[lovelyivy84]

I was actually away at a Model UN Conference. My mother was not home that weekend either. My aunt was at home and she was picking up our mail that weekend.

I knew that all of the early applicants were going to be getting their letters that weekend and was INCREDIBLY nervous, but had decided that I was NOT going to call and would wait til I got home so I could see the size of the letter and keep my humiliation to myself (I was so convinced I wouldn't be accepted, and the more everyone told me I was SO getting in, the more I was certain that I wasn't).

Anyway, all of a sudden people started running around the hotel like MAD screaming "I got in" and I couldn't take it anymore.

Surrounded by four of my best friends (and a couple hundred people from a wedding reception in the hotel lobby) I called my house. My aunt picked up and she was SO coy it was hilarious. Below I will copy the convo verbatim:

Me: Hi Aunt Leoncia, so how is...everything?

Auntie: Fiiiiine...

Me: So umm, yeah I was just calling, you know, to check in..

Auntie: Really.....

Me: So umm, did you check our mail today??

Auntie: Yeeeees....

Me: So um, did any mail come from XYA University??

Auntie: Yeeeesss....

Me: Umm, can you open it for me?

Auntie: Suuuure (FRONTING like she hadn't already opened that letter)

Me: what does it say? what does it say?

Auntie: It says......(dramatic moment where I SWEATED) ..... Congratulations!

Me: SCREAMING!

My friends: SCREAMING!

All the wedding party goers: CONFUSED

So I just ran around Boston screaming that I got in! A brass band that was playing for the wedding party actually played me a song to congratulate me.

It ws totally one of the best moments of my life.