mattregister on "get_terms offset working?"

I am trying to display a list of termsfrom my taxonomy "organization" in an unordered list but display them in two columns. This is what I have for my first column:

function print_organizations1() {
$countterms = wp_count_terms( 'organization' );
if($countterms&1) {
$firstcolumn = ( ( ( $countterms - 1) / 2 ) + 1);
} else {
$firstcolumn = ( $countterms  / 2 ); }
$secondcolumn = ( $countterms - $firstcolumn );
$terms = get_terms( 'organization', array('number' => $firstcolumn ));
print '<div class="vcex-bullets vcex-bullets-gray"><ul>';
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
     // The $term is an object, so we don't need to specify the $taxonomy.
    $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
    // If there was an error, continue to the next term.
    if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
        continue;
    }
    // We successfully got a link. Print it out.
    print '<li><a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
}
print '</ul></div>';
}
add_shortcode('print-organizations1', 'print_organizations1');

That works perfectly. It figures out how many is in the first half of the list and uses that number of terms to display. When I try to make the second column is where I am getting lost. I try to offset the list by the number of terms in the first column.

function print_organizations2() {
$countterms = wp_count_terms( 'organization' );
if($countterms&1) {
$firstcolumn = ( ( ( $countterms - 1) / 2 ) + 1);
} else {
$firstcolumn = ( $countterms  / 2 ); }
$secondcolumn = ( $countterms - $firstcolumn );
$terms = get_terms( 'organization', array('offset' => $firstcolumn ));
print '<div class="vcex-bullets vcex-bullets-gray"><ul>';
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
     // The $term is an object, so we don't need to specify the $taxonomy.
    $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
    // If there was an error, continue to the next term.
    if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
        continue;
    }
    // We successfully got a link. Print it out.
    print '<li><a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
}
print '</ul></div>';
}
add_shortcode('print-organizations2', 'print_organizations2');

This outputs the entire list. Even when I replace $firstcolumn with a hard number it still displays the whole list. What am I missing? any thoughts?