Why I Chose IWU

I have 10 days of high school left.
10 DAYS.

I'm excited, scared, ready, but mostly tired.

Senior prom is done, senior musical is done, AP tests are done. I'm done.

In a few months I will packing up my belongings and going 689 miles to Indiana Wesleyan University.

I get some pretty weird looks when some people ask me where I'm going to college and I answer with that. "Why so far away?" "What's in Indiana?" "Oh, because it's for free?"

Well the last one is a factor into my choice, but I didn't completely decide on that.

My dad works at OKWU and through his job I can get free tuition with the cccu scholarship. By the beginning of my senior year, I had narrowed it down to three universities. All of them in Indiana.
I applied and was accepted to all of them. Over fall break I went to Indiana to tour the schools and see which one I would fall in love with.

I'd always heard that you would know when you walked on campus, but when I had already toured two colleges and wasn't too extremely impressed by either, I got a little nervous. But on the day I stepped on IWU's campus I thought "crap". I liked it and I didn't want to. From the moment I knew what college was, I had always said I wasn't going to IWU. I didn't want to be that predictable, because, well that's just how I am. I like doing the opposite of what people tell me to do. Oopsie.

The last college I toured was Taylor University, which was my favorite before all the tours. And I told myself it was my favorite after them, even though I was beginning to have to force myself. I really did like the school, but like I was told, when you know you know. So I applied for the scholarship there, and asked God "Please make this easy."

Guess how easy he made it.
I'll answer that for you. He made it really easy.
I didn't get the scholarship.

Although I was a little bummed they didn't pick me, I was all over glad that it was IWU I would be going to, because I knew all along that's where I was needed.

But just you wait for the cherry on top.
I met my roommate for IWU, and guess what her name is.
Taylor.

Now you can say that's a coincidence, fine. But I think it's God smiling down on me to tell me "Congrats Kasia. You finally did something right."

Jeremiah 29:11-13

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

God Bless,

Kasia