<p>My entire life I dreamed about going somewhere new for college, somewhere far away, potentially the south or California. Living in the suburbs of Boston my entire life and going to school in the city, I recognized that this was one of the best cities in the nation and also one of the best to go to school in. I sort of got tired of this city however, and looked for a new beggining. I envied everything there was to going far awat to school: getting home sick, flying to and from you school, experiencing the holiday rush at the airports, packing up your entire life into suitcases, and even the Facebook posts about leaving home. This all came to a quick realization when I discovered that I would be attending Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, one of the premier business schools in the country. </p>
<p>I will say that I am extremely fortunate of getting into that school, even more so of receiving a great financial aid package, but I’m suddenly realizing that my dream and my thoughts about going away to school are all coming to an end. I got accepted into UCLA, but could not attend due to finances and since I come from a low income family. I also got into other schools in other parts of the country, but coming from an elite prep school, I was not willing to sacrifice prestige and academics for the excitement of going away to school. I’m just sad, and almost depressed that I will be going to school 20 minutes away. It did not make me feel better when during orientation kids from all over the country were excited and amazed by the new adventures that they would experience. They were talking about faneuil hall, fenway park, back bay, and all the parts of Boston that just seemed old to me. I looked into their eyes with envy. I wanted that. We all shared the same thing, yet I felt like we would be receiving different experiences in college.</p>
<p>I feel like this is just the beggining. I go to this great business school, then at 22 get sucked up into the finance sector of Boston or New York, then find a girlfriend and stay local. I’ve been thinking all these negative thoughts, and I just find it to be pathetic and sad. I mean, I should be ecstatic about going to college but I’m not. I’m already thinking about transferring and I haven’t moved in yet. The problem is that BC is a top 30 school, and it’s really hard to beat that and get into a better school that’s somewhere new.</p>
<p>The location of the school is such a small part of the college experience. Of course the people that are not local are excited about being near Boston. If you live at school you will meet amazing people from all over. You can always travel for the experience of other places.</p>
<p>Lots of kids experience the roller coaster emotions in the summer before college starts, for lots of reasons. They don’t talk about it much. You can pick another school for your MBA. You can live in different cities after college and/or travel the world. Your new friends may be glad to hang with someone who knows his way around- and you may get invited to their home areas. And, it is a great school.</p>
<p>But don’t be depressed. Take a gap year, do something – anything – and reapply to colleges that make more financial sense – not OOS publics. USC and Emory, for example.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m having a bad day or maybe my Dad-O-Meter is particularly sensitive today, but there is something undeniably trollish about this post. First of all, a cut-and-paste was posted on three forums within 45 minutes of each other. Second, the typos and capitalization errors make me wonder about the English department at this so-called “elite prep school”. Third, the OP is bemoaning the fact that he’s not going to UCLA which has no undergraduate business school while having been admitted to a top tier undergraduate program.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s true. Maybe there is something undeniably depressing about attending BC for free. But you’ll have to excuse me if I struggle to believe that going “to this great business school, then at 22 get sucked up into the finance sector of Boston or New York, then find a girlfriend and stay local.”, is some sort of potentially soul-crushing tragedy. </p>
<p>Well trojaneagle, the others are free to hold your hand but I won’t. Grow up. You have no clue what it’s going to be like in college. Your friends who are moving away have built, as you have, this unrealistic expectation of what college is going to be like. You will be attending and living on campus at a major university (for free) in one of the world’s great cities. That is an opportunity many would give anything to enjoy.</p>
<p>As for your future, BC isn’t indentured servitude. You aren’t required to take a job in New York or Boston. BC also isn’t a dating service; you aren’t required to have a fiancee by graduation. If you don’t want to live on the East Coast after graduation - DON’T! You just might find that living in another city while having a little folding money in your pocket is far more enjoyable than graduating college with a boatload of debt.</p>
<p>trojaneagle:
Vinceh’s reply is spot on.<br>
Please save a copy of your opening post so you can reread it in four years. You’ll be embarrassed at how whiny and complaining you sound. </p>
<p>Do you realize that by going to BC, you’re better off than 98% of the population on the planet. </p>
<p>If you don’t grow out of the “poor me” attitude that this and some of your other posts portray, this “close to home” issue will be the least of your problems.</p>