<p>I'm a freshman at Mount Union College in Ohio. I'm from the Western PA area so I knew I'd have to adjust to being away, but that's not my problem. No NFL rivalry was going to get in the way of a guy who loves his Steelers.</p>
<p>There is nobody up here who makes sense to me. All they do is drink, have sex, and go to parties. Every night I sit in my dorm and play video games. Nobody wants to play Nintendo with me because all they want is to destroy themselves.</p>
<p>There are a few guys who I can get along with, but the girls up here are very immoral. They are rude and desire only one night stands. I'll probably never go on a date if I remain at Mount.</p>
<p>I don't drink, don't party, and am saving sex until I get married. Unfortunately, I am very unhappy up here because nobody else is like that.</p>
<p>Grades are not good for me either. I have lost all ability to remember stuff from my books. A student with over a 4.0 in high school, I now have about a 1.7 GPA. This could be as a result of my poor living conditions. My dorm is very noisy (even during quiet hours), isn't heated well, and there are girls on my floor at 2AM in the morning. Someone tried to bust my door down once at 2AM and they were obviously drunk.</p>
<p>I feel very misunderstood and underappreciated. I have talked to some of the support staff and they only give me bogus answers. One even suggested I go to a frat house for a night. The day I am in any kind of frat house is the day I kill myself. I've tried to meet people but none of them are the type I'd hang out with. I actually know a 16 year old who is about five times as mature as the people in my dorm. </p>
<p>I am ready to pack up and leave at the end of the semester and transfer to a college near my home to which I can commute. I have a good friend who goes there and commutes, and he has been doing much better than me so far. He is also very much like me in the way he thinks and acts. Don't know what the ladies are like there, but he says the academics are great.</p>
<p>You know, people don't always pick the college that'll be the best for them the first time. I have a friend who has transferred twice and is now at home, commuting, and loving his new school. Another friend had a similar situation. Both found the social atmospheres to be terrible at their schools and also didn't feel they were learning much in the academic fields. I recommend researching your transfer options. You sound like you're unhappy, and who wants to stay unhappy for three and a half more years? Good luck, whatever choice you make :).</p>
<p>First things first, you are going to have to pull up your grades for any decent chance at transferring. Get whatever help you need -going to the academic skills center, tutoring, seeing the professor, hunkering down at the library so that you can pull your grades up.</p>
<p>Unitl you can transfer, you have to live with the here and now.</p>
<p>You are probably not alone in your situation. Have you thought about joing clubs or groups where you can find like minded people?</p>
<p>Would it be possible to take courses at a community college to "replace" those grades? In other words, I go there for a semester before I transfer?</p>
<p>Along the same lines, could I just pull out, say, this Friday and take extra courses in the summers so I still graduate in Spring 2009? In other words, have none of this Mount Union stuff count?</p>
<p>I'm in a music club but I'm still the odd man out. I'm too old-school for these people up here. It's gotten so miserable that I'm considering just leaving the school at the end of the week and never coming back. My mom already said she'd get a U-Haul.</p>
<p>maybe you can just withdraw from the school before semester's end....redo the application process and try to go to another place in the fall....take the spring off and relax. i would think that if you quit before completing a term, gpa and stuff wouldnt matter sinc eyou would have nothing to transfer anyway.</p>
<p>also, another thing i would suggest is to live off campus. i lived on campus for 2.5 years and hated it.....i might as well have lived with animals...those people were debauched. I am off campus and love it....its nice and quiet, no drunks, no loud music, no kids screaming in th emiddle of the night just because the team lost, no nothing be peace and quiet. HIGHLY reccomended.</p>
<p>Sounds to me like your pretty miserable. However, I would stick it out through the end of the semester and get what credit you can. Is the school at home guaranteed to accept you? If it is, I think it might be wise to transfer there for a semester or two, get your grades up, and then decide if you want to stay there, or transfer to another residential college. If you're not sure if the school at home will take you, I would recommend toughing it out at Mount Union for the rest of the year, so you can get your grades up, and then transfer.</p>
<p>I would be really hesitant about dropping out and then applying again as a freshmen. Colleges can be reluctant to accept those who have been out of high school for a while, and most will ask what you've been up to.</p>