<p>I'm currently a sophomore at a prestigious college and I'm thinking of transferring to either Hopkins, Cornell, or Columbia. I'm taking upright bass lessons and while I have a great appreciation of music, I cannot appease my instructor. I am new to the bass and I just learned how to read music (this should tell you how much of a beginner I am!). Whenever I make mistakes, my instructor just rolls his eyes. He knows that I'm new to this but it's like he expects me to be perfect. In addition, I can't get my two middle fingers to stay together and this infuriates him so much. I've never had to do my fingers like that in my life and so I don't understand why he thinks it should be so easy to me. I don't want you guys to think that I really dislike him as I think that he's a wonderful man and he's an amazing bass player. However, I just don't think that I'm going to reach the level that he expects and I don't want this class to destroy my gpa.</p>
<p>I want to drop this class but then I again, I don't want to feel like a failure. In addition, I don't want this to look bad to the colleges that I apply to. I have one other W on my transcript that happened my first semester of college. </p>
<p>My pre-health advisor told me that he'd write a letter to any med schools that I apply to explaining my situation (I had diagnosed ADHD along with a roommate who was so awful. She found my diary and made copies of the contents and gave them to her friends because I didn't write an essay for her. Yeah, she had people do that for her in high school and wasn't used to anyone saying no to her). </p>
<p>I'm going to ask my advisor to write a letter to the schools that I apply to and I hope that he agrees! </p>
<p>What do you think guys? Should I drop this class? Just thinking of dropping it alleviates my stress load :p</p>