Hi I am new to this forum so don't know if this is best place to post this. I graduated HS last year and took a semester part time at local college, didn't enjoy it very much but everything was alright, but then I made this crazy choice to study abroad without informing my school and now I am enrolled in a full time bachelor's degree in Australia in Sports & Mechanical Engineering (Honours) at University of Adelaide, which is a good school, but not what I expected it to be. I've took a full semester and almost failed all my classes due to the different teaching styles and coursework grading and it was very much more rigorous than what I'm used to, plus I felt very stressed, depressed, overwhelmed and homesick the whole times. I just started the second semester, and I don't really have confidence to do another three years in this foreign land so I am contemplating coming home after this current semester to finish my degree in New York where I grew up, but apparently I cannot transfer credits with such a disappointing GPA that I got here. That means I would waste like a whole year, yet on the other hand I feel studying abroad another three years is not possible for me. I don't know why i made such a big decision without thinking it through, but at the time it just sounded like a fun opportunity to experience, however now I am very depressed with my situation causing debt and little progress in my program. I think it is also because I wasn't suited to engineering resulting in my low grades of 50-60 which is like a D or F in the American grading scale. I think two things I need to do is change school and program and find something I have confidence to graduate but I don't know how transferring schools would work especially in my circumstances, or is it easier to return to my old college which I just disappeared for a year, like how would I explain this failed attempt? Have anyone have similar experience to this?, and what should I do to keep this from getting out of control? Thanks.
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