"Who doesn't know what I'm talking about, who's never left home who's never struck out, to find a dream and a life of there own, a place in the clouds a foundation of stone. Many precede and many will follow, a young girl's dream no longer hallow. It takes a shape of a place out west, but what it holds for her she hasn't yet guessed. She needs.... wide open spaces, room to make some big mistakes, she needs new faces she knows the highest stakes. She traveled this road as a child, wide eyed and grinning she never tired but now she wont be coming back with the rest, if these are life's lessons she'll take this test."
             If one paragraph or a few short sentences could sum up my feelings for the past few years it would be just that. "She needs wide open spaces" A hit song by the Dixie Chicks, compelling feelings and aspirations to get out on your own, to be totally independent and get away. To walk away from the everyday life and environment you have grown to adapt yourself of. Although stakes being high, in reference to leaving family and friends it will be well worth the possible disappointment that may follow.
             How important is it to leave your hometown, your friends, your family and the life you have spent years adapting to as soon as you graduate from High School? All through High School, there was this unrelenting pressure to go away to college. To get away from everything you know and build a new life of your own while pursuing a college education anywhere that is no less then a 60 mile radius from our hometown.
             To live in a "dreaded" dorm with complete strangers, to share shower stalls and restrooms with a floor full of people you have never met in your life. To wake up at 7:00am to walk to early classes after staying up all hours of the night studying for yet another political science exam. Welcome to a world full of sleepless nights and endless respons...