If you had it to do over again, would you transfer?
Ooo. Okay, to be totally honest, I go back and forth on this. Transferring has been really hard and sometimes it’s still really hard. I was naive about the social aspect. My new school is definitely better academically in… kind of every way. I like the block plan, I like not being at Christian school. Science at my current school is also stronger than the (still fairly strong!) science at my old school. This block I was able to withdraw and only lose work in one class, whereas on a semester plan I had two different times where I lost almost a semester’s worth of work in multiple classes.
But at my old school I had a community and a support system that I have not found here, and at this point I can be fairly certain that I won’t find here. I felt out of place in a lot of ways at my old school, but I feel out of place in different ways here.
Sometimes I feel about transferring the way I feel about growing up. My old school feels like somewhere I’m nostalgic for because it was easier, like the way I feel about high school or childhood or whatever. My old school was soft and kind. My new school is harder and colder and I feel more on my own here. That’s an inaccurate oversimplification my brain makes, because my old school was hard too, and I didn’t feel at home there by the time I left or I wouldn’t have transferred. I don’t think I ever felt as alone there as I have felt here, though.Â
Overall I think it was probably the right decision, but I don’t know. Either way, it was the decision I made, and I won’t have it to do over.














