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[chot_channah]

Okay so I know I never write in my lj but I visited McGill and Montreal on Friday and Saturday and I really need help processing because I have to make my college decision like …today. So input would be nice.

So basically, I absolutely loved McGill, and especially the city of Montreal, but I am fucking terrified of going there. It’s a beautiful

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[jen411]

Ok...it seems to me that the only reason why you don't want to go to McGill is because going there would almost force you to grow up. And I can totally understand how that'd be scary as hell. But it seems like you also have so many pros for wanting to go there! So I guess what you need to decide is whether or not those pros outweigh the one big ass con. In my opinion, I think you'd absolutely love McGill. But yeah, just do some pondering, my love. I know you'll figure it out in the end :)

[chot_channah]

thanks jenny, yeah thats a good point that its this one scary con of like having to grow up... but that could like also be a good thing, its just so freaking scary!

thanks for listening (...reading?) tho. you're the best.

[lovely_spam27]

Go for the pros and cons list, man. I wrote out all my pros and cons and then subtracted the cons from the pros and got a number for my 3 schools. It's helpful. You seem to be doing that already in your head, but it really helps to write it down and have it all laid out in front of you.

Also ask Katie's Ouija board.

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[chot_channah]

hmmm thats a good idea, i think ill do that as soon as i get off lj. yours was pretty great, maybe ill search the house for some foam board :)

i think its a little short notice to get the ouija board tho...damn.

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[raingooandfire]

Alright, my darling, here is what I think:

You've got a pretty solid list of pros and cons here, and ultimately it comes down to whether or not you can live in a situation you weren't really mentally prepared for (being that it isn't the "typical American college experience"). Which I have some experience with, so this is going to be a story of my life followed by actual advice, and I hope that it isn't totally presumptuous and self-centered of me.

If somebody had told me two months ago that I was going to go to college in Manhattan, I would have been like, you are fucking crazy. I didn't think there was any way I could go that far away from home and live in a city -- let alone a city that's that huge and terrifying -- and I had planned it out in my head that I was going to go to some smallish liberal-arts college in the suburbs and sit under trees with books and have epic journeys into the city with friends but not be constantly surrounded by noise and art and nightclubs

[chot_channah]

Lura, that was absolutely wonderful, and actually really helpful. I love you so much, thankyou for taking so much time to help me with this, you're the best.

Yeah, I guess it really is the schema issue haha (fucking psych). I actually thought about that a lot when I was there, and how everyone's always like "Just think about whether you could picture yourself there" when telling you how to choose a college. And your whole experience with Barnard definitely relates, especially with the whole big scary city thing. I think I will probably end up going, it's just like what you were talking about that I need to like mentally prepare myself for it. Hopefully with a little time I'll have the same experience as you with the excitingness overpowering the scariness. But that was really comforting about what you were saying about not being alone in your situations. I basically just love you.

[latraviata1853]

Lura is so deep.
You should come to GaMill.

[chot_channah]

If I go, we have to stop calling it Gamill, or we will have no friends. They'll be like "Silly Americans! They can't even pronounce their own language!"

Oh and thankyou for spending 3 hours on the phone last night trying to convince me that I'm capable of making friends. <3

[rockin_flipflop]

Ok i read all this and i feel like a douche because you always give me such lengthy deep responses, but my opinion is always pretty much the same and that's the fact that you should go to the best school that you get into, unless money is a factor, which it isnt with mcgill because its cheaper then umd. at first i was like IDK WHAT TO TELL HANNAH THATS SCARY I WOULDNT KNOW WHAT TO DOOOO, but really, like the point of college is education. and you will get a better one there. and like our parents were talking outside your house the other day saying how like having that extra punch on your resume puts you in a whole different league for futureness. and if anything the fact that they treat you like an adult will like FORCE you to make friends, so if that's your fear i think mcgill would be better. idk i think for everyone college really comes down to academics and cost. and this has both over umd. so that's what i say. and i would have said that anyways, but now that ive read this i still stand by it. so yes. i vote mcgill.

[chot_channah]

nikki, m'love, you are not a douche. that actually was a long comment with a good point. the only thiong is that its actually not cheaper. i got a scholarship to umd that makes them actually almost exactly the same, mcgill's actually a thousand dollars more a year. but thats essentially liek the same.

however, ur point still stands about the better school thing. that definitely should be the deciding factor, and i know if i went to umd id always regret not going to the better school to have the better name and everything. im just scared is all.

but thankyou dear, i lahf you. you can visit me in montreal and ill visit you in nyc and then we can visit boston when we're at home, and THREE major exciting cities will be within our grasp!

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