What should I do?

Thank you for my viewing my post.

I"m just asking for some advice on what I should study. Briefly, I will introduce you to my current state of affairs.

This was supposed to the fall of my senior year of college. My courses became overwhelming, and I kind of half heartedly decided to take a leave of absence. Looking back, I definitely should have stayed.

I started off college as an industrial engineering major. Between January 2014 and January 2016, I bounced around between various engineering and business majors. The issue with this was that I never really got deeply into one major.

January 2016 came along and I decided I was going to become a doctor, so therefore I had to major in Biology. The spring semester of 2016 went pretty well and I earned excellent grades in all of my courses-- General Chemistry I , Introductory Biology 2, and Calc based physics (electricity & magnetism), all with labs.

Over the summer, I volunteered at a hospital near school and shadowed a lot of different doctors. Shadowing and volunteering definitely was a positive experience for me. I was able to learn a lot and understand what doctors do. Then, it was time again for school.

Assuming I would have a laser like focus all semester, I signed up for 5 different science classes which put me at a meager 18 credit hours. This was the first time I actually took an upper level biology course. Needless to say, I quickly became overwhelmed. I went in to talk to my adviser about dropping a course, and ended up dropping all of them.

Let me know if you have any other questions about my background. I really would appreciate some advice that would help me start doing things to improve my life in general.

Assuming you have financial resources to continue in school, if you were my kid, I would want you to spend some serious time trying to figure out what you want to do, then work with an advisor to figure out how to get there while focusing on at least getting that bachelor’s degree finished. Since you took leave from your school for now, why not dive into some serious career exploration? You could use the career center at your school or go to a career center in you state. Most states have some kind of system and even have centers scattered about different communities.

It sounds like you are a person with many talents and many interests. That’s a positive, and something you might want to use as a strength in your career planning. The Career Center suggestion would be a good way to help you identify some future paths.

Remember that there are many careers in health care besides being a doctor. Again, the career people could be useful for identifying the next step to take, and if you decide to go for med school in the future, your experience could only be a positive.

Why did the conversation with the advisor lead to you dropping all of your courses instead of just one to make your workload more manageable?