I'm trapped at my college

mzsp23
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:47:03 +0000

I do like football at clemson but honestly there’s not too much I care for. There’s no real wrestling team, just a club, and that’s not too great so as far as getting involved in athletics I haven’t done much. The religious organizations might be good for some people but my beliefs seem to stray away from what most of their’s seem to be. So I haven’t really been able to feel comfortable there. If you were raised in the south (no offense to anyone here) clemson is probably very fitting and you’ll enjoy your time there. It’s a good school, honestly. It’s just not the one for me and I kind of feel bummed out to have to spend what I feel are some of the most important years of my life there. Trust me, I’ve flirted with the idea of just applying to other schools without even telling my parents to see if I got accepted and if so show my parents that and then try to convince them to let me go there. I wanted to go to app state originally. We toured the campus and I really liked the individuality that is promoted there. I also was very impressed by the medical program they had there because at that time I was really wanting to go into cardiology. Now, I am seriously wanting to pursue nursing and would still love to go to app or especially nyu. But my parents don’t see it wise to forfeit a clemson degree to one from app state. They feel clemson is more prestigious. I’ve even reached the point of just wanting to quit college because my only option is clemson and joining the military. I just know I want to complete a degree before doing this so again I’m feeling the pressure to stay at clemson.