Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday

Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to come out in a couple of days (I love the word tenterhooks. Its amazing.). These are just a few small ideas I know you can think of others tailored to your interests. And share those! Theyre probably awesome! -Sleep. As second-semester seniors, you should have become well-acquainted with this sometime around January. (Um, I mean, I SAID NOTHING YOU ARE ALL BEING DILIGENT STUDENTS FROM NOW UNTIL GRADUATION) -If you have a ton of free time on your hands, learn ozonolysis. Oh man, was that a meta-metapost? Its gonna be a good day. Speaking of, why do people shorten organic chemistry to orgo? Does Inorganic Chemistry (all the cool kids are calling it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to Inorgo? I hope not, because that sounds really, really silly. What was I saying? Oh. Right. More things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool brain-related t-shirts on the Internet. Now you too can declare your nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and passersby. -Sleep. Also, DONT PANIC. Youre scaring your family. (Thank them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time causes tons of stress for everyone.) On that DONT PANIC note, read (or reread, if youve already made your way through it) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Similar to gateway drugs, this book is the first step before reaching a level of sci-fi hardcore known only to a select few. Next comes Neuromancer and Battlestar Galactica, and then youre on to the very depths of obscurity. If you find yourself living every waking moment in fear that youre really a cylon, all hope is lost. -If reading science fiction isnt for you, you can always read a newspaper. Any newspaper. Something that isnt centered on the United States, even. Anything at all. Ignore any of those RECORD NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS APPLYING TO COLLEGE articles, as they will only lead to panic, and we just discussed how you arent allowed to do that. -Leave a comment on the blogs that displays more than just your knowledge of ordinal numbers. (This one is really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before commenting. Substance! Give it to us! Tell us stories!) Discover new music. Once youve done so, get all statistics-happy about it. Learn to knit! Dont be as bad at it as I am. -If you do get in, dont get all self-righteous about it. Youre fantastic and all, but you too were sitting in your desk chair full of self-doubt and convincing yourself that you werent good enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all know it because you probably went ahead and panicked a lot anyway. Worse than the none of the fifteen colleges I applied to will take me because I suck at life! guy is when he turns into the I knew Id get into fill-in-the-blank University all along! guy. Dont do it. For more things to do, check out a post Jess made a while back. Shes better at this kind of thing than I am. Cant say I didnt try. The best of luck to applicants on Saturday!