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   Currently, I’m a senior in high school. So I’ve been taking part in the extensive college application process. Originally I thought I was going to be one of those eager beaver types, that kid who sends their applications in the day senior year starts. Turns out I was the opposite. I waited until the last possible moment before I sent my applications in. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to leave high school just as much as any other normal high school senior, but I just didn’t know where my place was, and that frankly- scared me poopless. So I just didn’t deal with that until I had to.

  Well the results were not as pleasing as I had hoped. Whether it be because of my late application or some dude upstairs entertaining himself by sending my college plans down the tube, everything I thought would happen, fell through. The one school I thought was perfect, wait listed me (after telling me during my interview I was perfect for them…assholes). After not getting in, I had no clue where to go next. At one point I seriously considered taking a year off to travel and volunteer and make video blogs. By not getting in to my “perfect school” I realized there was this path that culture pushes the american teen towards and I didn’t necessarily have to go along with it. I re-evaluated my preconceived notions of what my future would consist of. I realized I had been planning a future I thought I SHOULD have not that I wanted to have a life filled with adventures and art and absolute freedom, no matter the cheese factor of that statement.  

  Turns out the school that wanted to give me that artistic but intellectual combination was Mount Holyoke. I applied to Mount Holyoke because my sister and Mom went there and figured I might get in and hey, the more acceptances the merrier! But through my re-evaluating I found it had everything I wanted. It was a liberal arts school, had great arts and science programs, and a really supportive community, oh and a B-E-A-utiful campus. Sounds perfect right? Well one problem, I got in as a spring admin.

  At first this simply pissed me off. I am smart, I am a extracurricular junky, I am suppose to be what colleges want! So why is this process so freakin difficult?!?! All I could imagine was me sitting at home while everyone I knew went off to amazing schools. But after the initial terror of the unknown cleared, I began to brainstorm about what I could do in my semester off. I could go to Austria, intern at a radio station, volunteer! This could be my blessing in disguise. I wanted to be different and creative so here is my chance. The opportunity to do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING! 

  So ladies and gents we are going to have quite the time finding out what I am going to do next. Whether it is traveling the world, learning guitar, or getting a job I am going on my own adventure and its anyone’s guess as to how it will turn out. And that is both scary and fantastic.