Well I got accepted into college.  Pretty exciting stuff I guess.  I sent in an application to Hilbert College about two weeks ago.  It was free too, so I saved myself the normal $40 application fee that most colleges give.  On Friday I got a letter in the mail from Hilbert.  I figured it was just a form I had to fill out so they could find out more information about me.  Unbelievably it was a letter and the first sentence of it went something like, “Congratulations on being accepted into Hilbert College.”  I was very happy and proud of myself.  There was never any doubt that I would not make it into college, I just did not figure I would find out so soon.  At the bottom of the letter was a little side note from the Dean of Admissions that said, “Benjamin, Congratulations on this excellent achievement.”  It was written in pen too, so you could tell that he put in a little effort in congratulating me on being accepted.  I took that letter and put it right on the front of the refrigerator. 

I looked up the school again online yesterday.  It seems very nice.  Its located in Hamburg not far from my old house.  I plan on attending Hilbert for two years and transferring to UB for my final years of college, but that’s only the plan as of right now.  That could change by tomorrow.   I do not plan on boarding there.  And unless I find an apartment that has a very cheap rent and roommate(s) to help split the cost, I will probably be living at home for the time being.  I also hope to play hockey there.  They do not officially have a team, but they have a club that travels all over New York and Pennsylvania to play hockey against other colleges.  The captain of the team was my coach in the clinic at Holiday Rinks.  The great thing about the team is nobody gets cut, so everybody makes the team.  Which is good for me because I certainly do not have the skills at hockey to play at the college level.  Basically if I really do terrible they will just scratch me from the game.  Either way, that should be really fun and I will get to play a lot of hockey for real cheap.  The only downfall of Hilbert is it seems fairly religious.  It was named after a saint, and I am not really not the whole religious thing. I doubt that will interfere with my college education.   Hilbert seems like a great place to go for college.

I also sent in my applications for UB and Oswego.  They are both SUNY schools so I will have to wait till late January to find out if I got accepted there or not.  I think I will make it into Oswego, but UB will be a long shot.  You need an 89 average and a score of 1200 on your SATS to make it into UB.  I have an 87 average with an SAT score of 1000, so I am just a bit short of their requirements. 

Now that I have made it into college, I feel a disease eating me up inside.  I think they call it senioritis.