THE ANNOUNCEMENT
I have to admit that I have been keeping something from you. It is not so much distrust with the issue as it is me just not being ready to share with the world. I know how news travels and I was afraid of varying opinions influencing my own or causing further stress on an already burdening decision. I didn’t want to take the chance of people doubting me and in turn making me doubt myself. However, I am at a point where I am ready to make this secret public. There is no further swaying to be done.
As of August 2006 I will no longer be a student at Quinnipiac University. Instead I will be enrolled in the University of Arizona. Why? You may ask. You may be thinking right now that I’m ridiculous…that you’ve heard this all before and I’m just another one jumping on the bandwagon. I’m sure all of you know of my difficult year I’ve had at Quinnipiac. Shit happens, I know this. But I am sick of waiting for things to get better and watching the money drain out of my family only to receive such dissatisfaction. There are so many reasons for transferring that I could write an entire entry…a really long one…on just that. But I won’t. Just trust that my reasons are 100% valid and have been thoroughly contemplated. I have done all the research, comparisons, and deep thought that I can and now I have developed complete confidence in what I have decided.
About a month or so ago a couple of you told me that I complain too much about QU and that I needed to get out. What you didn’t know at that point was I was already in the process of doing this. By that point the application process had begun. I am not stupid. I know when things need to be changed. There may be a lot of complaining and struggle in the process but life is about trial and error. I tried QU, I gained an experience from it that I believe is very valuable…but the greatest lesson I learned from being here is this is not what I want and this is not where I am meant to be.
Why Arizona? You may ask. Why so far away? It’s true that there are many different places I could go closer to home, but if you recall last year when I was 2 seconds away from deciding to go to UMiami, I have always wanted to experience life far away and I have always craved sunshine. I realized now tho, especially after seeing it for spring break, that Arizona is not just a middle of nowhere desert. It is beautiful and warm with 330 days of sunshine (which I believe will be a vital change for my mental health if nothing else). It is not the humidity and dangerous hurricanes of Florida. I can deal with a little dry heat and tumbleweeds.
Arizona is an opportunity that I would be a fool not to take. It is everything QU is not and throughout this year I learned that QU is everything I don’t want. I learned so much about myself this year…I learned where it is I need to take myself in life, and although I’m still trying to figure out how to get there, I think this change is necessary.
Not to mention I’m going to be saving at least $15,000 a year. QU was nowhere near worth the cost, and it not only hurt me but it hurt my entire family and I cannot bear to see that any longer. No one has any idea how bad the money situation has become, but I’m hoping this change will be a small step towards fixing it.
No more college visits. For those of you who never came to visit me and share my college experience, I’m sorry but you most likely will never have the opportunity :-( but I’ve had my year close to home and seeing most of your colleges and I’m ready to move on. True, I’ll be far away, but just like Steve and Jess I will be home at the most important times and as they say absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I tried to make this as brief an announcement as possible…but it didn’t really work. I’m sure some of you are not at all surprised…some of you may be shocked…I dunno. There’s more to say about this subject but I’ll leave it up to you to personally question me about it.
(and before anyone asks….no the deposit is not in, the decision is not binding and “definite”…but as far as I’m concerned, I’m already gone. There has got to be a big thing to keep me here…which is another reason I took so long to tell everyone. So there is a 1% possibility of me staying…but I can only hope nothing will happen to ruin this)
As of August 2006 I will no longer be a student at Quinnipiac University. Instead I will be enrolled in the University of Arizona. Why? You may ask. You may be thinking right now that I’m ridiculous…that you’ve heard this all before and I’m just another one jumping on the bandwagon. I’m sure all of you know of my difficult year I’ve had at Quinnipiac. Shit happens, I know this. But I am sick of waiting for things to get better and watching the money drain out of my family only to receive such dissatisfaction. There are so many reasons for transferring that I could write an entire entry…a really long one…on just that. But I won’t. Just trust that my reasons are 100% valid and have been thoroughly contemplated. I have done all the research, comparisons, and deep thought that I can and now I have developed complete confidence in what I have decided.
About a month or so ago a couple of you told me that I complain too much about QU and that I needed to get out. What you didn’t know at that point was I was already in the process of doing this. By that point the application process had begun. I am not stupid. I know when things need to be changed. There may be a lot of complaining and struggle in the process but life is about trial and error. I tried QU, I gained an experience from it that I believe is very valuable…but the greatest lesson I learned from being here is this is not what I want and this is not where I am meant to be.
Why Arizona? You may ask. Why so far away? It’s true that there are many different places I could go closer to home, but if you recall last year when I was 2 seconds away from deciding to go to UMiami, I have always wanted to experience life far away and I have always craved sunshine. I realized now tho, especially after seeing it for spring break, that Arizona is not just a middle of nowhere desert. It is beautiful and warm with 330 days of sunshine (which I believe will be a vital change for my mental health if nothing else). It is not the humidity and dangerous hurricanes of Florida. I can deal with a little dry heat and tumbleweeds.
Arizona is an opportunity that I would be a fool not to take. It is everything QU is not and throughout this year I learned that QU is everything I don’t want. I learned so much about myself this year…I learned where it is I need to take myself in life, and although I’m still trying to figure out how to get there, I think this change is necessary.
Not to mention I’m going to be saving at least $15,000 a year. QU was nowhere near worth the cost, and it not only hurt me but it hurt my entire family and I cannot bear to see that any longer. No one has any idea how bad the money situation has become, but I’m hoping this change will be a small step towards fixing it.
No more college visits. For those of you who never came to visit me and share my college experience, I’m sorry but you most likely will never have the opportunity :-( but I’ve had my year close to home and seeing most of your colleges and I’m ready to move on. True, I’ll be far away, but just like Steve and Jess I will be home at the most important times and as they say absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I tried to make this as brief an announcement as possible…but it didn’t really work. I’m sure some of you are not at all surprised…some of you may be shocked…I dunno. There’s more to say about this subject but I’ll leave it up to you to personally question me about it.
(and before anyone asks….no the deposit is not in, the decision is not binding and “definite”…but as far as I’m concerned, I’m already gone. There has got to be a big thing to keep me here…which is another reason I took so long to tell everyone. So there is a 1% possibility of me staying…but I can only hope nothing will happen to ruin this)