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This is me and my roommate’s dorm room. We really made a home for ourselves although we come from two different places, and we have two different backgrounds we really enjoy the time we spend in this room(Photo essay in docs above).

In this portion of the e-portfolio I will be talking about Longwood. When I decided to pick my college, Longwood wasn’t my first choice. I really wanted to go to James Madison University because I really enjoyed the campus but later, I realized that I had to focus on where I wanted to pursue my education. If I’m being honest, I felt like I was kind of pressured by my mom to attend longwood because she didn’t want me to travel that far away from her. I generally felt as if longwood wasn’t for me and that my mom didn’t want me to travel too far to where she couldn’t get to me. At the time I felt as if my mom was being selfish towards me because she didn’t want me to leave on her behalf which I felt was messed up and then my church family started to tell me that I should go to longwood, and I was like they’re only saying this so I’m not that far from them. Meanwhile I had to sit down and think if I really felt as if they were wrong. Nonetheless, I was more so scared of leaving home because I was afraid that my family would forget about me. I felt like my mom was asking too much from me since I was just coming straight out of high school. I feel like even if my mom felt as if longwood was a good thing for me and I didn’t understand it back then but now I feel as if it was an excellent choice for me because I’m in a better place now that I’m settled in. Longwood is where I’ve really grown and found family from near and far even though I was scared at first. The college’s that I applied to in didn’t even find interesting I just wanted to see if I would get accepted into them. I think my mom wanted to make sure that she could easily reach me and visit me since I am her last child. I think my mom was more so scared of me leaving the house since she had to come to realization that her baby girl was growing up and the only thing that she could do was adjust to it. I feel like I didn’t want to let go if the life that I’ve built in Farmville, but I also wanted to blossom out become my own person and I think that longwood has helped me find my educational path.

My travel experience is going to be about how I decided to travel to further my education and how I made that decision. I decided to further my education at Longwood, and I will be informing you by telling you the process. JMU was my dream school since I was like 14 because I never heard of any other college, so I was determined to attend it. So, a few years ago, I had visited a college named James Madison University and I instantly fell in love with it. I felt as if JMU was a home away from home. Nonetheless, I thought that’s what I wanted but it was the total opposite. Some years following that, it was time to apply for colleges since it was my senior year in high school. When I was applying for colleges that I was willing to attend I didn’t even apply to James Madison University for some reason, it didn’t come to mind for me. I do not want it to seem like I didn’t want to go there because I did but it was a beautiful place, and it was nicely put together, but I just supposed that a part of me would miss being close to home. Honestly o felt as if it was too good to be true to attend a college all the way out there especially if I didn’t know anyone there. The process was scary, but I will tell you that it was worth it because if I would’ve gone to James Madison University, I wouldn’t be able to go to church and, I wouldn’t have met my roommate. JMU couldn’t give me that, but Longwood surely did. I’m so glad that I got to travel to JMU, but I feel like it wasn’t for me. \One the other hand, I think God had it so that I would still further my education while being near family. So, when it was time to pay for deposits in April I chose to go to Longwood and honestly, I couldn’t ask for a better college home. However, in my head I was like so long Dukes and hello Lancers because your girl is going to Longwood.