College.

The word means many options for many graduating seniors. Well, not for this senior. Most students have a whole list of colleges that they want to go to and apply to. I sadly, don't have that option. With financial problems in my family, there's only a select colleges that I can actually afford to go to. Most of those being community colleges. The first choice I want to go to is Montclair State in Montclair, New Jersey. But sadly, there is no way I am going to this college. Yes, I can get in with my grades, but seeing as how I live with a stubborn-as-hell father there is no way of me actually attending this school. You see, my dad has some sort of grudge against the state in general. Why, I can't seem to understand. Every time he says "that state sucks" and I ask exactly how he simply replies "it just does." So, when I told him that my number one school, one that I can actually get into with my grades and low SAT score (I have a 3.49 GPA but sadly got a 1510 on my SAT, coincidentally being my fathers fault because we got into a fight right before my SAT), he told me "good luck getting in without financial aid because I'm not signing for anything that has to do with that state." He wants me to go to Coastal Carolina College which is right here in the state I didn't want to move to in the first place, so why would I want to go to a college there? I don't see this as fair. This is the only college I feel that I could really fit in at, and the one I feel that I can actually learn at. Plus, its in the one place that I actually felt at home in; New Jersey. So, why shouldn't I be able to go to the college I want? Why shouldn't I be allowed to be happy? This doesn't make sense and it makes me utterly sad to know that I won't get the kind of support that most high school seniors get from their parents.