<p>i have tried, but if i stay it will bad for me. I would like to drop out and take the rest of the semester off and reapply to a school more suited to me during the spring semester, and if worst comes to pass then i will be at a community college, which would be better than my current situation. I can always transfer but how will W’s look on the transcript. Can i just explain my situation to them?</p>
<p>In theory it’s better not to quit in the middle of a semester, but if your health is in danger, get out of there ASAP and go to community college.<br>
It sickens me that college students would treat a person so badly.</p>
<p>I know how you feel because I was once an awkward freshman whose roommates made the first half of my first semester a horrible experience…enough to almost drop out of college. I also went to a diverse high school so I wasn’t used to sticking out and being made fun of. Later I decided it was better to stick it out and things got better because I found an awesome friend. You might feel alone but I’m pretty your judgmental peers are horrible to other students too. It’s just in the matter of finding them. </p>
<p>Dropping out is not a good choice. Transferring to another school, taking a year off, or studying abroad is a better choice. </p>
<p>Where are the other Asian Americans on your campus? Do they feel the same way on your campus?</p>
<p>Please don’t let these other people make you drop out of school. Look, these people talking about you, they aren’t your friends. They aren’t your bosses. Who are they to you? Nobody. Let them stay that way, and treat them that way. I think you need to develop some backbone, some attitude, and a bit more of an eff’em attitude at that. If you want to transfer out, by all means do so. It might be for the best. But you’re halfway through this semester and you can finish, get your credits, and throw your best deuces to this school and the folks that go there. There’s nothing wrong with you, so don’t even allow yourself feel that way. It’s not you. It’s them. </p>
<p>It’s a dirty world sometimes, but it still spins. So keep moving, keep your head up, and eff’em. And if you’re listening to your ipod and they’re talking, turn it up. Because what you’re listening to on there is probably a hundred times better than what a bunch of unimportant people are saying about you.</p>
<p>Which would be worse, having Ws on your transcript or doing something desperate and stupid?</p>
<p>I vote for get out right now. This isn’t the time for brinksmanship; it’s the time for making sure that you’re okay, and if that means being on the next flight back to Chicago, then go for it. Ws can be explained, and better that you should spend a little time explaining what happened to you than that you should spend any more time in a soul-killing environment.</p>
<p>The first priority is for you to be okay ASAP. The second priority is a distant second. This should not be happening to you. It should be they who have to leave. But life isn’t always fair and if desperate options are occurring to you that’s a pretty good sign that you can’t think of a non-desperate approach that has much chance of succeeding.</p>
<p>Will you let us know if there are ways we can support you other than posting in your thread?</p>
<p>Is your home very far away? Can you talk to your parents, will they understand if you needed to quit or change schools?</p>
<p>Its really sad what goes on out there!!</p>
<p>Please understand that your life is important and you have to be strong to chart out a course for yourself. Going to a CC could be a way out, or if you can wait till the semester ends you can go to a college in the Northeast like BU or NYU where there is a mix of population. If you got into Vandy or any of those others it means you had the stats.</p>
<p>If you got accepted to any other schools you may want to contact them and ask for transfer?</p>
<p>Good Luck, come on this forum to vent - we are here for you, Hugs.</p>
<p>If you were from my area, everyone would basically love you. Hipsters and Asians are well loved here. The hipster culture, I think, is actually predominant. Urban Outfitters is the place to be. It’s even worse that you’re not actually hipster, which is even more unfair.</p>
<p>I pm’ed you a question about the school you go to, so be prepared :)</p>
<p>i am so sorry this has happened to you. just try to remain calm and ignore what they are saying and don’t do anything derastic. maybe just try to spend a lot of time studying since you like the classes and that will take your mind off of it and then at least your transcript would look good when you switch. but if you dont want to do that that is fine. i’d say try to stick it out if you think you can and start looking around at other schools. I am sure a school in the midwest or north would be perfect for you. i go to school in ohio and the way you dress and look is probably more of a majority on my campus. it’s a really typical way for college students to dress. also, don’t take them so seriously. a lot of people call others hipsters but don’t really mean much by it(my friends do it all the time but we are totally cool with them). also, try to be more friendly to them maybe(i know that sounds hard). if you’re wearing your ear buds take them out and say hi and start a convo. let them know that you are a nice interesting person. and look around for other people who you might get along with. i am sure there are open minded people on your campus, you just gotta look.</p>
<p>i doubt it’s vanderbilt. yeah it’s southern, but it’s more tolerant than people think. i’ve seen “hipster” kids and students that dress like hipsters on this campus. i would consider myself one of them. we might get stared at every now and then, but i don’t think there’s much verbal abuse. definitely not as bad as the way the op is being treated.</p>