Over the summer, the time when school should be the farthest thing from my mind, I was making lists. Lists of the classes I was going to be taking in the upcoming fall as well as lists of the colleges I would start applying to in a few short months.
Ever since freshman year, it's always been about college, college, college... if you don't get an A in this, you wont get into a good college. If you don't take AP classes "good" colleges won't even consider you. Every year, I challenge myself even more.. add an AP here, take accelerated here, take this and that so I can get into a "good" college.
The time came and I frantically filled out transcript request forms, composed fine tuned essays about doing this activity and that trip, and pressed the submit button on 5 different applications. By Novemeber, I had heard back from all of my colleges, and had been accepted to all.
So that means decide on one and cruise through the rest of the year, right?
WRONG.
This year has been the most challenging year thus far, and I know it probably won't get any easier until June 7th rolls around.
School challenges us to see us excell, see us get into the college of our choice, and of course keep up their already high test scores.
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Your post was so well written! I completely agree with what you said, too. This is a perfect example of how much our school environment influneces us because I know kids at other schools in our area who thought we were crazy for having applied to schools by mid-september. Great post!
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