What to do!?

[joeschmo]

So I've recently started to hang out with this girl that I've connected really well with. Honestly, I'm in love. So here's the huge issue... She's an extremely prestigious person and as we are soon finishing our 11th year of high school (in Canada) we'll be applying for university next year. Her dream is to study abroad, and to do so in a very prestigious university. We're talking Stanford, Oxford, MIT... Myself on the other hand, am a relatively poor student (in comparison) and have never given any thought to studying abroad, but to simply apply to a solid university close by. In addition to this, she's leaving for Germany (where she will be legal to drink) for 5 weeks! We apply for university early next year and she'll be gone for a significant portion of the summer. WHAT DO I DO!?!?! Everything inside me is pulling me towards her... but I don't stand a chance.. Do I remain near sighted and ask her out anyway, only to have to deal with everything in the coming year? Or do I try and maintain distance from her (she would definitely notice and investigate) and save some exceedingly hard decisions in the future?
Ugh.
Thanks in advance..

[misombra]

let her live her life. she's young and she loves to be young. she's free and she loves to be free.

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[alovehangoverr]

Do you really see this going anywhere?

It sounds like she had a lot going on in her life, and in the future she'll have even more going on.. most of that spent far away from you.

If you're serious about attempting a relationship with her, you can give it a go.. but if I were you, I wouldn't expect it to last.

She's going to be experiencing a lot of new things and growing up a lot as a person.. it doesn't sound like you'll have enough of a foundation down relationship wise to experience and grow with her.