Sunday,
fun-day?? With only 5 weeks left and over 3,000 pages to read for my Yalies, I
decided today as I sit home watching movies that I would begin the required
reading. So I took out the ipad, a pen and paper, and sat with my cup of
coffee to begin. My first decision was which one to start with.
Should I
begin one of the long readings or kick out one of the shorter ones? So many
decisions. I sit here thinking would as as a junior going into my senior
year of high school have as much motivation as my four cohorts? After
only 1 minute I know the truth that at their age definitely not. But then
again there was no ILC in my day or anything in my district that would
encourage me to believe that I could attend a 4 year college and especially an
Ivy League school. As I have been through ever step of the process of the
ILC so far it has really opened my eyes even as a adult. We are still 5
weeks out from the beginning of our trip but I have already changed my way of
thinking towards Ivy League colleges. Listening to alumni talking
at the dinners, talking to the admissions counselors from various colleges to
arrange tours, as well as all the readings I have done to prepare myself for
this trip has left me excited and ready to show the world to my four
cohorts. I am looking forward to walking through this process with four
young men that I know will not only do their best to make the ILC proud of them
but who will also use the knowledge they learn from this experience to give
back to the ILC and their communities.
So off I go with my first book, coffee and an excitement to know that we
are so close to our departure day!
