<p>I am a sophomore commuter student at a local state school, and I am seriously considering dropping out. I started going to a community college when I was in my senior year of high school, and I earned a bunch of credits that way. I then transferred those into a two year nursing program, but I quickly realized after being on the clinical floor that nursing wasn't for me. I told my parents, and they told me I needed to quickly figure out what's next. I really didn't want to go back to school at all. I would have rather just worked and saved money, but they pressured me, so I decided to transfer to the school I'm at now. </p>
<p>I started at this school in the Fall 2012 semester, and it really has been a struggle for me. I'm a self learner who loves being challenged, but this school is absolutely crazy. Some 100 level courses are taught as if they are 400 levels, and then a 300 level course will feel like a class that I took in middle school. The gen eds that they offer are taught, of course, by the teachers that think we all WANT to take those classes, and they make them extremely difficult. I am barely able to pass my 100 level math gen ed, but I get all As in my major requirements.</p>
<p>I am interested in my major, but I definitely don't see it taking me anywhere in life as far as a career goes. There's nothing else that I'm interested enough in school to pursue it as a major besides what I am currently taking, but I'm earning a BA and can totally see myself ending up as one of those people with a degree that works a crappy job. My major is German, but my school's German program isn't all that great, and already have basically the best grasp of the language that I can have without actually moving to Germany and immersing myself. </p>
<p>It is so hard for me to just sit in boring classes where I am either not being challenged or the level of the information being taught is too overwhelming (calculus in an introductory math course). My parents are entrepreneurs, and I definitely have that spirit where I would love to start my own business and be my own boss. I feel like I am wasting so much time and money thinking that I HAVE to have a degree to be successful. Some of the most successful people I know barely graduated high school while most of the people I know who have degrees aren't nearly as well off. </p>
<p>My only real goal at the moment is to make enough money to buy a house. I feel like the only reason I am in school is so that I can (hopefully) get a good enough job to be able to afford a house, but if I just worked for the next two years and saved (without racking up debt) I would be better off than if I was $30,000 in debt when I graduate. </p>
<p>Sorry about the rant, but does anyone have any advice about my situation?</p>