College is terrifying. Never in my life has an idea been more daunting than college is to me right now. My whole life so far has led up to me going to college. Throughout my life I've had so many aspirations and dreams relating to college, but now as I approach it, I feel them all coming crashing down before me. I feel as though I hold a rather cliche point of view about college but I also have unique reasons for feeling this way.
My family is a bunch of nerds. Both of my parents are smart, both of my siblings are smart, and I have always been extremely insecure about my intelligence in comparison to them. My sister, for the lack of a better term, is a friggin genius. She just recently started her freshman year of college and her struggle in applying for college is the main reason as to why it scares me so much. She is literally the one of the smartest people I know. She has always done better than me in school and she still didn't get into a school she really wanted to and had to settle for a full ride at UK (poor baby). If she struggled this much to get into the school she wanted, I cant even imagine the adversity I will face.
I want to get into a school that challenges me, not just academically but socially and in any other way possible. I want a school that will make me grow as an intellectual but also as a person. From what I have witnessed from my sister's application process, I'm afraid I will be unable to find that school.
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