<p>aww, i love how you guys became friends through this thread very nice.</p>
<p>So, Kay and Diva, how did it all turn out? Did you visit? Like it? Where are you going to school?</p>
<p>(months too late on this post, but hey Iâm pre-pharm, no time for much other than chem,bio, and calc during the year, it seems)</p>
<p>Hopefully someday this could help some of my fellow northerners. I came down here from the yankee-est of yankee places. Northern Vermont (aka Almost Canada, 20 mins from boarder and Montreal is the closest city). I came down here from a state with 99.9% white people (though that includes Eastern Europeans, and I may be exaggerating a bit) and most of our non-white population is refugees so itâs a bit different. I grew up going to Boston and was used to the idea that where there are multiple races, they all han out all happy happy. </p>
<p>UGA weirded me out a bit at first because of the same thing other students said, the self imposed peer-groups. People of different races just donât mix too often (and I tended to spend a fair bit of time on campus people-watching because this interested me at first). I have had a hard time making deep connections with fellow UGA students because of the divide, and it seems whenever friend groups are already made, members of them are hard to meet new people/make friends outside the group (Doesnât seem to be an issue coming in as a freshman, but I was a transfer student).</p>
<p>Onto the yankee issue⊠people know I am not from GA from my lack of any sort of southern accent, and as Iâve heard before "I know youâre a yankee cause you enunciate too wellâ. Bah, jokes, they have them down here. Very few people are âagainstâ the northerners in Athens, it seems to be just a fact of life that northerners live here for college. Iâll get yankee comments upon people seeing my car (therefore realizing I am, in fact, a yankee), or jokingly from friends.</p>
<p>On campus, it seems finding out you arent from GA is a temporary point of interest for other students with many questions like âwhere is that?â âwhatâs it like up there?â and âhow is it different/how do you like it down here?â No big deal, and after that itâs done and behind them and you are one of the masses.</p>
<p>Anyway, 5 months too late, TL;DR and all, I hope you all made out alright in your school choices.</p>