| I feel really guilty, mainly because I was accepted 10 places and I'm going to have to turn 9 of them down. When I applied to 11 schools in December, I was planning on being accepted to perhaps 3 or 4 and then maybe 'getting lucky' at the rest. I am still appalled at how lucky I am.
One kid at my school is an absolute genius and has literally not had a life for the last four years so that he could get into Harvard and the like. He hangs out with people outside of school maybe once every other month, and it's mainly because his dad makes him do homework and things. He is one of the smartest and most hard-working people I've ever met, and he was only accepted one place (Boston College) out of 8 choices with a 2380 SAT, straight 800s on his SAT IIs, and a 4.0 GPA. I just feel guilty because I'm such a slacker and I skate by without really studying for tests...if I read information once I'll remember it, so we would be up late the night before a test and I would be watching Grey's Anatomy while he is frantically studying and then I would get a better grade. That's a horribly convoluted sentence. Anyway, I do feel guilty and sometimes I wish I could give away some of my acceptances to people who would love them, since I can only use...one.
Regardless, I am so thankful and (still) ecstatic that I got into Princeton. It makes me smile just thinking about it. | 
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