I’m currently a junior at Saint Louis University majoring in Finance with a career goal to work in professional baseball. I started at a small community college and graduated last spring and transferred to my current university this past fall. I thought this university had everything I wanted but I was wrong. I don’t like the feel on campus and there is absolutely no social scene. And it reminds me a lot of my community college in that no one goes to events and no one is excited about anything, except for a small few and I don’t even click with them. People on campus are very nice but their is nothing beyond a hello and even sometimes you don’t even get that you get diverted eye contact. I am involved in 5 clubs on campus because I love being involved and doing things, but the groups I’m in the atmosphere is also awkward. I wanted to go to a 4-year school and be engulfed by the atmosphere and be involved to network and grow myself further out of my shy shell. I have spoken to a few people and they said they feel the same about the social atmosphere and how awkward it is. I picked my current school because of it’s location to sports teams, it’s NCAA Division I so I hoped for excitement and volunteering, and it offered Finance and Sports business as a minor (but if I want the complete minor I will have to add an extra semester, but would have room to take 2 just as electives). I have yet to find my routine to study or be organized and my grades as of right now are decent but I think they could be better.
Because of the social scene I’m thinking of transferring to the University of Cincinnati in the Spring because they have a better atmosphere, bigger, my major, and a good location for sports. I also know a family friend in Cincinnati who has contacts with professionals in the sports industry there which I would like to think would give me a jump start in networking I need since I’m already behind some from coming from a small community college. I was 100% going to go to Cincinnati till I got my transcript evaluation and it would most likely mean I’d have to stay for an extra semester just to finish my Finance major (and not get to take any Sports Administration classes, unless I took a few summer courses). I’d also have to 2 semesters of a Foreign language and possibly have to take another science if I don’t win the credit dispute
I’d like to think going to UC is best for my personal growth, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the extra semester. In Saint Louis I also have a internship lined up in the Spring with a small professional baseball team which will look good on my resume. I’m just not sure what weighs more whether the new social scene and finishing a semester late or finishing on time and taking this internship which may or may not be as good as I hope.
Will I notice the campus atmosphere as much if I continue to get internships either how bad it is or how good it is if I transfer?