transferred out, now what to transfer back

Transfer Students
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<p>I attended Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT) last year for my first year of college. Over the summer I applied to Stony Brook University, and received my admittance letter around June. I am now attending Stony Brook University, and I am completely and utterly miserable. I find myself missing Quinnipiac a whole lot from time to time and wanting to go back. I left because:</p>

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<li>My parents were having a hard time with money this year</li>
<li>I thought I hated the people there</li>
<li>I thought SB would be better for my education(pre-med)</li>
<li>I was constantly getting sick</li>
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<p>To be honest, now that I am not there and I am seeing everything from a different light, I actually thing that I was blind-sighted when I was there. My roommate and my friend absolutely hated it there and I was surrounded by negativity. Not only that, but I had mono for a long period of time and I was just so frustrated by that that I think that I associated QU with all the bad things that happened to me while I was there. I think that absence really does make the heart grow fonder. Now that I am home I am realizing that the people there didn't suck, I wasn't involved enough and wasn't making friends (I am a very social person). I also realized that QU is a good school for pre-med, and they are even building a medical school that is going to open when I graduate. I am afraid to leave Stony Brook, because I don't want to make another bad decision. I keep thinking, well what if I stay here and things get better? I just really really hate commuting and its seriously draining the life out of me. I don't know what to do, so any advice will seriously be appreciated. </p>

<p>(I am also afraid of going back because I made such a big deal about leaving and now I left and I'm not even happy, I feel like such an idiot)</p>

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<p>haha, yeah sb sucks a lot. why would you ever go there?! and no, things will certainly not get better. </p>

<p>how about transferring somewhere completely different from quinnipiac or sb? what about another SUNY so it’s not too pricey?</p>

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<p>hey, i just want you to know you’re not alone. I literally just transferred from UW madison to Umich Ann Arbor for the following reasons:</p>

<p>-in state tuition
-a little bit better school
-closer to home, etc</p>

<p>I had an unreal time at Madison, but I just thought as a pre-med student it would be more wise to invest in my education at a more respected institution where I had more connections and where it was more affordable. It hasn’t even been a month and I want to go back. But I am stuck too–I am in a house with high school friends, on whom I feel I can’t bail, and also because like you said, I’m sure people would think it is ridiculous that I transferred there and back.</p>

<p>I just emailed an old advisor on some help on the situation. Hopefully he will have good news. I still need to talk to parents too. Any updates from you?</p>

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<p>I cannot even describe to you how comforting it is to hear someone else actually on the same page as I am. I would love to keep in touch with you somehow and see how things go with you as time passes by. As of now I am still 50/50…my parents tell me to do what makes me happy. I am so afraid that I am being too quick to judge, but at the same time I am absolutely miserable. Commuting is just ridiculous and I can’t take it anymore. I have no time for myself anymore. I am afraid that I will go back, when maybe it could get better if i stick it out and see if I get used to it. I am going to visit my friends next weekend, and I really hope it helps me determine what I want to do…</p>