<p>OP, a very similar scenario happened with our D at the end of her freshman year. She was also miserable due largely to a distant boyfriend and yes, she spent more time on facebook and skype than she did with the people around her. Her plan was to take soph year at the local community college and then transfer to a UC. </p>
<p>We were so exhausted from a year of trying to convince her to stay where she was that we accepted her community college/UC plan. Our only requirement was that, since she would be walking away from a good aid package, she had to figure out how the rest of her college was going to be funded, which she did. The smartest thing she did was to decide not the slam the door on her college by disenrolling; she took a leave instead. But when she got home for the summer she was 90% sure she wouldn’t be returning. </p>
<p>But she did go back after one semester off. Over the summer, she found that she missed a few people at college more than she thought she would; she also discovered that things weren’t the same with her old high school buddies, and she and the boyfriend broke up almost immediately once they got home for the summer. Once he was out of the picture, she stopped seeing her college as the enemy who was keeping her away from Mr. Wonderful.</p>
<p>We were glad she decided to go back, but somewhere along the line we made peace with her Plan B. Life was easier for us once we crossed that bridge.</p>