Nebraska College
I had to raise my eyebrow when my mother and I sat on the couch, drinking cocoa and talking about my cousins from outside the state. Apparently, a whole horde of them are considering to go a Nebraska college instead of their own community college after they graduate from high school. Not that I object to them going to a Nebraska college or two. I believe that a Nebraska college is just as good as any other college out there, if not better (I’m very proud of Nebraska education, obviously). But what surprised me that the reason why they each wanted to go to a Nebraska college was that they liked their relatives in Nebraska – us, that is – better than their nuclear families.
I personally think that those are really bad reasons for wanting to get into a Nebraska college, but I didn’t exactly have the heart to tell my mother that: she’s happy to know that some of her nephews and nieces would be easier to contact and fuss over. I suspect that her joy over their desire to get into a Nebraska college has more to do with her empty nest syndrome than anything else. I am, after all, seriously considering getting a stable job and moving out now.
Still, I wish my cousins luck with their Nebraska college applications. It would be cool to have them around in any case.