Believe in your right to college
So my mom kind of nonchalantly handed me the envelope . . . . I was tearing it slowly and looking at it. I didn’t even read the whole thing, I just read “Congratulations” and I screamed. I called everybody in my cell phone book.
By morning everybody in school knew about it. They made a huge announcement over the intercom, “Congratulations to Eric Polk, the first Stratford student to get accepted at Wake Forest University.” What?! So I hold that title. And I basically didn’t go to any class that day, they’re like, “Honey, just sit down!”
