It’s hilarious how chance can make you appreciate everything
so much more. It was by chance
that I attended this program, but now looking back I cannot imagine what my
summer would have been like if I had not been here. It was by pure dumb luck that I was here in the first place,
but that luck, whether it was part of my destiny or not, brought me to this
beautiful place where I made more friends in five weeks than I have in my six
years of high school. What would
have happened if I hadn’t decided that the meeting was better than the class I
was sitting in on? What if I had
been in the middle of a test instead of listening to a lecture? What if I had lost the letter instead of
picking it up a week before the first part of the application was due? What if I had listened to my friends
instead of my heart? Quite simply,
I wouldn’t be where I am today; I wouldn’t be confident in the major I want to
go into, and I wouldn’t be leaving this place with no regrets and with so many
new and incredible friends.
Let’s
quickly discuss the reasons for going to a nerd camp. First off, I believe you may want to change your definition
of nerd if you are to call it this.
The nerds here are capable of running two miles in under twelve minutes,
dancing in a crowded and sweaty place, and singing to their heart’s content in
front of hundreds at a talent show.
The people here are not your stereotypical nerds; they are people just
like the rest of us that all have one thing in common: dedication. The students here aren’t here to have
fun, although time and time again they find themselves doing just that. They are here to get ahead using St.
Paul’s prestigious advanced studies program that takes the best and brightest
from New Hampshire. I guess it
just so happens that the best and brightest aren’t just nerds.
Opportunities
like this do not come up every day in a typical high school setting, and so I
must advise you to take advantage of the hard work you put in to be part of the
elite in your school, and attend this program. For those of us who have attended, there aren’t any regrets
being left behind. Perhaps you
left your friends behind to go away for five weeks, and perhaps it was even
against their ideas, but just realize that as you go home to the people who
miss you, you leave behind a great deal of friends who are missing you and the
place you left.
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