Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Okay, I need some advice about school

I always read everyone's posts and just don't feel I normally have a post that would really be important enough, but I guess now I do. I having some dilemmas with school. Right now I'm in my 3rd out of 4 years of college at a realy great design school here in my hometown actually that I am so lucky to be at since it's tough to get into. I'm majoring in interior design which is something that I've known I've wanted to do since I was in like 5th grade. The past 2 years of college I have absolutely known that I was going to be doing a job that I loved so much no matter how incredibly hard I had to be working all of the time. But then over the summer I went to study abroad in Italy and I took a trip by myself to Paris before I came home and just fell in love with everything over there. I didn't end up getting much of a summer vacation though since my classes over there were so demanding and by the time I got home school was starting up again. Just for those of you that don't know, Interior Design is so much more than like picking out drape and paint colors these days. It's a lot more architectural and we do a lot of computer work. But just as an example, my last project that we spent the first 6 weeks of the semester on, I was at school working in the computer labs non-stop (weekends I'd be there from when it opened at 9am until it closed at midnight or 2 am and then back again the next day). It is the most demanding major at our school and I guess probably one of the reasons that they turn out some of the best designers. But now to my problem. From the time this semester started in August I just really not been into it. I wanted to drop out the first week - and I am such an overachiever that I never quit anything. The more I thought about what I really wish I was doing, it would be going to a culinary school and doing baking and pastry making and all. My parents think I need to stick it out in school and finish and then go from there if I still want to change my mind, but I still have a year and half more of all this stress (which is not good for IBS) and then I would just hate to waste that time when I could really be doing something else. But then I also see the other side of it where if I've come so far and paid all this money (which is ALOT) I should finish and have the degree. I also don't know if a lot of this could just be that I'm just burnt out on the whole thing and it doesn't mean that I don't want to do it altogether-if that makes any sense. And even after I graduate in a year and half, I have 2 years of interning and then I have to take the national test to be certified as an Interior Designer before I can actually practice, so essentially it would really be another 3 1/2 years before I could think of doing something else. This whole thing is just really coming up for me again because I have to sign up for my schedule for the spring semester next week and I am just really wondering if I want to come back. It's hard too because I'm really good at the whole Interior Design thing but I'm just feeling like my heart is not in it anymore, but it could lead to some amazing jobs and I could live in Europe and I just don't know! But then just tonight I made lollipops from scratch for my friends for Halloween and it is just the best thing ever! I go nuts making cakes and decorating them for people's birthdays, I LOVE the Food Network on TV. But I'm just so torn. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks!

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