Northeastern

For the last 4 years the constant pressure of college has loomed overhead. From year to year, it never changes. Just grows closer. The pressure to get into a good college is always there. Never changing.

Throughout my entire high school career I have had one goal in mind; to get into a good college. To make the countless hours spent on an unnecessary amount of APs worth it. I have put so much effort and time into making sure that I have an excellent resume for college applications. All that effort, so that I can get into a good college that will give me the education that I need to jumpstart my career.

Now that senior year has rolled around the pressure has been even greater. College applications have possibly been the most stressful part of high school. The constant stress of worrying if you didn’t fill out a section right, or if your essays weren’t good enough, not unique enough. Or even if you forgot to submit your resume to all of your safety schools… whoops…

All of this accumulates into the final decisions from the colleges. Once you hit that submit button there is nothing you can do but wait patiently for either an acceptance or a rejection. Most colleges don’t even tell you the exact release date of the acceptances, they just randomly appear in your email with either good news or bad news. No in-between.

Luckily for me, I managed to avoid a lot of the stress of waiting. After going through the college search process I had decided to apply Early Decision to Northeastern University. This way I would not have to deal with the stress of waiting on so many decisions and then having to weigh which school to go to out of the ones I get into. And I must say, I am so glad I made this decision. I got my decision from Northeastern a little over a month after I sent in my application. After a short struggle to log in to my application portal. I discovered that I had got in. 

Shockingly I did not feel joy or excitement. All I felt was relief. I was done with the college process. I had gotten into a school that I liked and was perfectly happy getting my higher education. There were no more applications and no more essays. I was done.

To me, this felt like the biggest weight had been lifted off my shoulders. The last 4 years of stressing over college had finally concluded. All that work had finally paid off. Sure, I will never know if I may have gotten lucky with the Ivy I was planning on applying to. Or maybe I could have gotten into a better school. But to me, Northeastern was more than enough. Not only had I gotten into college, but I had gotten into a school that I was proud of myself for. For the first time in 4 years, the idea of college wasn’t stressful- It was exciting.

And that is where I am now. Excited for college to start up next fall. To experience the city of Boston and to get out of college all that I can.