David Senra

And I just partied way too hard and didn't get good grades and didn't take it seriously.

And so there was a day, I remember it very distinctly.

I was at a friend's house having stayed up too late the night before.

And my dad called me and said, hey, you should probably come home.

There's a whole bunch of very small envelopes here from colleges.

So I actually got rejected from every college I applied to the first time I applied to colleges.

And I got all the rejection letters on the same day.

It was a bad day.

So then I reapplied to some other schools.

I had wanted to go to the University of Notre Dame.

And I called them and I said, where are some schools that have a compatible curriculum with yours?

Because I would really love to work hard and then transfer.

So they gave me a list.

I went to one of those schools.

I got very good grades.

I transferred to Notre Dame.

So now I'm a sophomore at Notre Dame.

And I didn't know anybody.

I met, they do, it's not like freshman year where you have all this amazing orientation.

You transfer students, they're like, here's your room number, like, see you later.