Rejection: It’s Not the End

As the college application process ends and the college decision season begins, I’ve been thinking back to where I was this time last year. A year ago I was just like you all, biting away at my nails, waiting for college decisions, and wondering constantly if...

Combat Rejection with Perseverance

March… The time of year when the transition into spring is accompanied with the anticipation of finding out whether you have been accepted or rejected by the colleges. For me, March marks the anniversary of a series of rejection letters I had received in 2013. I have...

The Broiling Flame of Rejection

I haven’t visited a Flame Broiler since last year, around this time when the emails seniors receive are groundbreaking seals of fate. (At least, that’s how they felt.) It was afterschool during the warm spring days of southern California, when I sat eating with what...

Bittersweet Taste of Rejection

When I was first applying to colleges during my senior year of high school I was admittedly not putting enough of an effort into my applications. The reason for not putting the energy needed was a mix of personal problems going on at the time with family as well as...

Decisions are coming… Game of Groans

It’s a bit surreal to think that one click controls the direction your life will take, sending you to either soaring in ecstasy to your dream or plummeting downward into uncertainty. This one click represents years of preparation, months of refinement, and hours upon...