re: University of Washington
I wasn't accepted. In retrospect, I don't know why I was so hopeful. Maybe it was the enthusiastic adviser who made me think I could do anything as long as I shelled out a $50 application fee. Maybe it was my innate, arrogant nature as both a Philippine Science High School graduate and former University of the Philippines student that made me believe that colleges would be crazy not to accept me. It's hard the remember sometimes that I'm only a second-class permanent resident here, and that UP credits may not be easily accepted anywhere else in the first world. In any case, I console myself with the fact that the only reason that I've been rejected so many times the past couple of years is because I have been willing to try anything. I rise up from yet another rejection a bit disappointed perhaps. Betrayed, definitely. But this won't stop me from trying again.
Or so I tell myself.
Or so I tell myself.