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Transferring schools is a lot harder than I, or any of my friends, had ever anticipated. You feel like your time at another college is synonymous with your time at a different college, that each of these scenarios are the same. It's not. They aren't the same; similar, yes but the same, no. And then it might be that we are older and our classes are much more intensive and require us to be on top of everything and to juggle assignments easily.

It's not easy but you can do it. Here's how:


1. Talk to someone who goes to that school and visit the campus. You have to get a feel for the place that you are about to spend two or more years of school. Try and meet with a professor in your department or college that can tell how the college works with you and find out about the resources that they offer. Be prepared to make this place your home. No one is going to make you feel like this is your home, but you.

2. Know that your schedule will probably be crap the first semester. Since you're coming in late, there won't be a ton of classes available at awesome times. It'll be little disjointed at fist, but the next semester will be here before you know it and you can create a better one.

3. Take a smaller amount of hours your first semester. It's a time to adjust and it's okay to take a smaller number of hours at first. However, make sure that you won't get behind; you need to stick to the date that you want to graduate.

4. Make the most of it. Moving schools can be scary, but you have an opportunity in a new place to do whatever you want. Join some clubs, take classes that interest you, and make an effort to meet a lot of new people. This will help you adapt more quickly and it'll keep you from sounding super sad when you call your parents between classes.

catch you later,
Karleigh

"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." // Thomas A. Edison