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At the time, I never understood what my mother meant when she said that to me but now, a little older and wiser, I can relate. Sometimes things are done to us for the sake of our own wellbeing and now I think I need to take the initiative to do something for myself. In the past few weeks I have imposed limits to check my obsessive behavior concerning my application status. I did pretty well for a while and then today I logged in to every website with a status checker (except for the one school I've had contact with) and looked at my submitted application. Only one status was different and it wasn't even a real update. I just saw that someone had went in and verified that my app was complete. What did this tell me? That someone knows my app exists and the school is in the review process. In other words, nothing I didn't already know.
February is a high activity month for most of my programs and gradcafe has been a great resource for looking at prior years' results. For that I am grateful and I'm sure it will continue to show its use but I think I need to step away for a moment for my own good. This site is one of my most visited during downtime at work (which has been a lot lately) and I've got the rss feed on my desktop so it's going to be a challenge. On Friday my almost-relatives are coming to visit for a month and we have some exciting times ahead of us. I think this time away from here will help me stay grounded by reminding me that my life is still my own, at least for now, and it's up to me to enjoy it. Application season can be a very stressful time and it's so hard to sit patiently while someone is making decisions that are so important to my future so this time away will be my claim of perceived control. I've done all I can do and now it's time to wait.
If any of you see me browsing this board from Feb 6-28 (hey, I'm not staying off until the week is out...gotta ease it up) please call me out!