If you’re a high school senior who was recently denied from a college you really wanted to attend, you may not find the humor in The Onion’s High School Student Taking Rejection From First-Choice College In Stride As If Future Not Over. It might feel like they’re poking fun at you. But they’re not.
They’re mocking the absurdity of the notion that a dream college saying “no” will somehow ruin your entire life. It might feel that way to you today. But someday soon, it won’t.
Someday, when you’ve inevitably gone on to another college where you are having more learning and growing and fun than you possibly could have imagined, you’ll look back on this time, and this article, and laugh, too. Hang in there. It won’t be long now.