Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
Here is the situation:
I’m a senior at a private college and want to drop out. I used to find the course work interesting, but now I dread completing the assignments. I am learning a lot, don’t get me wrong, but it is not challenging and tedious. I don’t think I have the motivation to continue and graduate. Should I drop out and enroll at a technical college?
Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.6
Major GPA: 4.0
You have one more semester plus the four or five weeks left in this one? And a GPA range of 3.6-4.0 depending on how you calculate it? Really stop and think about how that sounds. No, you should not drop out. Finish it up.
Perhaps seek some advising or counseling and explore further why you want to do this now. Perhaps you are fearing the next steps after graduation? Dropping out won’t make those fears go away. Finish your degree. You can still go to a technical college after that if you want to.
NO.
You should go to your college counseling center and talk to them. You may have some depression issues.
You should talk to your adviser…maybe you are realizing that this major isn’t exactly what you want…but you have to see what the job would be like. I never liked circuits lab but that is not what my job is like as an Engineer.
You are so close…it is important to just get your degree at this point.
Let’s say that you are taking accounting but accounting class is tedious. I have not generally seen it go well for people who drop out during senior year. It’s not the class that is the issue…it is them.
It is better to explore what you “really” want to do WITH A DEGREE than without one as the degree opens you up to graduate school opportunites (maybe you get an MBA?) or jobs.
Maybe next year if you can take some classes outside your major that may be of interest.
Whoa, step back and think about how far you have already come. You have to stick it out. Your future job prospects without a degree of some kind are bleak, quite frankly. You will never regret getting a degree, but you will definitely regret not getting one.
Two examples: my friend, a mother of four, is finishing her degree, after a 23 year hiatus. She was four classes short of getting it, then money, marriage and children got in the way. Once life starts as an adult, it is really difficult to pick up where you left off. Anyway, my friend is finishing her last of four classes. It has taken her 18 months to do them, because again, life gets in the way. She now wants to return to work and needs a degree because her competition all have one. Why hire the person without the degree?
Example 2: I deveoped a new career for myself after years of not working and raising kids. It would have literally not been possible without my degree. I now have a job I enjoy. I have my degree, earned 25 years ago, to thank for that.
See an advisor about the possibility of graduating early. There’s a good chance you may already have enough credits – or to be so close you only have to take a couple of classes to finish things up.
Maybe focus on some tech-related courses for your final semester. That could boost your chances of getting a job in which possibly an employer could pay for your additional training.
Do talk to someone – a counselor, friends – about how you feel.
But don’t waste the past 3 years. There’s not much of a difference between being a college drop out,and never having gone to college at all: either way, you still don’t have that all-important piece of paper that opens most doors.
And… hang in there! You’re so, so close!
You’re almost done. Definitely find support at your school from therapists, guidance counselors, and friends. You can finish up. Just one more semester to go.
I had someone tell me that a college degree shows that you can put up with crap, because thats what someone who will hire you is looking for. You have put up with a lot of crap, grind out the last of it.