As of today, it is exactly a month before I get on the plane to go to Florida. I'm going down a few days early to spend some time at the parks with my mom. My actual check in date isn't until January 9th.
I still haven't gotten luggage and all of my financial aid stuff prepared, but I'm hoping to have that taken care of soon. My advice to anyone who is doing this program in the future, is to apply as soon as the applications open, and start preparing things for your classes and financial aid right after getting accepted into the program. That way you don't have to rush right before leaving, in order to get everything prepared.
Anyways, I still haven't gotten in touch with my roommate yet. I'm not sure if I should have done the roommate notification process or not. It really isn't all that useful, especially when the person won't contact you in return. I thought it would be nice to know who I was living with, but maybe it would have been more fun, more of an experience to just be suprised when I got there.
Other than the actual packing and the class/financial aid situation, things are going great. I'm excited and ready to get to Florida.