<p>I noticed that there are three things I’m especially partial to these days:</p>
<p>1) Not doing my homework/studying. I think the common term for this is senioritis, but I will call it Post-Admit Syndrome to strengthen the title of my post :)</p>
<p>2) Lingering on the Yale boards. And this isn’t just checking the Yale 2013 thread. This includes reading lots of RD essays and giving advice. I don’t know what is causing this sudden magnanimity. </p>
<p>3) Replaying the Handsome Dan page over and over.</p>
<p>What is your post-admit syndrome like?
And why aren’t more admits posting on the 2013 thread? Obviously most people are not suffering from #2. I wish they would - it would make the board so much more lively.</p>
<p>I am definitely suffering from number 1 and 3. I didn’t do any of my homework last week and I actually have the welcome screen as the background on my phone! </p>
<p>Also, I think less people may be posting here because they are busy investigating the Accepted Students website… I know I have.</p>
<p>Overall, I am still in shock and have been incapable of making decisions for days… so happy :)</p>
<p>1 and 2 true. I’m surprised by how nice i’ve become too. But only after you’ve read a bunch of mind-bogglingly tedious essays do you realise how the admission officers feel. Sometimes I just want to hurl something at my computer screen. I’m trying to make them better but honestly I can’t. Sigh. I’m still waiting for that essay that could light up my room when I read it :D</p>
<p>Not #3 exactly, but i have the welcome page as my desktop wallpaper. Haha. And i’ve been on the admitted website a lot watching youtube videos and play build-a-bulldog xD My sister thinks my handsome dan looks gross but i beg to differ! :D</p>
<p>Since my son was admitted he has been on the admitted students site non-stop, so I don’t think he’s had time to be on this thread. He’s too busy talking to all the other admits.</p>
<p>Ever since Monday, I haven’t done any of my math homework, I haven’t read anything for English or History or Bio or Ethics, and I had no French homework. I missed school on Thursday and I had a snow day on Friday. I have been playing the Handsome Dan Welcome Screen over and over and I have changed my desktop background at least 5 times since Monday, with the pictures on the “BlueTube” page of the Admitted Students Website.</p>
<p>I have not been on CC for a while, but I amply make up in spending all my time on Facebook (on the Class of 2013 group, friending as many people as I can) and on the Admitted Students Website (in fact, it’s a tab that’s always open on Firefox). I’ve also been on the Yale Website a lot, looking for stuff to read/do. It’s been an eventful/stressless week!</p>
<p>So, all in all, I have a rather severe case of P.A.S.</p>
<p>CC is losing its appeal to me, I must say that after college being fairly secured, I’m just tired of the college process and a bunch of juniors who are all eagerly HPYSing and “is 2200 okay?”. Chance me for 87098709 colleges!! I do enjoy reading essays of Yale applicants though. I guess because I asked many people to read mine way back when.</p>
<p>I never felt comfortable with other people reading my college essays, but then again, I didn’t write mine until the week the apps were due. Seriously, I was on a 7-hour Common App essay-writing spree up until 11:40 pm on November 1, when I submitted my Yale app with a 20-minute window left. There was no editing by peers or teachers, and looking back, that essay wasn’t very good. It was like 867 words long too.</p>
<p>I’m still on CC quite a lot, but mostly for financial aid information. I am not understanding fin aid. At all.</p>
<p>I’m experiencing most of these symptoms of P.A.S (senioritis, etc) as well as something else that’s a little funny…</p>
<p>I’m, like, suddenly aware that I could die. If I get into the car and don’t buckle my seatbelt, I’ll think, “Dude! What if I get flung through the windshield and never get to go to Yale?!?!?!” Then I buckle my seatbelt.</p>
<p>It’s so weird.</p>
<p>Is anyone else experiencing this sudden sensitivity to their own mortality?</p>
<p>Nope, no mortality issues. That is quite interesting.
Now I wonder if the most diehard Yale fan would purposely not buckle his/her seatbelt if he/she was forced to attend Hahvahd?</p>
<p>mist - she may not be doing homework, but I come home from school to see her one the computer, investigating people who got in and telling me all the interesting people I need to meet at Yale, and all the interesting things there are to do at Yale, and all the interesting things on Yale’s website. Also, CC is the black sinkhole of time… you log on and three hours later your still reading the 57 page post on interviews :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m not feeling the mortality issues. More like my emotional state has just been worn so thin that I can go from insanely happy to tears in minutes. I can’t WAIT until christmas break… one more day to go.</p>
<p>I think it’s all relative. If you got in with “lower” grades, (ex. six classes, 3 A’s and 3 B’s) and you make a C, they’ll probably let it pass. But if you’ve been making straight A’s and you make a C-, then they’ll probably ask questions.</p>