Vita_Aeterna posted...The first part made me worry. I'm hoping to transfer into a university next year that I always wished I had gone to. Scared the difficulty spike might be too much.
Don't. The difficulty spike is not actually that insane (unless you're going to Caltech or MIT or something), I mostly just stopped caring about schoolwork once I left my other school. Not caring when you're in 300 level CS classes is a recipe for disaster.