I love the idea of going to college next year. I'm going to go a technical school to major in engineering, and I couldn't be more excited. I get to study what I'm interested in, and it seams just like it's going to be a great time, besides the mass amount of math courses I have to take (I'm required to take a course of theoretical calc after calc four. What the hell can the possible cover after four semesters of calc.)

The process of getting into college has to be the most complicated, confusing, pain in the ass experience I have ever suffered through. The worst part is you get all the information in bits. I first thought I had to take my SATs, write an essay, and fill out the common application and send it in online. I keep learning theres all these other requirements no one mentions. I need to go for interviews with colleges before I apply, fill out supplements, get letters of recommendations from certain teachers, and I need to coordinate everything with the guidance department, which is incompetent.

Besides doing insane amounts of paperwork, you have to research colleges for hours. I spent a whole night looking up student reviews on colleges and found out some colleges on my list where shit, even though they had good reputations. After researching you have to go visit, which is a waste of a day. You go there, they take you to all their new buildings, tell you everything great about the college, and then they get some overly happy student to tell you can't go anywhere better.

Besides being complicated, it's expensive. SATs cost a lot. Each application costs around $70. Then college itself can go up to $200,000. That's a lot of fucking money. You could probably invest that money wisely and get a decent job and be set (but there's always the risk something will go wrong). With the mass population increase it's harder to get into college than ever before. If your not the creme de la crop, you might be going to a second rate school and still be paying the same amount. That makes it even harder to get a job, especially if you major in a common subject. To be guaranteed a job you might need to get a master's or even a PhD. That's even more money, time, work, and debt.

All of you juniors have something to look forward to next year =P

In conclusion, I can't wait to get all this work out of the way.