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Originally Posted by scottyp  I decided that at 23 I better get this over with or I will be in school forever. |
Don't feel too bad - I know quite a few people on the 7-year graduation plan.
My observation is that almost all of them don't really want to be in college and don't care about getting a degree. (Except for the one who knows that her parents are going to make her pay her own bills when she graduates, so she's postponing graduation.)
My roommate did much better when he acknowledged that the reason he wasn't graduating was because he didn't give a darn. And since (a) Computer degrees aren't worth much anyway (b) he already had computer certifications, which
are, and (c) he's starting his own company, which doesn't require a degree, there was no reason for him to torture himself at university.
Are you in a similar situation? If you're thinking about switching programs (which would throw a lot of your classwork out the window) anyway, it might be a good time to take a year or two off, and figure out what you want to do with your life. If that turns out to require a degree, go back and take classes, with renewed motivation. But if your dream job frankly couldn't care less whether you have a degree or not, why bother?