Don't you just hate it when you log into your email account, and your main page says you have 5 new entries in your inbox, and you open it and it's ALL online college brochures? There you were, all excited that your pen-pal from Scandinavia has finally written back to you, only to have your hopes shattered by a mechanical message sent to you from some university that you've never heard of. How did they even get my email address? And how dare they think they have to right to intrude like that and get my hopes up?

            That's one of the annoying things about the college admittance process. Unless you fill in the little “no” bubble during the SAT registration, colleges are going to send you lots of brochures and emails beckoning you to look into their schools, ask for more information and come visit. Actually, my college counselor recommended that I...

            Sure, I've hung out by the huge wall of college brochures tons of times before, but who would of thought that I would ever actually have to enter the college counselor's lair?

            Our school college counselor has this mandatory meeting that he sets up with every single junior during their spring semester. He sent out an email back in February, and most of my classmates disappeared into his office sometime in March, but I've been putting it off. I guess it's some unconscious fear in me, a little kid that doesn't want to enter that scary realm of rejection letters and application fees, checking your mail twice a day when March rolls around, and feeling that painful twang in your chest when a friend gets into your "top choice", which had only earlier this week sent you a letter saying in the nicest way possible that you're just "not exactly what they're looking for".