1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,544 - Congratulations, you're in! 2 00:00:02,544 --> 00:00:05,024 This, your life, just changed. 3 00:00:05,024 --> 00:00:08,283 You're going to college, and that's amazing, 4 00:00:08,283 --> 00:00:10,262 and you should be so excited about that. 5 00:00:10,262 --> 00:00:12,763 I'm jumping up and down just thinking about it. 6 00:00:12,763 --> 00:00:15,268 Your life just changed. 7 00:00:15,268 --> 00:00:17,379 The truth of the matter is now I imagine 8 00:00:17,379 --> 00:00:19,544 perhaps, maybe, you got into more than one. 9 00:00:19,544 --> 00:00:21,926 You have several schools that you're thinking about 10 00:00:21,926 --> 00:00:25,450 and, maybe, you're even surprised and pretty excited, 11 00:00:25,450 --> 00:00:29,283 but now, actually, we find often the most confused, 12 00:00:29,283 --> 00:00:30,575 'cause now you have to make 13 00:00:30,575 --> 00:00:34,771 a significant decision that really dictates, 14 00:00:34,771 --> 00:00:36,679 sort of, the beginning of the rest of your life. 15 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:39,508 Which place should I go to? 16 00:00:39,508 --> 00:00:42,138 The truth of the matter is 17 00:00:42,138 --> 00:00:43,367 you need to do your homework, 18 00:00:43,367 --> 00:00:46,476 you need to really do a deep dive 19 00:00:46,476 --> 00:00:48,525 into the nature of these institutions 20 00:00:48,525 --> 00:00:50,059 and ask all of the questions 21 00:00:50,059 --> 00:00:54,710 you possibly can, of yourself, about one thing, 22 00:00:54,710 --> 00:00:59,439 and that is, "Where will I be deliriously happy?" 23 00:01:00,269 --> 00:01:02,337 If you can answer that question, 24 00:01:02,337 --> 00:01:04,539 by looking at these respective institutions, 25 00:01:04,539 --> 00:01:06,976 and part of it might be even in the engagements 26 00:01:06,976 --> 00:01:08,417 and interactions you might have 27 00:01:08,417 --> 00:01:10,689 with undergraduates who you talk to, 28 00:01:10,689 --> 00:01:12,363 or other people who've attended there, 29 00:01:12,363 --> 00:01:14,021 if you can answer the question, 30 00:01:14,021 --> 00:01:16,352 "Where can I be deliriously happy?" 31 00:01:16,352 --> 00:01:19,135 then that's the answer to the question, 32 00:01:19,135 --> 00:01:21,455 and that's where you should go.