*snuggles*

College does not a person make. I have considered (because money issues, because fuck my lack of motivation, because sometimes I'm not convinced it's worth it when I know I'll just come out with a useless degree) not going to college, which, when you're at a school like I am? Is not exactly something you want to skip around proclaiming. But I look around me at all my senior friends and I see how stressed they are, and I begin to think less and less about how cool college would be for me, and more about how there's no way I could ever get in because I won't get that writing scholarship in four years, and financial aid won't be enough and I totally freak out, more so than when I thought I wasn't going to go to high school.

There's all this pressure to go to college these days, ridiculous amounts of pressure, and it's hard to remember to take a step back and say, "Hey, sometimes that's not for everyone." Circumstances have brought you to where you are now, have made you who you are, and I like you just fine. *snuggles a lot*