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How Bama Shaped My Life

The impact UA has on me can be compared to nowhere else.

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How Bama Shaped My Life
Christina Scott

People say college is the best and hardest time of your life. So many people come into college expecting so much opportunity and personal growth but are not sure how to find it. College is different for everyone, but what every student has in common is the need for a support system.

Being the oldest of three children, I was the first to leave the support system I had always had: the famjam. As a junior and senior in high school, I went down a long and difficult path to find the college I wanted to attend. I visited 11 different universities. I applied to six schools and was accepted into five. Even though I had narrowed it down to five out of the 11 original options, I was still baffled with all my college options.

During the second semester of my senior year, I was so conflicted on which school I would attend that I waited until the night before the college decision cutoff to decide where my university would be.

When that night had come and gone, a lot of headaches of indecisiveness and tears had been shed.

I had ultimately chosen to attend the University of Alabama.

I started to get excited to be a part of the Crimson Tide. I signed up for Bama Bound and Camp 1831 and started collecting all the crimson and houndstooth a girl can find.

Fast forwarding three years, here I sit in my Tuscaloosa abode being so grateful for the decision that I made "on a whim" to attend UA.

A lot has happened in the past three years. I have lost myself and found it again. I have been challenged on my beliefs. I have met the man of my dreams. I have changed friend groups. I have been pushed to work with people vastly different than me. Most importantly, I have been opened up to how much the world needs me and my help I have to offer.

College has been tougher than I imagined, but it's also been more rewarding than expected.

So I take the good and learn from the bad. I continuously building and improving myself to be the person I ideally will become... one day.

All I know is that college is a weird period of life I like to call limbo; I still have people pushing me to find my full potential but also excusing me for my mistakes that are building character and skill sets.

Enjoy limbo with me while we still have the time.

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