Application Essays
I've been getting back into the old routine and at the same time forgetting about the blog. I'm sure everyone is craving their fix, so I'm here to preach.
I've finished my application to Shippensburg and had the guidance office send out my transcripts and what not. Hopefully, I can get a reply soon. I'm already getting antsy about it. I'm just about done with my application to West Chester University, too. I just have to finish my essay and I'll be done.
My essay is kind of sad. It asked to write about an event that significantly changed your life, so the only thing I could think of was my mom dying. It's going to seem like I'm milking it for sympathy, or college money, or whatever, but that honestly is the biggest life-changing event for me. I've tried my best over the years to kind of distance myself from my mom's death, because I didn't really want pity. I mean, I never forget about it but I try not to use it as a crutch.
But with my circumstances, my grandparents continually tell me to make these people aware of my situation so we could maybe get some more financial aid. It's kind of unorthodox for me to swallow my pride and write a "pity-me" paper to these college admission types but you do what you have to do.
I'm going to have to get all these applications done soon because September is going to turn into October, and October will turn into November, and so on and so on. I still haven't even looked at Neumann or Chestnut Hill, the colleges that have actually verbally told me that they would give me money. Oh, add St. Joe's to that list now. Ugh, it'd be convenient if these guys had told me that I would get money when I was visiting colleges in the summer. But you can't always get what you want, as Mick Jagger says.
Speaking of which, I currently have a pile of homework that hasn't even been looked at yet. I was too busy watching Soul Food on AMC. That movie really is underrated. And the title makes me hungry. Maybe I'll eat some ice cream. : D
-Krista
