I (this post) suck.
So...I'm just going to put a few thoughts and observations down, then make a requestish at the end.
Disclaimer: I don't mean for anything to come of this, I'm just posting some thoughts. When I wrote this, I had been working on college application stuff for a long time and may have written stuff that I don't mean entirely. The following was written for the express purpose of my musing, meditating, and venting. By reading any of it, you agree not to do anything with the information that may incriminate me in any way, shape, or form. Anything you say can (and will) be used against you. Peace.
Jamie Grivas is really cool, but I don't quite get her.
Mark Davis is really really cool, but (illogically) has the self esteem and confidence of a doorknob.
Mr. Schimpf really sucks at life.
When Tyler and Marian are together, I don't much like either of them (at all). Or Marian, much of the time, either, anymore.
Mark Jedele is approximately 60% little kid, 10% giddy-happy puppy, 5% teenager, and 25% just plain cool.
Mrs. Parker lies through her grinning, tar-and-tobacco-stained teeth just to make herself feel better about doing so.
Pretty much all of the Ivy League colleges (and a few others, like Cornell and Caltech) mention how they understand the apparent contradiction that they expect us to go through these lengthy application processes to show our merits, talents, skills, and personalities while at the same time taking the most challenging courses and participating actively in things that we feel are important, and pretty much all of the Ivy League colleges (and a few others, like Cornell and Caltech) agree that they don't care and throw a few more essays at you in their supplements.
My Latin class sucks.
And my math class.
I think that my top three colleges are Caltech, Williams, and M.I.T., now, in that order as to where I would enjoy life, but I'm not sure if that's the same as saying that that's my prioritized list of schools.
I'm about 1.5 months behind where I'd thought I'd be for college.
Yes, this is the suckiest semester yet.
Oh, and I need some essay ideas, like, fast. Really, really fast. Essays that reflect on my personality, my values, my interests, etc., or things that always remind you of me/of which I always remind you. You know...typical college essay junk. Please?
posted by lidakaau at 4:11 PM
4 Comments:
chill gus. life will continue. And you can recycle essays! (i mean essays you wrote, not essays others wrote). You could write about teaching in Taiwan. Or you could write about some inane moment in your life when everything clicked for you. Write about whatever you want--the cheesy typical college essay doesn't have to happen--chances are the more unique the topic (aka random and seemingly NOT what one would write an essay about) will make the admissions people so utterly grateful that they don't have to read another essay about "The Day I Caught the Frisbee and Won the Game" Even if you dont' think of a topic, relax. Life will go on. If you don't get accepted into the colleges you would like to go to, relax! You can always go to DePauw for a semester or a year and transfer, which is easier. And no matter what you will keep living. Look, you will still get into a college, perhaps not Ivy League, MIT, Caltech, Williams, whatever but you will get into college. And that is only four years of your life. And after college you'll use that to get a job. Which you will get. But don't IDENTIFY yourself by that, because nobody else will! If you spend all your time stressing about college, and all your time in college stressing about grades/connections/internships then you won't be a very interesting person, which is more important than getting an enjoyable job. I know there is also the issue of finding people that you connect with and find interesting, but after a while Gus, that gets to be an escape situation. People are inherently the same--geniuses included. So even if you go somewhere amazing...if you are unhappy here you will probably be unhappy there. But! If you de stress here...realize that getting into the best school possible AS well as getting the best grades possible PROBABLY isn't as necessary as you feel...you will have a lot more time to just be happy. :D
So i just read through that dreadfully long post and saw so many confusing and dumb statements...for instance "you won't be a very interesting person, which is more important than getting an enjoyable job." which is actually bullshit and i apologize. :D But do think about some of what i said.
I agree with Jane quite a bit on her points, you shouldn't try and identify yourself by what school you went to, in the end all that really matters is what job you get because of your hard work. Some people who went to general state colleges probably have jobs that some people who went to Harvord dream of having, but don't have because they thought that the Harvord name would be able to coast them through getting jobs and what-not (not that I'm saying that's what you're doing, I'm just writing the first thing that comes to mind...) And you really SHOULD de-stress about a lot of things, you don't have to actually apply to ALL 14 schools, I don't even have an IDEA of what school I want to go to. I'm not even exactly sure what I want to do with my life. (Although, social work and psychologist/therapist are looking rather intersting at this point in time) So don't stress if you only get 7 done by tomorrow, you can always fill them out next year and transfer from your current school (as jane suggested), whatever happens, you'll get into SOME school somewhere, there's no possible way that ALL of them could reject you. We'd just have to go hunt down the admissions workers and kill them if they did. But we'd do that anyway, wouldn't we?
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