<p>Does anyone else feel like they barely have time to think about D-Day anymore because of exams? </p>
<p>@oxoxhawja3xoxo Luckily, our exams are after Winter Break. My choir does have a lot of performances leading up to the holidays, though! That’s definitely keeping me busy.</p>
<p>There’s no music program at my HS, and I wasn’t ever inclined to sing/ play independently. </p>
<p>I think one of the best parts of going to Harvard (or a good number of similar schools) would be the music scene </p>
<p>@oxoxhawja3xoxo Yes!!!
I have term exams every day this week. It’s 10:45 pm here and I still haven’t studied though…</p>
<p>The other thing is I’m such a controller that I want to plan where I’ll be when I get the decision, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to. I kind of depend on my brother and mom’s commitments and I hate that! I can’t properly imagine the time and place where I’ll get to finally know… I’m all nervous. </p>
<p>Plus, the comments from all the parents here have made me think it is now imperative to put all my effort towards my Yale application, since Harvard is this horrible place where you are left to die and where there’s no place for the weak (hyperbole). Stress does crazy stuff to my mind…</p>
<p>Also, I CAN’T WAIT for this thread to hit 200 pages. I’m obsessed with it! It would be so satisfying. </p>
<p>@entrebusecon I absolutely agree with you. One of the reasons I hope I get in is so that I can chill with my friends and just have a fun second half of senior year.</p>
<p>@rick13 I totally agree with what you said about wanting to map out that moment in your head. I’ve been doing the exact same thing. It makes me feel like I can anticipate and control at least one moment of this exciting/terrifying time! (I’m one of those people who is really bad at being spontaneous and needs to plan out everything in advance.)</p>
<p>@jalebigirl I hope to be involved in the Harvard music scene, too! I’ve been listening to their choirs on YouTube and melting from the beauty.</p>
<p>@entrebusecon @youngster9 same here. I’d love to know I’m done with college apps/college stress. </p>
<p>@youngster9 @jalebigirl Yes! I can’t wait to experience the joys of senior privileges and hanging out with friends without the looming spectre of college following me everywhere…</p>
<p>@jalebigirl The stress is overwhelming can’t wait for this to be all over</p>
<p>Guys that moment when my debate team wants me to let them know by THURSDAY AT 5 PM whether I can compete in the Harvard competition. THE IRONY IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE LORD HAVE MERCY</p>
<p>@Jewwlioonn If you’re accepted, you’ll have quite a story to tell!</p>
<p>@Jewwlioonn okay, that just made my day </p>
<p>NEW GOAL: make it to 100 posts by thursday
then even if I’m rejected I’ll feel like I’ve accomplished…something ;)</p>
<p>@Jewwlionn Hey, take it as a sign! :)</p>
<p>That reminds me of when I was filling out my application to Harvard University. I was listening to Drake and Lil Wayne (don’t judge), and in the song “Believe Me”, Lil Wayne rapped something about testing him like a Harvard student, and I freaked out. I took it as a sign.</p>
<p>@calliemoon11 @youngster9 Thanks? Glad I wasn’t causing too much buzzkill. </p>
<p>I sent the two negative articles to my daughter and she replied back that they were “repulsive” and so not how it is at Harvard. </p>
<p>@Planner It does not get easier going from high school to an elite school. My daughter ran the race as well as anyone in HS and made it look fairly easy to the outside world even though she was like the proverbial duck who looks calm above the surface but is furiously paddling below the surface. As such, she was highly sought after by most top colleges.</p>
<p>Given her long list of achievements in HS, she thought college would be a breeze. What she found is that college is a whole other level of hard. AP courses are NOT college level (she had 13 5’s and 2 4’s). She also was captain of two sports team but she wouldn’t even dream of doing sports in college. Hat’s off to student athletes at the Ivies. She was also one of the top HS students in the nation in her field. At Harvard, she still excels but only with monumental effort and she says that virtually everybody is super smart and talented in some way. She is always discovering something amazing about her friends that she never knew. Don’t be fooled into thinking that college will in any way be a step down in difficulty, no matter how competitive your high school is. What you will find is that you have another higher gear you can shift into that you didn’t even know existed. </p>
<p>I’ll leave this thread now and let you all have it back. Good luck everyone! I would be thrilled if my daughter had you all as schoolmates.</p>
<p>I once at a bowl of cereal; took it as a sign, now here I am</p>
<p>What kind of cereal? @entrebusecon </p>
<p>I’d like to conduct a brief survey:
How stressed are you now (scale 1-10)?
How stressed are you on average during the school year (1-10)?</p>
<p>I’ll start:
5
2</p>
<p>@ivykid4thewin </p>
<p>Honey Bunches of Oats</p>
<p>@Falcon1 Don’t leave! We appreciate your insight.</p>
<p>I’m trying to imagine a Harvard student’s reaction to this thread…it’s not very positive</p>