#futurecristinayang

[chippedmoon]

So I'm back home from Explore Bowdoin and oh my gosh! I loved it! I ended up meeting all these great students, prospies, and one of my favourite bloggers- @futurecristinayang . This weekend was literally the best and has put Bowdoin higher on my college list!

[academiclesbian]

update

i feel like this post is long overdue. i don’t know how many of my followers are still paying attention to this blog, but i need to write this post as much as for me as for the followers that are still here despite my inactivity. 

i’m debating whether or not to keep this blog as i head into college. firstly, there are many aspects of studyblr/appblr that i have become disillusioned with. The heavy focus on aesthetics over practicality, the inaccessibility for lower-income students, as well as the competition and the “ivy league or bust” mentality. and while there are many wonderful people in both communities and people who don’t subscribe to any of these beliefs, i still feel like some aspects of studyblr and appblr had a negative effect on me during my senior year. 

this school year has been excellent in terms of growth for me, but it also has been very very difficult. early in the year, my mild depression and anxiety began to take a downward spiral and it only got worse throughout the year. i felt hopeless, unmotivated, and suicidal. i won’t lie, my mental illnesses seriously damaged my ability to do well in school and apply for scholarships. i was on the waiting list for a therapist for three months, and when i began seeing him, he only made me feel worse. in april i began seeing a different therapist and started taking medication, and i am slowly but surely taking the steps to recovery everyday

school-related stress was not the cause of my mental illness, but it certainly contributed in making it worse. i was taking the most difficult classes that i had ever taken before, and i struggled with perfectionism and my enormous workload. in all honesty, the perfect notes touted by studyblr and the emphasis on prestige in appblr communities only contributed to my stress. that’s part of the reason i stopped being active about halfway through the school year. and once again, let me state that there was helpful advice that i found in both communities, but the general atmosphere of both appblr and studyblr proved to be negative to me. 

that being said, i’m not entirely sure that i want to stop being active on this blog. i don’t want to be a “regular” studyblr, per se, but more of a blog that showcases the realities that students face. i’m mentally ill, i’m a minority, i’m gay, i’m questbridge and low income. my notes and my grades don’t have to be absolutely perfect. i just need to do my best and take care of myself. if i do keep this blog i want to show that this is an ok way to be.

this has been really long but i have a lot of thoughts about studyblr/appblr, mentall illness, and the college applications process in general. thanks to the people who have stuck around even when i have gone months without posting. if you’d be interested in seeing me blog honestly about my college experiences i’d like to know

love,

suz

[mercuetio]

What should i prepare for a college tour?

Honestly, when I did my college touring, I didn’t bring much. Just a camera, a pen, a notepad, and lots of questions already written down. I thought that helped me with the whole “darn, i wished i’d asked ____” phenomenon. I also took a lot of notes when the tour guide was talking about things, and snapped pictures with my camera. I wish I’d had a smart phone so I could have taken “snapchat-like” pictures of things with labels what/where pictures were taken. Take the chance to talk to admissions officers personally, and talk to the students on campus too! Be confident and inquisitive~

If you haven’t read futurecristinayang‘s post about college tours, it is extremely thorough, something I wish I’d read before going on tours myself.

Best of luck!!

[igotonyu]

Is NYU full of rich kids? I'm interested in going there but a lot of the people I know there are superrrr wealthy so just wondering 😬

There are absolutely rich kids at NYU, but there are also a lot of students that are really not at all well off. Since there are so many students at NYU, it’s hard to generalize all of them into one group. You will find a lot of wealthy students at NYU, but you’ll also find students that fit into other groups as well.

[college-bound-2016]

futurecristinayang replied to your post “hmmmm i might apply regular decision to my top choice bc 1) financial...”

what's your top choice?

brown university!