A Full Blown Rant

So I'm a junior in high school right? Right. You know what that means. Juggling a million things to do, along with your family and friends, searching for a college and maintaining some level of sanity. Right now I'm going to class (not regular high school, but my college classes... I'll explain that to you in a minute), skating five days a week, doing club volleyball which includes all day Sunday tournaments and some overnight-ers, working at North Star Figure Skating Club (where I skate) and working at Westboro House of Pizza (which is way worse than you would guess).

OKAY SO. No I do not go to my high school. Instead I'm taking classes at the local community college and the credits for those classes are counting towards me graduating from high school. So no I am not a high school drop out, I am simply earning my diploma a different way than most. Judge me. I dare you. Sorry, I don't know why I get so defensive about the topic. Everyone has been very supportive of my decision, even though my friends do not necessarily appreciate my absence from the high school. Sometimes it's hard not seeing my friends every day, but then I remember why I made my decision in the first place:

• Sitting in school seven hours a day was a waste of time.
• I'd rather use the time to work towards goals that more time sensitive. 
• By taking classes instead of going to school I am able to skate, play volleyball, and work two different jobs. 
• It's really just an all around win for me. 

Get it? Seems fantastic right? Right.

HOWEVER. I'm afraid of what this is going to do for me getting into college. Especially a college that I'd really love going to. I've just recently started really searching and this past weekend my momma and I flew down to Charlotte, North Carolina to look at Johnson & Wales University because yes, I am looking to do baking and pastry arts in college or maybe just major in business or entrepreneurship to help me open my own bakery or maybe I should just forget the baking this all together and become something "sensible" like an accountant...

Momma and I at the JWU Open House

No no no, I want to open my own little Ma & Pa bakery someday, so I might as well go to a college that will help me do that, right? And when I open this bakery, you will all come visit me, right? Good. 

Now, I don't know if you know this or not, but there are not a ton of schools that offer baking and pastry arts AND have a varsity volleyball team... okay really there are only a few. But alas! I have sought them out! So here's my current list of potential colleges:

1.  Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte 
2. Johnson & Wales University, Providence 
3. Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park
4. Widener University
5. Mercyhurst University 

Does that seem like a pretty solid list to you? 

CIA would be awesome. I mean, Bobby Flay went there. And you know that I've met him before, right? Maybe if I tell the administrations office that they will just let me in for free. ;) 

Widener and Mercyhurst seem more diverse though, which could be a good thing. But Johnson & Wales has the exact program that I'm looking for. I don't know. This college searching thing gives me a headache. And makes me question my entire life. And my sanity. Who are we kidding. My sanity was dropped a few miles back. Eh, oh well, keeps life interesting!