Stress concerning college is the worst kind there is. Trying to get good grades so you'll get accepted, and taking your ACT is just the beginning. Then comes choosing the school, which is overwhelming in it's own. Once you do that, you gotta wait for which seems like forever to see if they want you to go there.
I hate that. I hate that you need to go to college to succeed in life. What if the smartest man in the world cant afford an education? College is too expensive, I don't want to be paying off my tuition for the rest of my life. What if I go to college, and then when I graduate with a good degree in the major of my choice, I can't find a job? What then? It feels like it'd be a waste. But I need to go, I need to support a family one day and I need to be successful in life. The stresses are all there, they're all real, and I'm sitting here, waiting, hoping that River Falls will accept me.
I applied to Arizona State as a second choice. I did it without my parents knowing. I know they'll get mad once they see a letter come in the mail stating whether I'm accepted or not. Of course, River Falls is my first choice, but if they don't accept me it's Arizona that I'll choose. My mom is going to cry. My dad is going to be mad... but this isn't for them, where I go to college isn't a choice they get to make or something they can control (unlike everything else in my life).
I'm not looking forward to disappointing my parents. I don't want to see them upset, and I'd never have the guts to tell them that I applied there to get away from the pressure they put on me. Hopefully they still love me after this whole situation. Hopefully they can support me through it all, and accept that I'll go wherever I want to go, for me, not for anyone else.