I was rejected from UCD, but it hasn’t deterred me from my dreams, a minor detour along the road. Though I am coping fairly well with the rejection, there are a still a bunch of “what if’s” that linger in my mind. My quick recovery from the sting of rejection however goes to show something, that maybe I didn’t actually want to go to UCD as badly as I once thought. How shallow of me. For the people who got into any of the UC’s in which they hoped of attending, I leave my deepest and sincerest congratulations because you guys all deserve it. It was a long run on my way to college, but its not over, if anything this rejection has left me with a clean slate and a sharper sense of what I need to do to get me where I want to be.