The Beginning

So I started this blog today for a number of reasons:
1. I've been thinking about it all summer but have procrastinated until now
2. First days of the month are usually pretty good times to start things
3. I've got time to kill today
4. I wanted to start it up before band camp, which is Monday (I really wanted to put a nervous/excited emoji thing here, but I either don't know how to put one in or they don't allow me to. *shrug*)

But what really put me over the edge was that the Common Application opens today! Which, in my opinion, is the prospective college student's real first day of senior year, because from today on, I can apply to colleges. Scar-y! At least for me because I hate making decisions, take this blog for example, I've been thinking about it since May and now it's August.
For those of you who don't know about CommonApp, consider this your learning lesson for today because if you are applying to college, you really need to know about this site. It's basically a mega-application site used by almost all private universities and a considerable amount of public universities as well. You create an account and through the site you send in your essays, see testing requirements and a whole bunch of other essential stuff for your application. And despite the 12 separate emails from colleges telling me to sign up and apply today, I haven't signed up yet because I'm trying to avoid it as much as possible because I'm apparently a scaredy cat, but getting started this early is super helpful in keeping the stress down later in the year because of homework and extracurriculars and part-time jobs and everything else us seniors have to deal with between now and graduation.

So point being, today is a day for beginnings. Beginning my blog, beginning the official college application process and really beginning thinking about my future. omygoodness. Let's see where this goes.

Have an excellent August 1st,
Colleen