College apps are finally over. This is both awesome and terrifying. It would be nice, in a way, to live somewhere like England, where your applications are based so much more on your test scores, and you don’t have to spend so much time worrying over whether the phrasing of one sentence conveys exactly what kind of a person you are, and your sterling extra-curriculars, and your perfect personality to boot. But I’m actually grateful for having the experience of American college apps. I’ve learned a lot about myself. Enough that I’m not sure if the colleges I’m applying to are the ones I’d choose to apply to today. It doesn’t really matter; I’m sure I’ll be happy wherever I end up, but I do wish I could go back and add a few other places to my list (nb: I’m only applying to 6 colleges, so ‘adding a few’ does not mean moving to 24 from 20 or some such ridiculous number).
I wish I could write a college essay about that. I wish I could write a college essay about a lot of things. Or rather, whenever I notice something interesting, or am troubled about something, my brain lights up, saying “oh ho! college essay topic!” when really, I guess, it means “oh ho! blog post idea!” Because that’s the point of this thing. I’m supposed to pour myself into it, like a diary only with less tmi and hearts dotting my ‘i’s. I guess. So hopefully you’ll be seeing more of that from me, now that I’m essentially in second semester. Well, I hope so, at any rate. You may not. I suppose we’ll see.
glad to know i'm not the only one who wishes she'd applied to a few different schools!
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