Need Help Weighing the Pros and Cons

College Life
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<p>I’m currently attending GC&SU in Milledgeville, Georgia. This is a very small liberal arts college. They do not have my intended major [fashion design] so I am currently just taking core corses with Art[general] as my major. I hate it here. The town is dull, the classes are non-challenging, there is nothing here for me. I chose to go here originally to just get the core courses out of the way, because it was cheap, and because it was far from home, but not too far. </p>

<p>I’m very unhappy here and I drive myself home every weekend.
I am considering dropping out after this semester and taking a semester off. I would get a full time job and save up money [I will eventually be going to school at FIT in New York]. I would take the spring and summer to save up money and then apply at a more local state univeristy for the fall and finish up my core class there, eventually transfering to FIT. </p>

<p>I’m wondering how much damage it would do to drop out half way through my freshman year? I have the option of a summer semester … but do you think the state university i would be applying to in the fall would look down upon my decision to drop halfway? I’m so confused but I have to get out of this college for the sake of my sanity and happiness.</p>

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<p>if you can “withdraw for personal reasons” or something along those lines, I think that would be better.</p>

<p>I have a friend who went to a school for about 3 weeks, and decided he hated it. He’s working now, and probably going to go to a local-ish school in the spring, and hopefully transfer for next fall.</p>

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<p>Just make sure your tuition/fees are not unpaid, and give a really good reason for withdrawal, and you should be just fine.</p>