> I feel for you, but I'm not terribly sympathetic. I never have understood why so many people who have perfectly good colleges within 50 miles seem to feel obligated to go to an out of state college, instead of going to one close by.

It's like the hundred dollar hamburger, silly. It's the choice of the person enrolling in college. Perhaps the colleges nearby are, in his opinion, NOT perfectly fine.

That's how I felt about Fresno's and Reedley's community colleges. A lot of my friends did their GE at one of the two local ones. Me, I was never comfortable on either campus because I felt like it completely didn't challenge me and am really glad, in retrospect, that I didn't go to one.

That said, college WILL be different from high school, Crystal, even if you choose to (*gasp!*) go to a UC. ;-) It will challenge you in ways that you can't forsee now. And the atmosphere -- unless by some shot of Fate you are unlucky enough to land at a university that has decided a high school on campus is somehow a GOOD IDEA (*coughFresnoStatecough*) -- is going to be radically different, also. In high school, you've got a lot of people who have often grown up together. In college, all the little cliques and groups disappear until you've been in it for a few years. Even then, it is much, much different.

La"From what I can tell, at least"Zorra