 I was all for Alabama from my sophomore year of high school I think and my parents were not as on board just because it is so far away from home. They really wanted me to visit campus before I came there like you can't choose to go across the country if you've never been to the campus. My tour it was like my very first college tour and it was insane like I was like is this what like all colleges are like and it wasn't because I went on like six others and they were not like this it was just really nice they like set up a schedule for me so I got to be like campus tour with new capstone men and women and then I got to do like the whole seminar and it was just so gorgeous and it was so amazing and I came during the summer so everything was all green and pretty and there were so many flowers everywhere and it was just like I just know. My atmosphere was just like oh my goodness I feel like this togetherness and from that I kind of just wanted to stay here I didn't want to go to colleges I just wanted to stay here. I kind of figured out that this was the place I wanted to go. I think that as soon as we got done with the campus tour I was in the car we were driving back to Virginia and I clicked that accept button on my laptop on the drive home. At the end of the day my dad was like okay I see I see what you see I see so much love for every single person on this campus I see a community more than anything I think the thought was something really important to him and when he saw that here he was fully on board.