How to cope with post-interview syndrome

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Having attended 2 interviews a week ago, waiting for a decision is by far the hardest part of application. How do you all cope with this post-interview distress syndrome?

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When you figure it out tell me…


Just want an acceptance so I can stop worrying.


I have two in 5 days next week and then a test.

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I don’t cope. I just keep getting crazier and crazier.

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  • NU2003 Said:
Having attended 2 interviews a week ago, waiting for a decision is by far the hardest part of application. How do you all cope with this post-interview distress syndrome?



Tequila
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I sure feel like having one!

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chocolate…lots and lots of chocolate


and frantically refreshing the email


and more chocolate


and just keeping busy with life until the word came


gl

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  • onawingandaprayer Said:
chocolate....lots and lots of chocolate

and frantically refreshing the email

and more chocolate

and just keeping busy with life until the word came

gl



works best if you wash the chocolate down with tequila.

Good Chocolate with Cheap Tequila, OK

Cheap Chocolate with Good Tequila, Better

Good Chocolate with Good Tequila, Best

Cheap Chocolate with Cheap Tequila, Never!


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  • gonnif Said:
  • onawingandaprayer Said:
chocolate....lots and lots of chocolate

and frantically refreshing the email

and more chocolate

and just keeping busy with life until the word came

gl



works best if you wash the chocolate down with tequila.

Good Chocolate with Cheap Tequila, OK

Cheap Chocolate with Good Tequila, Better

Good Chocolate with Good Tequila, Best

Cheap Chocolate with Cheap Tequila, Never!



Or good red wine.

Cheers,

Judy
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  • jcolwell Said:
Or good red wine.



I had a friend who had a Mourvedre he adored . . . I think he said the only way to describe the experience was "like making love in an old leather chair".

Add some chocolate, and it sounds like you have a winner to me.
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  • jcolwell Said:
  • gonnif Said:
  • onawingandaprayer Said:
chocolate....lots and lots of chocolate

and frantically refreshing the email

and more chocolate

and just keeping busy with life until the word came

gl



works best if you wash the chocolate down with tequila.

Good Chocolate with Cheap Tequila, OK

Cheap Chocolate with Good Tequila, Better

Good Chocolate with Good Tequila, Best

Cheap Chocolate with Cheap Tequila, Never!



Or good red wine.

Cheers,

Judy



If the interview went badly, then perhaps a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 best drunk from a bottle in a brown paper bag while under a bench in the Bowery.
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Keep yourself busy. It’s human nature to go over the interview again and again and replay the questions and think of how you could have answered them better. But, truth is that most interviewers are just trying to get a feel for you. If you were comfortable with your chances prior to the interview, odds are that you can probably still feel comfortable with them now.