Do you ever feel like you're half human, half alien? Like everybody knows what their place is in the world, but you will never fit in?
The motley crew of the Starship Enterprise contained just such a character: Mr. Spock. Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock, passed away last week, and the tributes paid to him included the resurrection of an article–now gone viral–he had written in 1968 in reply to a teenager who wrote to him in despair.
I can't really improve on Mr. Spock's advice, which was to forget about being popular and powerful, and start being intelligent and useful.
The day is coming–soon–when you will no longer be asked to do pretty much exactly what every person in, say, 11th grade is expected to do, just because you were born in the same rotation of the Earth around the Sun.
And one of the fantastic things about choosing colleges is that you get to choose the environment in which you feel you will best express the one and only YOU.