<p>When the mail comes I run to get it, even though I know perfectly well that nothing will be coming for a few more days. I have never been a patient person.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Rani, I know exactly how you feel! I’m heading to NYC tomorrow with some friends and already made a plan with my sister about what to do if anything comes from Vassar (big envelope=open it and call me immediately; regular envelope=don’t tell me about it, i’ll find it when i get home), haha :)</p>
<p>I have a similar plan to yours, senioryr2010- I’ll be in Jamaica until Monday, so I instructed my mother to call or email me if the big envelope arrives, and let me wait if the small one comes.
I think I’ve made my guidance counselor exasperated with my daily visits to see if there’s been a call from Vassar to say that something is missing from my application. And I haven’t even truly entered ‘freaking-out mode’ yet!</p>
<p>…anyone else talk to their mailbox?</p>
<p>I told my mom not to tell me anything. Because if she didn’t send me an email telling me that I got in, I would be wondering if it just hadn’t come yet or if I hadn’t gotten in. If she told me that I got in, I wouldn’t be able to focus for the rest of the day. If she told me I didn’t get in, I wouldn’t be able to focus for the rest of the day, and I’d go home and listen to depressing music all night.</p>
<p>Just waiting impatiently for the letter… i’m so nervous that i cried today. we all really NEED to be at vassar (as indicated by this thread). i can’t focus on anything but vassar.</p>
<p>I… figured out my schedule for next semester.</p>
<p>VASSAR COLLEGE SCHEDULE
FALL 2010 SEMESTER</p>
<p>MEDS160a. - Approaches to Media Studies
Thursdays, 1.30pm – 2.45pm</p>
<p>DRAM102a. - Introduction to Theater-making: Theory and Practice
Thursdays, 10.30am – 11.45am
Fridays, 1.00pm – 3.00pm</p>
<p>ASTR101a. - Solar System Astronomy
Thursdays, 12.00pm – 1.15pm</p>
<p>DANC165a. - Beginning Ballet II
Mondays, 12.00pm – 1.15pm
Wednesdays, 12.00pm – 1.15pm</p>
<p>FREN206a. - Intermediate French II
Thursdays, 3.10pm – 4.25pm</p>
<p>Who wants to hang out on Tuesdays? Seeing that they’re blissfully blank, I’ll use Tuesdays as my Explore Vassar days. Wanna come?</p>
<p>chirichimes - i think the entire guidance office at my school is sick of me coming and checking on everything. i’ve been so anxious about whether they called for first quarter grades or not, and then we had a snow day on wednesday and i was like “WAAAH, what if they call today and no one is there and blah blah blah” haha, but thankfully all this antcipiation/anxiety will end soon enough!</p>
<p>Matt - I love it! I’m saving the serious class/schedule searching until I found out from Vassar, though. I don’t want to jinx anything, lol</p>
<p>Ah, I’m so nervous! Four of my friends found out today from their ED schools (Columbia and Cornell)…the 2 applying to Columbia were both deferred, the 2 from Cornell were both rejected. I’m not exactly too confident in myself anymore, lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s true. I try to think of it more as, “The more I entangle myself with Vassar, the more likely fate will bring us together.” It’s The Secret! Hahahaha, oh god, I’m so lame.</p>
<p>Deferred and rejected… that’s just not very helpful at all. :/</p>
<p>The nervousness/excitement/anticipation is becoming so intense!! (Not that it wasn’t before…) Vassar just pops into my mind so often!</p>
<p>@mattsaysfierce-- Nice schedule!! I’m liking the theater/astronomy combo on Thursdays.</p>
<p>Dear Vassar Hopefuls,</p>
<p>I have been reading your increasingly feverish posts, at first with some amusement and empathy, and then with concern. I have been holding off writing this: I don’t suppose it will be well-received…but, I have finally decided to write. Please understand that this is coming from a very much older (and experienced) person.</p>
<p>I write as someone who has attended Vassar, Harvard, and the University of London, followed by a specific professional training of many years. I write as a loving parent, as well. </p>
<p>Some of you will get into Vassar. Some of you will not. Getting in will not “make” your world or future. Not getting in will not blight your world or future. A college is a college. I know that probably sounds like heresy to you all. I have been reading your extreme idealisations of Vassar. No educational institution could live up to them. Vassar is a nice place to spend four years. So are many–most-- other places of higher education. College is what you make of it. And really, 80% of the value of the college experience is that it is a period of emotional and social growth. You can elicit an excellent education, find mentors and inspiration from any educational institution–I emphasise any. </p>
