In Need Of Career Advice: Should I consider changing my major?

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Hello fellow pre-nursing students/nursing students,

My name is Miriam and I really need help because I might be considering changing my major from nursing to something else. I have changed my major from nursing to journalism (LOL) back to nursing again over the past 2 years I would say. This has made me stay in community college where I started about 4 years ago, since I kept changing my major, now with plans to apply to the ADN program at my college. I am 22 years old, and as you all know time doe not stop for you, time flies! Especially since I am in my 20's I should be working on myself "career-wise." I am taking A&P 2 for a 2nd time this semester because I want to do better on it, I took A& P 2 about a year ago and I got a D on it. I retook A&P 1 last semester and I got a solid B, on A & P 1 lab I got a B as well....after retaking those classes for the 3rd time. (Yes I know not Joking). So right now in Spring 2019 I am taking Microbiology lec/lab, and also A&P 2 lec/lab. The only downside I have is that my lecture class for A& P 2 is not really an interactive class. Our teacher doesn't teach anything since this is a "FLIP' class, and since I am more of a hands-on /visual/tactile learner I am not getting the hang of it even though I study my butt off. The class time that we have with him is not even a lecture, everything is online and we are supposed to come to class prepared to discuss what we learned in videos. Because of this, I am considering dropping this course and taking it in the summer...for the third time. ? Let me tell you a little back story about me. When I started community college , I started around age 17 because I graduated early from high school. I was always an A or B student since I was young... Somehow when I started college I did not have any drive or ambition whatsoever and I did not know what to pursue. I was home schooled in high school due to problems with having anxiety when I started my junior year. I did not graduate with any one of the classmates I knew, I did not attend prom in senior year, and I stayed home most of the time. So starting community college was not easy because I had no support from people around my age, my parents were supportive of me pushing me to go to college so I did because of them. But I was lost and I had nothing I wanted to do, so I turned to smoking weed, drugs, drinking, partying, etc. I was just getting by living life, not caring about getting good grades, while I would lie to my parents about getting good grades. Also, I did not need to work as much because my parents supported me, but I did work part time and earn money for my classes when I started getting bad grades because of the lack of studying during those years which affected my financial aid. Up until the start of 2018, I decided to change my ways and I lost 30 pounds, stopped smoking,stopped drinking, and enrolled in the classes I had chosen to do for nursing, prior to my rebellious stage of drinking/drugs and not giving a crap about my success. Fast forward, I am now 22 years old and I am taking classes for ADN program as explained earlier that I could have done way better on earlier if I had drive to do better. Currently, I am getting discouraged by my professor, because he doesn't teach! If i drop my A & P 2 class now, I would have to retake it a 3rd time this summer. FYI, almost everyone is failing this class now because he does this "FLIP" teaching where you learn everything by yourself instead of in class. The thing is that I am still at community college and its been 4 years of being here, which is time wasted? I am planning to transfer out after this semester either to ADN program if i get accepted or just completely change my major to something else. I have dragged out my studying years because of not starting on the right foot. I have also started studying for my HESI exam which I plan to take in about 2 months, I do not know if I want to take A& P 2 for a 3rd time around because I just want to start fresh at a new school! or the ADN program ? I am not getting any younger, and if i drop this course which I will need to since I'm failing and its halfway through the semester, my question is if I should still consider nursing given the way I have had to retake some of these classes. Should I rethink my career.? Should I transfer to university after this semester? All my other classes have A's and B's except for my A& P 2 lecture class. My interests have always been to help out, and I have a natural tendency to treat people really kindly, I have a kind heart, and I am smart as a student when I apply myself, I am passionate about social justice issues, also I am really into arts and into humanities issues and that sort of thing has always interested me, which is why I want to be a nurse to help people out. I would also like to mention that I love reading and writing, and my mind is on the more "creative" side of thinking. Growing up I was always advanced in classes especially Language Arts and I was "gifted" in reading. Anyways, can someone give me any advice about if I should change my majors? Or stick with nursing? I don't want to be in community college anymore, I just want to graduate and make my parents proud.

Thanks -Miriam-