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By China at 8:11 PM

I am that student that everyone hated in high school.  I really loved to study, I also loved being social, and I didn't have to try to do either one.  I was that kid that was the class clown and the class geek at the exact same time.  If you would have met me on the street at that point, and maybe still today, you never would have guessed that I was such a smart guy.  When the time came in my senior year to look for schools to go to, I didn't even think about it.  I just went on to the school's directory and did and edu search for the top schools.  I was also a very well rounded kid so I was really unsure of what I wanted to do.  I don;t think I even thought about what I wanted to study in college until I got here.  When I looked over the listing of top universities I didn't look at it as a goal, I looked at it like it was a menu for me to choose what fit my mood because there would be no problem for me to get in to any of them, I thought.  I applied to the big ones; MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford.  I didn't even consider putting in any applications to "safety" schools that my parents had recommended.  No I went straight for the cream of the crop without thinking anything of it.  While all of my close friends were worrying about when they would get notices from their schools and which ones would accept them, I just sat back and did what I always did because there was no doubt in my mind that I would get in to a great school to study, whatever.  When the first letter finally arrived from Harvard I actually let it sit on the kitchen table for a day or two until my mother noticed it and freaked out.  She brought it to me practically in a frenzy.  I decided to humor her and just open it right there in front of her.  As I had known all along the letter was the generic sentiment about how great I am and how it is an 'opportunity of a lifetime' that I have been given by such a great school.