<p>Although I will support him if he is sure that he wants to transfer after next semester, I am glad that he will have to tough it out until May. The roommate situation will get better or they will find a way to switch roommates. The bigger issues of not getting a class that he wants second term might work out or he might find something better for him that will take him down a different career path.<br>
I think some of the unhappiness is due to comparing freshman year of college to senior year of high school. As a high school freshman, he had few friends at his new school; his best friend was out of the country and his other middle school friends went to our neighborhood school, not the magnet. By senior year, he had a great group of friends, was involved in some activities that he really enjoyed. Already as a freshman, he has more friends in just a few months than he had at his high school. He is still in the trying it out stage of activities; one he really likes and the other he quit when it was threatening to consume all of his time.
I think some aspects of college are like marriage. Some people give up too easily and go for the divorce and others realize that it takes a lot of work to make a marriage work. And some marriages were a mistake to begin with and should be ended before too much time is wasted.</p>