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"The Jersey girl..a love of an unpretentious good time, and a certain sense of style. Jersey girls are about attitude. They're about eating pizza, drinking beer, having great hair - and enjoying it all..She's got a mouth on her. She says what she means. And she's got a nice, cheerful laugh..Bottom line, all of them are sexy as hell." -The Star Ledger. I will live and die by this quote, because I think it is an awesome representation of what us Jersey Girls are really like. We are ourselves like no one else, and when one walks by you, you know.
Growing up it felt like I had the whole world in the palm of my hand. Living twenty minutes from the beach and a forty five minute train ride into the city, I never thought life could get much better. I moved around in NJ a couple of times, and loved every place I lived. Even though the towns were always so different, it always felt like home. I always felt like I belonged, no matter where I went.
When it came time to decide on what Universities I would apply to and eventually to attend, I was surprisingly heart-set on getting out of NJ. Even though I love it and it is my home I wanted to experience something totally different that I knew I would never get the chance to do back home. I wanted to travel far, and I wanted to attend to a big University with great athletics. West Virginia University was the first school I received my acceptance letter to. Thrilled, wasn’t even the word to describe how I truly felt. Even though I was counting on my acceptance to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, it felt good to have that acceptance, just like I had grown up feeling in NJ. When I stepped onto West Virginia’s Campus I knew it was the right fit. I had no doubt in my mind that this is where I was going to spend my next four years. I had known a few guys that had attended my high school that were going here and they loved it. Rumor also had it that there was a decently large population of the school that was from...