Hi,
I’m currently 22 years old, and I’m about to finish an associate’s degree in electrical engineering at a local community college. The next step that most people in my classes are taking is to transfer to a local state university to get a bachelor’s/master’s, but I feel like this might not be the right choice for me.
To make it short, I chose electrical engineering because I started learning a little bit about it in my free time during high school and I thought it was interesting. I started at community college right after graduating high school, and it’s taken me four years to finish a two year degree because I’ve failed so many classes. I can understand the material but I’m a terrible student, I don’t have any discipline when it comes to studying. In these last four years I’ve just been getting more and more depressed and feeling stuck in life, and completely apathetic toward college in general.
I’ve been thinking maybe the reason I feel like this is because I go to a small commuter college where there’s not really a lot of student life and that going to a bigger college would help, but at this point it feels like it would be suicide to transfer. I’ve been thinking maybe what I need is to take a break, get a consistent job and get out of my parent’s house, then go back to college when I have a better idea of what I’m actually doing. Any advice?
It makes complete sense. If in few years, you feel like adding a degree, you can go back. Congratulations on sticking with current program and finishing it even though it was really tough for you. Good luck!