My First Year at Kelley: Should I Transfer Out?

MYOS1634
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:45:32 +0000

Try branching out to other Hutton students who AREN’T in Kelley - kids who major in math, in foreign language/culture, in film, in philosophy, in anthropology, in CS+x … will have lots of different views and topics to discuss.
I’m not sure clubs are working due to Covid, but generally charity/volunteering groups where you do something together is a good way to meet interesting people (think: Habitat for Humanity, for example. There are lots of them at IU).

As for your classmate who’s coasting, you can’t be complicit with this - providing answers is cheating and all students involved could get an F on the assignement or the course. That guy’s not worth the risk, not for you and not for your team’s partners. With so many classes online, professors are extra vigilant and paying even more attention.
I suppose there’s no honor system in Hutton - at my college, if such a thing were to occur, the student would have been turned in since there was a strong honor system and acting like this would have dishonored our college and the pledge we’d taken. It’d have been a very big deal and wouldn’t have just elicited the anger you show, so perhaps I’m not evaluating this right, but asking for/providing answers to something that’s due to the professor should be a big no-no even without any sort of honor code. Look into it perhaps (discretely, with someone from the Honors College, or just by reading your Hutton or Kelley handbook) and some other posters may be able to provide perspective.

In short, I don’t think you should transfer, but rather find new friends and activities.

BTW, CONGRATULATIONS on doing well, many of these classes are really hard.

BTW 2, Kelley is very prestigious in the Northeast, NYC/Boston/Philly/DC, the Midwest, and the MidAtlantic region.