Staying in Iowa

Mandatory Quote:
"They say the two leading exports in Iowa are corn, and kids."

What does this mean? None of us kids wanna stay here. As soon as possible, we're out. Of course leaving iowa is not for all of us, but I am definitely fit in the category of getting the heck out of here. Every sense I started thinking of where I am going after high school, I have wanted to just get out of this corn infested boring state of Iowa. Yes, my whole life I've lived here and all my nostalgia is from my hometown of Cedar Rapids, but that is where it is going to stay. I am going elsewhere. How nice would a beach be? Its a dream that nothing is holding me back from.

As for colleges, My sister is in Virginia, and my brother is at Iowa. They obviously chose these places over the other. Let me tell you, my last. possible. resort. is iowa. It seems just like a bigger Kennedy High school but you get more people and more beer. It is most of the same people. As for me, I like exploring, love meeting new people, and sending loving emails due to being homesick. How would these be possible if I was only 30 minutes away from home? Iowa doesn't seem great.

Post College: Staying in Iowa? This is hard. I can't make this decision right now as I blog. I feel my best point in my life is to make this right after college. Some people, after they go to U of I or UNI or iState, iowa is all they know and they stay here. I think I will be able to make this decision when I have seen all around the US and where I want to stay then.

So should us kids continue to stay true to our homestate and live here? It is up to the individual. I am sure there is just as much justification to living in wyoming, or california, as there is to live in iowa. So I am telling you, to just look inside yourself and say, Is it best for my self, my future life, to be living here, whereever here might be? Do what is best for yourself.