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Old Mar 10, 2009, 07:07 PM
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Remember that so many colleges accepting you means you're doing something right :-)

I'd start with the 6 that have accepted you and figure out how to throw out three :-) Doesn't matter which three! If you go to a school a semester or a year, etc. and decide you don't like it or it's not right, you can change! It's not quite as bad as when you were a kid and had to go to whatever elementary school you were "assigned" to! You get a 100% choice here and it's your life. You can change every semester if you want! At the undergraduate level, it won't hurt you. When you've graduated in 4-5 years and gotten a job, etc. no one will care either what school you went to or even how well you did, just that you graduated and what you're doing for them/in the future.

A lot of going to college seems really important at the time, but it's just a stepping stone. Remember when you were in junior high and getting ready to start high school and how scary that was? It's almost the same with college. As you're going through college you'll get use to that and the idea of getting a career/job will take on more importance and then going to grad school/getting advanced training, getting married/having a family/buying a home, etc. It's all progressive and each step is a "step"!

I'm 58 and look back on my life and was just going to say, "if I did it all again. . ." but realize it wouldn't really make a big difference if I'd gone to a different school because then I wouldn't have met who I met? And trying to figure out what your life would-have-been like becomes more fantasy than anything important? It's like thinking about if you'd done something different when you were 14, how would your life be different? You can't say! You can wish or imagine but you didn't do something different then!
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