When fall comes around...I'm Georgia Southern Bound!

Well, well, well…life is a changin’! For those of you that don’t know, I have been accepted to Georgia Southern University and will be moving to Statesboro in August. I am nervous, excited, anxious, and hopeful. Now, let me fill you in from the beginning. Fall of 2008, as a senior, I applied to North Georgia College and State University and was deferred. Let me just say that a deferral letter feels worse than a rejection letter…it’s like them saying “You almost made it but no shebang! So, we’ll sugar coat it for ya!” Anyways, that was a bit hard to swallow since I had a 3.5 GPA and had worked my butt off all of high school to keep it, but I kept telling myself it must not have been God’s plan. Momma and Daddy tried to talk me into looking at other colleges but to be honest I just didn’t see the point. So, I applied to GGC and decided I’d stay home and attend college right down the road. Shortly after my first semester of college began I became so thankful that I had been deferred and I was so glad I was still home. I was doing good in school and know that even though I probably would have been fine on my own, I wasn’t ready just yet for that change. Fall of 2009 I applied to Southern. Nolan was attending school there and wanted me to join him the following fall. I applied and waited for the response. The waiting period fell over thanksgiving and Black Friday. Since Momma and I fight the crowds like crazy women ever Black Friday, we were able to get all my dorm essentials. In January I still had not heard back from Southern, so I called. Somehow, because I did not have 30 credit hours they could only look at half of my high school stuff and then some college test I had taken. I still don’t really understand what all happened but basically I was once again deferred, at least until I could send them another transcript. Again, I was super upset but after some more tears and prayer I concluded it still was not God’s plan. By the end of the semester Nolan had decided to transfer home and that was totally fine with me. I was upset about the deferral from Southern, but to be honest I was content staying home another year. I packed up all the dorm stuff I had collected and put in the basement (I get to go find it and put it to use now) Fall of 2010 Nolan applied for the University of Georgia. I decided that if he got in I would transfer to UGA…(Roll Tide)…I started praying for God’s will. I prayed from him to place us were he wants us, not where we believed we wanted to go. It took until March for Nolan to get his letter and when he got it we then had to formulate plan B. He decided that he would transfer back to Southern and he wanted me to try again to transfer down there. I did some thinking and I talked with my parents. I didn’t mind living at home but I didn’t feels as thought I was getting the college experience. I was beginning to feel as though it was time to spread my wings…I have a close friend, who is a senior in high school this year that is headed there in the fall and things were just all starting to feel right. I called the Admissions office on a Monday and all they had to do was update my application from the year before. I then requested a transcript be sent from GGC to Southern. I checked my application status online all week and wasn’t surprised that nothing had been entered. A week later, on the following Monday, I checked the status at 11:00 before I went to work. They had received my transcript and were still deciding. At 7:00 that night, after I had gotten home from work, I thought I’d checked it again. I was sure nothing would have changed but I typed in my password and clicked enter anyways….Decision made: Accepted! Tear filled my eyes as I grabbed my computer and ran down stairs to show Momma and Daddy. I was in! I feel like everything is falling into place now. I feel that I’m headed right where he wants me. You may think I’m just following a boy to school, and yes that was an influence, but I firmly believe that after all my waiting this is finally Gods timing for me to move out and try life as a big girl. I’m scared, yes. I heard a song on the radio the other day as I drove home and started to cry because I feel as though I’m all the sudden growing up. The fact that I won’t be able to just come home as I please worries me. What if I’m sick and need mommas hug or if I’m having a hard time with school and just need to vent to daddy… but I’m just trying to keep focused on the exciting stuff. I know that Jesus will take care of me all along the way! I have my apartment application ready to put in the mail tomorrow, I have signed up for orientation, and it is all coming together. God is so good and I’m very excited to see where he will take me in the years to come. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." — Douglas Adams