Feeling dejected, venting some frustration off.

matark
Mon, 09 May 2011 01:42:06 +0000

Three of my cousins went to UC Berkeley, another went to UCLA, my own brother is a junior at an Ivy League school. All my life I’ve lived in the shadow of my brother, who had a 4.7 GPA, 2170 SAT, and did every internship and volunteer job he could find.

And you know where I’m going? To community college. I was rejected from every UC I applied to, despite having pretty competitive marks myself, although they don’t even begin the scratch the surface of my brother’s excellence. I got into other CSUs and private colleges, but all my life I’ve wanted to go to UCD, and I’m going to CC to transfer there as a sophomore.

Do I feel jaded at the fact that my sweat and blood has amounted to nothing? Hell yea I do. Do I feel jealous that people who are half the student I am got into UCD? Of course. Am I sad that twelve years of work has been invalidated by a single letter? It’s all I think about. But the most important question is; what do I do now?

My AP Calc teacher told me something after taking the AP test (in reference to test results, but it still applies to this) that I’m going to remember for the rest of my life, “Know that no matter what happens now, it doesn’t matter. You are not here by coincidence. Everyone in this room is here for a reason, and that is because you have worked too hard for too long to let anything stop you. You will succeed in life if for no other reason than because you will let nothing less happen.”

So to the topic creator, don’t worry, no matter what happens, good things will happen to you. You are the type of person that succeeds in life regardless of whatever happens. You are too driven and too inspired to let any less happen to you. I could’ve chosen to go to a four year college that I was accepted to, but going to UCD has been my dream since before high school. That’s why I’m going to CC, to follow my dream twelve years in the making to its ultimate conclusion. You can’t give up now, I know just from your post that neither you nor I are the type of person to let life stand in the way of our dreams.