In some trouble

DasaniPrinterID
Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:11:02 +0000

My parents want me to go to the highly selective colleges and universities. Now I understand where they’re coming from: these schools have excellent resources amongst many other things. The thing is, I have low self esteem (it’s a secret that Ive been hiding). I don’t want to go to these highly selective schools (that is if I got in). See I have a deep respect and passion for physics. Having low self esteem and generally high anxiety (over stupid things really), physics calms me down and at the same time drives me to ask more questions and live each day better than the last. What I’m trying to say is I’d love to go to a medium sized school with a good physics department as I feel that’d be a place where I could really focus on improving my self esteem issues and further my passion for physics. However I’m not sure how to approach my dad who has taken me the past two summers to view schools like Caltech, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and schools in the UC system. I told my dad that my favorite school that we went to was Princeton followed closely by UC Santa Barbara and MIT. So I’m just in need of advice of what to do overall. I understand that this is my problem and mine alone it’s just I feel alone in this entire process.