It's College Acceptance Season (Try to be Cool About It!)

[Xolodno]

1. Heh...I got acceptance's where I shouldn't. Or at least I thought so at the time.

I applied to a number "lower" tiered schools and got rejected by all of them (even had a contingency plan for a few JC's). But the schools with a higher reputation all wanted to take me in. In my third year I was surrounded by classmates that went to Dartmouth, Harvard, etc. for a couple of years, they came back "home" because their parents couldn't afford ivy league tuition (in my case, there were times I would open the fridge and wonder why it was even on as there was nothing in it). My father didn't even know I was at a university and a hard one to get into until one of his customers told him...a couple of years later.

Looking back, maybe I should have applied to Yale (didn't because I had to be shrewd with some application fee's, many were waived but not all). Hell, while in college, I was talking with other classmates who were looking to go to the IMF to work and some others from the Mid-East asking me to work for their respective governments/companies (I turned them down, ah yes...hindsight).

But I still did well. Less than a month ago I got back from a vacation in Egypt. And I'm typing this from a resort near Yosemite and not from our family place also nearby since the septic is backed up (we had a party).