You have written the applications, turned them in, waited anxiously to hear back, and now you weighing your options. Unless you are one of the few who had only one school in mind, have been accepted, and have already declared you have one of your biggest decisions yet to be made. How do you choose between different places that could affect your life in completely ways?
There are several key factors to consider when choosing between various colleges which were covered in the out-of-state vs in-state article. But what if you are truly unsure? 50-50 between two different colleges? You want to go to them equally for different reasons that you could not possibly compare? Life isn’t always black and white and both of these colleges happen to fall in the grey area. How do you decide? The coin flip.
What is the coin flip? Well, it is the simple task of flipping a coin with a preassigned designation for heads and tails. Here is how you properly conduct the coin flip:
1. Designate heads to refer to one college and tails to refer to the other.
2. Flip the coin with a predesignated procedure assigned to its flipping.
This means that you have already declared how the flip will take place, whether or not you will catch it or let the floor decide, and if you catch it whether you reveal its face immediately or flip it onto your other hand before revealing its face. This is highly important to plan in advance to avoid any unforeseen dilemmas.
3. In the few moments the coin is in the air you will, in your heart, know which college you would rather attend.
With that flip, that slight inclination, that feeling, that tough decision you have not been wanting to make will be made and you will know where you want to go. Why is that? It is because we as human beings with human nature want all options available to us for as long as possible. It is hard for us to make those tough decisions unless put in those situations. Have you ever been asked if you would take a bullet for a friend if put in that situation? Although, a rather exaggerated circumstance compared to the coin flip, you do no truly know what you would do unless put in that situation. You can dream up every situation you like, but in the end you will have to choose between two colleges (hopefully you have narrowed it down to 2, or else you could try the dice method).
What if, because the coin flip is not absolute and you can always flip it again, you do not take this test seriously? For that situation, I give you the 4th step:
4. After the coin lands/has completed its flipping look at the face you have designed as “the winner”. That very moment you look at the coin and see your final decision, which college you ultimately will attend, examine how you really feel.
If you are content with the decision you know that the college that has been declared “the winner” as a result of the coin flip is the college you should attend. If you are not relieved by the results, if you wish you could re-flip, then you know that “the winner” is not truly the winner.
That ladies and gentlemen, is how you decide which college to attend.
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