Well, after being homeschooled for 10 years, you get to be a VERY close-knit family. Moving 85 miles away from home was a daunting thing to face.My sister & I both applied for ECU's Honor's Program--we had the grades to get it, but we never received an answer from the head of the Honors Society. One day after waiting for weeks, my sister called his office and finally just asked his secretary what the deal was. Oh, you've been accepted, she said. Well, we were happy! Sure it was a little harder work, but at least you got to live in an air-conditioned dorm as juniors and Honor students. When we came up here for orientation, we found to our dismay that we had NOT been accepted into the Honor society, we were just kind of ignored. Great! School was set to start in 3 weeks and we weren't going to get anyplace to live! I coulda kicked that moron Honors gut in the shins for that. So...in the end, we actually found a good apartment up here for a reasonable price...and now I'm soooooo happy that guy forgot about us! Living apart from my sister in cramped grotty dorms with some weird roommates? NO THANKS! Now we're nice & comfortable here...and have no care for the Honors Society. Beware of them all! No one cares about their jobs these days, and they NEVER do ANYTHING right. BTW I don't worry about tuition, I got student aid all around...though I'm still hoping for a full scholarship! But now tuition's going UP, because, as I like to say, they raised the salary of our football head coach--"AHA! Steve Logan needs more money to make him stay! Let's take it out on the students!"

--Mbo