Assuming you haven't seen elsewhere, possible readers, guess who got accepted into the University of Rochester! I cried, I really did. It was quite the experience. I found the packet last Thursday after school.
As pleased/delighted/overjoyed/amazed as I am about my acceptance, I'm torn between them and DePaul, which I'm sure I said before. Of course I'm in love with Rochester and everything about it, but there's just something about the unknown of the third largest city in the country that's pulling me in. Like TJ, I WANT that city experience. The "famous" Metro is right by campus, and pretty much all my favorite bands play either there or close to it. Not to mention I started my Chicago obsession at the tender age of 12. Almost NO bands play in Rochester, maybe Buffalo but that's an hour out, and heaven forbid they skip all that and go straight to NYC six hours away. I'd die. Isn't FOB supposed to come off hiatus soon? Because when they do, I'll have to be there, and I can't go if a concert is on a weeknight and it's in NYC. A weeknight show in Chicago? So much easier. But I can't get over that feeling I had when I stepped on the UofR campus that first day summer of 2011. Love at first sight is the closest thing I can say to describe it.
It's all going to come down to money in the end. I get my Rochester projected aid packet before the new year, and that will make or break my early decision agreement. If they fall through, then DePaul, by default (ha), becomes my top against UCF as far as money is concerned. Sadly as much as I want to, I can't go into the myUCF account and click "decline" on the admission status page. And why? Because of money. What happens if I decline them now, or in a few weeks, and either UofR falls through or DePaul simply doesn't offer enough for me to handle decent loans? I'd be drowning in debt...but do I care? I'd be stuck here for at least 4 years if I went to UCF, not to mention the "free money" Bright Futures offers requires that I stay in state another 4 years after that, so there goes my Master's degree AND first 2 years in the workforce. Even if I ended up in debt, at least there would be roughly 6 years of my life where I'd be HAPPY in my youth. Because I hate it here. Too many negative memories and traumatic experiences leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Plus the weather. All that alone is enough for me to leave this terrible place. It's time I made my own choices about my life, right?
On an unrelated note, my laptop STILL won't let me login to Blogger, so this is coming from me being done with day one of midterm exams on a school laptop. And my laptop won't let me login to Tumblr now either, but at least I have the app! Not the same though. Sigh.
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