College Admissions

Right now, I’m starting the college admissions process. In fact, as I write this, I am in the car on the way to Michigan State University for a college tour. Right now, everything seems really overwhelming. There are so many colleges in this country and I feel like they all want me to go there. Everyone has sent me so much college mail and so much information that it is impossible to sort through it all. Plus, every school seems to be saying the same thing: we’re the best! But how can they all be the best? They all talk about small class sizes, small student:faculty ratios, great quality, so many other cliche phrases that you can find in any college booklet. And the pictures, the pictures are all the same: smiling people sitting next to each other, beautiful aerial shot, students studying under a tree, a smiling teacher with their arm around a student, pictures of a beautiful classroom with a teacher at the board and a smiling class. So much smiling, and so little substance. All of these schools are trying to sell themselves to you, and they all do it in the same way. It is the weirdest thing in the world. They all want you to apply there so they can judge you on whether you are good enough to attend. They desperately advocate for the opportunity to judge who you are. Most of the colleges who are sending me letters wouldn’t even want me to go there; they just send mail to as many high schoolers as they possibly can. And how am I supposed to know where I want to spend the next four years of my life? Which school has the right balance of academics and lifestyle? I have a whole life here, and I would love to migrate as many parts of it as I can: cello, dance, journalism, writing, working at the library, etc. The really scary thing about college is that my whole life is here. I cannot remember living anywhere else, and I don’t know what will happen when I try to take everything I love about my hometown and move it somewhere else. I want to major in Creative Writing and Physics (Astrophysics) with a minor in Classical Studies (Classical Latin Texts). This means that the number of schools who are going to allow me to do this is low, which is good for me. Wish me luck!
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Chorus of the Day!

Don't call me daughter not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter not fit to
The picture kept will remind me

Last Chorus of the Day:
Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran

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La! ~SCP