dreams come true, hard work pays off.

i never thought i was capable. never thought good things could come my way. never would have imagined that i could get something i wanted, and never felt serious satisfaction from hard work....
until today.
I got into Boston University.
I was accepted.

I almost can't believe it. I know it's not that great of an honor compared to kids who get into Yale or Harvard or Brown, but this is big to me. I'm a nobody, I come from a family that started off with nothing, with parents that never had a college education and still to this day struggle with English. Good things like this never come my way, never happen to me. I'm an average kid, and something out of the ordinary finally happened to me. This isn't supposed to happen to me, it shouldnt. It's almost too unbelievable.

But it happened, and it's real. Four years of studying, of hard work, of trying to make the grade so that I could get into a good college has finally paid off. I never would have expected this to happen, even though people told me it would. It just seems so beyond me, so much more than I'm worth.

Boston. The big city. An huge school. A respectable education. My own place to call home. My own life. Independence. All mine.

I cant stop telling myself that things like this dont happen to kids like me, and it did. It finally did, and all I can think about is the worrying I did when i was applying, the stress I dealt with over whether or not I was worth BU, whether or not I deserved it, if I could get in.

I am worth it. I do deserve it. And I did get in.
and all I can say is dreams do come true, and the ones I've been having for so long are finally materializing into something tangible, and real.