Coping with depression caused by the college selection process...

enomo67
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:19:15 +0000

You’re not depressed. As someone who has been clinically depressed for the majority of this year, I can sincerely tell you that not getting into college is only disappointing you, not giving you depression. I don’t want to sound mean. I mean, I feel your pain. I was rejected from my first choice and got really upset and my depression made accepting my reality that much worse. But I’ll admit that I’m tired of people throwing the word around. It’s a serious condition, not a state of mind. My depression, for example, is a genetic condition that runs in both of my parents’ families. All you really need to do is find things you like about Wisconsin. I know some people at my school who are thrilled to go there, as they very well should be. It’s a great school with tons of opportunities. Once I, personally, got over the fact that I didn’t get into my first choice, I picked another school and I honestly couldn’t be more happy that I didn’t get into my first choice. I realized going there would be like four more years of my high school, and I would probably have been miserable there. But that’s me, everyone’s got to find out on their own how to make it work. And, if you go to Wisconsin and actually are really miserable, you can always transfer. It’s not over just because you didn’t get in now. And the Ivy League isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It’s just a list of names.