SUBMISSION NO.5

Getting into a ‘good’ college requires more than just getting all A’s in required classes. You have to take at least 4 AP classes every year, and because you have to get a 5 on it, you and everyone else have to have a tutor to help get those unbelievable GPAs as well.

But of course grades aren’t everything; you have to also show you have a life because you know ANYONE can spend 20 hours of their day studying for those good grades. So you try and keep your sports and piano classes going if you can still cram that into your schedule, but that doesn’t show character so we keep adding on. You have to create a club, just like all the other kids at your school who created fake clubs, and definitely get involved in school organizations like leadership and FMP, if once again you can cram that in. It’s not like you could have been trying to more productively get more homework done during that time...

But of course running for a school officer position looks so much better, all you have to do is talk about nothing in particular, or just idealistic promises if you think someone will listen, and hang the most posters around the school. Get a job too; show that you were independent and wanted to help your hardworking parents pay for your spendings. Make sure your parents also started your college savings account 20 years before you were born because college debt is unnecessary.

At this point, you are working on your future 23 hours a day and you absolutely don’t have time for friends. Everyone’s either stressing out immensely about their future as well or have just given up and are addicted to drugs. Simple interactions or even quick checkups on friends: unnecessary; they won’t get you into that dream college of yours.

Competition: brutal. Insecurity: at its peak. Negative vibes: everywhere.

Any breath you take is a ticking reminder of the further difficulties that lie ahead.

No time is spent on the present for you or friends or family, the future is everything. But then again, anyone can do all those same things, why should a college even want to look over such an ‘average student’?