Since I have been slacking horribly on this blog, I’ve
decided to be ambitious and make one blog post a day to chronicle my last 59
days before graduation and my last 60 days on campus. Guess what? I’m already behind a day! Today I’ll make two posts to make up for missing
yesterday.
Yesterday and today, I was part of a phone-a-thon to reach
out to newly admitted Harvard Kennedy School students. In the middle of the first call, I had a
flash back to when I was newly accepted and to all the questions that I about
what it meant to be going to Harvard.
My first question was: How in the blazes am I supposed to
afford almost $100,000 for one year of school?!
That’s a lot of money. Especially
since at that time I had not worked a permanent job in about 4 years. I had picked up some contract work to get by,
but it wasn’t like permanent work (with benefits) and a steady paycheck.
My second question: What am I supposed to do with my boyfriend?
At this point we had been together for year.
I had told him that if I was admitted that I was going to leave, but I
don’t think either of us believed that I was going to get admitted. (Surprise!!)
My third question: What in the hell was the admissions
office thinking?! Of course, I wouldn’t have applied if I didn’t think I could
get in but it was still a shock to get the email and then the paper admissions
letter. So much so, that I didn’t tell
anyone that I was admitted for several weeks because I was sure that Harvard
was going to retract their offer. I
only began to tell select people after the registrar’s office cashed the check
for my deposit!
I can’t believe that all of these memories came flooding
back in the space of one phone call. I guess now I can look back on it and
realize that it was all going to work out even if it wasn’t exactly the way
that I had envisioned.
So far, it’s been a wonderful ride.
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