Trapped in a very bad situation, please help.

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm a second year medical student at a foreign school and I realized that I will be extremely miserable as a doctor. I barely have any interest in reading the topics assigned and I'm just wasting my time. My situation is kind of different and I want to make sure everything is smooth before I make a sudden move.</p>

<p>1.) I'm from USA and I did 1 year of pre-med in a safety school but performed poorly (2.6 gpa)</p>

<p>2.) Due to the economy and friends regretting their majors, I decided to search for an alternative option. Albeit, here I am at a medical school overseas.</p>

<p>So basically I've been here for about 1 yr and 8 months now and decided that I will never go near this field again. Now if I quit and go back to the states to major in what I really like (computers) then how will I explain my leave of absence to colleges? How would I be admitted into a decent institute? </p>

<p>Am I trapped? Should I just finish what I've started forcefully?</p>

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<p>Pleas don’t become a doctor if you hate it. You probably won’t do well in your studies with that attitude and no one is going to want to be your patient!</p>

<p>People quit med school and all sorts of other graduate programs all the time. It is less of a big deal than not finishing an undergraduate degree. Simple quit and reapply to programs you are interested in. Simply say (when asked) “I realized I did not want to pursue a medical degree or medical career.” Hardly anyone would question that–being a doctor is almost more a vocation than a career, so figuring that out and quitting med school is more common than you think.</p>