When you’re a senior sending emails to apply for internship and job opportunities will become more frequent than attending house parties. It’s the sad truth. What’s even more sad? You’ll spend hours perfecting your cover letter, resume, & your personalized email to your (hopefully) future employer, to sometimes not even get a response back. It happens to all of us. Trust me. But that doesn’t mean it gets any easier.

Here are the 7 emotional stages we all go through waiting for that reply email, we might never get.

EXCITEMENT

You just wrote a bomb email that you are pretty sure no future employer could turn down. The possibility of getting what you want is so real & you’re sure that it is so close to happening.

ANTICIPATION

You just sent the email and you promise yourself you wont start to worry until it’s been at least three days without hearing back. But you really can’t help yourself. You refresh your email screen 127 times waiting for the message to come through.

ANXIETY

What is taking them so long? They’ve had to of seen it right? You check your drafts to double check that you’ve sent it. Yep. You run all of these hypothetical situations through your head, siking yourself out.

REGRET

Now you are regretting even sending the email. Maybe I sent it to the wrong person? Wrong time? I’m probably way under qualified even worth their time to reply? Rude, but possible. What the case is, you start feeling like a joke.

SADNESS

You spend so long preparing the perfect email, cover letter, and resume. You swore you were making a good impression. After a couple days even a week it become a little disheartening. All your friends are getting replies and even some acceptances. Why not you? You start to forget all about it and try to block out that you even sent the email in the first place.

ACCEPTANCE

“The email reply just isn’t coming” The only thing to do is force yourself to accept it. I mean what else can you do?

MOVIN’ ON

Get up & be the boss ass b#@*! you know you are. Send out more emails & get ready for more no-reply’s. Remember the best things come to those who wait. The perfect opportunity will come.

It'll all work out in the end & you will end up with your dream job. Promise.