So I shall go ahead and enlighten you . . . now. :)
This was the FIRST time I have ever been to Florida. (Technically I've been to the Miami airport and I looked out the window and said "Hey look! It's Florida!" but I never really was "in" Florida, as in, you know, there? You know?) And this is all I did there! Haha, not really.
Anyway, this trip that we took was so that I could check out Pensacola Christian College. They were having College Days March 31-April 2 and amazingly enough that landed splat in the middle of my spring break! It was like, woah, God-thing.
So we drove down there early Wednesday morning (I'm talking like 3 am... AM!) and we got there around 7 pm their time which would be 8 pm my time (and I live in Northern Michigan so driving all that way non stop was exhausting.)
For the next couple of days my family spent time just touring the campus which was cool becuase my dad graduated from there so it was sort of like having our own personal tour (which we missed by the way), but it was funny seeing his reactions when he noticed that something was different than the way he remembered it. :) I visited classes, slept in the dorms, and got to eat in both of there food cafeteria places.
To make a long story short, I'm pretty positive that this is the place that I am going to be going to college to in the fall.
And I'm scared.
I thought it would be refreshing and freeing to finally know where I am supposed to go to college, but the truth is: I feel even more burdened. And I think it's my fault.
I have extremely strong feeling about this college. I both love and hate it.
I love it because it is, first and most important of all, Christian, it's cheap ($7,500 a year, with probably getting the last year free), it's in Florida, it's warm, near the beach, away from home and on and on and on.
I hate it because {mainly} it's rules and standards. I really don't like that I have this issue but I don't like some of there rules and standards. Like music. They only sing and worship using hymns. Which I am perfectly fine with (though I'm not a HUGE fan) but I can get over it. But they don't let you listen to anything but that kind of style. Hymns, southern gospel, etc. That is NOT my style. When I was talking about it with my dad he mentioned that I would be aloud to listen to some of my music, and the stuff he told me I would be able to listen to was music that is not even Christian! I was like woah, woah, woah, why can I listen to that and not this? {I have a strong opinion that music standards should be based on the content of the song and not what the beat or tempo is}.
Stepping off my little soapbox, I will concede to say that I'm hoping that I will get over it, I mean, I could just not listen to any kind of music so that I don't violate my own stardards. I'm sure there is some way to get passed this, but it just irks me that I won't be able to do something that practically defines me. {I'm hoping also that I'll be able to get around it by playing songs on my guitar ;) hopefully.}
Anyway, even though I am having some pretty strong thoughts concerning this whole Pensacola-should-I-go-should-not-go issue, I am pretty positive (as in 90%) that I am going to go there this fall. Because the most important factors in this whole decision are that 1) the school is Christian {check}, 2) the school offers my major (missions) {check}, and 3) it doesn't cost too much {check}.
So therefore...
I'll go...
...
I think...
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Oy. I hate this decision process. I'm going to go get some coffee.
