Okay, so I transferred from my first college after my freshman year. While transferring, I had the choice between 3 schools - one was the same size as my current school but in a slightly bigger city, the second was the same but in a huge city, and the third was a huge school in a huge city. I picked the first college and moved here over the summer and I have finished my first semester. I hated my first school, because the city was too small and I spent all of my time waiting for the weekend so I could go home because I hated being there so much. I also felt like I wasn’t challenging myself academically at all, and a lot of my friends thought I was too smart to be going there. I had friends, so my campus life was fine there, but I just wasn’t happy so I dreaded the idea of having to go to school there for 4 years.
Now, I’m at my second school. It’s a bigger city with more stuff to do than my first college, but it’s still really boring. My campus is very much a commuter campus and nobody spends much time there. I also get this vibe that everyone made their friends freshman year and have no intentions of making any more. I’ve tried to talk to people in my classes, but none of them seemed to want anything to do with me outside of class. Now, after my first semester I haven’t made any new friends and I still dread the idea of having to live here for another 2 and a half years.
I’ve been feeling a lot of regret lately for not picking the big school in the big city. I toured it and had planned on going there for sure, but after touring it, I was just afraid of how big it was and made a quick decision to go to the school I’m at now. I wish I would have just gone to the big school instead. So my question is: is it worth it to transfer again? Will it look bad? Or should I just stick it out and finish my bachelors degree here and go to grad school in a bigger city?