QQC Fourteen

Quote:

"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile."

Question:

Can we decide our own futures?

Comment:

I found this quote interesting because I can relate to it. When I applied to college, I applied to fourteen schools, (ironically the number QQC I'm on). Out of all of those schools, there was one more than any other that I wanted to go to, USC Film School. Not to brag, but this particular division of USC is statistically harder to get into than Harvard Law, so I obviously had my work cut out for me. When I got back my acceptance and rejection letters, I had been accepted to USC, and rejected from a few schools with much higher acceptance rates. Looking back on what I wrote on each individual application, my submitted essay(s), film(s) etc, I realized that I had purposely put all of my effort into my USC application. I realized that subconsciously, I was following exactly what this quote was talking about, I stretched myself as thin as possible working on that application because that was the one most worthwhile to me. So, I couldn't help but wonder, had the school I was rejected from been my dream school, or if I wanted to go to Harvard or a school of the like, could the same thing have happened? Could I have put so much effort into that application that I get in there instead?