I suppose that one day real soon, email will replace snail mail, and waiting by the mail box for the envelops will become part of history. Rushing home everyday and checking the mail has become an afternoon ritual, I think it will be very sad that my younger siblings will probably not have this incredible experience. Anyone feel this way or am i being too sentimental about an excruciatingly stressful experience?
<p>i agree. i was planning on waiting out the letter from ucla, but then i logged on here last friday and saw that decisions were up...i simply couldn't resist. i kind of wish i'd gotten the whole nervewracking envelope-opening experience my brother got to have.</p>
<p>at least i was accepted :D</p>
<p>i dunno. i feel that checking my (e-)mailbox everyday can be as good a ritual. except more people will be fat 'coz they don't get the extra exercise from running down to the mailbox...</p>
<p>I hate waiting for mail... I just wanna check stuff online... It's so easy and simple and I don't know why such a prominent u like Princeton don't use it... :(</p>
<p>get rid of snail mail. it's a waste of paper, transportation energy, man power, etc.</p>
<p>it's also a massive federal bureaucratic entity, and isn't going anywhere.</p>
<p>I got my acceptance in the mail, big envelope, it was awesome having something physical to show for it. The funny part is that I kind of forgot when the decisions were coming in and all of a sudden, sitting in my mailbox, was this monstrous white thing with a college name on it.</p>
<p>I like the email thing. It means I get to know a lot sooner, so I'll have more time before May 1rst to think things over and make a final decision.</p>
<p>I agree with OP. My d found out she was accepted to one college online. When the packet came several days later, it was anticlimactic. The email wasn't a great rush of joy. I wished she hadn't known before the snail mail came. There is something delicious about sorting through the various envelopes, searching for that special packet. That physical essence will always provide a little extra something. Especially since you don't have to sort through ads for organ enhancement to retrieve it!</p>
<p>Yea! that's what I mean, the adreneline rush of rushing to the mail box and feverishly sorting through the junk mail,magazines and bills, while maintaining your eyes fixated on the upper left hand corner of the pile; scanning the envelop for a college name. It's a queasy,wild feeling. I also found out about one of my schools online, and it was like okay-that's great, but just not the same.</p>
<p>I don't like the "queasy, wild feeling." If I end up getting rejected, I'd like it to hit me before I know what's coming at me, like a bullet to the head. I'll feel all the worse if I get my hopes up while I take the time to open a letter.</p>
<p>thats why I'll have my mom open up all my letters for me and hand me al the letters at once so I'll know my aceptances along with my rejections</p>
<p>Getting a rejection letter doesn't feel all that bad, really, it's like getting dumped by a girl, you get over it, hopefully pretty quickly, and dare I say it makes really no difference however you receive the news.</p>
<p>I hotly disagree,</p>
<p>if it is a rejection I want to experience it in the privacy of my own home, but rather if it is an acceptance I would rather have the adcom call my school and tell my gc so that I would be pulled out of class and so I would be able to experience the joy of that acceptance with the people that made it all happen and provided emotional support for me</p>
<p>Strangely enough, I don't want the world to know about my acceptances any more than about my rejections. I sort of want it to be all mine. Plus, I feel weird when people fuss and congratulate me on things.
And yeah, torstein is right. This is just nitpicking; in the end, I don't really care so much. I just want to find out by whatever means, the sooner the better. I'm not terribly sentimental about it.</p>
<p>I like email because it comes before snail, but my mom brought up a good point.</p>
<p>with mail, you checked the box once a day and if it wasn't there it's 24 hours until you have to check again. with email, you can be checking every minute and not knowing if its going to come up at midnight or 5 p.m.</p>
<p>no matter what.............waiting sucks!</p>
<p>The only school I was going to find out about through the mail was Tulane... However they lost my admissions packet in the mail! When I called the school to find out about my decision (since they told me I'd have it in 4 weeks, and I was going on 8 weeks) I was told over the phone that I had been offered admissions. It was good to hear I got in, but I was looking foward to having at least one experence opening a letter... I suspose I still will, but I know what's going to be in it now.</p>
<p>I remember getting my tulane letter, it was in a big white envelope with only a single sheet in it.</p>
<p>As far as the online thing, the only school I've been accepted to (I'm a CC transfer student so I've got to wait bit longer) so far is UCSD. When I checked UCSD the other day (really not expceting anything from them until April, so it was a shock) and the letter popped up, I swear my heart skipped a beat. The online decession really does not give you that luxary of taking your time deciding if you want to look at the decession.</p>
<p>yeah... but I guess they are good for some people who want to know their decisions right away</p>