Hi, my name is Francansine. So I’m in engineering school and I’m hating it to the bone. And long story short I got in simply because I was expected to do so and got carried with the flow cause all my friends went to engineering school and all that shit. And I’m hating it and most of my friends are loving it, expect this one friend that is in the same dorm as me. So I’m thinking about quitting college and pursue this passion I have, which is drawing. I used to draw a lot of this manga and anime characters just copying my favorite ones, I also drew animals, well it doesn’t matter, all that matters is that I love drawing and I cannot see myself being and engineer. Now you ask me why didn’t I pursued drawing from the begging? Well that’s because I was a arrogant little twat who thought that pursuing your dreams or your passions was only for the rich or for the idiots, specially when your passion is drawing, because the probabilities of being successful doing what you love are extremely small (when you love to draw of course ). So I thought “well drawing will be a small hobby and I will just become an engineer”. This was when I was 14 now I’m 18 and in college and just realized how stupid I was back then. And because of me being that stupid I actually stopped drawing for some time to dedicate myself to get to college and be an engineer. So I want to quit and I talked to my mother about this and she said to me : “Well you know everyone says the first year of college it’s the worst and the hardest, I think you should make the this first year of college and then make a decision cause you could eventually start liking it after the first year”. Meanwhile in my mind I’m like. “Fuck off that’s not it I want to draw for a living not being a fucking engineer and be regretful my all life” but I just said to her: “That’s not it I like college I just don’t like my classes and I would rather draw then being an engineer”. Now as you probably know by now I’m planning studying arts in college. This is where it gets complicated. In my country you have to make a final high school exam on a subject, for me in this case it would be a final drawing exam, but in this exam it is evaluated everything that you supposedly learned during your 3 years of high school. And guess what in high school I didn’t have any drawing classes because I was in a different course which is the high school course meant for people who to become engineers and doctors and all that shit. So I told my mother that I had to take the exam and she said “Well you stay in college finish your first year and at the same time you study for your drawing exam, that way if you fail your drawing exam you are still and college and you don’t lose one year of your live for nothing.” And I’m like ho that sounds reasonable except its not reasonable at all. First of all I don’t want to keep studying engineering or be an engineering. Second of all that’s fucking impossible. How the hell am I going to learn and dominate in 1 year 3 years worth of techniques and practice? How? But I didn’t told her this I simply told her : ” Well ok” Why the fuck would I say well ok ? Well the truth is that I have to make high school all over again and she doesn’t want me to do that. And I only talked with her and I asked her to keep it a secret because If my all family knows about this most of them will disapprove. Basically I want some help from the people who see this so that I can make a decision on should I stay in college or should I go back and make high school all over again and pursue drawing. So please comment.
Because this is non-USA (at least partially) there are so many cultural and institutional unknowns for me that I can’t really begin to comment. If this were all US I would say finish out the semester and then either switch majors or transfer. The time you put into this college won’t be wasted even if you switch to drawing and if you know you hate engineering why bother continuing after this semester is done (although finishing the semester would be highly recommended as, in the US, quitting mid-semester makes it much harder to transfer as other schools will worry you will do the same with them).
Again, because so much here is literally foreign to me this advice may well not hold.
Read your post again. I don’t see why you shouldn’t. Why should you stick with something you don’t like.
If you love something, pursue it. If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out.
In your country, what do middle aged adults who have never been to college but want to go do?
Well @whenhen they have many options. They can enter in something called opened university which is a university online. You have class online and everything online and them you go to the university making the exams. But this system only offers limited degrees. Only things that are fully theoretical. To learn something more practical like engineering you have to go to the traditional colleges and apply as plus 23 years old and take some exams. If you have a good enough score in this exams you may enter.
Are you expecting to live at home and have your parents cover your expenses while you study for the drawing exam?
@Classclown2015, @DrGoogle and @Troyus it’s good to know that there are people who support and think its worth to go back and remake High School. Thanks you guys 
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@intparent Like I said in the post it’s almost impossible for me to pass this exam studying alone during one year. In order for me to pass the exam properly I would need to go back to high school and take the drawing classes. This would take more 3 years. I’m willing to get a part time job and pay them a small rent if I stay at my parents house, but what’s more likely to happen is that I would have to move to some city not too far away because the high schools from where my parents live don’t usually have drawing classes.
Well… if you were my kid, I might say something like what your mom is saying. Finish the year. Then if you still want to do it, find a way to support yourself while you study.
I figure you must be really upset with so many words blipped out.
Aren’t you in college already? Can’t you switch majors? Go see your academic advisor and find out. If you are in a US college students do this all the time.
Doesn’t sound like that is an option in the OP’s country, where they are in college.