Assignment 7- Mary Huffman- There's no place like home?

It's selfish. It's naive. But it's true.
The only thing I'm certain of after my high school graduation is that I'm leaving Lexington, Kentucky. When I say that to people, I feel like a country girl whose only goal in life has been to escape her little old town. Only I'm in a city of over 300,000 people and there is probably more opportunity here than I know. It must be nice to think "I love my hometown and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else," but I'd love to be anywhere else. My view of college is a time of transitioning into adulthood, surviving without parental guidance, and ultimately of self-discovery. I want to explore things outside of this town, where I feel at home and trapped at the same time. College will be a place I can appreciate where I came from, but focus more importantly on where I want to go. As a high school student, I think I've figured out myself and where I fit in, but I desperately want to know how I'll change for the better in a different environment with lots of different people. I'm so excited to prove myself to the world, as cheesy as that sounds. Independence is something that I've always craved, and the first step to achieving that is college life. Call it ambition if you want, but I can't wait to be successful, to be the girl from Kentucky who became an important someone she always knew she could be.