Harvard, for me, is a tumblr page right now: the HKS Admissions Blog. I guess it's the same for many of us. But how far further do you allow yourself to fantasize about ivy's number one? Do you see yourself on Harvard Square, browsing the shelves at the Coop, buying some discounted Harvard devotional objects? Attend The Game and cheer on the Crimson? Walk the stalls in Widener Library?
I don't. I only look as far as the tumblr page because I like to be cautious with these kinds of things. Many People tend to become excited, talk endlessly with friends about the 'what if's, start decorating their new Cambridge apartment in their heads and already have new imaginary Harvard classmates and inside jokes (creepy). I'm on the other end of that spectrum: I hardly told anyone about my application and tell myself that it's not going to happen anyways, just so the rejection pain can't get too crass.
How do you deal with life in this inbetween-space? Did you share your application on Facebook? Have you already put down money for a condo in Cambridge and stalked out the best coffee place along your morning stroll to HKS? Or are you as much an optimist as me and told noone so they can't rub it in your Harvard-wannabe face after Matt takes you behind the barn?