Ghazzal Hammad - Assignment 7

 Honestly, I feel like I've been preparing my whole life for college. In my family, there was always such an emphasis on getting good grades and being involved in activities and studying. However, with all that said, I still feel so unprepared for college. My sister is a freshman in college this year, and watching her go through the application process and adapting to her first year at a university has made the idea of college so much more scary and daunting. As of now, I don't have a particular college I want to go to. I have a few ideas, but none really stick out. I do, however, have a few things I am looking for in my ideal college. I definitely want to pursue a medical career, so I hope to go to a college that has a good medical program. I also want to go to one that has good academics and highly-rated professors (or at least decently-rated). For me, academics are the most important thing at a college. While I would like to be involved in extracurriculars, those are not nearly as important to me as the academics of the school. 

    Another thing I don't really have a preference for is the location of the school. I don't want to go too far from home -- probably not further than neighboring states -- and I don't think my parents would allow that anyways. Many people talk about how they want to go to a big college in a big city, but that isn't one of my top concerns, either. I think I would prefer an average sized school, but it truly wouldn't affect me that much. I should probably start finding more characteristics that I want in my 'ideal college' so that it'll be easier to narrow down which ones I want to apply to.