redundant potatoes
If you don't really feel like hearing me bitch about adolescence, then i suggest you go make yourself some pop-tarts and watch smallville or some crap.
So one of my best friends just told me that he just got emailed by some guy at harvard, saying that his transcript looked good. He was incredibly excited about it, and couldn't stop gushing. I encouraged him, but in the back of my mind, i started thinking about what i'm going to do for college. Like, what do i do that is so exemplary thats going to send me to some pristine school that will make sure that i succeed in life? Does it make me selfish that i can't even listen to my friend without wishing that something like that would happen to me? I think it does, and it bothers me. All things considered, i think i'm a strong applicant to colleges, but even if all of my accomplishments are impressive, my SATs are still too low to get into anywhere that would put me ahead. And where is the logic that it doesn't matter what you do throughout high school if you don't do well on some test that a bunch of scientists decided would show the aptitude of a student? How can four years of your life be equal to one saturday morning? How can a test be the deciding factor in the rest of your life? We all try to get ahead, and we study hard and try to make sure that we can succeed and show how we're going to make a difference to society. But if you think about it, what are the odds of us really making a difference? What are the chances of someone like me growing up to be some incredibly powerful person that affects peoples' lives all over the world? The odds are not comforting, and its not our fault that the world doesn't bet on us.
So one of my best friends just told me that he just got emailed by some guy at harvard, saying that his transcript looked good. He was incredibly excited about it, and couldn't stop gushing. I encouraged him, but in the back of my mind, i started thinking about what i'm going to do for college. Like, what do i do that is so exemplary thats going to send me to some pristine school that will make sure that i succeed in life? Does it make me selfish that i can't even listen to my friend without wishing that something like that would happen to me? I think it does, and it bothers me. All things considered, i think i'm a strong applicant to colleges, but even if all of my accomplishments are impressive, my SATs are still too low to get into anywhere that would put me ahead. And where is the logic that it doesn't matter what you do throughout high school if you don't do well on some test that a bunch of scientists decided would show the aptitude of a student? How can four years of your life be equal to one saturday morning? How can a test be the deciding factor in the rest of your life? We all try to get ahead, and we study hard and try to make sure that we can succeed and show how we're going to make a difference to society. But if you think about it, what are the odds of us really making a difference? What are the chances of someone like me growing up to be some incredibly powerful person that affects peoples' lives all over the world? The odds are not comforting, and its not our fault that the world doesn't bet on us.