ACE President moves to Nashville from Alaska

Maggie Marksberry

Issue date: 11/16/09 Section: News

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K.C. Greenup moved to Nashville after visiting a friend. She is also President of Association of Campus Events.

Volunteer State Community College student K.C. Greenup, association of campus event's president, is a native of Ketchikan, Alaska located southeast of Juno.
Her hometown is surrounded by glaciers, and to reach the city you have to fly or take a ferry.
She first came to Nashville when her best friend of 10 years went to Nashville Auto Diesel College, and she came down for a visit. She ended up moving down, and living on her own for a year.
"I got an apartment by the fairgrounds because I didn't really know Nashville, and I was never really in the apartment. I worked at UPS in the mornings from 3:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and I valeted for private events at night," said Greenup.
She started at Vol State in the summer of 2008.
After two years of being a part-time student at the University of Alaska, none of her credits except for economics transferred.
"The biology there is biology of Alaska, so I have had to retake a lot of classes," Greenup said.
"The campus here seemed so big to me because ours was two buildings, and the teachers were the ones I had in high school. There were three campuses because Alaska is so big, and not everyone wants to move to go to college and there are no other colleges besides the University of Alaska," she said.
Greenup now lives in Hermitage with her boyfriend of two years, and her mom has moved to Tenn. to be closer to her. The first time she went to Sonic she tried to go inside and didn't understand what to do.
"I was so embarrassed, and I didn't know you had to tip them. I would rather have just gone inside and gotten the food myself," she said.
There was only a McDonald's in her hometown, and it was more than eight dollars for a Big Mac.
Greenup said she misses home.
"I miss it because I am an outdoor person, but here you have to drive somewhere to go hiking and camping. There it was only five to 10 minutes away," she said.
"It's that kind of town if you don't leave, you will stay there the rest of your life. It's just different here, but I am going to keep being myself. We didn't have snow days there either, and people here freak out when there is an inch of snow," Greenup added.
Greenup will graduate next semester, and plans to continue on to Tennessee Tech or Austin Peay to major in biology and minor in secondary education.

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