<p>economist, be happy for your friend. Good luck tomorrow.</p>
<p>Pre-announcement out-freaking syndrome (PAOFS) lol</p>
<p>To all anxious peeps: Take a deep breath.</p>
<p>I just spent the last six hours rocking back and forth in my chair making weird noises and hyperventilating. I think I might die before the decisions. I just might. I am way under-qualified for someone who is putting so much emotional weight on one admission. </p>
<p>I also have a ton of homework due tomorrow that is absolutely NOT getting done anytime soon. Sorry, high school. Bigger and better things await.</p>
<p>Night everyone! Gotta get off this forum, too much emotion building up now in the evening. Get sweet sleep and good luck tomorrow!</p>
<p>Oh, and if you can’t sleep. Enjoy the beautiful meteor shower tonight! Peaks at 12-4am local time!</p>
<p>I know it sounds cliche but just remember that this does not define your success in life. Just look at Steve Jobs. Went to Reed (a college I’m sure all of us can get into), dropped out in half a semester, took LSD living on a ‘communal’ farm, and will still go down in history as one of the greatest men of the 20th/21st century.</p>
<p>^^^^preach.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’m the only one that does this, but every time something bad happens to me, I just think “Well it’ll all be worth it as long as I get into Stanford”. And somehow it just made me feel better. And when decision dates were a year away, it was okay to say that. For me at least. And when things got worse and worse, I could just put more pressure on how great my life would be as soon as I got into Stanford. And it didn’t matter what I went through now, because everything would be perfect at Stanford. And decision dates were so far into the distant future that it didn’t even matter how sure I was that I would get in, because I wouldn’t have to deal with that rejection for months.</p>
<p>And now it’s tomorrow. And I have a very slim chance of getting in. And I’m just very afraid of how I will deal with it. Because for some reason I just put a lot on this. And it’s so trivial. In the grand scheme of things it really doesn’t mean much.</p>
<p>I just don’t know.</p>
<p>@squash</p>
<p>we’re all there. sometimes, you just…gotta take it as it comes. bird by bird.</p>
<p>@squashSquash I told myself the same things. When I was up at 3 AM doing homework. When I was forcing myself to get up at 6 AM after that. When I went to work at the lab after pulling an all-nighter the night before. BUT if you think about it all our hard work whether or not we get into Stanford will put us on the path to success as long as we keep it up.</p>
<p>Nothing takes the edge off like wrapping christmas presents, then going outside with a mug of hot honey sweetened tea to lay down in the grass and watch the shooting stars.</p>
<p>I wish, I wish, upon a star, to Stanford I go, to dream afar,
And if it be that good you are, then grant these CC’ers peace on par,
With settled minds as is my wish, trusting in the glory of this,
And so these CC’ers all get in, to enjoy Stanford, and live in bliss.</p>
<p>Ugh. This is what makes me upset. The people that are applying are perfect souls like you. And how is anyone going to compete with that?</p>
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<p>This made my night.</p>
<p>It’s interesting, I actually am hardly nervous at all. I was close to freaking out last week when there was the scare that the decisions would actually be released on December 7, but I think that got all of the nerves out of me. Since then, I’ve just kind of accepted the fact that what happens is what happens, and I am powerless at this point to change it. All of the decisions are already made, and if I get in, great, and if I am rejected, well, then I am glad another 725 extremely talented and deserving applicants got in. I’ll try to be happy, no matter what happens tomorrow.</p>
<p>I think I’ll be unhappy no matter what happens tomorrow. Mainly because I am not getting ANY work done right now…</p>
<p>@norwhale - Jack Johnson’s “Sitting, Wishing, Waiting” just came on your playlist… SO APPLICABLE hahahaa</p>
<p>SquashSquash! Don’t worry, be happy no matter what happens. Stay strong.</p>
<p>@Adodie I literally feel the exact same way. Before friday (12/7) and before that, I was freaking out about stanford all day every day, anticipatory, couldn’t think of anything else. Since then I’ve kind of accepted that my chances are very slim and gone about my business. I’m sure when I wake up tomorrow, that same nervousness will peep out from behind wherever it was hiding and envelop me once more.</p>
<p>To everyone in the CC. Good luck. May the tree grant you beautiful things. May the cardinal be your future. And any and all of us that do get in, on orientation day bring a giant poster board with your cc name on there. We gotta meet up.</p>
<p>Can someone post the playlist again? :3</p>