Have you ever thought what your life would have been like if you did something differently? Whether it be taking a different job offer, becoming friends with someone you didn’t expect, joining a different club or attending a different college. This thought has raced through my head for the last 4 years when I found out that I did not get accepted into my top college because of a transcript malfunction.

When sending out my transcripts (on a website recommended by my high school) the transcript for my top college ended up not sending even though I paid and got confirmation for it. When I found out I was deferred to said college, I was very confused because I knew for sure that I was going to get in.

Come to find out they deferred me because they didn’t receive my transcript at all, and I would have to reapply and could attend in the winter semester. This of course was a very hard decision because I had fallen in love with this school and couldn’t see myself anywhere else. I either had the choice to go to a community college or take a semester off while waiting to attend this university in the coming semester.

This was difficult because as much as I loved the school I knew that if I attended a community college for my first semester I would be missing out on the complete college experience. If I decided not to attend community college I also ran the risk of not wanting to go back to attend said college at all.

After a long time of deciding what to do, I ended up attending a college that was one of my other top choices but I did not have my whole heart set on. Of course, this would have been great had I not joined a sorority, if I hadn't become friends with some of the wrong people and if I didn't feel completely lost.

Since attending the other university I have since transferred out and back home to another university that I really don't prefer but am living with until graduation. Had I attended my dream school in the first place I think that my life would have been a lot better.

My life has become so much different since I ended high school and moved on to college, and my whole life experience and look out is far different than what it was before. Who would have known that one small technological malfunction would ruin my overall plan to attend such an amazing university?

If I attended my dream school I may have had plenty of friends, been in a much different sorority, had more fun and unique experiences. I would have been graduating on time instead of a semester late and I feel as though I could have been much happier with my life than I am currently.

Don't get me wrong, I love all of the people I have met over the years and the experiences I have had but there is still a part of me that wishes I could start over and go back in time just to see what my life would have been like now had I attended the school I had my heart set on.

Everyone says that things happen for a reason and I don't doubt that but there is still that wonder, that never ending feeling that life could have been so so different had I done things differently.

Life creates unexpected situations and nothing ever goes as planned, but everything will work itself out in the end. One way or another.