they accepted me!
Oh lord, if I were to list the avalanche of disappointments this semester we’d be here all night. To keep it short, most of my time was spent holed up in my room with a bunch of textbooks and thirty labs, and as the months passed I just hated my major in increasing amounts.
Some of you know that I applied for an internal transfer to Columbia College back in mid-March.
I just finished my last final today, lo and behold I get the most welcome letter in my inbox saying that they’ve accepted me!
Nobody in my family is particularly happy for me, and few people understand why I’m so happy. One of the first reactions I got were, “Oh, didn’t you already get into the engineering school? How is this different?”
Well, internal transfers are just as difficult as external ones–this was completely unexpected. The acceptance rate is about 9%, and my GPA is dreadful from all the engineering classes I had to take, they had no reason to take me and I had written off the possibility entirely. I looked back on applying as, a “what the hell, it doesn’t cost me anything, why not try for it?” kind of deal, and I never thought they would take me!
The worst reaction were my parents, who weren’t excited at all, my father a calm acceptance at the next crazy antic his daughter would get herself into, my mother almost hostile, asking whether or not anthropology would find me a job.
I don’t know. I didn’t think that far. As I said, I didn’t even think I’d get in.
But I don’t care, I am ELATED.
My name is Faye, and this is my blog.