Your worst nightmare: Rejection Letters

[Lam Thanh Trang (bastard)]

I'm thinking it's a bit too early and pessimistic to bring up the issue, but I, being a college applicant, have not been able to get the thought out of my head ever since I began looking at schools. I'm through with all the tests and more importantly, done with sending out the applications. Here comes the migraine-nauseous waiting part! Imagine having studied diligently for 12 years and seeing it all slide miserably into a morass of failure, stood up by a single piece of paper.Yes, obviously everyone applies to more than one hope for their future, albeit, supposedly all hopes fail. All I hear recently from my seemingly-at-ease counselor is it is not a pull-your-hair-out matter and being the student that I am, all I have to worry about is how to tidy everything up. Well, thanks for the advice...I'm sure all those industrious kids who were rejected, received the same words! :| I was always taught to have faith and yes, I once did...It's just that no one ever becomes despondent until they are actually in the true process. In my deepest thought at the moment, I do hope I am not the only one who's "freaking out" and there are too those (hopefully in this forum) who are struggling through the same. Care to commiserate?

 

[Hoàng Chi Mai (lablugirl)]

Don't... Just..don't. I mean, FIE FIE on the evil that you have just unleashed!!!

Heh, sorry for the melodrama. I can't comment on this is until December is over, at which point I will happily commiserate with you on the pending doom that is...that. But it is stressful, isn't it?

 

[Pham Anh Khoa (Khoa Pham)]

Feelings of anxiety, frustration and, above all, failure are never easy for applicants. Two years ago I was on the same boat with you guys. After I sent out my ED application to Bates, I fell into an irrational state of stress filled with troubling dreams and decreased concentration. I still remember the very first thing I did every morning after waking up was to run downstairs to check my mail.

The waiting part is no doubt very stressful. However, I personally think, without stress, we don't really get to appreciate what we achieve in the end. It certainly makes our accomplishments more satisfying and significant. After all, there's nothing we can do but to deal with stress. Good luck

To Trang: Who are your English teachers? I guess Mr An right? How about Mr Lu?

 

[Nguyễn Hà Phương (phhn)]

rejecting rejection well , "If you receive an undated rejection letter addressing you as "Dear Applicant," fold it back up, put it in an envelope, and send it off to someone else. That way you can quickly forget about your rejection and, at the same time, confuse the holy hell out of a total stranger! "^_^