<p>your least favorite part about college applications?</p>
<p>Mine is definitely asking for recommendations!</p>
<p>I feel so awkward and guilty when I ask for them!</p>
<p>I asked my English teacher at the end of junior year, and it went sort of like this...
Me (nervously): Um, I was going to ask you this earlier, but I was wondering if maybe you would consider writing my college recommendations next year? [implied: "...but if you don't that's okay too, I'll just ask someone else, I wouldn't want to be a burden..."]
Him: Of course, I'd be happy to.</p>
<p>With my chemistry teacher it was awkward in a different way. I was going to ask him in private after class (the first class of senior year), but it didn't exactly happen that way.
Him: So, how many of you want me to write your college recs?
Me, along with most of the class: <em>raises hand</em>
Him: Oh, okay. Now, organic chemistry...</p>
<p>hehehe...well I already asked one teacher (one of my teachers from precollege at RISD) and she said she'd love to and to just send her an email once I start applying to schools. Though I'm not quite sure if she realized that I'm only a junior. I'll probably ask my English teacher either at the end of this year or beginning of next. She already wrote me one to get into a summer program this year. I've never really been nervous asking teachers for things. What is going to bother me next year is probably the essays. I will worry about them like crazy. </p>
<p>Also, waiting for responses. The anticipation will kill me.</p>
<p>Waiting for transcripts, and other documents to arrive at the colleges and have them processed, so you KNOW for SURE that haven't been lost in the mail.</p>
<p>Are you serious? ESSAYS are the worst!</p>
<p>I agree--recommendations was the EASIEST part! Essays were definitely the hardest. Waiting isn't "hard" or "easy"...it's just there...</p>
<p>I kind of feel dumb asking for recommendations. It's like asking someone to say a lot of nice things about you... and you don't do anything for them. It was awkward for me, but not insanely unbearable.</p>
<p>Probably the hardest part for me is the waiting. I only really have problems with the supplemental essays, like the "why xyz college" ones. It's hard for me to come up with a unique answer for every one.</p>
<p>writing the "why x college" essay. Those are sooo tough for me. Especially when I live in Oklahoma and my parents can't really afford plane tickets to visit colleges.</p>
<p>I agree with the poster above who said "waiting for transcripts." People with lazy secretaries or gcs know the agony of this.</p>