The draw of college is the promise of educational initiative, where ideally you can focus on your specific passions and skills to a depth greater than ever offered before. For me, I’m fascinated by biophysics, the small frontier. Sure we learn in chemistry about electron fields and particle spin, but why do these properties occur? In the right college you can fall down the rabbit hole until you yourself stand on the frontier, driven not by requirement but by passion for your own questions.
On the counter side of a specific focus however, college is an equally great place to explore a huge variety of new things. I hope to continue doing theater in high school, but I also want to develop skills where I am less comfortable. As painful as writing classes are, I need them to hone in on communications skills. I would also like to pick up the violin again, and a good college would not only let me do this, but help me through. Wherever I end up, I wish only for the freedom and resources to both specify and diversify.
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