<p>I don’t know if it’s the gray, the cold, the interminable waiting, but March has seemed to drag on and on and on and seems like it will never end. Anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p>The robins and redwings have arrived in our yard, so I am feeling a bit more optimistic. Last year, however, when I was waiting for my son’s admissions results, I am sure it was at least twice as long as an ordinary month.</p>
<p>Yes, I have it on good authority.</p>
<p>Someone slipped a few extra hours into the day and a few extra days in the calendar. I am certain of this! </p>
<p>I can’t even make the excuse of cold, dreary weather. Spring has definitely hit in Texas. The weeds in my lawn are lush and green. </p>
<p>A number of my son’s friends have made their final decisions. My son is still in a circling pattern unable to land and, although he is quiet and uncomplaining (unlike his mom!), I think his underlying restlessness is communicating itself to the whole family. He knows he’ll have some choices and he’s grateful for that. It will be nice for him to wrap up this first stage in his saga.</p>
<p>This is definitely one long, slow month. Daughter is still waiting on 5 colleges. In the meantime, we are anticipating spring break next week with our last shred of mental health.</p>
<p>March may be the longest month, but surely April is the shortest! Last March it felt like we were hibernating, waiting for results, but when April arrived there was a whirlwind of college visits and contact with FA departments. May 1 arrived before we were truly ready, and I remember standing by the fax machine with S1, asking one last time if he was sure before we faxed the acceptance.</p>
<p>What’s really striking is the dramatic shift in the balance of power from March to April. In March, students are desperately waiting for college admission decisions, feeling totally vulnerable. In April, it’s their turn to let the schools wait while they weigh their options, while schools bombard them with e-mails, calls, mailings, offers of visits, etc. It’s really nice when, after all that time, the shoe’s on the other foot!</p>
<p>well, it is 31 days long :D</p>
<p>Even worse when you feel a school’s admissions office is inept. Two months ago they insisted that we hadn’t paid the application fee, until I showed them the credit card transaction on the statement. </p>
<p>Two days ago we get a card that they are missing the records from her school and SAT results, which I know were submitted. What have they been doing for the past two months? </p>
<p>How are they making merit scholarship decisions???</p>
<p>And this is a top 20 university!!</p>
<p>It is by far the most miserable month in upstate NY. We always get hit by at least one horrible storm in March. Maybe this year will be the exception (fingers crossed).</p>
<p>I hear the birds have started singing though and the woodpeckers, cardinals and red tailed hawks are all paired up. I also know of a great horned owl nearby whose babies are already big (they nest really early - I’ve seen that one with just her head sticking up out of snow). </p>
<p>There’s hope!</p>
<p>I don’t feel this way. I feel the opposite. Like, I just barely noticed it is march. I was still living in february until today. February was a very long month, i’ll tell you that.</p>
<p>If April is truly the time for real decision making, then April goes by <em>far</em> too fast. Visiting the two finalists, playing poker with Door #1’s FinAid department, and dropping <em>the</em> envelope in the mail were squeezed into an emotional blur. February/March, in contrast, seemed the length of an Ice Age.</p>
<p>The Good News: there is life afterwards. </p>
<p>And then there are new verses of the same song. D is currently in hurry-up-and-wait mode about some internship possibilities…and they don’t publish deadlines. There’s on in particular, that if offered, she will accept in approximately 3/5 of a second.</p>
<p>March takes forever here. Knowing spring is just around the corner but it still being cold with snow on the ground is depressing. Not to mention the five full weeks of school with no significant holidays or breaks. It feels like April and knowing about all the colleges and financial aid will never come.</p>
<p>I agree completely! March is definitely waaay too long without breaks, and it is definitely the busiest month of the year for me, with a musical, All State Band, a trip to DC for JSA, and a performance for a state band festival. I’m excited that all of this happening, but it is insanely difficult to keep up my grades while going away every weekend and having rehearsal or meetings every day. However, I wouldn’t trade it all in a second…I just need to whine a little bit now and then :p</p>
<p>Whine away, JTC. You deserve it, sweetie. Good luck and keep hanging on!</p>
<p>March is the best month ever in Arizona. Temperatures are near perfect the entire month.</p>
<p>It is absolutely the longest month of the year. In our Chicago-area household, we’ve been saying: “March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a … like a … wait … it’s never going to go out.”</p>
<p>For the RD college applicant, waiting for all precincts to “report,” March seems interminable. And whose warped sense of humor has March ending with April Fool’s Day anyway?</p>
<p>March is awfully long here too. We are still very cold, but gaining daylight-6 new minutes a day!!Yea. The local womans sportswear shop has a sale on “swimsuits and ice grippers” I guess for the cruise inclined Spring Break.Costco temps the season with garden supplies.
Meanwhile D2 has 3 decisions in and still waiting for 3 more. She refuses to play the “WHAT IF” game. We just wrote check for 4 AP tests. Honors tea is next week, last symphony concerts are in rehearsal…
She is also shopping for the PERFECT prom dress. Have you looked at those things? Choices are SENIOR SLUT or EASTER BARBIE. I am always staggered by the prices. D2 somehow thinks she earned this last pricy frock and I should just turn my head and ensembles that could cost as much as AIRFARE!!! AH the Pressure on my beautiful 18 year old. Someday, I will look back at these days and smile- maybe when I am crying over the - what to bring to college thread- but not yet>>>>>>>>>>>>>></p>
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<p>LOL!!! Thanks for that, Crabby. I’m glad I’m not the only one with that reaction! I’ll probably be making my daughter’s prom dress, but even finding a pattern she likes is proving to be a challenge…but that’s mostly because her criteria is for selection is “I’ll know it when I see it.”</p>
<p>weenie, i’m gonna have to second you on how terrible upstate new york is in march. having a birthday at the end of march, i frequently have snow or at least rain/gray on that day. what a change it will be, down here in north carolina, where it seems like the sun is always shining!</p>
<p>Technically, October is the longest month of the year (until 2007 or 2008…)</p>