Wost College Experience Ever

kayleealia
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:53:30 +0000

I’m finishing up my first semester at a college right outside of Boston that I’m sure nearly nobody knows. I lived off-campus with a best friend from high school and my boyfriend, and I can tell already it was a huge mistake. The friend had to move back home because he couldn’t make rent and my boyfriend and I both hate our separate schools and are pretty sure that no matter where we transfer we’re living on-campus next year. I have not one friend in college. My school is so flaky with activities that I don’t find out about meetings until about an hour before they happen, and I live about an hour away by T, so I didn’t join anything. I’m not incredibly sure why I went here except because they were a 4 year school who gave me financial aid. I’ve completely blown my first semester, I was so ridiculously stressed out about my living situation most of the time that I did poorly and rarely went to class. I never sleep and I’m miserable where I am. I’ve been harassing the poor counseling center at my school to try and get some help but I am not getting what I need.

My question is, I visited a friend’s school and realized what I should have been doing all along. I need to go to a school where I’ll be happy and I just don’t know where that is.

I’m looking for a school that’s accepting of transfer students and will take somebody with a pretty poor first year of college. I can do better next semester, but I’m telling you, the grades aren’t good.

I’m looking for a campus. A nice campus where there are lots of places to hang out. I’m looking for something academically diverse that offers psych, communications, biology, computer-related majors - anything like that.

I’m not sure where exactly I want to go, but right now I’m looking at all of Eastern Massachusetts, southern Maine and maybe New Hampshire. I live in Maine and would really like to be able to visit without taking a half hour T ride, 4-hour bus ride and one hour car ride.

I don’t know. I’m just really miserable at school and I wanted to come back to CC to see if anybody could help.