Great feedback has been posted here. I would like to suggest that you check out the opportunities for exchange study through UTC with a school abroad or perhaps even within the U.S. I understand myself the yearning to get away from the hometown and interact with people who have different points of view. I left a mid-sized city in Virginia for Washington and New York, and I would not trade those experiences for anything, nor would I want to go back to my hometown (one of the possible consequences of expanding one's world view, unfortunately). My mother was originally from around Chattanooga so I have some experience with that city and area, although not recently. Perhaps an exchange program would provide an extra challenge and different perspective for at least one semester.
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