I really suck at this whole blogging thing. I cant every keep up with it or remember it and I'm going to go ahead and say that I've not done one of these for way to long in English. So tonight I'm making sure that I do this.
After a nice 1.5 hour nap, I'm ready to type something up, but my only problem is I'm not entirely sure what to write. I could talk about something in class, maybe having just finished up Hamlet? or our about to begin watching the Oscar Wilde play. However, as I sit here thinking what to write, none of that seems appealing.
No, instead whats on my mind is college stuff because college stuff is always on my mind. This is what kind of happens when you are being forced to make decisions that are going to effect every aspect of the next four years of your life.
Back to strictly college stuff. A while ago I posted a blog about having just submitted my first college application fully and that both made me super excited about college stuff as well as completely terrified. As awesome as that moment was for me it was extremely short lived as that is all that I have done college wise and originally I had plans to do so much more, I've fallen majorly short though, this has then forced me to once again become proactive and make some decisions about college.
I submitted my college application, met with my counselor, had them send my transcript and the extra form the college required and then just waited. I finally heard back from them and it was the news I had wanted, they accepted me. Shortly fallowing that letter from them came a second, except this time bigger and it held my scholarship offer from them, which was nice and once again reignited the flame of my interest in the whole college application thing. This was once again short lived, I made lists, lots of lists narrowing down the schools i'd apply to, then crossing those out, narrowing down further, then adding more back to the list.
In reality I had no idea where I wanted to go or why I was wanting to apply to a lot of the schools outside of they had a good program for the major I wanted to go into. But applying to a lot of schools is what everyone else seems to be doing so I felt I should as well. The lists became massive and bogged me down about college once again so I ignored everything I should probably have been doing.
Then the college that had already accepted me and made me a nice scholarship offer sent me a third letter, this one small though and almost more of a announcement/reminder printed on card stock front and back. It talked about now that I was accepted I should confirm my acceptance and schedule for their two day orientation. The arrival of this put me once again half heartedly back in college planning mood.
This time though, i was determined to majorly simplify it. First that meant throwing out all the colleges I had originally planned to apply to except one other. Another instate school with a very revered program for the major I wanted to apply to. My reasoning for this was I didnt need the other schools, I had already been accepted into one I loved and would be happy to go to and this other one I had heard very good things about and seemed to fit what I wanted as well.
I determined I'd apply to this second school, make a campus visit and if I didnt fall completely in love with it then I was done. I'd take the offer of the first schools and confirm my enrollment.
Honestly this decisions makes me more excited about college then ever. I'm also way more calm and not so afraid as I was before because I have a plan. I know what I want to do now.
Ultimately what I'm trying to say is that you shouldnt get caught up in the whole college search thing. Instead pick places you really want to go to and really would be happy at, apply there and even if thats only two or three, theres nothing wrong with that. College is your choice, its the next four years of your life, making the right choice is stressful enough, so dont add any extra for yourself by adding applications that you know you have no real intention of going to that school.
With all that being said, this super long blog post (seriously, I'm so sorry about that...) can end, as will my college search after December 13th.
