I wish I could remember the poster but, a few cycles back, one family decided to have a celebratory dinner on M9 congratulating their child on all of his hard work and effort to complete and submit all of those applications and to remind everyone in the family that it was about a job well done and not about tomorrow’s results. If there were no acceptances, oh well, nothing happens. Life just goes back to normal and they were celebrating just how good their normal life was.
That stuck with me as a great way to think about this whole thing. Life is a journey, a great adventure, BS or not.