What are your good luck remedies/rituals?

Colleges & Universities Dartmouth College
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<p>Aside from my ritualistic Dartmouth dance every night before bed, I have also been saving my Dartmouth t-shirt until the decision day… I am a competitive sailor and I have been told that wearing the t-shirt from the regatta you are sailing in before it is over with is bad luck. So it has been tucked away in my drawer for weeks.</p>

<p>Does anyone else have superstitious rituals?</p>

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<p>yeah, dumb ones. kinda like how i refuse to wear ANY of my college clothes, as if this will be insulting to Dartmouth lol.</p>

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<p>i won’t buy, much less wear, anything from any college until I know I’ve gotten in.</p>

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<p>Oh, see, I wear my D stuff all the time! I feel closer to it when I do, lol.</p>

<p>I have soooo many rituals and superstitions, though…my God…like, blu, remember, I told you that I freaked about using the handicapped stall the other day? I was like, oh no, this makes me a bad person and my colleges will know it!</p>

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<p>Well I have a specific shirt that I am going to wear that day… along with some specific boxers and a sweatshirt. So I’ve got the clothes covered.</p>

<p>I will probably try to say some kind of prayer the night before, even though I’m not religious.</p>

<p>And for months now I’ve been “wishing” like mad: holding my breath through tunnels and making a wish, blowing an eyelash off my finger and making a wish, seeing a shooting star and making a wish…etc etc.</p>

<p>I’ve also forbidden myself from saying the opposite of “I will get into Dartmouth” (or else I’d jinx myself).</p>

<p>So of course I have to get in now. :stuck_out_tongue: I hope so!!</p>

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<p>calidan…u made my day</p>

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<p>lol I’m glad. :D</p>

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<p>Whenever I get worried I just take out my likely letter, read it and :D</p>

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<p>you guys are crazy haha</p>

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<p>Ugh King I loathe you. :p</p>

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<p>same here… its def bad luck to wear college clothes before learning of your acceptance/rejection/waitlisting (lol i think I covered all the bases there…)</p>

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<p>my parents won’t let me purchase any college clothing until i am accepted and decide where to go</p>

<p>but i pray everynight that i’ll get in :D</p>

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<p>Green, as everyone knows, is a lucky color (St Patty’s day etc.) and loyalty and devotion are providential virtues—I wore my (green) dartmouth gear for days before ed.</p>

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<p>thank you, Emily! These people were frightening me with their not wearing of Dartmouth clothing…I wear mine all the time! Whew.</p>

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<p>lol cali. i make wishes all the time for Getting Into ********* (can’t say it or it won’t come true!)</p>

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<p>Hahaha blu… I’ve been seriously wishing since early this fall. :stuck_out_tongue: It’s got to mean something, right?!</p>

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<p>“You can wish in one hand, and crap in the other, and see which fills up first”</p>

<p>haha, i forgot who said that</p>

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<p>Bluir, babybird, fountain,</p>

<p>I love the commitment and the devotion, you’re the kind of people I think of as Dartmouth people; btw, I wear dartmouth all the time!</p>

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<p>Hmph. :frowning: You don’t think of me as a Dartmouth person? :o</p>

<p>Well I’ll show you in 2 days! lol </p>

<p>AUGH! 2 DAYS!!!</p>

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<p>i’m sure kalidescope does think of you as a dmouther, calidan! no worries!</p>

<p>and thank you so much for the namecheck, kalidescope. I want this. I haven’t thought about anything else all day. :)</p>