For seniors, college admittance is a huge step in a long staircase to our futures. The next steps being, finding a roommate, committing to a college, paying for college, going to college, not failing out of college, graduating college, still paying for college, finding a job after college, still paying for college, go to your 10-year reunion and pretend like you’ve made it really big already, getting married, paying for a wedding, still paying for college, getting a promotion, finish paying for college, having kids maybe, focusing on a career or on family, living your days happily, and then finally attaining the sweet relief of death.

The best part about getting admitted to college isn’t that you have some idea of where your life could go, it’s that you can now join the Facebook page that connects everyone in a similar situation. For educational purposes, they answer questions, they persuade you to come to their school, you meet some really cool people, you see some really diverse people, you realize that compared to some of these people, you are extremely under-qualified.

The other great part about these Facebook pages for admitted students is that you don’t actually have to have been admitted to join! I only applied to two colleges, and I’m currently on five admitted student pages.

Let’s now focus on what is so fun about these pages. First, there are some very, very interesting kids in the world and luckily, we are getting to go to school with them! I’ve been trolling these pages for some time now and found some fun little things to do that heighten your experiences with potential future classmates, or random kids that want to go to a school you didn’t even apply to.

So far, my favorite post on one of these pages comes from a girl who goes to our school right now! She’s outspoken, weird, likes to paint her face, and is, according to her post, a LARP (Live Action Role Play) member. This mountain dwarf that I’m talking about hopes to upgrade to a wizard soon, but I’m not quite sure what’s holding her back. May she just hasn’t made a com-spell-ing enough argument for why her magical powers are second to none.

The only other thing that really bothers me on these pages is that I’m going to school with some of these kids next year, yet they still make simple grammar errors.

Trollers are the other people to look out for. The people giving you advice are current students and alumni, who apparently have great senses of humor. On the Cal page, some girl asked if there are any, “must-do’s at Berkeley for an incoming freshman for fall semester.” The untouchable Ronald Kwan immediately replied, “fail a midterm.” David Jin retorted, “pay tuition.” So at least, we know that those are the basics of being a freshman!

For seniors out there actually using these pages as deciding factors on school, happy hunting and I wish you the best of luck! Also, please ignore anything that I say on other posts.