She'd gotten home from work and noticed the mail was sitting there. She had letters from several universities. After a year at culinary arts school she realized that wasn't what she wanted to do at all, so she tried to apply to a few universities. She looked through several of them, fighting back disappointment at all the rejections. She hadn't really told anyone what she was doing, she didn't want them all to know she was rejected again and again. She got to one last one and opened it, it was from Oregon State University. She tore it open, not expecting much, until she saw the word "congratulations". Her eyes went wide and she grinned, reading through the letter. She got in! She ran up to her room with the letter, reading it over and over to make sure she didn't miss something. She didn't know what she wanted to do yet, but she knew she could do something, she had to do something.
