Hi, so little back story here.
I transferred after my freshman year to a different school. My reasons for transferring were because I thought the city my college was in was boring and I thought I wasn’t happy there. I spent fall semester at my new school and I absolutely hate it. I’ve spent the whole semester comparing my new school to my old one and everything at my old school was just better. I liked the campus a lot better, I miss my friends from there, and the other school was actually a higher ranked school that would probably look better on my resume anyway. I haven’t made any friends at the new school and I have just had a horrible experience compared to the school I started out in as a freshman.
I had a lot of bad friends when I was in high school, so I was excited to meet new and better friends in college. I did meet a lot of new friends at my old school, but I let a couple mean ones ruin it for me. Second semester I kinda isolated myself and spent all my time with one of my good friends from high school who went to the same college as I did. I blamed my new friends at school for not talking to me as much, but I realize it was my fault because I isolated myself. I still talk to those friends, and they were all really upset when I decided to transfer, so I know now that they were actually good friends that I shouldn’t have left behind. This was my biggest issue when I left the school, along with the fact that the city was boring. My new school is in a bigger city, but I actually find it to be more boring than my old school.
Currently, I decided to take spring semester off and take a couple classes online while I figure out what I want to do in the fall. I’m ahead on credits anyway for a sophomore, so I’m not gonna be behind or anything when I go back in the fall. I really dread the idea of going back to my transfer school. I really hated it. I didn’t feel cared for at all by the faculty, and my original college was really good with that stuff. There’s also never anything going on, I haven’t even seen a club fair or anything at my transfer college the whole fall semester. At my old school, there always seemed to be a lot of stuff going on. I could sit here forever and list all the things I liked about my old school, but I guess I’ll stop there.
I am leaning towards going back to my old school, but I’m not even sure how that is going to work. I don’t know if I’ll have to apply as a transfer or what, and I’m honestly feeling a little embarrassed about going back. I’m not sure if my friends will be happy that I’m back or if they’ll think its weird. I guess I’d just like some other people’s opinions about it, because I’ve never really heard of people transferring out and then returning to the same university like this. So, do you think it’s a good idea for me to go back to my first school? Or should I try to transfer somewhere else? I honestly don’t think going back to the new school is even an option at this point. I really did not like it at all.