thinking about transferring for the third time. love some advice

Transfer Students
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As a freshman I transferred two times. I first went in to the college of my choice which was UCCS to attend for the ROTC program. I had a sort of falling out at that university and decided that I wanted to transfer. From UCCS I transferred to CU boulder and was super stoked to get in. While I was at CU I got bad grades and lowered my GPA. I feel like I had some people to hang out with when I wanted to and somewhat of a social life. I started visiting home in Denver every other weekend.
At that point I had to decide between taking 18 credit hours plus recessions at CU to save my ass essentially, or transfer to MSU Denver amidst a financial quasi-crisis set on due to the divorce of my parents and the contract they had for paying for my education. I had to make the decision to transfer to MSU for financial and Academic reasons.

here I am now. I am a sophomore at MSU and 20 years old. I don’t know what to do. I raised my GPA from what it was at. I just got an apartment with a longtime friend. I feel I was pretty depressed during my semester at MSU for a litany or reasons one of them being it was hard to make friends. in my new apartment I can feel pretty down sometimes. I do feel as if Im missing out on some of the best years of my life and I had the thought of transferring back to CU with my improved GPA. even then I don’t know how I would get back into a solid social life as a transfer again? Should I scrap this idea and just wait it out? any advice is appreciated

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Do you and your apartmentmate have a lease? How long is it?

There is nothing wrong with taking a year or so off from college entirely while you think everything through. You need a better reason for going to college anywhere than that you feel as though you might be “missing out on the best years” of your life. Yes, it is true that while they are in college many students feel that their college years are the best possible years, but there also are plenty of students who are counting down the days until they graduate so that they can get on with their lives. Not to mention of course that many of us who have been out of college for many, many years can honestly say that while we did have some good times in college, there have also been many other even better times afterwards.

You need to think of your longer range career goals, and which major will best serve them. If you have a goal like that to focus on, you will be able to make the best of whichever university you do end up finishing your degree at.

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It’s a year lease. So I’ll be here over the summer and next fall