<p>I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma. I’ve been talking to my parents (mostly my mom, because I find it hard to bring this stuff up to my dad) a bit about transferring over the past few times I’ve been home. It seems that they are forcing me to stay the whole year before I can transfer by saying “that’s the only option you have.” One of the main schools I want to transfer to operates on a quarter system, so I wouldn’t be able to start until March and housing in the city could be an issue at that point. However, I can’t even imagine staying here for another semester. As I already feel unhappy here now, the hit that my mental health would take from that would be brutal. I’ve been thinking of sad thoughts (missing family, missing old memories, the short time left my dog has to live, sports I used to play, etc…) which never used to happen to me until the last few weeks. I never used to wish I could reverse time until now. I assume this is a result of a culmination of stress from increasing course work and anticipation for the semester to end so I can leave this place. If I stayed here, I think I would need therapy, but the campus counseling is lackluster (recommending group therapy despite requests for 1 on 1 sessions because they are unqualified or lazy.) What can I say to my parents so that they don’t make me stay here for another semester?</p>