Class of 2016-Mailbox Stalkers Club

[CristalLee]

I received a phone call today from the city and area code my Congressman is in (his office and where we live are not the same place). Naturally, when the caller ID came up with that city/area code, my heart skipped a beat. It was a stinking furniture company following up on an item I purchased... OMW!!! I start crying on the poor girl and tell her I can't talk to her (because I couldn't sound as if I wasn't choked up). I was where I volunteer twice a week (so not alone) and everyone else is wondering why i'm crying... (not like boo-hooing, but a few silent tears). Of course I explained the situation, they said what I good mom I was for caring so much and said they couldn't handle the unknowing.

What an up/down moment! First very excited and then extremely disappointed.

Dear USAFA - I just need an ANSWER for my DS - so we can celebrate or move on.

Sincerely,
Basket Case caused by Phone Call

(But at least I have you all, who completely understand my pain)

 

[2bornot2b]

I received a phone call today from the city and area code my Congressman is in (his office and where we live are not the same place). Naturally, when the caller ID came up with that city/area code, my heart skipped a beat. It was a stinking furniture company following up on an item I purchased... OMW!!! I start crying on the poor girl and tell her I can't talk to her (because I couldn't sound as if I wasn't choked up). I was where I volunteer twice a week (so not alone) and everyone else is wondering why i'm crying... (not like boo-hooing, but a few silent tears). Of course I explained the situation, they said what I good mom I was for caring so much and said they couldn't handle the unknowing.

What an up/down moment! First very excited and then extremely disappointed.

Dear USAFA - I just need an ANSWER for my DS - so we can celebrate or move on.

Sincerely,
Basket Case caused by Phone Call

(But at least I have you all, who completely understand my pain)

Hang in there, CristalLee. It is still very early in the process......

 

[BORNTOFLY]

After 6 months of reading posts on this site, I am finally ready to admit that I am not only a fellow mailbox stalker.... but I have become an obsessed Service Academy forum stalker as well!

 

[2bornot2b]

After 6 months of reading posts on this site, I am finally ready to admit that I am not only a fellow mailbox stalker.... but I have become an obsessed Service Academy forum stalker as well!

Ha Ha! Welcome to the Club! I think we can be forgiven for craving more information. Just hope we all don't go bonkers in the process.

 

[Romad]

Hang in there, CristalLee. It is still very early in the process......

Yep - - so VERRRRRYYYYYY Early..... Seriously, things should start picking up pretty soon - it's almost March and it looks as if they're filling no-brainer slots and next will be the MOC unranked slates and Presidentials I've been led to believe.

Hang in there! We're all in it together (at least I am, not sure about the Kid - He's in Vermont checking out Norwich and the snow, mumbling something about learning to ski... )

Best

 

[profsparrow]

Is anybody else irritated with DS or DD because they're not as anxious as we poor parents? I think I'll go home from work and kick him, carefully so as to not injure him and get him DQ'd.

 

[haleym]

I was just complaining to my mom today about how the mailman never comes at a consistent time! Ha! Even though I know I won't hear for about a month I've already set up camp by the mailbox.
And Romad, I recently got accepted into the cadet wing at Norwich as well. Looks like a good back up to me (Vermont is beautiful), but you never know! If I get the opportunity to choose I would like to have a look at all of my options, however I'm not sure if it's enough to change my mind.

 

[Romad]

I was just complaining to my mom today about how the mailman never comes at a consistent time! Ha! Even though I know I won't hear for about a month I've already set up camp by the mailbox.
And Romad, I recently got accepted into the cadet wing at Norwich as well. Looks like a good back up to me (Vermont is beautiful), but you never know! If I get the opportunity to choose I would like to have a look at all of my options, however I'm not sure if it's enough to change my mind.

He got accepted into their EE/CE program back in Nov and he's been awarded a Presidential Scholarship to attend, but his ISS AFROTC T7 is at Auburn and he's got an AU scholarship that will cover R&B - it's giving him options to fall back on if he gets the TWE. Big campus vs small and personal campus experience - lots to be said for both, but, in the end, it's his decision...

NU is in beautiful country though and we have lots of family ties to N. Vt...

Best

 

[CristalLee]

I know it's early, but one can hope.

In fact, I've gone from completely convinced he was getting in to kinda not sure at all. The more I know about all the candidates the less I think his chances are. Kinda a harsh reality. Now I just want the pain over. The idea of waiting another 6 weeks is kinda daunting. Something that I learned last night showed me what a harsh reality this process can be... I have a friend (USAFA Class of 2007) - who was wait listed - he was VALEDICTORIAN from his school! He did get in - a week prior to the day he needed to report!

Since my DH is AD - we know lots of people who went to the USAFA - we thought, it couldn't be that hard, could it? Ha ha ha little did I know... So delusional.

 

[Romad]

Don't second guess yourself or your DS and it's always darkest before the 10 meg thermonuke blast that the BFE will give ya!

