I really need to talk to someone about my happiness so I'm going to talk to you! I've been trying really hard to not discuss this stuff with my friends at school because it kind of sounds like bragging to me, but since I've known you so long, I know you'll understand, plus I really want to tell you and get your opinion!!
As I may or may not have told you, I took the PSATs early a little while ago, because my school is just weird. I was super nervous at the time cause I was convinced somehow I'd do worse on them than the actual SATs that I took in 8th grade, but in the end I kind of did really well. I scored in the 99th percentile of my grade (:D) and something like the 98th percentile of the next grade up (though in the back of my mind I keep thinking: 98th??? Definitely room for improvement, idiot.) What can I say, the little voice in my head is kind of a bitch.
Anywho, after I got my scores back I kind of forgot about it... until Thursday. All of a sudden, a bunch of my friends started telling me about emails they had gotten from colleges about their scores, and I was super sad because I hadn't gotten any!! The little voice in my head kept saying, "Wow, you haven't gotten any recruitment emails? Obviously no colleges are interested in you. Have fun working at a gas station for the rest of your life..." To which I feebly responded, "But... But... I know for a fact I got better scores than them! I should have at least a couple emails!! Right? D:"
And so for the rest of the day I was utterly depressed. Then, I got home and I went on my computer, all ready to drown my depression in instant netflix, when the screen turned on and it was open on my email. BEHOLD!!! College recruitment emails!!! AHHHH!! I was all "OHMIGOODNESS, EEEEK SO HAPPY! THE WORLD OF COLLEGES DOESN'T HATE ME!", while my little italics me was all "...Really? You got all upset over not receiving any emails BEFORE you actually checked your inbox? Stupid..."
But even bitchy me couldn't ruin my happiness. Okay, I know it's not actually that big of a deal, but I'm still over the moon about it. One email even told me that I should skip the next two years of high school and start college early! Obviously I'm not going to do that with IB and all, but it was still a great boost to my self esteem, which had been lacking for a while now. :)
Here is a list of the colleges that have contacted me so far (!!!):
- Colorado State University
- Carleton College
- University of Chicago (!!)
- Kenyon College*
- Colgate University
- Macalester College*
- Olin College of Engineering
- Williams College
- Whitman College
- University of the Pacific
- Barnard College (!!)
- University of Denver
- Bard College
- Swarthmore College
- Dickinson College
- Washington University
- St. John's College
- Lewis & Clark College (!! I actually talked about L&C with your dad the other day...)
- Emory University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Creighton University
- Willamette University
- Colorado School of Mines
- University of Portland
- Mills College
- Seattle Pacific University
- Fordham University
- Boston University (!!)
ISN'T THAT EXCITING??? AAHHHHHH!
* These two had the COOLEST recruitment emails... Like ever.
This was part of Kenyon College's email:
RIGHT??
And then the email for Macalester College was just a picture of an orange with a purple space background and an arrow in the middle under the words "peel here".
When you click it.. guess what happens? I'll tell you: a giant orange hurtles into space, unpeels itself to reveal the Earth underneath, and then it looks like this:
And then it looks like this:
And ALL of this happens while hilariously dramatic music plays in the background. It's pretty great.
Conclusion: I feel a little bit better about my future. But now I have to stop thinking of colleges because the harder I actually think about it all, the less happy I feel... My god, life is stressful.
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