Dear Helpless Grad Student,
Thank you for your letter. First of all, you’d better to change your name, especially, the part of “Helpless.” Nothing would be helpless in your and our lives. There must be something that you can do. First, I’d like to say that you can give up. You can give up your school if you want. It doesn’t mean anything if you continue to study what you don’t want to do or are not interested in. It’s just waste of your time and money. The life is just only one time. So you can do whatever you want. It will be worse to feel regret for something that you’ve not done than you have done. But, it is true that time sometimes solves the problems, for example, love or new environment. Now, you may feel boring or frustrated. However, if you continue to study in current way, you’ll get used to the environment and be interested in what you are studying or find some interesting issues what you didn’t know. So, why don’t you stay in the current situation at least 3 more months? Then, if your mind wouldn’t be changed, it might be okay to quit the school and jump into a whole new world. Anyway, the most important thing in your life is, having fun!! Don’t hesitate to start new things.
