<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I half hate myself for posting on college confidential again, but I am really sort of seeking out help with a dilemma I've found myself relatively embroiled in right now.</p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman at Brown. I'd like to consider myself a pretty outdoorsy guy. I really enjoy running, hiking, skiing, and a lot of related activities that I did with regularity in high school that I can't honestly find at Brown. So recently I've been thinking of transferring, although I've been looking really earnestly for all options at Brown.</p>
<p>I'm looking seriously at Dartmouth, and at a few other small schools. I am finding myself caught between a proverbial rock and hard place, as I feel so strange wanting to leave behind Brown. I love 90% of Brown. I just am having a lot of trouble living in such a strongly urban environment (some don't consider it urban, but being from a small rural town in the Northeast, it definitely feels like a huge change). </p>
<p>I am not honestly sure if I should just suffer for the four years without a really integral part of myself, the part that loves the outdoors and wants to run and hike every day, to live out the Brown experience. I love Brown, but I just don't know if I'd be able to make it the whole way feeling as I do now.</p>
<p>Any thoughts or advice would be great!</p>