I've gotten pretty good grades through all of high school. My weighted GPA is 4.25 on a 4 point scale, so I work pretty hard. Now I'm a senior, graduating, and doing all of this college application stuff. My teachers usually like me, and I am a huge nerd about marching/concert band, so I have a pretty good set up to get into colleges and didn't really worry about getting accepted anywhere. I already applied to a few places and got accepted to all of them, although none of them were too terribly competetive. University of Missouri St. Louis ended up being my final choice after visiting there twice and touring their honors college on both occasions. Next step: apply to the Pierre Laclede Honors College there. All of a sudden I am starting to get incredibly nervous about this. I REALLY want to get in, but I am incredibly worried that my stuff is not going to make the cut. They need two recommendation letters, two samples of my writing, an additional application, and an interview. So now my mind is suddenly filling up with all of these 'what if...' scenarios and I'm really getting stressed. I still have to polish up one of my essays which has been trapped on a buggy hard drive for the past two months, and after that it will just be the interview. I've never been this nervous for anything in my life, so I am just totally clueless with how to handle myself. I don't know why the whole college thing has suddenly made me so much more nervous than it had up until this point. I just needed to whine and get that off my chest, so if it makes no sense, thanks anyway for trying to read it!
Just take a deep breath, now let it out slowly. Now tackle this the way you seem to have done during your years in high school. Your probably just nervous because you want it more. It sounds like you'll do fine and if you don't ,like I always tell my kids "Even if you don't understand why things happen the way they do, there a reason and it's usually involves something better down the line"
Well if you’re willing to accept mediocrity for the rest of your life while your friends excel in business and finance that’s fine it's your choice ….. or you can grow a set of balls and take a chance that you just might have what it takes to succeed Hotwater
try to remember that other kids are also going through the same anxiety..if you are concerned you should be going over you ''shit'' with a fine tooth comb,...dot your eyes and cross your t's
