Harrison
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I'm Harry. I'm a fourth year
and I'm from Brooklin, Ontario.
I originally came to
university going into animal bio,
and I didn't really have
that big of a strategy behind it.
I just really liked animals
and thought that it would fit,
and basically all through high school everyone
was like oh I could see you doing that for sure,
like that's definitely for you.
And then once
I got here, I realized that
it's a little harder
than I had originally planned.
People were like oh, which vet
school are you going to apply to?
And I was like what? No, that's not-
I don't want to apply to vet school.
And they were like well, this isn't the program
for you, so I kind of got a wake up call with that.
The transition from
high school to university
was way bigger than
I had ever expected.
So my first midterm that
I got back was actually-
I got it back and it was 30 percent, and I
had never seen a mark that low in my life.
So I called my mom and I was like listen
I'm dropping out or I'm doing something
because I can't do this anymore, so I
stuck with it for another year and a half,
and in that year and a half, I failed
chem twice, I got really bad marks
and I just- It got to a point where I decided
you know what? I need to do this for myself,
so I switched at that point.
So once the change happened and
I started finding an outlet for my stress,
and finally got around to switching my major,
I'd noticed that not only did my grades improve,
but my interest in school
came back in a sense.
So I was actually interested to go back
to class and I was willing to learn again
as opposed to the courses in animal
bio I was not interested in,
and the content was so heavy
that my brain just- I couldn't do it.
I did not want to learn.
Doing the switch actually
felt like rebirthing my interest in school
and basically just made me feel a
lot better about what I was doing.
Switching majors is actually a lot more
common than some people think
or high schoolers coming
into university would expect,
so just relating to them and seeing
how common it is to switch your major
definitely helped a lot with the
stress level I was going through.
Additionally, counseling services here a
Guelph I definitely went to a couple times
and said like listen,
I don't know what I'm doing,
and they definitely, not
really pushed me to a path,
but gently nudged me in a way where I realized
okay, it's no so bad, I can definitely do this.
Switching majors is completely okay and getting a 30
on your first midterm is definitely not the end of the world,
and it's no cause for concern or
for feeling the need to drop out.
You're going to get through it
and you're going to do great, so-