Do I think I missed out?

I've gotten this question a lot lately in relation to deciding to leave Howard after my first semester and was reminded of it thanks to facebook and the friends from Howard that I have via facebook. So question: Do I think I missed out on anything by not finishing college at Howard. Answer: Absolutely not. I feel like the things that happened to me in the first sememster taught me a lot and made me a better and stronger person. It was at Howard that for the first time in my life I had ALL black friends. Never in my life had I hung out with only black girls and actually enjoyed it. I was fortunate to have found a group of girls that I meshed quite nicely with. Although there are times I miss DC and the people I met and the things I expereinced I wouldn't change my decision to leave. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to expereince the other coast and the black college experience if only for a semester, but the things I experienced at a Division 1 Pac-10 university are way more me. At WSU I was able to major in Sport Management and minor in Communications (one of the best com schools in the country), I met amazing people, especially T, Megan, Katie, Rachel, Ashley, Jerome, Amanda, Mandy, the lady hoopers, the men hoopers and the football players that I wouldn't trade for the world. I got to expereince our men's basketball team going to the NCAA tournament back to back times, including a sweet 16 appearance. I got to watch USC and UCLA up close...including shouting to Josh Shipp that he is the sexiest man in the Pac-10. I got to work in a big time university athletic department, I got to walk to bars and parties...wasted most of the time, I made trips to Idaho (a state I thought I'd never set foot in), I got to come home for all major breaks (I didn't get to come home for Thanksgiving my first year of college). WSU brought pleanty of great friends and memories.

In short both Howard and WSU have made me into the person I am. I think that had it not been for Howard I would have never really gotten the chance to have a group of black girlfriends, see REAL step shows, expereince the Ques at their best, explore DC, Maryland and VA, spend hours shopping at Pentagon City, Union Square, PG Plaza or Adams Morgan and I would have never had a lesbian roommate or spent 6 hours in a hospital due to several girls getting alcohol poisioning at my first Que party. At WSU though I got to experience a "college town", develop a love for country music, play beer pong (not very well), play flip cup, drink til I passed out, dance in cages, walk to 95% of the parties I went to, met my soulmate in many ways (T!), sleep outside for HOURS with friends and strangers to grab the best seats for Cougar baketball, sneak liquor into the stadium for every Cougar Football game, taken half the OSU basketball team out and return 3 players to their hotel at 7 the next morning, being a sport management major, develop a tolerance for cheap beer (Busch light), learn to drink like a fish, being seen on TV (thanks to all my hours spent outside to grab front row for basketball games), I could go on forever!

I grew up a Husky (UW), spent a short time as a Bison (HU-Howard), but ened up a forever proud Coug (WSU)