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I started my college journey as a Math major, completely convinced I’d be buried in proofs, theorems, and late-night problem sets for the foreseeable future. And honestly, I loved it: the logic, the structure, the challenge, it all clicked. But then, somewhere between semesters, I randomly signed up for a CS course, mostly out of curiosity. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but that one choice ended up completely changing how I thought about my future. A few years later,

Expectation: Let me submit the application then I am done Reality: After submitting the application comes the annoying part January 15th was the date I had in my mind when all of my applications would be submitted and I could relax after that because all that had to be done would be over. This was completely incorrect. Honestly the work after finishing the applications was even more tedious. This was because of the fact that while submitting the applications I

It was the end of February at 4am in the morning when the rest of my family was fast asleep and all you could hear was the occasional chirping of the birds and my thumping heartbeat, when I was glued to my laptop frantically refreshing the UIUC admissions portal to check whether the decision was out yet. Suddenly, after one such refresh, I see the webpage change, confetti appear on the screen and the words “ You are an Illini ”. I erupted with a sense of relief and excitement