| It is entirely possible that colleges will be able to understand that you accept responsibility for having done this. They know that kids sometimes do stupid things. Heck, college students also do stupid things. Heck, ADULTS DO STUPID THINGS!! The important thing is for you to own up to it. It really was not a mistake, but it was wrong. A student from the school where I teach brought a lot of alcohol on a school trip a few years ago, and one student got alcohol poisoning and had to got to the hospital. She was fine, but the "bringer's" discipline was a three week suspension. Of course, he was very worried about college (he was a junior at the time, so yeah, good thing to worry about). He wrote his essay about the importance of owning his life, and he was accepted at most of his schools. He was up front and very remorseful about the whole thing. I think things would have turned out very differently had he not accepted responsibility. I suggest you do the same thing. One of the good things about being a young person is that we know you may do things that might not be using the best judgment. You are pretty lucky that you "got off easy." Try to relax, move on, but I don't really think you should put the whole thing behind you. Learn from this incident and become a more mature person. |