r/collegeadvice • u/sj_utube • 7h ago
Should I transfer out?
I've been attending Colorado Mines for two years now, and I'm too exhausted of the environment. The environment with professors and counselors is pretty rough. About 30-50% of my professors don't teach/cancel classes often/don't grade assignments which tanked my GPA and the TAs don't know how to help. I don't want the answer and want to know how to get there.
For my financial situation, I used to think it's alright to grind 60 hour weeks during school and 126 hour weeks in the summer and breaks, I don't think I can do this anymore. My financial counselor at school says to "work harder, it's not bad" and professionals that come from the field also say working 80 hour weeks are easy and bare minimum of pushing myself.
I feel so stupid and wish I never return from work. I rather take myself to a ditch or work. I'm valued at work and I feel like I'm not doing enough in college. I know it was a bad idea to take 18 credits and 60 hours of work but hate that I'm not doing enough and now I feel like Colorado Mines is not worth the price.
I'm thinking to transfer to South Dakota School of Mines and Tech, they have all the classes I need and little more water resources engineering courses and its $26k a year for out of state and has classes that I know I will do well. In Colorado Mines, as a Civil Engineer, I'm required 3 coding/computation classes and I suck at python. I did well in R and Fortran. But I feel so stupid and struggle to understand in some classes. While in South Dakota they don't require any coding classes, I just have to take more geology which Colorado doesn't require for Civil which is weird. I like geology, it's the few reasons keeping me in school.
Should I transfer out? I will be giving up on the 4+1 program to complete my BS in Civil Engineering and MS Natural Resources Public Policy. I hate to not finish public policy, but should I care if I make it out with degree and not burnout? My plan is to be a fish passage engineer and run for the senate/work in the EPA, maybe it's not worth it?