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Home Sweet Tide

Home is where the heart is and my heart is here.

Morgan Paige Grant

Aug 31, 2016

Tuscaloosa, AL

Morgan Paige Grant

For almost 19 years, the place I called home was also home to 12,246 people. Now, 411 miles and six hours later, I have found a new home with nearly triple that population.

I moved from my small, familiar city where everyone knew everyone and basketball was a religion, to a huge campus where I knew one person and I don't think they know that basketball is a real sport.

People ask me all the time, "Why move? Why Alabama, Why so far away?" Honesty, I don't have one, single answer! I fell in love with the thought of going to The University of Alabama because of my cousin. I fell in love with the school the minute I took an online tour and learned everything there is to know about my major, I fell head over heels in love with the school when I came down and attended my first Alabama football game (Roll Tide!) And most importantly, I fell in love with myself when I started living here.

Moving away from home was one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself. I have been forced to grow up and learn how to live on my own. I have had to do my own laundry, venture out for food, wash my own dishes in a community bathroom sink, cut my own nails, be responsible for waking myself up every day so that I don't miss class, make new friends and trying to not get hit by a car every time I walk outside of my dorm building.

If you would have asked me this time last year if I thought I would actually be here and not depending on my mom for everything, I would have said no. I would have told you I'm not sure if I could actually survive without my mom or dad being 10 minutes down the road. But here I am. Six hours away from them surviving as well as I possibly can. Well, sort of. I will thank my roommate for being there for me every step of the way and being a fill in mom.

I would not change this experience for the world and I am so excited to see where this year in Alabama takes me!

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