<p>Thanks Drosselmeier, I appreciate your input. I also thank you for the compliments.</p>
<p>Yes, opportunity costs hurt, both in the economic world as well as in everyday, personal life.</p>
<p>We all make choices that eliminate endless possibilities. With each choice, we take a slowly narrowing path, leaving behind alternative routes, some bridges uncrossed, and some sights unseen. As the clock ticks, the second hand shaves an infinite amount of possibilities away; opportunities are forgone, and gradations of life are ignored and untasted.</p>
<p>So... once you think of it that way, you just come to accept the fact that inherent in decision making are sacrifices. In my case, checking no on some schools' response cards really hurt. It hurt especially considering how hard I worked, as Drosselmeier astutely pointed out, to get accepted at these places!</p>
<p>But, with all that said and done, I did arrive at my final decision.</p>
<p>I'm going to Princeton this fall!</p>
<p>Good luck to those of you still making last-minute decisions (especially those of the toughest kind). How successfully you'll pull through, is entirely up to you; and the other schools will survive without you, just as you will thrive in your ultimate choice (ideally)! Later ;)</p>
<p>-Jon :)</p>