Thank you so much for saying this. It’s so easy to get caught up in the wild waters of college stress and only see things in this weird sort of binary light (if that makes sense). I always want to be known as what you said, and so to hear it, well, I almost teared up.
And 22 colleges is definitely a bit overkill. I’m hoping to whittle it down to around 15, but even then, 15 is also a lot. Eek!