Transfer Student, big problem. Wanting to change major

quietdude
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:37:00 +0000

Get ready for a long read. So I recently transferred into Cal Poly as a City and Regional Planning major, but I’ve recently come to terms that it is not the career path I want to go through. Planning is too overwhelmingly political for me, and I don’t want to end up in the heat of politics in my career. I want to change my major to Bio-resource and Agricultural Engineering, but obviously this is not possible considering that I am a transfer. This was actually the major I wanted to apply to Cal Poly as from the beginning, but seeing as to I was in a hurry to transfer (self-conscious on being an older transfer student, I know its stupid), and didn’t believe I could make it as an engineer to Cal Poly, I choose the easy way in. Since CRP takes in such a broad scope of everything regarding the development of cities, I thought I could taylor the curriculum to suit my interests regarding the environment. Now I see that as a CRP major I could only indirectly fix the environment through political means.

I definitely did not do my research on the major, and now I’m paying for it. I know there is more to planning than what I know, but I have a gut feeling this is not what I want. I’ve been thinking about dropping out and re-applying as BRAE major, but I’m too afraid to take action on that. I feel like there has to be another option. I still don’t know who my advisor is since the department still hasn’t let us know who they are. I’ve been freaking out for the past 4 weeks now because all I’ve been doing is researching how to transfer out of SLO so I could change my major instead of doing hw, so I’ve been slacking off quite a bit. PLEASE HELP! What can a transfer do in a situation like this? I really don’t want to drop out. Cal Poly is my dream school and I don’t want to give it up. And please give me sincere advice, I’ve had enough people tell me I’m a complete screw up already.