The Right Choice

Well, it certainly has been awhile. I think the last few times I wrote were after significant events in my life. This time the significant event seems to take more precedence. For a long time I wanted to go to Wartburg. It seemed like the school for me. Of course I was accepted to the U of I and then it was a possibility. Once I was accepted to Wartburg, Iowa completely left the scene. It still really isn't in the scene but now I have been accepted to the University of Minnesota, more specificially the Carlson School of Management. I sort of applied there because I knew it was an excellent business school and to see if I could get in I guess. I applied but never really thought about it much after that, it was just a school I had seen and I really wanted to go to Wartburg.

Earlier in January I traveled to Wartburg to participate in the Regeants Scholarship Day. The trip was there was lets just say, eventful. It was particularly nice that highway 14 closed not 5 minutes before we got to it and it took us 3 and 1/2 hours to get there. Waverly is a little over 2 hours on a good day. Anyway, I wrote me essay and my hands sweat profusely as I endured the interview I had anticipated to be the hardest and turned out to be fun. It was a good experience and I think that I probably banked a little more after my of course outstanding answers.

The problem comes when people ask me why I want to go to Wartburg. The truth is I honestly don't know. Don't get me wrong, there are definitley things that I love about the school and there are things that set is apart from the other schools I visited, but truly, I haven't seen anything but a small, private college. This is why being accepted to MN made my life a big mess again. I started thinking about going to Wartburg and then if maybe I did want to go to a big school. Before this, I had overheard my mom and dad talking on our way home from Scholarship day, sorry mom and dad, they thought I was asleep. They were talking about the day and the school and the pros and cons and I heard my mom say that that day she truly felt like Wartburg was the place that I was supposed to be. She had been up there with me twice previously and everytime she asked me what I liked and why I wanted to go there and everytime I said the same thing. When I heard her say that she truly felt that Wartburg was the right place for me I was over joyed. I finally felt like I had done something right in the mass chaos that is chosing the right school.

Everyone told me that picking a school was up to me and that I had to do it by myself. Now, I usually consider myself a pretty independent person and I am sure most of you who know me would agree. But chosing a college is such an important decision that I didn't want to screw it up. I am ultimately deciding the rest of my future in the next 3 months and I wanted some help. When I heard my mom say that she thought I had made the right decision I felt like I actually had. Now that I have been accepted to the U of M I am confused again. Part of the problem is that MN gave me the highest scholarship they offer. I received 11,000 dollars to attend their university and the only way to get more was to live in MN. The package they mailed me was pretty impressive and when I told my parents they decided it was probably a good idea to get me up to the campus. So that is exactly what I am doing this weekend.

This weekend I am traveling to MN on Friday with my show choir. We are competing at Waconia HS on Saturday and then stopping by the Mall of America on the way home on Sunday. While everyone else loads the charter busses headed for J-Town, I will be getting in my mom's van and heading back to the hotel for one more night. Monday morning I have a campus visit at the biggest Big Ten(or eleven but whose counting) school in the conference. The U of M is like the 2nd biggest school in the nation or something as well. So, I was set on Wartburg and now I am starting to wonder if it is truly where I want to go. I know that of all the small schools I visited, it is the school I want to go to, I also know that the U of I, while still a very good school, isn't necessarily right for me, and after I visit the U of M, I am hoping to know that either Wartburg is the place for me, or maybe I want to go to MN. Either way, in case any of you decide to ask me where I want to go, I am undecided. However, it is between the U of M, and Wartburg. And Tony, you can give me your list of reasons why I should to go Iowa but my guess is I wont do it. Lo Siento....


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