College Balls

It's getting pretty close to the time when I have to decide which college to go to.  Actually, it is that time - I'm just slower than everyone else.  It seems like the only people who ever want to talk about college are those who aren't actually at the point where they are choosing which one to go to, like me.  This includes everybody that isn't a senior in high school, and, to a greater extent, those people who have been dead-set on going to a certain school for their whole lives, or at least since they first visited that school.  I don't even know what I want to do in college, just that I want to go there - it's where I belong.  I wasn't even sure what type of college I would like, so I applied to six very different ones.

Right now, my choice is basically between two - and one choice is much easier to make than the other.  The University of Michigan is the easiest choice for me - I have a fair amount of scholarship money on that one, too.  The Colorado School of Mines is the other choice, because I have much more money in scholarships to go there than U of M, and it's in Colorado (far superior to Michigan), and I think the people there are nicer/better too.  The only problem is that it's really far away, and I also noticed upon visiting that everybody in the state of Colorado is really extreme.  You know, the let's-go-mountain-biking-off-cliffs-and-whitewater-raft-off-cliffs-and-shoot-animals-off-cliffs-and-have-sex-off-cliffs-and-battle-Nazis-off-cliffs type of people.  They really like their cliffs out there - trust me, I know.   They have plenty.  Purdue University is essentially a more-expensive version of Michigan, which is why I won't be going there.  The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was alright, but I am almost certain that I wouldn't care for the people there - they are all nerds, but I'm discovering that - despite being a nerd myself - I don't really care for most other nerdy people.  Being in close proximity to uber-intellectuals for most of my life, the majority of them are either a bit too socially awkward or have had their ego inflated to the size of a titanic zeppelin.  I think that the atmosphere would be a bit too uncomfortable for my liking.  Northwestern wait-listed me, and I don't care to be on that wait-list, so I won't be going there.  But for the record, getting on the wait-list was a bigger accomplishment than I expected to achieve.  Finally, Michigan Tech.  This is a little tragic.  I actually think that I genuinely would have liked that school, potentially more than all the others, but I never got the chance to visit it.  Since distance would be one of the main reasons against going there, it would have been crucial for me to make the drive there and back to determine if I would want to go there, and I never did.  So that gets crossed off the list.

My guidance counselor will not be happy with me for being so wish-washy on this important decision, but frankly, I'm just happy that I eliminated four options.  I'll have to decide immediately upon visiting U of M on the 16th whether or not I can go there.

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And upon having done so, I'm attending the University of Michigan next fall.  Stereotype fulfillment?  Maybe.  But it feels good to have all that college balls out of the way.