Honestly, I took the non-traditional route. I was accepted to 3 great universities right out of hs, and I turned every one of them down due to fear. If I were to do it again, I would do it differently. I would accept the school that I would have loved the most (UCI, I did end up graduating from there
) and I would have gotten a furbaby earlier. Not freshman year though, your barely getting the lay of the land freshman year. I would in sophomore year, or junior year when the course load gets heavier. That is if my parents would help out financially a bit. I would have wanted a furbaby during the harder years because Kaji is a fantastic distraction, but in a good way. There are days were you need to focus and spend hours upon hours doing homework, or research. A furbaby makes a fantastic distraction when you've just had enough. My senior year, my roommate had a pom that I would walk whenever my mind needed a breather. I would come back refreshed and ready to work again.
Instead, I went to community college, met an awesome guy, we both transfered together to the same school, and after all the schooling was done for my BA, I got my furbaby. I'm not complaining because I'm happy with the way things turned out. Except for the fact that the economy sucks and a lot of my fellow recent grads and I are having a really hard time finding a stable job.