<p>Thirty years ago, my brother was suspended from college. He had to “prove” he was ready. He took a semester off and during that semester nearly got killed in a car accident. By September, he was SO ready to return. Not only did he finish college, but he ended up with a law degree and a CPA certificate.</p>
<p>thanks oregon101! It’s heart warming that a stranger would encourage me! I am deciding to stay and hopefully i can switch to another major. Wish me luck. I thought I like art studio, but It turned out it wasn’t for me.</p>
<p>Sharpie123 - Another vote to stay! Have you considered trying to get into home-murals (I tried to find an art student to paint a mousehole above my kitchen baseboard with a quirky little mouse coming out of it…no luck) or carpentry, painting/wallpapering, tiling, or similar construction-home decor trade with your art degree? How about doing cartoons for local papers? Lots of options ahead of you, which will be even better with the degree on your resume.</p>
<p>One note to OP and all parents whose kids come up with these things: You don’t know all of what is happening to them, what they are doing, thinking. What your kid tells you is filtered and incomplete. To me when they want to do something like this, it could be a warning sign, a cry for help for a lot more than what you are being told and what you can perceive and sometimes imagine. I don’t know how many times parents have told me how they know their kids so well, how transparent their kids are, how their kids tell them everything, even wrongdoings, and too much info, only to go into a total tailspin when a major event occurs making it pretty danged clear that was not the case. </p>
<p>They really are not kids any more. They could be off to war, married and self supporting, and in many ways we have them in our versions of zoos and circuses instead of out in the wild.</p>
<p>Hi. I am in a situation quite similar to sharpie123. I am also studying in an art college and am pursuing the course of digital animation atm. I am 20 and have been a 2nd year student at my school. I to have been struggling during my studies and during my 2nd year I failed a few subjects and thus has to repeat the failed subjects + not able to proceed through the following semester. As most of my good friends proceed and passed their semester, I become very frustrated and dissapointed & have little motivation to do work. Even though I quite enjoy my course, I am not the best in class and not exactly the fatest learner. So I struggle with using mandatory computer software in my course like 3D/ Maya softwares and photoshop. My lecturer also has high expectations, and I often disappoint him. The results were out & He failed me the same subject twice. I was extremely depressed & dissapointed & so are my parents. My parents have discussed with me & asking whether I should change to another major or simply drop out of college.</p>
<p>Check to see if your med insurance will cover your kid. Ours does until he has a policy that covers him thru work or elsewhere. It just started with the healthcare reform law as of Jan 1 & it was great to stop paying premiums for S who had graduated but his work medical insurance hasn’t yet started. Kept him on the school insurance after he graduated until it ran out in Aug, then was able to get him a fairly inexpensive BC/BS plan after we were turned down by HMO. He had that Aug thru Dec & then got back on H’s family plan. </p>
<p>I think your S will benefit greatly by being emotionally supported in finding his path. So good that he shines at work & he can learn a lot by subbing to see if he really wants to teach. It also allows considerable flexibility for his schedule.</p>
<p>deizaing, It’s ok. hang in there. I just recently got a D grade on my art project. The teacher expects a lot and it’s hard to know what she/he expects. I think I am motivated to drop because some people like to put us non-engineering-business-healthcare majors down. They often look down at us as lazy people who is dumb enough to pick a “non practical major”. If my major is useless compared to those science majors, what is my motivation? What is the point of working hard if my major is “useless” anyway? But we know that having no degree is more useless than a degree. I just want to say not everybody can be a mathematician, computer programer, physician or scientist. In my freshman year a pre-med major said that a fine art major is not going to get anywhere in life or something like that.</p>
<p>deizaing… You sound VERY much like my Son right now, he is 3/4’s of the way thru a BS degree @ AI at 33thou dollars a year and came home today and wants to quit. we went thru this when he first started and told him he has to decide NOW he either goes or not. He decided to continue he has failed 2 classes. and is struggling, not the best in classes but doing good only has aprox 6 mos left. </p>
<p>This just came up also after we told him he has to get a part time job to pay for his insurance and gas. we pay for his phone, food, some clothes and his medical insurance thru my husbands work…</p>
<p>He was all ways paying for those things but he has dwindled his bank acct down to almost nothing now.</p>
<p>His Father and I all ways tell him that he has to have a degree now to get any good job. (we both didnt go to college and would jump at the chance to re-live it and go) Stuck in jobs we hate to go to but not much choice now.</p>
<p>Please tell me what you did. if you continued… and how it went for you waiting… Thx</p>
<p>This thread is very old. You might want to start your own thread.</p>
<p>This thread is TWO years old!</p>
<p>I would love to know what happened with sharpie – anyone?</p>