this photo evidently does not encapsulate the campus as a whole, but it can be hard to find a good shot of an entire college campus (despite UPS’s small size).
so, i applied to the University of Puget Sound on a complete whim. it was January 15, and i was suddenly paranoid of rejections everywhere. i was a little frazzled, so i thought i might up my chances of getting in somewhere by applying everywhere. i wrote the UPS supplements in ten minutes and submitted my app right away (i did this with many other schools as well).
i got accepted by the schools to which i was forced to apply, waitlisted to those i loved, and rejected to those with which i obsessed over for a very long time. after a long process of blood (papercuts?), sweat, and tears, after going through 100,000 different emotions everyday for a long long time, after making/deleting/listening to excruciatingly random playlists (from blink 182 to laura marling to pet shop boys to pitbull to radiohead to queen), i’ve decided to commit to UPS. i don’t think any school gave me any financial aid but UPS gave me one fatass scholarship (cheers to not being completely broke after mere undergraduate years), their campus is pretty, and one of my great friends from thousand oaks has already committed. tacoma is beautiful and lies in a close proximity to seattle. it’s also near canada (just saying?).
so i’m going to hug UPS harder than i’ve hugged anybody before. well, maybe not as hard as the hugs from my going away party in 9th grade. but still, i’m going to embrace this pretty damn hard, and i’m gonna savor every moment of my next four years.
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