<p>I had to withdraw from this past second semester of college for a medical leave withdrawal issue.</p>
<p>However, even the first semester was honestly not that great. Maybe I just need to get a job, find some decent, hard-working, yet still social friends who don’t always have OTHER plans or are busy studying, actually take time to study the subjects (I’m not a bad student, but kinda lost direction in life, for some odd reason :() I’m taking, and learn to take care of my physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional needs.</p>
<p>But maybe college is just WRONG for me? Sad thing is, I want to get into research or the medical field…so, it’s not as though college can really be an option in these examples. :(</p>
<p>I don’t think college is right for everyone.</p>
<p>But I also don’t think college is wrong for everyone who has trouble with it or is unhappy with it the first time around. The fact that you want to be a researcher suggests that you DO enjoy academia and all it has to offer.</p>
<p>Be thankful that you decided to withdraw second semester. Many people slog through college until it’s too late. They only realize that they need time to themselves to help make it work when they have already blown their GPAs or all of their money. </p>
<p>Why were you unhappy? Are you still experiencing problems with your mental/emotional health? What can you do to be happier? What can you do to help solve your problems? </p>
<p>Again, be thankful that you stopped yourself early, and now start thinking about what you need to do to get back in the game.</p>
<p>I positively love knowledge of every sort and learning all I can possibly learn about life, the sciences, the liberal arts, and contemporary culture political leanings among other intricate facts of life.</p>
<p>I only withdrew due to a physical medical issue, not because I wanted to leave college for any other reasons–but now that I look back on it, I do not know if I want to go back to college, MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE SOCIAL REASONS.</p>
<p>I want a good education, but I do not know what I want from life–or at least, I do not know if it will be enough or if it will even make me even slightly happy with my life. I basically am just lost and can’t care anymore about anything in my life right now. Gah.</p>
<p>I am taking online classes now, actually. :)</p>
<p>I am not anti-social, exactly–I love chatting with people, but I also prefer to be on my own schedule for a majority of my time, and excessive conversations in such situations are simply impossible.</p>
<p>It’s not about me–it’s about the general college lifestyle. You know…drunk guys and girls, high-school-like-bf-gf-chitter-chatter, obsession with grades (not learning itself), and sucking up to professors in any and every possible manner. Of course, I tolerate these things in people all of the time, but in college–I can NEVER get away from these things. Maybe getting an apartment, as I’m planning to do, will help, because I can at least still have my own room, to get away from the daily stresses of life?</p>
<p>That could help. Maybe you could work for a few years, go to school part-time (maybe even community college), and then transfer to finish your bachelor’s living off-campus and holding a part-time job. It might give you some more “adult perspective”, I don’t know.</p>