<p>Frankly, I’ve done almost everything I could think of, and nothing works. Games suddenly aren’t that interesting at all, and I seem to shudder every time there’s a college reference in the movie I’m watching. In fact, I seem to shudder every time I see anything that’s remotely close to dark blue. Books? nope. Going out? nope.</p>
<p>But yes - time is crawling by at an extremely painful pace.</p>
<p>Right now, the best course of action seems like popping a couple of sleeping pills every morning and sleeping it off until Tuesday.</p>
<p>she’s been working her two jobs for days… christmas is not kind to book or fruit shops.
other than that, hanging out with the boyfriend, friends, going out to parties and bars and stuff, ya know…</p>
<p>don’t pop too many pills or else you might not make it to tuesday!</p>
<p>work on other apps? buy a few seasons of some intriguing tv show that you haven’t seen before, something really formulaic where every ep is interesting but the same- bones or house or something. they work too. mind-numbing. no college references.</p>
<p>Sad thing is, my high school limits our applications to 12 colleges only - and I’ve finished them already Our finals have also ended by the way, so no workload.</p>
<p>Wait a minute… it sounds like I should rather be quite happy.</p>
<p>Keeping busy seems to be the best way to keep my mind off things. I’ve got mocks at school and A Level finals in Jan, volunteer work, 9 other uni apps to complete plus an international debate competition in Feb to prep for… Even when I’m not busy, I hardly think about it… I mean, thinking just won’t help. So when I’ve nothing to do I cook, call my friends, go down to the lake outside my house and appreciate at how pretty the world is. Yale or no Yale, life will go on… :)</p>
<p>haha so true i should stay off these forums
i’m just doing homework (luckily, i have a ton) and i have a game today
hopefully that will distract me for today</p>
<p>I was incredibly nervous until yesterday. One of my best friends, who had an amazing amazing shot at UPenn, got deferred. I spent the entire night with her cheering her up. Suddenly, I’m not so nervous anymore. Whatever happens, happens. Now that I’ve seen the worst, I understand that its not the end of the world and I know I, just like her, will be fine in the end!</p>
<p>^ My friend got rejected from her college, and all I feel is worse. I guess it brought me down to earth.</p>
<p>I’m sort of in a zombie state right now. I haven’t done homework or studied for a week, but luckily my teachers are only assigning projects and having tests, so my grades haven’t tanked. I’m glad my midterms are in January.</p>
<p>It helps to think about the positive sides of a rejection. So many kids get rejected in the early round and end up at top schools. If I get rejected it’ll be a good wake-up call to get me to polish the rest of my apps… ah, now I’ve started wishing that decisions would just come already :)</p>
<p>I think it does help that people we know get rejected/deferred - it takes the pressure off. If everyone was getting accepted, I would feel that much worse. But honestly, I’m not thinking about it that much. I’m insanely busy with homework, college apps, christmas shopping, christmas parties, and christmas everything else and I barely have time to sleep. It’s working out pretty well for the not thinking about Yale thing.</p>
<p>My friends have already gotten in to their colleges so it’s pretty much impossible. Two of them got into UPenn and WON’T stop talking about it. And I have to stay off facebook because everyone keeps changing their statuses to “GOT IN!” or something equally obnoxious.</p>
<p>I have about nine college apps to finish. I’ve been sitting in front of the computer for the last six hours and suffering from the worst writer’s block ever. It kind of gets my mind off of Tuesday though.</p>
Our finals have also ended by the way, so no workload.</p>