<p>Ivy_Equestrian18, I am so gonna print this and hang it on my wall, if you let me. It is amazing, genuinely inspirational, thank you for posting it!</p>
<p>I’m so glad you’re all taking the message to heart here! neilmodi93, one of my biggest concerns, too, was ‘What if I go somewhere that’s not good enough?’ But I think everywhere you could possibly go has something different and wonderful to offer you - at the end of the day, this is the only time in your life you’ll care about where your university ranked on the US News list. After the crazy, mad, stressful rush of college applications, you simply stop caring - and you won’t care ever again! Wherever you go, you WILL be challenged - by classes, by viewpoints, by classmates with experiences so far removed from your own. I went to a friend’s Hannukah party the other night (new experience #1) and we all ended up chatting about terrorism (cheery eh!?). Her housemate is from Indonesia, and my boyfriend is from Northern Ireland, and they both are so used to armed guards, bomb threats, all these things that, having grown up in south-east England and then New England, I couldn’t possibly imagine. (new experience #2!) THESE are the things you will take away from your college years - broadened horizons, vastly re-worked dreams…I say it again: you will love where you end up, you will have the time of your life, and no matter what, you can ALWAYS transfer!!!
Also, jjjjoseph - great quote! A friend of mine read that book during applications last year - it focuses heavily on Wesleyan, right? Or am I totally off-the-mark there?</p>