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Transferring Home Was Scary

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Transferring Home Was Scary

Not everyone transfers but not everyone stays at their first choice of college either. I was one who didn't stay at my first choice but not because I hated my first college, because I changed my major and I knew it was time to make an adult decision not to pay a $40,000 tuition when my major is offered at a state school with a $8,000 tuition. For a lot of people, that's an easy choice but not for me.

Moving home meant coming back to college with many of the kids I went to high school with. It meant moving back in with my parents. It meant facing my past again. It meant trying to stay who I had become and not losing myself again. I knew I had to make the adult decision and come home so I made the decision to transfer from Gannon to Slippery Rock my spring semester of sophomore year.

I guess making that decision was hard because I finally had a relationship with my parents. I found the girl who was more then the party girl. I finally felt happy and not depressed. I thought moving home would change all of that. Which I most certainly did not want and neither did my family.

When I finally moved home, I started partying again but that was about all that returned expect I wouldn't go to a party as often as I used to and I'd be smarter if I drank. Honestly I have my moments where being back home sucks but that'd happen even at Gannon. I move out of my parents to start my junior year. My nephews are my pride and joy. My brothers and their women are definitely some of my favorite people. My parents and I have our moments but being a 20 year old girl that'll happen. Honestly though, moving away then moving back home was one of the best things in my life.

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