Make the choice again, Donna Noble. Turn right.

[adelagia]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Oh, neat. Finally a Writer's Block question that I can answer somewhat unboringly. Well, kids, it all started in my senior year of high school... I received a small, white box in the mail one day, the address label typed, and no return address to be found. I wasn't in the habit of receiving anonymous parcels in the mail, and this was like the postal equivalent of the unmarked white van, so I was a little freaked out by it. I left it on the kitchen counter, unopened, giving it a wide berth in case it planned to explode. The house remained unscathed after a few days and there wasn't any ticking coming from it, so I tentatively opened it to find a lone fortune cookie inside. The fortune? "You will go to [Name of the University I Went To]." 

Turns out it was a college admissions ploy to make me want to go to there. I don't think they thought the idea completely through because it totally did not help. The scholarship they gave me later did, though. Thanks, School.

Comments

[cosmo-jenny.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's a cute story.

[adelagia.livejournal.com]

Hee, it's fun to tell now, but at the time it was really weird. I hope they're not still doing that...

[dragonsangel68.livejournal.com]

It amazes me the lengths your colleges go to attract students.

[adelagia.livejournal.com]

That wasn't the only thing they sent me, either! That was back in the day, though, and the positions are a bit reversed now. These past couple of years the college-going population has gone way up, and kids are applying to, like, 20 colleges just so one will stick. I had a straight-A student who got waitlisted at all 10 schools she applied to!