Transferring to a state school was a god awful decision
*This is very possibly an incoherent rant. Started writing thinking I'd give advice, then I started decompressing, now I'm gonna sleep. If my stupidity serves to help someone, cheers.
My first semester at this school is coming to a close and there are a few things (which I'll go on to discuss) I wish -- really fucking wish -- I was aware of prior to transferring. This semester is the first of my third year as an undergraduate student. I spent my first two years of college out of state and while there I majored in Finance (and continue to do so now).
I neglected to consider the specific aspects of a different school's curriculum. In a less convoluted way: be aware of what the school's course requirements are. I began the process as a Dean's List student, well on my way to receiving honors in my major. And so, I thought it was reasonable to assume nothing would change. "You've done all the bullshit professional skills courses for freshmen, you're being asked to TA for 300 level finance courses, you're good to go." That was my mindset and, looking back, I am shocked at what an idiotic one it was. Here I am, finishing out the first half of my third year. Am I in a single finance course? Hah! No. I'm in an astronomy lecture. I have to take a physical education course. There's even a fucking art requirement. School always felt like a grind early on and I always attributed that to the almost non-existent interest I had in what I was being taught. Come my second year of undergraduate study, I had hit my stride with a topic I enjoy. But, thanks to naive ignorance and ridiculous state mandates, I once again have zero motivation to learn in the classroom. I compulsively order books from Amazon; that's likely the only reason my brain hasn't turned to soup.
Apologies for the slight rant. Point is, don't be a dumbass. It might seem minor (maybe even pleasant) to take easy intro courses as a third-year while still on track. But please trust me, it's drains you. Sitting through lectures on resume format and what to put on LinkedIn will thrust you into depression far quicker than you'd think. That, and having to wake up for what is essentially gym class.
Sounds like you need to transfer to a different school.
As a third-year it's not practical. Not even sure it's possible. I'll survive regardless... made my bed, have to lay in it.
Not at all. Whomever is giving you career advice is driving you off a cliff bro. If you transfer and set your self back one semester but have an overall better rest of your life....is it not worth it? You absolutely can change schools at any time and times being what they are you can always just blame it on COVID. Think about what you're doing....you have to live with it.
Full disclosure, I took off from college for a while (like, years) before going back and changing courses completely, and I'd highly recommend anyone who's not clear on what they're doing (or not satisfied) to step back and re-evaluate.
What’s this have to do with state schools?
Sounds like you just transferred on a whim with no research, aka.. that’s your own fucking fault lol
State schools (at least the one I am at) are heavily influenced by state and federal legislation which impacts their educational requirements. Hence, my mention of a gym class and other required course material which has nothing to do with my major. Those comments, however, were made only on the basis of what I know from the school I am at. I have nothing to say about any other state's public colleges and universities -- I can only share about the one I attend.
And yeah, I refer to my "stupidity" and "dumbass" mindset on multiple occasions throughout the post. Definitely my fault... was that not clear when I called myself naive, ignorant or idiotic?
Congrats on realizing that 50%+ of undergrad is absolutely pointless filler courses you never wanted to take in the first place. If you took out general education and elective requirements then undergrad would be 2 years max, probably less. So glad I was forced to take Intro to Music and Humanities Through the Arts in order to graduate. The College Biology and it's lab that I was tricked into taking by my academic adviser to get a science credit despite me having no interest whatsoever in biology killed my GPA but hey, at least the school got my tuition for that class, right?
This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. Not only does your mistake have nothing to do with state schools, but you don't even realize you stumbled into the correct decision.
Sophomore spring and junior fall is recruiting season. If you go to a real state school (and not a fake ivy filled with prep school kids like UVA / Michigan), you are blasting out 20 emails a day and getting on 5 calls a day plus whatever time you spend on interview prep, actually interviewing, and dumb finance club stuff. Given your schedule, you want to minimize your classwork so you can focus on getting a job. That means taking the min amount of credits and easy gen eds during these two semesters, which sounds like is what you are actually doing.
Suppose you're right. Classwork is still there, it's just filled with incredibly dull gen eds and pre reqs that I now am taking for a second time. My comments about it being a state school have to do with the gen eds, some of which are pretty ridiculous. The post was a random rant -- not my brightest moment but it helped to decompress
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