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<p>You're pathetic. You feel your life is over if you don't get into a reputed college. Everything you do in your high school years - you do it for college admissions. You gain knowledge - for college admissions. You participate in ECs - for college admissions. </p>
<p>I hate it when people don't actually consider these first 20 odd years of their life as years worth living. You're always doing things not for the moment, but for the next 30-40 years. What if you don't make it? What if luck has had a role to play? You will regret the time you wasted fussing about the future(which is always uncertain, at best) instead of enjoying the present.</p>
<p>And if you do achieve whatever you set out to, you'll always ask yourself whether the price you paid for it was reasonable or not.</p>