Final College Listing

"Well, today was Judgment Day (yes, it's in caps). A.K.A. for the non-seniors: Ivy-Rejection Day.

And, after checking decisions today, my list is done. Consider the worst part of college admissions done. And now comes the other hard part: making a decision about matriculation (although that may not be so hard for me as for others)." --Brian

Here's my list and the stuff that came with that will influence my decisions

Accepted:
UCI (CHP and Regents)
UCSB (Regents unless I switch to CCS)
UCSD (Regents)
UCLA
UCB
Columbia (Fu)
Cornell
Harvey Mudd (Merit Award)
Caltech (Dream school)

Waitlisted:
U of Chicago

Rejected:
MIT
Stanford
Penn

"I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did and I know other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else. I don't see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish academy decides that this work is noble enough for a prize. I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick from the discovery, the observation how other people use it. Those are the real things; the honors are unreal. I don't believe in honors. Honors bother me!" --Richard Feynman

I love Feynman! His books are my bibles!
Likewise, I should forgo any attachments to unreal things like honors. I want to say my grad school aspirations are MIT, Princeton, and Stanford, but as of right now that's all bullshit. I applied to some places for the name even though I swore not to. I don't know what I'm going to do, I don't know where I'm going to do it, I don't know why I'm going to do it, I don't know what could come from it. All I know right now is I'm set on Caltech. I won't get any honors there, I'm pretty sure of it. But I will learn among the best, and it's very important for me to have people to look up to, especially if they in any way resemble Richard Feynman.