<p>I truly appreciate everyone’s input on this…
Things like this-
[Meltdown</a> | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/meltdown]Meltdown”>Meltdown | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>“There’s this feeling that no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as you can be better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you’re stupid, and MIT keeps an overflowing warehouse of proof in the second basement of building 36. There’s stress and there’s shame and there’s insecurity. Sometimes there’s hope. Sometimes there’s happiness. Sometimes there’s overwhelming loneliness.”</p>
<p>have made question whether or not I’d belong there, but in the same blog the writer states:</p>
<p>"I love this place. I love the amazing people I’ve met, I love watching myself grow as a scientist and a writer, and I love being engulfed in the heart of scientific progress and passion and feeling like I belong. "</p>
<p>it’s so contradictory…</p>
<p>My family’s income is currently less than 20,000, so would these colleges be willing to help me out?</p>