move across the country?

Question

I'm going to be a junior in high school. I'm going to a Christian school right now, but it doesn't offer any AP classes. There's a Christian high school that has a program where you can take classes that count for college and high school. Plus they give you a full scholarship to Liberty University. The only problem is that I'd have to move across the country to go there. Should I leave all my friends, get a better education, and a free ride to college. Or stay here where I have a TON of amazing friends?

Answer 1

Make a list of pros and cons and attach points of importance to each list item. Add up the points and see which comes out ahead...the pro or con.

Leaving your friends is a traumatic experience for most teenagers, especially at your age. having said that, if your friends were truly amazing and real, the distance would not make a difference. Moreover, at the new place, you can add to the list of amazing friends by making new ones.

Also keep in mind that your friends at the current place will move on with their lives in a year or so (to college, work, etc.).

Lastly, free college is a wonderful gift that will keep on giving for the rest of your life, many kids in this country would do anythng to get full scholarship.

The above are my opinions and if I were yu I would move, but honestly, I am not you and only you know what your heart feels. But try the points approach.

Answer 2

That is a personal choice, and there is no right answer. I bet you could find a lot of new friends if you move across the country to go to a different school. But, you may not want to leave the friends that you already have. Of course, you could still stay in contact through e-mail or on the telephone, but it is not the same. I have moved around the country quite a bit, and I like going new places and meeting new people.

Answer 3

No one else can answer this question for you, but maybe I can HELP you make an informed decision. Have you considered traveling to where the far away college is and spending, say, a few days there to see if you like it.

Another note: plenty of people move away to college, and make new friends. They keep in touch with their old friends, many of whom also went away to colleges, and have old friends and new friends. There is something about the college experience that I think is improved, when you go there without friends. It is harder at first, but I guarentee, you will have grown out more and become more mature and more ... YOU, if you go away to college.

I guess what I'm saying is, despite what I said at first, I think you should go away. It will be hard for the first semester, very very hard, you cannot imagine, but that first time you come back home, and the changes in people you will see, good and bad, will make you grow, which is something SO VERY IMPORTANT, and it will make you grow a lot. I think if you go away to college, you will have far fewer regrets, than if you stayed back. Go! Go away and fly!

A friend once asked me, when we were at college, "when do you think is the first time the typical college student feels like a college student?" I thought about it, thinking that it was only a matter of time, rather than a certain event having to take place. I said "about a year." My friend disagreed, he convincingly claimed that a college student feels like a college student, after they get home from their first semester, and in seeing how much their hometown has changed, they will see how much they themselves have actually changed.

Answer 4

IF you have a good situation where you are I would stay. You will still be able to get into Liberty. A free pass sounds good, but the new school may be not what you think. Things may change for the bad-I would stay with what I already know. It is terribly difficult to adjust to a new school and find new friends.

Answer 5

You will make a ton of friends no matter where you are. Your education is more important. Thankfully, with thei internet and everything, it's easier to stay in touch with your friends even if you move to Botswana. I say, your true friends will remain your friends if you make the (very wise) choice of going to a better school and taking advantage of a very valuable scholarship.

Answer 6

I would go for a better education and with college tuition going up and not down you are wise to plan for your future now. You can always stay in touch with your friends and move back there when you finish college. You have to do what's best for you and you will always make new friends wherever you go.

Answer 7

Take the chance to go to college. You'll make new friends. You can keep in contact with your friends at home via Internet or phone and come home on breaks. Do not turn this chance down. It's an amazing opportunity.

Answer 8

I sometimes ask my students if their friends are going to pay their rent, buy their food, buy their car, pay for their gas, and give them an allowance after they graduate...

of course... the answer is no... so do what is best for YOU, your friends will write to you for a little while to ease the pain of transition... maybe some of them will even email you for a year or two... but eventually they fade away unless you renew your friendship with them...

you will make new friends, who have more similar interests to your current ones...

try to do the best that you can in all things.

Answer 9

I've had to make tough decisions like that before but in the end you have to remember that its your future, your friends may not always be there for you or you may eventually drift apart, but and education is priceless, i would go for the move if i was you.

Answer 10

What is God's call and which leads you in that direction.

In general God call us to be in relation with others but that is not always your friends and family but strangers.

You can get an excelent ED. anywhere. Do you actually believe in the teaching of Rev. Falwell and his church. IF not you should not use them for a degree.