(630) 841-3193by PATRICK O'CONNOR, Ph. D
Most schools have only been in session for about a month, but many high school seniors are already experiencing Hump Day in their college applications. The first few days of the school year were filled with excitement about the prospect of going to college, and filling out a college application even seemed kind of fun. But now that homework is starting to build up, and students are on their twelfth draft of their college essay, it’s getting a little harder to be excited about college — especially since right now, just graduating from high school seems like a pretty remote idea.