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Observations: College Fever

College Fever

            Through my observations of the society around me, I have discovered that there is one particular year of the student’s life that is fraught with an irrepressible and often highly stressful anxiety known as college. Coming on the heels of the purportedly busiest year of a student’s life, it is a concern that cannot be avoided, for despite the resolutions made by many not to worry about it there is always that part deep down that is worrying—and everyone knows it. One has to wonder really at the strength of this one, little event of life, for in the end it really is one that—one event—and if one is truly determined to learn it does not really matter which school one ends up in. A good student will be good in any school.

            Or so the philosophy goes…

            But somewhere deep down everyone believes it does matter—it makes all the difference! And don’t anyone dare say otherwise!

            What, I must ask, is the world coming to?

            I see students panicking over the thought of not being accepted to a ‘name brand’ school. I see students comparing the number of schools they are accepted to. I see students in depression upon the receiving of rejection letters—a whole month of depression! It all just seems so…redundant somehow.

            In short, anxiety over college is a disease—students catch it from high school seniors near the end of their junior year, sometimes earlier, and it gets worse and worse until the letter comes, in which case it is either cured or converted to an even worse state known as depression.

            What is the world coming to?