Re: College acceptances, or four years and thousands of dollars for a piece of paper
Last year, I applied to University of Texas. Without my prior knowledge or acceptance, my mom applied for me to Texas Tech University as well. I didn't find out about this until I got a letter saying I was accepted there. I thought something was fishy about all the damn essays I had to write, so I know now that all of them weren't just for one application.
I was late applying for college (thus why my mom was doing a lot of it for me) and even though I got accepted to both places, I missed the deadline for scholarships at UT. We barely made the scholarship deadline for Texas Tech, but I got a buttload of money. Most of it comes from the South Plains Math Scholars thing I made it into. I never even heard of Texas Tech before (rofl) and I just wanted to go to UT. It was only 2 - 2 1/2 hours away and all my friends were going there. But money was the deciding factor, so I ended up here at TTU. 9 hours from home and away from the few friends I had. I basically hate it here and have never been so depressed as I have been here (sadface). Lesson is: don't wait till the last minute to apply and don't choose a college simply because of the money
I'm currently enrolled as a double Mathematics/Computer Science major. I'm trying to do the 5 year program in 4 years. I chose Math because it's my forte and Comp Sci because it's interesting to me (and obviously I enjoy games blah blah blah). Not sure what I want to do with this degree, or even what all available options are with it. I might switch over to CompSci/Music because I've wanted to do video game music for quite some time (I'm simply not that talented though). One thing holding me back from doing that is my scholarship money, which are mostly departmental with Math.
Last year, I applied to University of Texas. Without my prior knowledge or acceptance, my mom applied for me to Texas Tech University as well. I didn't find out about this until I got a letter saying I was accepted there. I thought something was fishy about all the damn essays I had to write, so I know now that all of them weren't just for one application.
I was late applying for college (thus why my mom was doing a lot of it for me) and even though I got accepted to both places, I missed the deadline for scholarships at UT. We barely made the scholarship deadline for Texas Tech, but I got a buttload of money. Most of it comes from the South Plains Math Scholars thing I made it into. I never even heard of Texas Tech before (rofl) and I just wanted to go to UT. It was only 2 - 2 1/2 hours away and all my friends were going there. But money was the deciding factor, so I ended up here at TTU. 9 hours from home and away from the few friends I had. I basically hate it here and have never been so depressed as I have been here (sadface). Lesson is: don't wait till the last minute to apply and don't choose a college simply because of the money
I'm currently enrolled as a double Mathematics/Computer Science major. I'm trying to do the 5 year program in 4 years. I chose Math because it's my forte and Comp Sci because it's interesting to me (and obviously I enjoy games blah blah blah). Not sure what I want to do with this degree, or even what all available options are with it. I might switch over to CompSci/Music because I've wanted to do video game music for quite some time (I'm simply not that talented though). One thing holding me back from doing that is my scholarship money, which are mostly departmental with Math.
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