<p>Ok, I go to a pretty prestigious school in NC, I am from here, but I am about 5 hours away from home. Lets just say the school hasn't turned out to be what I hoped, from a sucky roommate, to those crappy TA's, I haven't felt particularly welcome. This is also the first time I've ever been away from home. Super close to my family, being an only child to a single parent doesn't help. I am asking for advice. How would I go about going to my community college for a year? Is that even possible? I am just so confused on what I want to do, there are great possibilities for me here, but something just doesn't feel right.</p>
<p>You need to speak to someone at your school about the possibility of taking a leave of absence for a year. And ask specifically if you’d be allowed to take classes at your local community college during that year and if you could get credit for them. If you don’t know whom to speak with, start with your advisor and, if that’s not an option, go to the Dean of Students.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that you’re not the first student to feel this way. Lots of freshmen find that first year of college really difficult to adjust to, for a lot of reasons. I’d suggest taking advantage of student counseling services, if you haven’t done that already. And don’t make a definitive decision to withdraw any sooner than you absolutely have to . . . you may find, over the next few months, that things will start to improve. You need to allow time for that to happen.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, find something you enjoy doing - some activity you can participate in at school that you really like - and go do it!</p>
<p>If it isn’t too late to withdraw this semester, it would be perfectly OK to do that. It also is perfectly OK to transfer to your hometown CC, and take classes there while you think about where you’d like complete your education. Happykid and one HS pal started out at our local CC, and by second semester several of their friends who had started at 4-year institutions had joined them there. All of them have finished or are almost done with their associates degree and have transferred or are in the process of transferring to their final universities. In each of those cases, being “home” a bit longer was the right thing to do.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best!</p>
<p>westmc9th - I’d strongly suggest you repost this question in the [college</a> parents’ forum](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/]college”>Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums), where you’ll get more feedback.</p>