My First Year at Kelley: Should I Transfer Out?

DadTwoGirls
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:58:23 +0000

“I had to go to a public school no one knew about.”

We live in the Northeast of the US. I have definitely heard of IU Kelley for business. It is very good and very well known.

" Kelley is an amazing and extremely underrated business school"

I definitely agree on the “amazing” part. The “underrated” part I do not think that I agree with. The people who need to know (eg, anyone who might offer you a job after graduation) certainly do know about it.

I think of USC for football. I suppose that Indiana is good for football also. However, I think that for business you are at a university that is just as good if not better.

“Many of the people here are pretty rude and have a TERRIBLE work ethic”

Freshmen at university might be split into three groups.

Some have great work ethic. They will do well.

Some start off with a bad work ethic, discover that they do badly for the first semester or two, wake up, and have a good work ethic by sometime probably early in their sophomore year. They will not be a problem next year because they will have gotten their act together.

Some start off with a bad work ethic, and never get their act together. This might be a smaller group. However, they will not be a problem next year because they will be gone. They will flunk out.

What this means is that as you get into your upper years, the partyers will disappear, and the serious students will be much more abundant.

If someone asks you for answers, say “no”. Learning to say “no” is a valuable skill that you will use for the rest of your life.

There will be jerks, students who attend university to party, and lazy people who want you to do their work for them at any university. These same people will also show up in any corporate environment. Learning to deal with them is a valuable business skill. Group members who do no work at all are also normal in a business environment. Perhaps one of the main lessons from group projects is that you are lucky if there are two people in the group who do useful work.

I think that you are at a great university that is also affordable. As a business major, you should understand that “affordable” is very important.

IU is a great school, but is also large enough to have a wide range of students. I agree with others that you need to put some effort into finding people like you. There will be intelligent and serious students in many parts of the university, including business, engineering, and almost any other major that you can think of.

And yes, university this year is tough everywhere because of COVID. It seems likely that by September enough people will have been vaccinated to make this much less of an issue, and possibly (hopefully) not an issue at all.