Monologue

All my friends in high school told me that senior college applications were going to be really tedious and stressful, and it did seem like it. I had senior friends in my sophomore and junior years who told me stories of writing seven or more essays for some of the top colleges in the nation, and it kind of freaked me out. But when the actual application period rolled around, I found that I actually had a lot of control over how stressful or not I could make the process. I wasn’t really interested in applying to a lot of Ivy League schools like Harvard, Princeton, or Yale as a number of my friends were. Rather I focused more on applying to colleges near where I lived, since I didn’t want to move away from the city. Many kids were surprised when I told them I dint want to move away, but I didn’t really see it as that big of a deal. The college application process ended up not being that stressful and for the most part I didn’t have to write more than one or two additional supplements for the schools I applied to. Meanwhile I’d often see some of my friends struggle during the process and complain about how stressed they were or how many essays they had to write by what deadline, and I just couldn’t relate. In the end I got accepted into most of my school choices and was satisfied with it.