Okay so I currently go to Ohio State and am thinking of transferring. When I originally looked for colleges during my senior year I completely narrowed it down to bigs schools in a big city where sports were huge. So I only looked at pretty much all Big Ten or SEC schools because I thought that was what I wanted, but I think I was wrong. Even though being in a big city has its perks, I don’t like it. I thought I would love it because I loved visiting Chicago and stuff but I think I like big cities as just a vacation. I don’t feel at home with the city around me. I miss my suburbia feeling of home. (But I can guarantee homesickness is not the problem.) But I am majoring in Sports Industry so the big city obviously would have some good opportunities to intern with one of their many pro sports teams. I love my roommate. I have friends here and have met new people who I really like and we hangout and go out together, but I feel out of place still somehow. And I do not like the night life here. If you are not 21 you have to rely on parties to go to which is hard to come by as a freshman. And getting a fake to go to the bars is too risky. So a lot of the time we have ended up just staying in our dorms because we don’t have any other option really.
I think transferring to Miami would offer me everything that I lack here. I never even looked at Miami in my original college search because I thought it was everything I didn’t want. But I visited friends there and realized that it might be exactly what I need. It is kind of in the middle of no where so the campus is all there is…the perfect college town. And the campus is beautiful with all of its foliage and brick buildings and brick streets. The bars are all 18 and up so there would be endless options to go out uptown. And there are still parties as an option if the bar scene gets old. Greek like if huge there which is appealing to me since I definitely want to join a sorority. I could also do that at OSU but it’s definitely judged if you do here at OSU. Also the academics are still rigorous there and classes are smaller which is a lot more appealing. I am good at learning and doing work on my own but if I do have questions it is intimidating to ask in huge classes at OSU compared to average class size of 30 at Miami. And Miami still has my major. A majority of my credits would also transfer to Miami so that would not be a worry. And while I have a lot of friends from home at OSU and Miami but Miami just seems more like home. Like I don’t even go there and I miss it when I’m not there. I’m sure a part of that is missing my friends at Miami but like I miss the campus and night life there. I had more fun in the weekend that I visited Miami than I have in 2 months at OSU. Financially transferring would not be a problem either.
I am trying to stick it out at OSU but I am not happy here and as much as it would break my heart to transfer because I was so sure that Ohio State was my dream school, even since the thought of transferring got in my head a month and a half ago, I haven’t been able to shake it. And when I think of transferring, Miami is the only school I would even consider. So I guess I am in a constant struggle with my head and heart on what to do…
do I transfer or do I stay? Do you guys have any advice about this?