Thanks, and keep it up GSU!

         Coming from the monotony that is Kennesaw State University, Georgia State has such a wonderful campus life that it is absurd to even think about going elsewhere. I'm not one for sports, let's just get that out of the way right now. So I really wasn't interest in attending UGA and frankly GA Tech was the only school in the Georgia system that my SAT scores wouldn't let me attend.

      I started my higher learning at KSU. Like most freshman I had no idea what I was going to major in. Going through the motions I took a lot of gened classes that gave me my first taste of learning outside of high school. One semester I signed up for an anthropology course and from there I knew this was going to be my major. I had a total of two friends at KSU. One day, one of them told me that I might be a better fit at GSU.

     So I looked into transferring. Well it turned out that I met the requirements and so the very next semester I packed up all I had and found a place in Little 5 Points and started GSU. I decided to ride my bike to and from school because paying for parking is too costly. Within a couple of days at GSU I had met numerous people who were vastly more friendly and I knew this was the place for me. I know that things might have looked up if I stayed at KSU instead of just transferring, but the experience I had at GSU was so worth it I wouldn't have changed a thing. There are so many incredible professors who have been helpful in my scholastic career.

     They always go the extra mile to look over something that I have written. If I ask for their advice they are never too busy. What I'm trying to say is that anyone can go to university, but there are ways you can make the university work for you. If you find yourself in a bind, don't ever think that no one is there to help. Often my friends, of whom I'd say 80 percent of them are directly from GSU, may be too busy with their own studies to help me proofread or find the right words or tease out which direction to go.

     However I have never had that encounter once with ANY of my professors. I'd like to extend a hearty handshake to anyone coming here for the first semester, wish them the best of luck, and make sure to let them know that there are so many options, that dropping out simply shouldn't be one of them.