<p>If you are accepted at Vassar, that’s fine: congratulations. Once you go you will find that some of it will please you and some of it will disappoint you. It is up to you to create your own experience there. I can promise you, however, that it will be bound to disappoint you if you go on expecting the “peak experience” you are describing. It is a college–that’s all–made up of a range human beings who bring their various postivies and negatives into the mix. </p>
<p>If you are not accepted at Vassar, really, really: that’s fine too. You must grab your lives with both hands and go on to make the most of whatever fine institution to which you go. Your future will not be derailed, believe me. Your life is not riding on one throw of the dice. Actually, you have much more control than that. You are much more creative than that. (Please try to stop feeling so helpless and vulnerable as you wait for those thick/thin letters.) And while you might have had a fine time at Vassar, you are equally able to do exactly the same somewhere else. It is up to you.</p>
<p>As I wrote, I have had a range of educational experience. My husband, too, attended several universities in his career. I have had at least 3 professions, all quite different and highly successful. My husband has also done many things–all highly successful and fascinating. In our 50’s, we have both begun new chapters in our working lives, and the “life of the mind.”</p>
<p>Your life is a work in progress, and, hopefully, you will always regard it as such. No place is the “be all and end all.” No place will “make” you. You are the key. You inhabit a place and bring it to life. Bring your creativity and talents to wherever you are, squeeze the most out of that experience, approach it with joy, and you will get all that you desire and more.</p>
<p>With every good wish to you all.</p>
<p>Clarity:</p>
<p>Very nice note. I wish you would post it elsewhere where the kids are likewise freaking out, as my D is (her ED school has not even announced any precise date for ED decisions, while her classmates in HS know exactly when to expect news). In the 1970’s I never thought of applying ED (I think no one did back then). I was so blasee about it all that I had no favorite place at all. My favorate place became where I got in.</p>
<p>That note was definitely full of great points. I think we all know that if we don’t get in, life will have to go on. It’s true, there’s other schools out there for all of us. But it’s really fun to be excited and nervous about our letters. Even if we’re getting our hopes up, it’s part of it. I’ve definitely gotten a lot out of just the experience of applying ED. :)</p>
<p>& Matt, you are my schedule buddy! With the exception of astronomy (haha) those are all my first choice courses!</p>
<p>Thanks for the message, ClarityR. I do have similar sentiments, but, like tanabelle, I like the experience of being very excited about this. I’m sure life will go on whether or not I am accepted to Vassar.</p>
<p>Today I got punk’d by Vassar- I got in the mail from them a BIG, white envelope, and as I have been checking my mail irrationally every day, I nearly screamed with confusion/surprise/joy. The only mail I had gotten from Vassar previously was an informational brochure a couple of days after I signed up for the mailing list. And here I am with a big envelope…on the 11th?!?
My ‘hopes’ were dashed when I ripped open the envelope to find- a duplicate brochure and a letter inviting me to “Apply now with the Common Application!” I think my nerves have been shot now, ahaha. As for this brochure, I probably won’t read it myself, but show it to those who aren’t familiar with Vassar.</p>
<p>Oh. My God. That’s terrible! I would’ve died! Last week I got a big white envelope in the mail from them and I thought for like, 2 seconds it could be my decision… magically early. However, it was a big brochure on science @Vassar. Woo. Sendmyletterplskthx.</p>
<p>I threatened my mailbox today. If it gives me a bad letter I’m gonna turn it into aluminum foil.</p>
<p>Having open communication with your mailbox is the only way to get things done! Obviously. :)</p>
<p>I don’t have a mailbox. I’m very jealous.</p>
<p>And now so is mine. :D</p>
<p>One of my friends just found out he got into his first choice school. Only four days til we know about ours!! Possible sooner, ;)!</p>