“what is your favorite book” A simple question, yet this question could change my life. This little question on a silly little website can decide my future. Do I lie? Do I say a book that makes me appear smart and cultured? Or do I fess-up and admit that I get lost in every book Nicholas Sparks writes, and that all I would need in life to be happy is one of his books and a blanket on the beach. This question, which has a very simple answer, can determine so much of my life that I don’t know how to respond.

“what is something not many people know about you?” Should I go the weird route and admit to being able to make one eye go cross-eyed? Or should I explain how my chubby, energetic, yellow lab is my best friend and one of the only people who can make me smile by just walking into a room. Is that unique? Do I just sound like every other dog obsessed teenager? I need to stand out; I need them to want me at their school.

“what is your greatest accomplishment” I am only 17 years old, I have done many things, but I hope that my greatest accomplishment is still yet to come. How am I, someone who is not even an adult yet, supposed to have done something extraordinary already? Even if i have done wonderful things, how can I already deem one to be my greatest. There is so much i'm not ready for and so much I still need to discover.

I want to be successful and humble and independent. I want to be strong and reliable, but also unique and crazy. I want to be someone that is a light to others, and I want to get into a school that encourages me to become that person; A school that not only shapes me to become that person, but gives me no other option. My goal is to become the best person I can be, so if I don't get into my top choice can I still be that person? College is scary. Leaving home is scary. I am scared. I am scared and I don't know everything about myself that they want to know. I do know that I will be okay, and that wherever I end up will be the right school for me because I am going to answer all of those questions honestly. The right school for me will want the real me, and I hope everyone finds their perfect school.