<p>I've been at University of Oregon for just one term and I want to transfer to Portland State because I live in portland and my friends are there. I haven't really made any friends here and I frequently feel lonely and/or depressed and emotional. I think part of it is that big schools aren't for me. Even though PSU is big, I know I'll have a better community there because I'll be living at home and my friends are going to school in the same city. My mom keeps saying I haven't been here long enough but I honestly don't think anything is going to change. I'm not going to miraculously bond with someone. I just want to leave because I feel incredibly unhappy sometimes. Also going to PSU would be cheaper. What's your opinion?</p>
<p>Yes, learn to adapt. It’s the only way to grow. GL</p>
<p>Would you be willing to finish out the year to see if it got any better? Maybe knowing you have the “out” option after spring semester would ease some of your anxiety…you will probably have close to a month break at home to re-energize and give it one more try. At the end of next semester I’d say you could transfer knowing you had given it a fair try.</p>
<p>I mean… I’d prefer not. Part of why I want to go home is because my closest friends are there, and I already feel like I’m drifting from them. I plan to transfer to smaller school after my sophomore year, and when that happens I’m not sure what would happen to our friendship. So I want to spend as much time with them as I can. Also my friend lost her dad this past summer and I regret not being there for her now.</p>
<p>Sosomenza: But I don’t have any friends… How can I adapt to being lonely?</p>