<p>I'd just get right to it. And then vomit all over my laptop/ dance like i've never danced before.</p>
<p>I'm going to check immediately, because I have two options:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Get into Yale - Freak out in joy, live a happy life.</p></li>
<li><p>Get rejected.</p>
<ul>
<li>Fake death, run away and join the French Foreign Legion. Assassinate a head of state and get caught so I can go down in the history books.</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>
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2. Get rejected.
- Fake death, run away and join the French Foreign Legion. Assassinate a head of state and get caught so I can go down in the history books.
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<p>lol, good plan.</p>
<p>I'm also gonna check immediately because the longer you wait, the more nervous you get.</p>
<p>I have no idea when I am gonna check it. I have two options: </p>
<ol>
<li>Waitin for 11 pm, or possible even later (Time difference), checking my decision, be crushed by the rejection and not sleeping the whole night, or </li>
<li>Pulling an all-nighter the night before, go to bed early, not sleeping all night, and getting out of bed 5.30 am and check before school. </li>
</ol>
<p>I have no idea what's worse. Not sleeping all night because of being rejected or not sleeping all night because of not knowing.</p>
<p>no way am I checking online. I did that on December 15th and received bad news, experienced extreme emotional trauma, and now associate online decision checking with bad bad feelings</p>
<p>I'm gonna wait for the snail mail, then, if I get in, go online to see the dancing bulldog (because they keep the decisions online for like 2 weeks)</p>
<p>I got deferred from SCEA at Yale and it took me and hour and 15 minutes to get up the courage to log into my Eli account...</p>
<p>How Not to Check Your Eli Account:
Constantly refreshing the page from 4PM-6:11PM while on the phone with your friend, who will no longer be your friend after she hears your sudden shriek of despair/ecstasy.</p>
<p>...not that I would know.</p>
<p>omg</p>
<p>I just discovered that I'm going to be at a drama club rehearsal when decisions are released.</p>
<p>I was at a choir rehearsal when MIT decisions were released.</p>
<p>Why do I have such awful scheduling?</p>
<p>rofl at lookbeyond.
i'll probably end up doing that.</p>
<p>@ goldenratiophi :</p>
<p>You have no idea how serious I am about 2.</p>
<p>Yeah I've thought about it too. It seems like it would have been an easy way to get famous a long time ago. Security's amazingly tight now, though.</p>
<p>^ My philosophy on altering a condition is this:</p>
<p>The base state of a variable condition is unbridled mutability, and any addition of stability to it can be overcome by an addition of effort.</p>
<p>You can guard someone with all the resources in the world. If they by themselves are able to be killed, no matter what, there will be a way to kill them.</p>
<p>I can't guarantee a low expense/my own survival obviously, but it is always possible.
I feel like most of the things we think make us safer are just grand displays of security theater.</p>
<p>Which brings me to a question I consider frequently:</p>
<p>If there are two states: Unharmed/Harmed, and two meta states : Protected/Unprotected</p>
<p>How can you ever know that a government (which is presumably instituted on a most basic level for the purpose of intra/inter protection) ever fulfills its purpose? Wouldn't you only know when the government was failing? i.e. When harm occured?</p>
<p>Just a heads up - logging onto the Eli account is such a strenuous process. For me, the decision didn't appear until and hour and fifteen minutes after they were supposed to be released... AHHHH! Then, I was expecting either a rejection letter or music, but instead it skipped the music and the letter and just logged me into the accepted students' website. I was so confused and had no clue if it was real or not. Talk about stressful! I had to re-log in to see the acceptance, and that was a huge relief.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!!</p>
<p>This is what plays for successful applicants:</p>
<p>Bull-Dog
music and words by Cole Porter, '13</p>
<p>Bull-dog! Bull-dog! Bow, wow, wow,
Eli Yale!
Bull-dog! Bull-dog! Bow, wow, wow,
Our team can never fail.
When the sons of Eli break through the line,
That is the sign we hail,</p>
<p>Bow, wow, wow? Honestly?</p>
<p>^ Davenport's fight song is the best thing ever.
(Also, if you think that's weird, look up the lyrics to one of the Whiffenpoof's songs.......It involves the sound a lamb)</p>
<p>I'm with you on the bow wow, IndiaRubber.</p>
<p>I just installed speakers in anticipation of this, so I won't have to deal with the dread of not knowing if I'm accepted or rejected when I close my eyes.</p>
<p>Ah, painful nothingness...</p>
<p>I really want to get accepted now to hear that music. Bow wow wow?! Hahaha!</p>