It’s the second day, second semester of my freshman year of college and I’m contemplating transferring next year.
I’m just feeling really down about having to be stuck in the middle of no where for 3 more years. I thought moving out to college would change me, but I’ve realized a change of scenery won’t change who I am, I MYSELF have to change.
I made some friends last semester and enjoyed it back then, but i’ve lost those friends. And I’m realizing that I enjoyed having friends rather than the school.
So I go to Chico State, I honestly don’t even remember applying to this school and it was the only school I got into. I really wanted to go to Long Beach but I didn’t get in. I now realize that I prefer a school that looks like Chico, but is located in the middle of the city aka UC Berkeley. Or just a commuter school, one where all the students aren’t bunched together and you see the same people everyday. At least a city with some diversity.
I honestly wish I would have sucked up my pride and went to community college.
This school constantly makes me feel like we’re all stuck here because we didn’t get in anywhere else. And that’s how I feel everyday, because I know I’m smarter than that. I’m not saying the people here are stupid or anything, I just don’t like how I feel going here. I don’t like feeling like I’m stuck somewhere because other schools rejected me. I want to be proud when people ask where I go, rather than feel dumb because I only go here because I got in.
The classes they offer are great, it’s just that I don’t like Chico.
I want to take a leave of absence (just in case) next year, and take some GE’s at a local Community College. I think taking a year off and doing that will help me realize whether or not I want to go back, and I won’t be spending a whole bunch of money.
I read a post that said that there is a plan you can take to use your GE’s you took at a University and combine them with the GE’s at a community college then transfer. I think it’s called IGETC?? Can you actually do that???