Some great advice from others. Here's mine:
1. Examine what you are not liking about your current studies. Make sure that you are not just having a little burnout from a heavy courseload, and in turn are fantasizing about how rosy a new career track might be.
2. You do need to follow your heart and do what you love. It will not be always easy. You might have to accept the fact that you will make less money at that than in other careers. But you only have so many years on this planet. Make the most of them.
An example: Would you be happy at 45 or 50 doing "what you love" and living in a modest house, struggling to pay some bills, taking vacations only infrequently and to inexpensive places, and driving a Hyundai? Or would you have a better life having a career that you merely tolerate, but that will give you the expensive house, the Mercedes, the expensive vacations, and perhaps an earlier retirement?
I gave up a $110,000/yr job 3 years ago to pursue a different career path. I was stressed out and unhappy in a career that I didn't enjoy as much as I wanted to. I am struggling -- REALLY struggling -- to start my own business. I have lost nearly all of my retirement savings. I made $13,000 last year. I am so scared some days. BUT I am happy. I have a dream, and I'm not giving it up. Somehow, some way, I'm going to make it work.
3. Take advice from those close to you, but listen to your heart in the end. Most people don't want you to take risks because THEY never had the guts to take a risk to go after their dream. It's the reason why most people are not entrepreneurs.
Good luck.
