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WVU VS WVWC

Why I Choose Wesleyan over West Virginia University.

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Throughout my whole life I have lived only a short half hour drive from Morgantown, West Virginia, otherwise known as the central for West Virginia University. My whole family is full of WVU graduates, so I had always planned on going to WVU to be closer to home and closer to my family. Well, let's just say that was the plan when I was about 10 years old. Picking a college was honestly the least of my worries when it came to college life in general. I was always more worried about my major or paying for college. I had been saving for college for a very long time, but I waited to start college tours until I was in my second semester of senior year of high school. I actually only went on three college tours.

My first tour was at Marshall University, which I was in love with the big school atmosphere, but then I toured Marshall and realized that was not for me. It was not for me because of the big school atmosphere, but my family was still pushing WVU to get me close to home. Finally, after some convincing, I checked more about WVU because I knew that even though I had grown up around the hustle and the bustle of a big city. Well the big city of where I am from. However, after looking at WVU, I liked how much they had to offer, but I knew that I didn't feel a connection with WVU. WVU was a safe choice. Let's compare picking a college to picking a boyfriend. WVU was the boy that my family loved because he seemed like he had his life completely together, but whenever I got him alone he was kinda egotistical. He brags a lot! Even though my family loved him I knew he was only paper thin.

Then I met West Virginia Wesleyan College. My relationship with West Virginia Wesleyan was definitely love at first sight. This kind of relationship wasn't really understood by everyone around me because how can you know who you want to spend four years with in seconds? Wesleyan was not as well known as WVU, but I knew it was a relationship that I wanted to be in. I knew because the school pushed me to get involved. The school pushed me out of my comfort zone in so many ways. Picking Wesleyan over WVU was the fresh start I needed. When going to Wesleyan I knew four people who went to school there. I was forced to make new friends, and these friends I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. Wesleyan gave me my own spotlight. There wasn't anything that I had to live up to. I automatically became an adult version of myself without very much effort. Wesleyan is the love of my life. This love is so much better than WVU could have ever been for me.

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