College Update

Long time no see! Or well, no hear? I don't know. It's been a while. I hope everybody reading had a lovely holiday season. I did. I got some new books, a few board games, new painting supplies, new clothes, and a new Netflix show addiction! All prime quarantine activities!

But that's not what you're here for, is it?

I am a high school senior. And, as all high school seniors know, all everybody talks to me about is college. College this and college that and it never stops. I sent in my ED application in the middle of October and found out the decision on December 11th. I wished, more than anything, that I could say the college process is over.

The college process is not over.

I got deferred. And, looking at the school's stats and other people's rejections, I can't complain. I had to open the portal in front of my parents while they were freaking out and recording a video. It was more than awkward.

I spent an hour "wallowing in self-pity", eating peanut butter M&Ms (something my parents normally wouldn't let me eat near my peanut allergic brother). I won't lie; I took advantage of the deferral. We got IHop for dinner and nobody complained. It was fantastic.

I had the weekend to pile it away while the majority of my friends at school were just finding out when their schools' decisions were coming out. So, going in to the week before break, the only thing I had to worry about was a math test. (Spoiler alert: The snowstorm cancelled said math test!)

The week after I got deferred was the best week in 2020 for me. No question. I was loving life. I was feeling all the good vibes. It was great. I abhor virtual school, but this week was the first time I enjoyed myself during it.

I know my experience of getting deferred is not like everybody else. Most people don't enjoy getting deferred. But now I get to open a whole bunch of applications and that's so exciting. I get to actually chose where I'm going to college. That's crazy too. And I know it's all going to work out. I always have.

This is the part where I'd make a joke saying something like "I'll set up a poll to decide where I'll go to college", but I don't think my mom would get it. I'm not getting lectured tonight.