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Orange, Blue, Garnet, Gold: Rival Colleges in a House Divided
By Jeff Zbar | March 25, 2009
I work from home, which means I have all day to schedule details related to the lives of the home’s occupants.
And seeing as my daughter is 17, a high school junior, and is singularly focused on college matriculation around a corner that’s almost 18 months away, my job has become scheduling school visits and tours.
One of those visits is to a campus that I NEVER thought I’d see myself — or any Zbar, for that matter — stepping foot upon as long as my blood ran orange and blue: Florida State University.
But in tight economic times, we do what we must. Kids’ college accounts have whithered on the vine, leaving families once singularly focused on out-of-state schools, even Ivys, looking in-state by necessity. We always were a Florida-bound family. But the stakes just grew high and tight.
Nicole’s college plan (save her Florida Prepaid) lost significant value. So even if she wanted to go private, it’ll be a tough nut.
But the point is, I scheduled a school visit today to a university equally proud as our own University of Florida. Maybe it will be my daughter’s school. And maybe I’ll go there several times a year to drop her off and pick her up and for parent’s weekend and maybe — just maybe — Seminoles / Gators game.
But for now, this work-at-home dad is left to handle the details. Including telling our friends that I’m making a campus tour visit to Tallahassee.
It’s gonna be a rough 18 months…
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