I think Ole Miss gets the rep of party because yes here people do like to party and we have all the resources to do it but I think Ole Miss is so much more than that. I was supposed to go to Duke University for diving. That didn’t happen because of injury and I had to restart everything when it came to college. So I started thinking of colleges and I mainly only focussed on colleges that had good sports and good marketing programs because I want to be a sports agent. But I had so many other things that came with choosing a university: good football (sports agent sorry about it), art history (my minor that I won’t give up even though everyone tells me too), beautiful campus, not too cold, good area, good people, sharks (shark conservationist #FLProbs). When I chose to go to Ole Miss the amount of backlash I got was horrible. I got told I would become dumber or redneck or a drunk and so many other horrible things. My teachers were bad, my friends were bad and some of my family were even bad. I felt horrible about all the backlash and everything but once I stepped back in rationalized everything I realized most of the hate and negativity sprouted out of ignorance. I realized that that ignorance came from the fact they have had this Ivy League crap shoved down their throat and Ivy League or Die just programed into their head so they have no idea any different. They have this stigma of anything other than what they know as bad and they fear anything that’s different and I think that’s a fault for them. I go to a school where I’m offered everything I could ever want or need where as they’re going to a school they don’t even like or their major isn’t even offered there but they’re just going there because of the Ivy League tag line. I’ve never been so happy or felt so academically free and I thank God all the time for leading me to Ole Miss because I see the unhappiness in my friends from home and think about my life and I couldn’t be more grateful.