Miserable first year...valid reasons to transfer?

serenavanderful
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:25:55 +0000

I’m just starting treatment for depression that I have had for a few months since starting at Columbia. I’ve never had depression before and it’s definitely triggered by this college transition. I’m a first year and was gung-ho Columbia but I am just miserable. I know a lot of it is the depression - just sad and unmotivated a lot of the time - but I feel so out of step socially and can’t seem to get a handle on the academics (though again, I think the latter is due to my depression). However, I took a few classes at another Ivy over the summer before HS and I absolutely loved it…Columbia and this school were neck and neck but the Core and NYC pushed it over the edge. Now I am wondering if I would be having a better experience there because there is a better sense of community than I perceive Columbia to have, or I would just be depressed there too. I definitely am having some second thoughts…did I choose the wrong school after all?! I am so miserable here and you aren’t supposed to go to Columbia and be depressed but I am. Are these valid reasons to transfer?

Thank you for listening.