Student story: Prioritizing location in the college search
About this video
A student explains why she chose a college far from home: she is independent and wanted freedom from caring for others. Being far away gave her amazing freedom, but she misses her family, especially during hard times like her mom's hospital visits, though her mom reassures her she made the right choice.
You'll be able to
- describe benefits of going to college far from home.
- describe challenges of being far from family.
- weigh these trade-offs for my own college search.
Key words
- independent
- Able to take care of yourself and make your own decisions.
- family-oriented
- Caring a lot about and staying close to your family.
- obligated
- Feeling you have to do something because it's your duty.
Transcript
- Well, I'm a very independent person. My mom raised me that way. It was me, my mom, and my little brother forever, and so I was used to take care of other people, so I wanted to go somewhere where I didn't have to take care of other people or feel obligated to do so, because I'm so far away.
So that's a good thing, because I can just worry about myself, and I had so much freedom to work with that it was just amazing, because I was so far away. But I do tend to miss my family, and there was a couple times when my mom had some accidents, so she may have ended up in the hospital, and those things are really hard for me, because I'm so family-orientated.
And so not being able to reach out, not being able to help my brother with that math class, it's kind of hard to see, like, my family struggle a little bit without me being there, but I know that, and my mom always encourages me that I'm making the right decision and bettering myself being far away for four years and then deciding what I want to do afterwards.
So it's hard, but then again, it's not as hard as I thought it would be initially.
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