QotD: If I Had To Do It All Over Again
What's one thing you regret not doing?
Submitted by Mr. Nice.
Applying to one of the major colleges back when they were sending me brochures unsolicited (I presume). I remember getting catalogs from Stanford, Wake Forest, and believe-it-or-not Princeton. Unfortunately, first off I was not the most organized or diligent person about requesting or filling out applications, and secondly, my mom had died early in my Senior year of high school, so that final year I was in a daze, right when I needed to hunker down and give myself an ulcer trying to get into some super-duper school. That last year of school, I felt as though I had just gotten off a tilt-a-whirl: disoriented, unmoored, lost. I'm still trying to ground myself, six years later.
