#appblr17

so i was gonna do a penultimate appblr updates but i forgot got busy so here is the final one lmao (i’m literally crying inside)

i am incredibly blessed to say that i will be attending UNC Chapel Hill this fall

my major is math right now but i plan to double major w/ polysci and then minor in french or maybe arabic or women’s studies

after that i plan to go to law school!!

i have officially finished ap exams and thus high school and have one month until graduation it’s LIT

i scored this really awesome leadership/service internship so i’ll be working all summer. i am super nervous but also excited!

also this summer i plan to really develop my blog and make a lot of content for y’all because i clearly haven’t done much over the school year lol

i will especially be focusing on the college applications process for my rising seniors and other underclassmen, because i’ve learned A LOT about it and think i can offer some good advice

Y’ALL I HAVE A STUDYBLR ROOM/SUITE MATE I AM SO HAPPY!!! please follow her @academe-queen!!!!!

i will eventually be setting up a Buy Me a Coffee button, thank you so much for all your responses to that post i made. i really need the support so i appreciate it!

i am fully aware that the whole senior-year-was-the-best-year-of-my-life (thus far) thing is incredibly cliche and i honestly would not have imagined that any year spent at my catholic high school in suburban georgia would be the best year of my life but alas here we are. i came into high school a very sad person and i spent a very large portion of high school being a very sad person but this year (and part of last year i guess but mostly this year) i have turned into the most positive, confident version of myself. i spent this year getting close to and making SO many memories with people who mean the world to me and i don’t know how i got so lucky to have such amazing friends who i can tell literally anything to and would do anything for. i have spent the majority of this year in a relationship that brings me so so SO much happiness, i did a lot of theatre, a lot of singing, took lots of pictures, piled a lot of people into my car, applied to college, got into college, and in the fall i get to attend a school that has morphed into the dream school i didn’t know i had where i’ll get to be in a super cool program and study so many cool things and start traveling the world (FOR FREE) in literally less than a year. i have such an exuberance for life right now and so often feel myself just instinctively bubbling over with relentless positivity. and although the spectacular-ness of this year means it’s going to be much harder to leave than i anticipated, i’m so jazzed for this next chapter in my life and also SO excited for all the memories i’m going to make this summer. 

also more specific to appblr: i got into essentially all of my “dream schools,” schools with below 15% acceptance rates and accomplished student bodies, “impressive” schools. i, however, am attending a southern, public school, with an acceptance rate of ~77%. cofc offered me a spot in an amazing program that will allow me to explore my passion for the world, receive a great deal of career mentoring as well as mentoring and encouragement to pursue nationally competitive awards, study abroad a LOT, and with the scholarship that a spot in this program comes with; college won’t be a financial burden on me and my family (who still has two more kids to send to college lol). i’m going to my safety school, a school that when i applied i was pretty sure i would never end up attending. i always saw myself at some elite school up north and i also had kind of a mindset that i had worked too hard in high school to go to an “easy” school which is a HORRIBLE attitude. if it turns out that your safety school is the right school for you that is so so so okay. your college choice should not be about proving anything to anyone it should be about picking a place to spend the next four years that you think will get you most set on the path you see for yourself. if that is harvard, awesome. if that is your local state school, awesome. the only other person from my school i’m going to college with is a girl who sat next to me in chemistry junior year who slept and cheated her way through the entire semester. i know she didn’t take all the AP classes i did, i know she didn’t get the grades i did but that doesn’t matter, your college choice is about you and you alone. the truth is, i could put in a fraction of the work i did in high school and still probably could have gotten into cofc but that’s not the point. i truly believe that this is the school i’ll be the happiest at and my college decision should not be used as a method of proving myself to the people around me.

i am so so excited for the next four years and i guess this means i’m not an appblr anymore, wild. i’m not the most active on here but i do check my messages so if anyone ever wants to chat (i don’t have many followers so i probably won’t be taken up on this but i’m throwing it out anyway) feel free.

peace out,