My Path into Physics (at MIT)

This sounds somewhat similar to my college experience where I was accepted into UCLA for my first semester of undergraduate but then transferred out because of financial issues. I'm from the Midwest, but I transferred back to a Midwestern University (It's technically a tier 1 research university but I wasn't as happy). Years later, I learned that they offered molecular anthropology at UCLA as I wanted to study medicine and eventually ended with a social science degree and an informal minor in public health.