I committed to Florida Southern College to play women’s lacrosse early in my junior year of high school. I’m a freshman now, and I haven’t been here long but I am very unhappy. I was very happy when I made the decision obviously, but when my senior year came I began to worry that I had made the wrong one because I had always pictured myself at a big school with a lot of school pride, big on sports but also with a strong academic program. It was hard seeing all my friends so excited to finally decide on a school they loved when I wasn’t going to the school of my dreams, and I felt like lacrosse had held me back from doing that instead of helping me. I kept a positive attitude coming in, but I’ve been here a month now and I haven’t been happy with my decision once. The people on my team are great and I’m making friends; it’s the school itself that I am unhappy with. I regret sacrificing the things I wanted in a school in order to play lacrosse now, and I just can’t see myself spending four years here. I know that I want to transfer, but my dilemma is in when. I’m considering applying to transfer to another college for the spring semester, but my main issue is with lacrosse. I had great grades in high school and high standardized testing scores, so I’m not worried about having to provide that information because of the little time I’ve spent in college. I just worry that I would feel like all of my effort in the recruiting process was a waste of time if I transferred before I even played one season. On the other hand, I also know that I’ve been unhappy almost every day since I got here and I don’t see the point in making that last longer and continuing to pay my tuition here when I don’t even know that all my credits will transfer and I could just go somewhere I’d be happy sooner. Any advice from anyone who has done a spring transfer would be greatly appreciated. Just looking for some guidance, if you have any opinions, or personal experiences at all pleaseee share 
I’m at a university for basketball and am going through the exact same experience. I am completely unhappy here and I have decided to transfer to a school closer to home and family for the spring semester. I don’t see the point on staying somewhere I don’t see myself staying at for 4 years anyways, and somewhere that I’m not happy at. Life’s too short to not be happy