changing course along the way

@EdnaReyes (2622)
Philippines
October 27, 2010 3:11am CST
My daughter is planning to shift to another course. She's making a decision right now and she's asking to me share my thoughts about it. I haven't done shifting course when I was in college, what I've done is to finish off the course and then start a new course after finding out it's better from my first course. How about you, what would you do,change course or stay on and finish what you've started?
5 responses
@ericytac (83)
• Philippines
27 Oct 10
I suggest that she should not change course. If she started to shift courses, she will now always shift to one course to another. That's what happen to my friend. After finding out that he doesn't like his first course he shift into another course that happens also very difficult. From then on, he always shift courses. So let her finished first what she started. Days will past she will like that course she started.
• China
27 Oct 10
you should let her make her own desision.That decision will affect her future and maybe that will make her save a lot of detour.
@oligel (130)
• Philippines
13 Dec 10
if she is still in her 2nd semester and she want to shift to other course then for me it's ok. but if she is in her third year, it's a big NO, first she spent so much efforts, and time, secondly, she spent so much money (private school). try to asked her what are the reasons why she want to shift her course.
• United States
27 Oct 10
It would be ideal to finish what she started however, will she continue on to a career in that field is the real question. Some kids today take fields of interest when they enter college, with no intent to really work in that field. They are quite young when they enter college so they are sort of going with the program and taking the required courses. I say perhaps she needs to explore the field a bit more before she gets deeper into that field as worst case scenario would be, to be almost done, gone through all the years of study and shortly before she finishes she finds this is not interesting to her. Discuss it a bit more for her as to her to sort of balance what she likes and does not about the field, it may be she is just a bit confused and find the advantages of this field to be a bit more interesting than she thinks. Good Luck, and this I know as my daughter changed 3 times. Ugh.
@JackRoy (243)
• United States
27 Oct 10
It is very tough for a person to pursue a course which he or she doesn't like, has no interest on. One should decide early into the course, whether to go on with it or not. But if you are with the course for quite sometime then you shouldn't leave it along the way. It depends whether I would continue or not on circumstances. As I mention above.
@turikusi (66)
• Philippines
27 Oct 10
It is really difficult to shift to another course along the way because that would be just wasting time and money spent on the previous course.