I am being hit by a double whammy of sad.
I've just been released - all the interview stuff is over, and I feel sad. I don't think i particularly excelled; i tanked in my first interview, and my second interview was fine, but i don't think i necessarily distinguished myself. The course is wildly over-subscribed this year - there are 5 of us for every place. And everyone is wonderful and bright and brilliant.
It's a double whammy of sad, though, because not only am i facing the prospect of not being able to do a course i love (the only other place that offers anything even remotely similar is UCL, and UCL require biology), but in the last 4 days, i have fallen head over heels in love with oxford and the oxford student life, the college system, the city and the students and the history of it all. I can inmagine myself here so perfectly and so comfortably - i don't want to give it up.
Oh well. I'll hear for certain on the 21st, but between now and then i don't want to get my hopes up because, well - a pleasant suprise is better than absolute crushing disapointment over christmas. Hence, i'm really not looking for - it might be you! Everyone thought their interviews went badly! type comments.
Le sigh.
I've just been released - all the interview stuff is over, and I feel sad. I don't think i particularly excelled; i tanked in my first interview, and my second interview was fine, but i don't think i necessarily distinguished myself. The course is wildly over-subscribed this year - there are 5 of us for every place. And everyone is wonderful and bright and brilliant.
It's a double whammy of sad, though, because not only am i facing the prospect of not being able to do a course i love (the only other place that offers anything even remotely similar is UCL, and UCL require biology), but in the last 4 days, i have fallen head over heels in love with oxford and the oxford student life, the college system, the city and the students and the history of it all. I can inmagine myself here so perfectly and so comfortably - i don't want to give it up.
Oh well. I'll hear for certain on the 21st, but between now and then i don't want to get my hopes up because, well - a pleasant suprise is better than absolute crushing disapointment over christmas. Hence, i'm really not looking for - it might be you! Everyone thought their interviews went badly! type comments.
Le sigh.
