the road to fresno.

During my spring break, my parents and I went to Fresno in order to peruse the city for a nice apartment for Stephen and I. After 3 days and approximately 11 apartment complexes- some that I still shudder to think about- we finally decided on a seemingly perfect one. To be fair, I use the word seemingly because we won't truly know how much we're in love with the place until after a couple months of living there, ie. we're not trying to ransack all of our eggs into one basket. But I digress.

Once we were back in Vegas and all the excitement of apartment hunting died down, I slowly started to drown in fear. It had been a month since I sent in my transcripts to Fresno, and I hadn't heard anything back, neither acceptance nor rejection. I became increasingly worried in fear that the last week spent apartment hunting, the last year of extensive planning was going to go down the drain because I wasn't going to be accepted to Fresno State.

In order to combat my fears, I maniacally and frantically became addicted to "My Fresno Portal," checking the website at least 5 times a day to see what they had fated me.

After what felt like a million years (2 or 3 days to be honest...), I read the most beautiful thing: Congratulations! You've been conditionally admitted to CSU, Fresno. It almost felt as surreal as when I applied for graduation from CSN. I think I made the entire neighborhood's ears bleed because I was so dumbfounded and ecstatic. A couple days later, Fresno e-mailed my letter of conditional acceptance; then a week later, I received the actual letter.

After attending a 2-year college for nearly 3 years (not including the year I took college courses my junior year in high school), there are truly no words to explain how good it feels to be accepted to a university. Yeah, I went to UNLV for 2 years, but all I did was dick around with my parents' money, taking my education as serious as Lindsay Lohan and rehab.

2 years ago, I finally decided that it was time to take control of the reigns of my future, and it still feels completely far-fetched that all my hard work hasn't been for nothing.