Hello,
When I started college I had some personal stuff I was going through and also wasn't sure if the major I was going into, built a profile on and the activity I had spent a LARGE amount of time to over years (hundreds maybe thousands of hours per year/over the year, hours definitly in the hundreds directly doi ng programming for a many years) was something I wanted/was right for me at least anymore. I also had some objections to college/the idea of college but wasent sure of an alternitive. The personal issues persisted and I still have them, and I had some rough semesters. The last one was the worst, I had some of the worst grades iv ever had (happened in college, my intensive stem track for the particular 3:2 program I was in with basically 3 majors because they didnt have the particular combination wanted, got thrown off, I didn't do well in calculus, i wothdrew and took it over the summer though I know outside those circumstances it's something I could easily nail). I'm not sure if I even applied to the right college I'm the first place. I use to be a student that was on top of everything and wanted to go to MIT or something and had goals. I was expecting to be someone who applied to everywhere early, spent a lot of time and thought a lot about/used a great process to choose where to apply. I kinda choose randomly. I was planning on mechanichal and or astronautical engineering and computer science. My plan was to apply to bigger schools under computer science, since I don't have money or lab/shop to do mechanichal engineering, and switch to M.E. I made kindof a dumb choice to apply under ME, something I hardly had experiance with a profile guided towards CS, AND is a harder program, because I didn't want to go to a school, and find out I could not get into the ME program, even though it only needed a 3.3 gpa, outside the personal things, I think I could safly occur. I got rejected from most of the bigger schools. I did not even choose my school really, I know randomly eliminate schools (out of the 16 I sort of unconciouslt a bit applied too). It came down to 2, I had a deadline to register for FASFA loans at qw that night, I had locked myself in the hour for days deciding. I went to 2 freshmen orientations, and sent 3 fee's/down payments. I for some reason had to reset my passwords/couldent remeber the password (don't quite remeber exactly) for one of the final schools, so I went to the other one. Recently I took a fairly unproductive semester off. Psrtly because some of thr things like take classes st the same school I also applied to this semester got kindof messed up and did not endu up happining. That semster is over, I didn't consider transfer oppurtunities in time, and only got one application out without really looking at schools as a backup to a local state college... it's OK. The school iv been attending I think has a higher profile, though I don't honestly think too many schools are significantly better than others in most acedemic departments, mostly STEM. Classes at both schools have been going for at least a day. I'm not sure where to go. Or if I should (I think I can catch up in classses, it's more of a if I want to question). I don't really know what to do. One question I have is if I transfer from one school, can I transfer back a semester later, and will they know I left, and will it change anything/the status ther? Would I likely revive the same finicial aid? I'm also considering studing music (this would be a bit of an exploritory semester since most of the stem classes i would want if i wanted togo back into stem are not offered this semestr) the place I may go too seems to have a run - of - the - mill program, nothing particularly great, but not bad. The other school which Iv attend seems to have a small program but better acedmics/possibly rep. I was thinking if I could build a good profile, get some audition pices, brought my grades up and wanted to pursue music, I might want to apply to sort of a "name brand" college or something for that, possibly somewhere with an application area for music/art majors. Not because I'm pretentious but music is a major I see that there may be a good amount of value for education in. Particularly some schools may be benificial because of certian things they may teach, tequinices they may teach and techers they may have. Music seems less abstract or methodical than STEM subjects which are mostly based of of rationalism and methods you can use to determine knowlege exacly, most of which are the same method i.e the problem solving method is somewhat the shorthand of the scientific method. Understand the basic idea, put some specific knowelge (what has already been done, scientific theories, mathmatcal throries, programming languages, what is a atom, etc.) in your head, get some practice and you are good to go. I was wondering what might be better to transfer from for that type of school? And would I have to transfer soon?
If anyone could provide some advice/incite that would be greatly appreatated, if I'm going, I do not want to miss more school tommorow. I set 12 as my deadline... I can flex a little probably realistically.
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