Uconn it is
After almost exactly a year of researching where to go to school next year, deciding between California, Arizona, Florida, and South Carolina - a decision has been finally reached. It turns out I'm going where I least expected to end up. I always said that if I couldn't go to the out of state schools, I would just go back to CCSU. But I changed my mind. Ladies and gentlemen, Sturg Diddy is going to Uconn at Storrs. My deposit for housing will be in the mail tomorrow.
A few big factors helped me reach my decision. First and foremost, ASU and UCF turning me down b/c of my high school grades helped make the decision quite a bit easier. I always figured the reason I wouldn't be able to go to those schools would've been b/c I didn't have enough money, but hey, life's full of surprises isn't it? The good news - staying in state will save me over $6,000 a year in tuition alone. That's money in my pocket that I had saved up for going out of state. So now that I have the extra money saved up, I plan to finally quit Cingular Wireless at the end of the summer and live the life of a lazy student. With the exception of vacations, I haven't had a weekend off since graduating high school. I can't fucking wait.
Now, as for deciding between CCSU and Uconn. Although I have more credits at CCSU, when I wrote down all the classes I need to graduate at each school, I saw that either way I need a bunch of bullshit electives to reach 120 credits, so those business classes from CCSU that transferred as bullshit electives at Uconn will be used exactly as that - bullshit electives. No problem mon.
Next issue, housing. Both schools are over booked but since I currently go to Avery Point, I get guaranteed housing at Storrs. At CCSU, that was part of the reason I left in the first place - no housing. Even if I did get housing at CCSU, I don't think it's the college experience that I'm looking for. After high school, after I took that year off to work, just as much as I wanted a degree, I wanted to go to college to be able to meet new people and have fun because I was so bored with living at home and working full time. But I went to CCSU and met nobody. Any parties were in cramped apartments where cops would break it up within a couple hours. Then while trying to figure out what I wanted to do the next year, I went to Avery Point where obviously I met nobody and was pretty bored. So now, it's my third year, and I still haven't lived the college life. Every time I read people's away messages with corny inside jokes to people they go to school with, I actually get jealous. For most people, they seem to have two lives, one at home with the friends they went to high school with, and one at college, with all of these other people. I'm only living one side of that. I have a blast in the summer with my friends ... But when I'm in school, that's all I'm doing, going to school. And working. There's no different life. There's no section on my buddy list with people I go to school with... There's none of that. So - if I go back to CCSU, I probably won't get housing and I'll have to commute or get an apartment and even if I did get housing, everyone seemed to go home on the weekend there anyway. That's not what I'm looking for. So who does that leave? Uconn. Not only is it a higher ranked school than most of the other schools I was looking at, but it's also one of the biggest party schools in the country. Secondly, and this is big, Uconn has the national student exchange. So - I can still go out of state, for a semester or a year, to anywhere in the U.S., and pay in state tuition and get Uconn credits. Good deal. So - Uconn in the winner. And if for some reason it turns out to be horrible, I can always go back to CCSU and finish up there or transfer out of state since after next semester I'll have 60 credits and schools won't look at my high school transcript anymore. (I still dream of going to San Diego) All in all, I think it's smooth sailing from here on in and despite the cold weather, I'm actually excited about going to Storrs next semester, especially since I'm 21, and I'll be living it up. In other good news, I'm on a quest for a 4.0 or at least dean's list this semester so as long as I don't fuck in this last month of classes, I should have my best semester yet. Fuck you WHS
PS - Don't forget to buy DMB tickets before they sell out. I bought mine for Saturday, July 17th. A whole day of partying in the parking lot, drinking beers and eating dogs and burgers on the grill, then seeing the best show ever. Hell yeah
A few big factors helped me reach my decision. First and foremost, ASU and UCF turning me down b/c of my high school grades helped make the decision quite a bit easier. I always figured the reason I wouldn't be able to go to those schools would've been b/c I didn't have enough money, but hey, life's full of surprises isn't it? The good news - staying in state will save me over $6,000 a year in tuition alone. That's money in my pocket that I had saved up for going out of state. So now that I have the extra money saved up, I plan to finally quit Cingular Wireless at the end of the summer and live the life of a lazy student. With the exception of vacations, I haven't had a weekend off since graduating high school. I can't fucking wait.
Now, as for deciding between CCSU and Uconn. Although I have more credits at CCSU, when I wrote down all the classes I need to graduate at each school, I saw that either way I need a bunch of bullshit electives to reach 120 credits, so those business classes from CCSU that transferred as bullshit electives at Uconn will be used exactly as that - bullshit electives. No problem mon.
Next issue, housing. Both schools are over booked but since I currently go to Avery Point, I get guaranteed housing at Storrs. At CCSU, that was part of the reason I left in the first place - no housing. Even if I did get housing at CCSU, I don't think it's the college experience that I'm looking for. After high school, after I took that year off to work, just as much as I wanted a degree, I wanted to go to college to be able to meet new people and have fun because I was so bored with living at home and working full time. But I went to CCSU and met nobody. Any parties were in cramped apartments where cops would break it up within a couple hours. Then while trying to figure out what I wanted to do the next year, I went to Avery Point where obviously I met nobody and was pretty bored. So now, it's my third year, and I still haven't lived the college life. Every time I read people's away messages with corny inside jokes to people they go to school with, I actually get jealous. For most people, they seem to have two lives, one at home with the friends they went to high school with, and one at college, with all of these other people. I'm only living one side of that. I have a blast in the summer with my friends ... But when I'm in school, that's all I'm doing, going to school. And working. There's no different life. There's no section on my buddy list with people I go to school with... There's none of that. So - if I go back to CCSU, I probably won't get housing and I'll have to commute or get an apartment and even if I did get housing, everyone seemed to go home on the weekend there anyway. That's not what I'm looking for. So who does that leave? Uconn. Not only is it a higher ranked school than most of the other schools I was looking at, but it's also one of the biggest party schools in the country. Secondly, and this is big, Uconn has the national student exchange. So - I can still go out of state, for a semester or a year, to anywhere in the U.S., and pay in state tuition and get Uconn credits. Good deal. So - Uconn in the winner. And if for some reason it turns out to be horrible, I can always go back to CCSU and finish up there or transfer out of state since after next semester I'll have 60 credits and schools won't look at my high school transcript anymore. (I still dream of going to San Diego) All in all, I think it's smooth sailing from here on in and despite the cold weather, I'm actually excited about going to Storrs next semester, especially since I'm 21, and I'll be living it up. In other good news, I'm on a quest for a 4.0 or at least dean's list this semester so as long as I don't fuck in this last month of classes, I should have my best semester yet. Fuck you WHS
PS - Don't forget to buy DMB tickets before they sell out. I bought mine for Saturday, July 17th. A whole day of partying in the parking lot, drinking beers and eating dogs and burgers on the grill, then seeing the best show ever. Hell yeah