Pursuing A Bachelor's Degree In Occupational Therapy

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I took the typical road an eighteen year old fresh out of high school would take, I went to college. I went off to school with an independent spirit and sense of freedom. I was young and ready to take on the world, but there was one problem, I had no real idea my purpose!
I went to school in upstate New York majoring in Occupational Therapy. I had worked with Occupational Therapists at the summer camp where I worked each summer and thought that was what I wanted to be! With a small amount background research I began my college career studying to do something I knew very little about.
Fast forward three years later, I am struggling in school, I am homesick and I am not motivated. I see all of my peers engaged in their programs, beginning

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