really unsure if i should go away for college?

Bothell123
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:41:58 +0000

I’m 19, about to get my transfer degree and come September 2012 will either attend the UW-Bothell (University of Washington) or UW-Seattle, both within 25 minutes away, so I’d be commuting. Or I will attend WWU (Western Washington University) which is about an hour and a half so I’d be living in a student apartment or dorm (preferably an apartment dorms seem to tiny, plus the student apartments are much cheaper then the dorms.)

I will be a junior at the university, just got a really great job which has some relativity to my major and will look great on my resume (so even if i go away I’ll have worked for 6 months there by the time i start at the university). I’m also saving up for a car, and if I go away will definitely want a car so I can go home when I please etc.

I seriously can’t figure out if I wanna stay or go, if I go i’m scared ill miss the few friends I have here (who i’m really close with) and my pets (im a huge animal lover), but i also am feeling like I need space away from my parents and that I want to try something new. I don’t know what to do, all 3 schools have my major. Plus I just got this job and it is a pretty good income for a first real job, and it’d suck if i couldn’t get a job after i had gone off to college and needed pocketmoney. Any thoughts or advice?