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Thoughts on Choosing a College

4/28/2016

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To all choosing a college: Good luck!! 

Hey guys I am super busy right now. Like "How am I supposed to balance school and life and writing posts?!!?!?" busy. You know how it is at AP exam time. 

So... I am going to try to kill a few birds with one stone and do everything at once: Today I am going to tell you about what I got out of the Mid-Atlantic IB college fair back in mid-April as I sort through papers and try to figure out things for college. 

It works like this: My parents want me to go to a local school and be a teacher but I am super not interested. If I leave the home and do my own thing, then I get to pay for it and my parents will be super disappointed. So because its just easier to go with the flow, I really havent spent much time thinking about what I want to do with my life and where I would want to go. 

However, after a college fair, I have a few things figured out that would probbly not work out were I to choose a school.

Its a super long list, in no particular order, and pretty much narrows everything out at one point or another but you gotta start thinking about college somewhere right?
  1. It cant be cold. I am all for snow days but not all for -10 degree weather and 3 feet of snow for several months of the year. 
  2. It cant be close. I am in PA and anything Mid-Atlanticcy better be pretty special for me to be interested. I want to meet new people and see new things and how can I do that if I dont ever leave the nest? So west? Yes please. South? I guess it could work. 1/2 an hour away from my hometown? I dont think so. 
  3. If everyone is white and or Christian I am going to leave. That would be awful. I literally was talking to one of the places and they were like "yeah, we are Quaker and 80+ percent of our people are white" so I left. Maybe that is someone elses perfect school, but it wouldnt be mine. 
  4. It cant be in the city. Honestly, I think I need a school like in the middle of no where because I cant do noise. At all. I dont want to hear the highway or trains or traffic or construction.  I want a diverse group but I am absolutely not willing to spend half my day in traffic to do so. I want space and nature and real life ....and if I never get to Broadway, it will be okay. 
  5. It has to have study abroad options. Has to. 
  6. Well I am prejudiced against the ones that constantly spam my email or postal mailbox. Some days I get like 7 things in the mail. And its the same dozen colleges that the College Board has given my name and email to. Sorry guys (read:colleges) but it gets a little old. At the fair there were like three or four that I recognized (out of like 122, lol) and I didnt talk to them at all because they already pester me at all hours of the day. :/ 
  7. I cant be in all lecture classes. I realize that it might be a bit overboard to have a 10:1 student to staff ratio, so I dont want that, but I also would like to get to know my professors and the other students. 
  8. It cant be all Americans. I think it would be super cool to have a room mate from another country and get to know people who know other languages. 
  9. However if I am the foreign roommate, I must understand the language :)  I'm pretty sure some of those no-tuition European countries have really great colleges but I'm not sure I would do that great in Sweden or Slovenia if classes werent in English. 
  10. It would be great if they gave credit for AP and IB. Also I might take some CLEP tests so I would love if they would give credit for those. 
  11. I used to be an English person, and then a history person, but lately I dont really know. I want to religion, but I dont know what I would do with that. I also really want to do Spanish, but just because I like talking the language. I would like to learn how to fly, but more as a medical missionary thing where you fly vaccinations to a remote place without a paved runway. I want to do photography, but not of people or for film... I just like chasing storms and watching pretty sunsets. I feel like Spanish and religion are at the top of the list but that they arent a main course, theyre your dessert, belonging as minor areas of study.... but I'm not exactly sure what I want at all. :/

Again, my parents are pushing for me to be a teacher. 
1 Comment
Kanra Khan link
4/29/2016 06:15:13 am

Hey Kate! Choosing colleges and what you want to do can be a very difficult choice. What you should do is maybe a few internships here and there, try volunteering at a school, see how it really is, being a teacher. Also, you don't have to be a general teacher, you could go on to study psychology or spanish instead and be a teacher for that.
Personally, if I didn't get into med school, I'd have shot for either media communications or software engineering. :)

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