<p>When I got in ED on dec 15 2001, they didn't send an email, so i arrived home at like 7:30 after work, had dinner with my family, and then heard a noise at the door and then our screen door slammed. I go there and it's a fedex package. I think I yelled "Sweet!".</p>
<p>My parents didn't go dressing their walls with Columbia gear, but I took the bumper sticker they sent in the admissions packet and put it on my own car. Sort of an attitude of "screw all you soccer moms bragging about where your KID got into. If anyone's gonna brag, it's gonna be ME".</p>
<p>That was all the bragging and celebration I did though. I had had an attitude of "if it happens it happens", which coincidentally is a helpful attitude to take if you want to get laid when you go out on the town.</p>
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I'll probably play 50 hours straight of Zelda on my new Wii that I've been banned from touching until I get into college too...
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now that makes zero sense. i'd think they'd let you play it now until you hear back, in order to make the time go faster. if you get deferred or rejected, THEN it's a 2-week banning to let you get your other apps in. =)</p>
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Y'all need to take things a day at a time. The more you talk about this sort of thing, the more you'll be disappointed at the inevitable deferral/rejection that's coming to 80% of you. It's OK to be optimistic, but you don't want to be doing a victory dance on the 5 yard line when someone tackles you before you reach the end zone.
<p>Since I've gone through the scenario of not getting in enough times in my mind (which of course, will never be as bad as the real thing), I already figured out what I'm doing if I do get in. I'm definitely calling many, many people to tell them. I'm not going to schoool on Friday either way, because I'm seeing a concert in NYC that night, so I decided to spend the day in the city. BUT if I do get in, I'm going to Columbia during the day, of coursen stocking up on the necessities (hoodie, bumper sticker, etc.) and I've decided that I will stand in the middle of College Walk and scream something along the lines of "I just got into this school!"</p>
<p>If I get in...I will devote the next few weeks to subtley insulting teachers that I do not like. I have one particular teacher whose class I have been late to twice; she screamed at me both times I was late, and I've been on time to every class since. Despite this, she obviously dislikes me and treats me poorly. We are allowed six total lates per semester. I've got four lates left, and I plan to use them all on her class. That's right, I will purposefully show up late, and when she asks where I was: "Just chillin' in the courtyard. Would you mind explaining what I missed?" Getting accepted early will almost be worth it just for this.</p>
<p>By the way, I seriously considered putting down Counter-strike "clan-leader" under ECs on my app...My GC advised me against it.</p>
<p>it's ALIVE! MUAHAHAHAHA! First Columbia, then the world! Nerds of the world UNITE! Seriously.... If we're starting a Columbia Clan, we gotta pick a name..... The Minute-Men anyone?
p.s. Already there Denzera, already there....ever heard of slivovitz?</p>
<p>if i get in PARTYY this weekend!! but... i'll wait until tomorrow before i start thinking about that. eeeeeee <-- this is me being extremely nervous/excited/anxious</p>