HELP...College Question!?
Question:
I really want to go to University of Maryland (which is 3000 miles away) because it's everything I'm looking for in a school. But if I did go, I would be all by myself. I would leave my four best friends and I'm afraid I would lose them for good. I mean, they're going to different schools, but they will all be in the same general area. Part of me is saying I should go for it because I may not get another opportunity, but part of me also can't leave. Everyone just says "do what you think is best"...but I can't make a decision because I don't know what I think is best.
Things are also complicated by the fact that an ROTC scholarship makes you pick your top three schools way far in advance. So even if I wanted to I couldn't wait until we were all accepted into our universities to see where I wanted to go.
I have to decide soon.
Answer:
Pick the school that you feel will suit you best. A true friendship will easily last through distance and different colleges. You don't have to attend the same schools to remain close, in other words. No matter how much you feel these friends mean to you now, you have no way of guaranteeing that your friendship will remain tight through life changes.
What would happen if you did attend college with friends, and they met new friends without you? Would you be jealous? Would they be jealous if you developed new friendships? While it is easy to maintain frienship with proximity and daily interaction, it is not a guarantee in lasting friendship.
Besides, you have no idea how many great friends you have yet to acquire at this new school. Some of the greatest people you will know and love in your life, you may have not even met yet.
Good luck. Choosing a college is not easy, I know.
opportunities like dis come once in a lifetime, don't refuse to go just cause you afraid you are gonna be all by yourself, when u go try to be social and keep in touch with your old buddies. best of luck
Well, if you feel as though you will lose your friends then this going to be the test of your friendships. But if the school that you really want to go to is 3000 miles away then go for it. This might be a chance of a lifetime, don't let it pass you by. If you think friends are more important than your dream then stay where you are but most likely you will be missing out. In Maryland you might not know anybody but you will soon find out that its better to venture out and meet new people than staying in the same place. Soon you will need to go out on your on. But if you want to stay then do what ever makes you happy not anybody else.
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