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Change your major or go to technical college and spend all your income on paint and sex acts. Your ROI(Return on Investment) is going to doom your family, you, society, possibly the nation's debt and your credit score.
I know it sucks, but these days you can "humanity" online via blogs and tumblr. Don't waste time and money on a art or history degree. Use employment rates, rankings and other metrics of data to craft out your life.
Many celebs strike big while going to TOP schools or programs first. Chow from Hangover is an MD. Myiam Balik(sp) from Big Bang Theory has a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA.
If you're going to bother doing this, be absolutely sure the school you transfer to is one that will really open doors for you.
I don't know anything about your family's financial situation, but my guess is that it's probably possible for you to go to a top school without taking on too much debt.
If you can, I think you should do it. I had the ability/scores/grades to transfer to a top school after my freshman year at my local state university. I thought about transferring, but I wrongly assumed it would cost "too much" and believed my parents/relatives when the told me things like "it's not where you go, it's what you do with it...etc.". I ended up finishing my degree where I was.
I regret this decision. While there are a couple of people I graduated with who have pretty decent jobs in their field, most of my fellow graduates are working for very low pay, many in unrelated temporary positions and some in retail/warehouses etc. (For what it's worth, I make 30k per year in a clerical position that does not require a college degree, but I just graduated and have only applied for a handful of better jobs so far. This was my choice and I can't honestly blame the school for it).
While this may not be a typical outcome at your university, I can tell you that my friends who attended highly-selective schools received opportunities that no one I knew at my school had access to, and, without any exceptions I've witnessed, now have higher-paying jobs with more prestigious employers in more desirable locations. This observation has held regardless of major (i.e. the elite school liberal arts majors I know are doing better than the local state school accounting majors). I don't know whether this is because they are intrinsically more able/motivated, but I can't imagine how school reputation wouldn't affect employers' perceptions about candidates, especially for entry-level hiring.
Remember, when people in our parents' generation graduated, far fewer people went to college.
I can honestly say that I think about the opportunities I squandered by not transferring all the time, and it bothers me. I can still go to graduate school, obviously, and I may make up for it in the long run just by working hard. But even if I do (and I'm sure going to try), I won't get to relive my young adulthood, and neither will you. There's no reason to limit yourself.
If you're going to bother doing this, be absolutely sure the school you transfer to is one that will really open doors for you.
I don't know anything about your family's financial situation, but my guess is that it's probably possible for you to go to a top school without taking on too much debt.
If you can, I think you should do it. I had the ability/scores/grades to transfer to a top school after my freshman year at my local state university. I thought about transferring, but I wrongly assumed it would cost "too much" and believed my parents/relatives when the told me things like "it's not where you go, it's what you do with it...etc.". I ended up finishing my degree where I was.
I regret this decision. While there are a couple of people I graduated with who have pretty decent jobs in their field, most of my fellow graduates are working for very low pay, many in unrelated temporary positions and some in retail/warehouses etc. (For what it's worth, I make 30k per year in a clerical position that does not require a college degree, but I just graduated and have only applied for a handful of better jobs so far. This was my choice and I can't honestly blame the school for it).
While this may not be a typical outcome at your university, I can tell you that my friends who attended highly-selective schools received opportunities that no one I knew at my school had access to, and, without any exceptions I've witnessed, now have higher-paying jobs with more prestigious employers in more desirable locations. This observation has held regardless of major (i.e. the elite school liberal arts majors I know are doing better than the local state school accounting majors). I don't know whether this is because they are intrinsically more able/motivated, but I can't imagine how school reputation wouldn't affect employers' perceptions about candidates, especially for entry-level hiring.
Remember, when people in our parents' generation graduated, far fewer people went to college.
I can honestly say that I think about the opportunities I squandered by not transferring all the time, and it bothers me. I can still go to graduate school, obviously, and I may make up for it in the long run just by working hard. But even if I do (and I'm sure going to try), I won't get to relive my young adulthood, and neither will you. There's no reason to limit yourself.
And you'll actually be limited, imo.
Two things I forgot to mention:
a) My friends that went to well-known state flagships are doing very well.
b) Major still matters. I know you didn't ask for advice on this, but having a technical skill will help you avoid un/underemployment, and will not inhibit you if you want to take a general management/administrative role in a large organization. I only know one humanities major from my school who's gainfully employed, though a lot of them went on to grad school. However, if a career specific to humanities is your goal, I respect that.
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