<p>No need to talk of defeating purpose. Your path to college is clear now. Choose and move on into your future.</p>
<p>:p I’ll obviously keep the thread updated</p>
<p>I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear this! I was <em>squee</em>ing with delight when I got home from a trip and saw the notification from CC with your update in my inbox. Good luck and congratulatons!</p>
<p>wow…i just read this entire thread in one go. your maturity, thoughtfulness, motivation, and obvious intellectual potential are astounding. frankly, i’m inspired. reed will benefit tremendously from your presence, and vice versa. i wish you well.</p>
<p>Whoa, I’m so flattered Axel. Thanks so much! I hope that I will live up to the expectations that you’ve set for me :p. I want to climb to the top. I want to be a conqueror like one of my heroes Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’ve wasted enough potential already, so once I’m on campus I’ll be on overdrive from now till infinity :D. </p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptances! I for one find them to be inspiring! Go to Pomona! It’s the perfect school</p>
<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger??</p>
<p>Read about him. Watch his youtube speeches and interviews.</p>
<p>In Austria, his family made fun of him for wanting to be a bodybuilder until he won the Mr. Universe in Austria. He had a dream of being the best bodybuilder in the world, then being a movie star, then being a famous politician…He did all of those things and he is one of the hardest working people alive, and a major inspiration to me</p>
<p>He was also totally awesome in Conan the Barbarian</p>
<p>When I was your age I admired Ayn Rand for what I perceived to be similar kinds of achievements. It was a Reed professor who challenged me on this, suggesting that the hardest and most valuable kind of struggle takes place within oneself, not between oneself and the world. Of course, one seldom occurs without the other, but the balance between them varies infinitely, according to situation. You have recently had to deal with both kinds, in the situation which is the subject of this thread. I suggest that you ask yourself which kind of struggle was the more difficult, which the more rewarding.</p>
<p>The struggle with oneself is both more difficult and rewarding</p>
<p>I just enrolled at UVA, and I’d like to thank everyone who stuck with me on this journey, and even those who were simply entertained by it!</p>
<p>I regret that I won’t be able to meet many of the awesome CC posters who are going to Reed, but I feel that UVA will be a better match for me and help me to live a more balanced life.</p>
<p>After all of this you’re not going to Reed, you’re going to UVA? Goodness! Wow! Well, good luck! What a surprising end! :-)</p>
<p>I know, right? 
Life is a rollercoaster</p>