 

[Nav84]

I received a phone call today from the city and area code my Congressman is in (his office and where we live are not the same place). Naturally, when the caller ID came up with that city/area code, my heart skipped a beat. It was a stinking furniture company following up on an item I purchased... OMW!!! I start crying on the poor girl and tell her I can't talk to her (because I couldn't sound as if I wasn't choked up). I was where I volunteer twice a week (so not alone) and everyone else is wondering why i'm crying... (not like boo-hooing, but a few silent tears). Of course I explained the situation, they said what I good mom I was for caring so much and said they couldn't handle the unknowing.

What an up/down moment! First very excited and then extremely disappointed.

Dear USAFA - I just need an ANSWER for my DS - so we can celebrate or move on.

Sincerely,
Basket Case caused by Phone Call

(But at least I have you all, who completely understand my pain)

Ha, I can relate to the anticipation. Last week during dinner the phone rang with the caller ID showing "US Government - Congressman". Thinking perhaps our MOC was calling to congratulate DD on her appt to USAFA, I excitedly handed DD the phone. It turned out to just be an automated message about an upcoming online town hall!

 

[CristalLee]

Ha, I can relate to the anticipation. Last week during dinner the phone rang with the caller ID showing "US Government - Congressman". Thinking perhaps our MOC was calling to congratulate DD on her appt to USAFA, I excitedly handed DD the phone. It turned out to just be an automated message about an upcoming online town hall!

OMW!!! That is MUCH worse! To my defense, I've never gotten a phone call from that area code before - I know no one that lives there. But I was jumping to conclusions!

 

[sportsmom10]

After 6 months of reading posts on this site, I am finally ready to admit that I am not only a fellow mailbox stalker.... but I have become an obsessed Service Academy forum stalker as well!

I have to agree about stalking this website! I look at this site a few times every day! What a valuable wealth of information I have obtained from this site!! I tell everyone about it !

 

[usafa2012mom]

Is anybody else irritated with DS or DD because they're not as anxious as we poor parents? I think I'll go home from work and kick him, carefully so as to not injure him and get him DQ'd.

I know....this is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and DS is somehow able to put it out of his mind or at least that is how it appears.
I know it is definitely on his mind, but he asked me not to talk about it. For him talking about it makes it worse and it won't make the news come any quicker, so, I am REALLY trying not to talk about it, at least around him. I just bump on here several times a day to see if there is any news coming in.

I wish there was some NEWS in my mailbox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Primal scream therapy sounds good to me right now, good thing I live out in the country, the neighbors will just think it's some wild animal.

 

[USAFA: 2016!]

I'm a serious mailbox (slot) stalker. I know that generally the poor, little old mail ladies have our mail distributed by around 12:30. BUT! I know the mail truck gets here around 10-10:30. So I'll offer to help unload the mail and search frantically for my name, cadet number, mail slot number, anything that could indicate something for me... usually to no avail! But me and another Falcon buddy wrote a poem about this the other day. Ready?
I check the mail every day,
And every day, there is no love,
From USAFA.

Say it out loud, it sounds better. Happy stalking!

 

[2bornot2b]

I'm a serious mailbox (slot) stalker. I know that generally the poor, little old mail ladies have our mail distributed by around 12:30. BUT! I know the mail truck gets here around 10-10:30. So I'll offer to help unload the mail and search frantically for my name, cadet number, mail slot number, anything that could indicate something for me... usually to no avail! But me and another Falcon buddy wrote a poem about this the other day. Ready?
I check the mail every day,
And every day, there is no love,
From USAFA.

Say it out loud, it sounds better. Happy stalking!

Ha! Ha!

try this Positive Affirmation:

As each and every day goes by, I am one day closer to receiving the Big Fat Envelope from USAFA!

 

[ctuma2]

Is anybody else irritated with DS or DD because they're not as anxious as we poor parents? I think I'll go home from work and kick him, carefully so as to not injure him and get him DQ'd.

I must say, although my parents were definitely excited when I got the news, they were NOWHERE near as anxious as I was. I found that my mailman came almost exactly at 11:40 every day and I was there a minute later getting it eyes peeled for a BFE. When I got the phone call from my Congressman, I was convinced it was probably USNA since I was not expecting to hear about USAFA until March. Spent the next week smiling ear to ear and I'm already counting down.

 

[skydivingkittens]

Every time I hear the phone ring... my heart rate increases so much just because I think it might be my call from my MOC.......

 

[dagger]

LOL this thread is funny.

So what if you find out tomorrow whether you're in or not, you still would have to wait four months to leave.

Stressing about acceptance is low on my totem pole. If it happens, great, if not, oh well I tried- I'm serving either way.

 

[shoots1994]

LOL this thread is funny.

So what if you find out tomorrow whether you're in or not, you still would have to wait four months to leave.

Stressing about acceptance is low on my totem pole. If it happens, great, if not, oh well I tried- I'm serving either way.

Lol thanks dagger for putting this in perspective! I'm gonna stop stalking these threads because absolutely nothing I do now will make a difference in my application. The wait is frustrating but the stress is unnecessary.