College prob.
 

I've been thinking of changing my major in college once again. Except this time I want to go back to the Networking that I thought I hated. I dropped from Networking last semester because it didn't coincide with my wanting to be a web designer. Over the course of the summer break, I realize now that I was pretty stupid to just drop out and waste the tuition money like that.

I changed to the Programming major this time, and I'm not thoroughly enjoying myself like I thought I would. There are only two people in the class, including myself. That changed last week when my classmate had a devastating heart attack at school. He's in ICU now and will not be returning for this semester at least. I am the only student in all of my classes.

I had hopes of there being more people in the class. I wanted to make good friends like I did in the previous years. Now it's just lonely because I have no one to talk to, joke around with, at school or at home. My college friends have moved away, now.

This situation really bothers me because it's one-on-one all day, everyday. It feels like I'm being watched a lot more closely. This coupled with the knowledge of a programming language that I SHOULD have, but don't, I feel very uncomfortable.

I now know that my skills as a web designer won't be enhanced in this Programming course, even though it's called "Internet Programming and Development". It's most a Windows programming and a review of the basics I know. It doesn't seem worth this hassle.

I've had a change of heart over the summer. I now have the focus to do well in school (which I've never had in my life) and I believe I could do well in the Networking again. I have a problem with switching back to Networking because I know I will get a lot of grief from a lot of people. My parents will say "Why didn't you just finish that last year?" and I don't even know what my instructors will think of me. They will have no class to teach. I don't even know what I should say to them on why I would switch. Excuse? Explain my problem? I dunno.

What would you do?

Isn't it awesome to be the only student in class? I think I would love it. You can just ask the professor to skip the things you already know and focus on things that you really need, and get one-on-one help with things that you don't understand. If I was the only student in all my classes, man, I think I could learn so much more.

Programmers are paid much these days, so it's a good choice you made :)

Believe it or not, I don't like being a total loner. I go to school by myself, I come home and be by myself (homework). I hate 3/5 of my classes because they're strictly Windows programming, even though it's a Web development major.

On the other hand, I looked at my transcript, and I realize I only need 3 classes to graduate from the Networking major. This is nice because it's only 3 classes and it's like $1000 to take them vs. the $4000 to complete Programming. Unfortunately, they're only offered in January, so I couldn't just take them now. This is looking to be a viable solution. I just don't know what to tell everybody.


I don't hate programming. I would be much happier doing web-related programming, which won't be taught at the college. One girl from my first year of Networking moved to another city to become a web developer, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't have done that same thing. :/

You cannot decide, thats your problem. You do not really stick to something quite long.

You will have problems, until you manage to turn off this changing thing.

Deleb