Fishing Your Way to College

“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” — John Buchan

I was in my final year of high school. Past college application season, one day during a meeting about sharing college application knowledge with the seniors-to-be, my college counselor invited me to come up front to speak in front of the underclassmen about my experience in applying to over 30 colleges during the college app season.

My counselor was a respectable, diligent lady who helped me a lot when I was applying…