<p>NINE DAYS HYPE HYPE!</p>
<p>ON another note, I just watched Lion King (for the 1000000000000x) and so HAKUNA MATATA.</p>
<p>Phamsank-- I LOVE that hahahaha, have you seen the UD definitions for Tufts? Hilarious. I actually wrote a college essay about Hakuna Matata! For Smith. So I guess it’s like 8 days now, if we’re assuming it’ll come out early on the 14th?</p>
<p>Grrrr I am so anxious(not stressed, according to my friend Connor) 
If it doesn’t come out on the 14th Im going to pull an all nighter, constantly refreshing</p>
<p>the website said the 15th, so why would it come out on the 14th??</p>
<p>Because EDI came out on the 14th of december at 1pm</p>
<p>Not sure I can make it 8-9 more days…</p>
<p>I feel your pain mintzykins…</p>
<p>Same! I just keep checking my TAMS account (which started working again, yay!) even though I know it’s not going to say anything new until the 14th/15th. I also check the Tufts “Inside Admissions” Blog at least four times a day to see if any new entries have been posted, haha! I can’t fully decide whether I’m excited, stressed, nervous, or anxious. I actually think it is a massive jumble of all these rolled into one. Okay only 8-9 more days, I can do this! Oh, and on a side note, I have a good distraction movie for all of you ED2’s out there who are have trouble doing anything else but refreshing your TAMS page over and over again; I saw “Midnight in Paris” the other night, and quite enjoyed it! Don’t think I thought about Tufts once while I was watching it!</p>
<p>I tried to avoid checking my TAMS account as much as possible, partly because I don’t want the website to get down or have some other problems on the day decision comes out.
And for ED1, I believe they got it on Dec 14th because it was announced to be out on Dec 14th, not Dec 15th. So I guess if we don’t see anything there on Dec 14th yet, there’s no need to get freak out.
Anyway, just thinking about it makes me all tremble now. I don’t even know if I can handle insomnia for more than a week…</p>
<p>I’m so pathetic with my TAMS addiction. Scared I’ll crash the site too, but I just can’t resist refreshing like a complete freak.</p>
<p>And ARRRRGH so they’re coming out the 15th then, not the 14th? I literally cannot deal with this. #NERVOUSBREAKDOWN
^sorry… long day</p>
<p>It’s okay. I just had one of my friends, after seeing me check my TAMS account a few too many times, give me a 40 min lecture on why I was not stressed. He was like “according to the definition of stress, you cannot be stressed about something you can’t change at this point. You’re anxious.” I was just like “Do i LOOK like I care about the difference???”
(I’m pretty sure the anxiety is getting to my head and making me into a really bad person)</p>
<p>AHHHH SO STRESSED because there’s this whole issue with the Common App refusing to send in my ED agreement because my counselor couldn’t access her account and had to fax her forms instead. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any songs that they would like to share that lessen stress?</p>
<p>Phamsank, I don’t know what kind of music you’re into but I’ve literally had this playlist on repeat for 2+ weeks:
Matisyahu - I Will Be Light (acoustic)
Maccabeats - Miracle
Matisyahu - Miracle (acoustic)
Matisyahu - King Without a Crown (Shake Off the Dust version)
Chopin - Nocturne no. 1 E Minor
Maccabeats - One Day
Sleep Well Destroyer - Boy
Ingrid Michaelson - Fire
Matisyahu - One Day (acoustic)
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (for some reason, I associate this song with Tufts so much. Hopefully I get in or it’s getting deleted off my iTunes…)</p>
<p>I was just on the Tufts Undergraduate Admissions website and I looked under the “Application Deadlines & Important Dates” link and it lists the ED1 Notification Date as December 15th- I know Laura said that the decision for ED1 was released on December 14th at 1pm, so perhaps there is still hope that the ED2 decision will be released at some point on February 14th as well! 7 (maybe 8, but hopefully not) more days to go! I hope it is the 14th, because if it isn’t, I’m probably going to pull an all nighter, and just keep refreshing my TAMS page until the decisions are posted! </p>
<p>What is everyone doing to keep their minds off of Tufts? Any good suggestions? I’m going crazy over here!</p>
<p>I saw the maccabeats sing “one day” live at an AIPAC conference in Washington it was awesome</p>
<p>Look up the Tufts Beezlebubs Pokemon theme song on youtube. Makes me smile every time! :)</p>
<p>I’ve noticed on this thread that a lot of you have been freaking out about when the decisions are going to be released, so, as someone from ED1, this was my experience (and you can probably expect a similar process to occur ED2):</p>
<p>The decisions were slated to be released 12/15 but a few days before (maybe 2-3) they posted on the admissions website inside of the small blue banner under the part that cycles through top stories, ect. that they would be released on 12/14. They didn’t say what time but previous years they’d released at 3pm so I started checking tams around noon and at EXACTLY 3 decisions became available (about 15 minutes later I got an email notifying me the decisions had been posted). SO 2/15 will be the last possible day of notification from my understanding, and if they finish adcom early, they’ll change that date accordingly. Therefore I’d expect decisions to be released the 14th or 15th depending on volume. </p>
<p>And also, a bit of advice: 1. Don’t freak out; I was so nervous because my gpa was a bit subpar but Tufts is about more than numbers, and in the end it worked out for me. As long as you’re yourself in the entirety of your application, Tufts will see that and if it’s where you’re supposed to be, and it’s the best fit for you then everything will be fine (and if its NOT the best fit, it’ll work out too…just maybe not at Tufts)…and 2. I know everyone is telling you to relax and that it’s near impossible but TRY, for your own good. I know the night before decisions I was up until 3 watching youtube “essay” submissions going insane. DO NOT DO THAT TO YOURSELF. Give yourself a lot of distractions (I was more productive the week leading up to decisions than any other; I poured myself into school) via academics, friends, whatever. GOOD LUCK GUYS hopefully I’ll see you all in September.</p>