My Dad was diagnosed with cancer the summer after my freshman year at a top liberal arts school. I worked my butt off in high school to go to that school. It was a ways away from home though and so once my Dad got sick it was really hard to be so far away. As his disease progressed I transferred to my state school with the intention of spending his last years with him. This was last spring. Just a semester after I enrolled, my Dad passed away unexpectedly.
In high school I had never wanted to go to my state school. It's huge compared to my old school. It has pretty good STEM programs but I'm not in STEM. I'm a psychology major. And the truth is, I don't want to be. I became a Psych major because I could transfer the most credits in that field and therefore I could get out of the state school the quickest. Now I'm a semester away from graduating and I don't know what to do. I'm not happy with my school, my degree and I don't have a lot of extracurriculars because I was taking care of my Dad (not resentful of this, just a fact).
Should I just stick it out this semester and plan on going to a top grad school? I technically have the option of transferring back to my old liberal arts school (I know some faculty there) but it would take me a lot longer to graduate because of stricter transfer credit rules. Would having that school name help me more?
Regarding my major, I am not super interested in it. I love English and I also am pretty good at math. At one point I had wanted to be an Environmental Engineer. I don't think Psych is for me. But again, it would take a lot of time to switch now considering I'm almost done.
My goal is to have a top job and I want my education to help get me there.
Would really appreciate any advice!
Submitted February 03, 2019 at 03:13PM by ayounggrasshopper http://bit.ly/2Ss9SFS
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