Blog 36

                You worked hard in high school, you got good grades.  You got involved in everything you could possibly be involved in that wouldn’t affect your grades in a negative way.  The things you were involved in, u also thrived in.  Second to no one is the mindset that you had, and now it’s your senior year.  It is now time to take a big step and move on to college.  You already got into each college you applied to so now all you have to do is choose the one that you like the best.  It’s that easy.  You know which one you want, and you envision yourself there having a great time and striving to be the best there, just like how you once did in high school.  The only problem is the one college that you really want to go to turn out to be out of reach for your family.  Your parents just cannot afford it.  Not only can you not go to the college of your dreams, but you are forced to go to that safety school.  This is a school that you really do not want to go to.  You really only applied to this school because they sent you a free application in the mail, and when you actually get to that college, you hate it.  That’s a rough way to spend your first year in college, right?  It was for me.  Although I was in a horrible spot and it felt as if I downgraded from high school, I made sure it didn’t end this way.  I quickly started searching for ways to get out and go to a school that I would enjoy.  It wasn’t easy.  Sometimes it was almost like repeating the whole process over and over again, and still coming up with nothing, but now when I look back on it, I realize that it was the hard work and dedication that eventually got me out, and to a better college than what I originally wanted at first.  I learned quickly that with hard work, I can achieve greater things than I was originally striving for.