Going 17 hours away to college!? (degree, high school, best, geography)
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I am a 16 year old junior from Northern Philly and am really considering going to college in Florida. I absolutely hate cold weather and vacation to Florida at least once a year and absolutely love it. I toured UCF and UF, and plan to tour FSU and USF this summer. I liked UF a lot, but UCF not so much. I want to go for accounting. But my main issue is just meeting all new people and being so far away from home alone. I plan to join a sorority so maybe that would help? But i don't want to have good friends and then when I graduate move hundreds of miles away from them. Please offer me your advice! Thanks!
Can you afford out of state tuition? If you can then by all means go if you get accepted. You can always keep in contact with friends via online or phone if you move away.
No matter where you go, you are going to make new friends. It might be nice to be where you know a person or two, but the likelihood of actually having classes with them is remote. I went to school with several people from my high school, but quickly made new friends, on the floor of the dorm, sorority, band, etc...
You want to move to Florida from Philly to attend school because you hate the cold, but then when you are done with school you plan to move somewhere else, even though you really love Florida?
You are worried about missing your friends and family, which will happen, but you do not want to risk making new friends because then you will only move away from them, too?
And just how do you plan on joining a sorority without making good friends with any of them? That is a part of the deal. You will hang out with them, a lot. If you seem distant or tell them that you do not want any close friends, they will kick you out. They don't have sororities for loners.
You have no idea what is going to happen. College, future friends, it is all up in the air.
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L o L, the whole point of sororities is to keep lifelong friends. The whole point of getting out of Philly to Florida is to escape the cold...............go to college where you feel you can get the most out of what you want to do..I'm thinking that that's common knowledge.
I went 38 hours away (by Greyhound) to college. I'd never before been even half that far from home, and I was Aspergers, on top of it. It was great. It was the best decision of my life.
I was a lousy student, and never graduated, but it was still a great education---iin those two years, I completely re-found or re-invented myself.
Merry Xmas! I am from Florida and went to UF. You shouldn't have any problem making friends at any of the schools. If all other things are equal, go to UF if you can for accounting or most other general liberal arts majors.
I grew up in California and went to college on the east coast. I loved every minute of it. The only real negative was not being able to go home for Thanksgiving and such (plane tickets were too expensive for such a short trip).
The downside is that upon graduation, a degree from a Florida university will only carry weight in that region. My degree is great in the mid-atlantic (and I got a really well paying job right out of school with it), but it would mean nothing if I had wanted to go to New England or Texas or back to California after school. Now that I have 3-4 years of work experience, my degree doesn't mean as much any more and I have more mobility again.
Even if you stayed in Philadelphia for college, you would make new friends when you go to college. And you would likely lose touch with a few high school friends too. And when you graduate from college, wherever you go, you will lose touch with a few of your college friends and make new ones too. That's just the way life is. It isn't about geography per se--you can remain friends with someone on the other side of the world--but simply that you will change and they will change and that's the way life is.
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