To drop or not to drop

So I wasn't very impressed with my philosophy class but I thought... hey, I'll still read some cool old material and write papers. Then, I got further frustrated with my discussion and a particularly tedious assignment. I combed the catalog and found that I could maybe switch into sociology, but they wouldn't let me in. No other classes! Well here are my options now...

1. Drop philosophy
2. Drop both philosophy and chem 230 and add another class
3. Drop philosophy, change my hum conference and add another class
4. Keep my current schedule

While options 2 and 3 are technically still possible, they are not really feasible, since I don't want to compromise anything else in my schedule and plopping into a new class two weeks in would be hard. The question has become fairly simple - to drop or not to drop.

To drop: I would only have 3.0 units this semester. This isn't inherently a bad thing - it still counts as full-time and there are worthwhile things I could do with the extra time, for example volunteer at MLC. But since tuition is the same however many units I take, something seems wrong with taking so few classes. And I won't get a chance to take any group A or B classes next year (I will be booked with chem-phys-bio-math), so I might be committing myself to either satisfying a group requirement elsewhere during a summer or putting it off until senior year.

Not to drop: I would keep 4.0 units, but I would have to take this class. There's an obvious question of, is the extra unit worth having if it's a class I don't enjoy? The other thing is that it commits me to taking another philosophy class to fill out my group A requirement, which is what I thought I wanted to do, but if this philosophy class isn't working for me how can I be sure another one will be better? Maybe I don't mesh with the Reed phil department, or it could even be that I just don't really like to study philosophy and my class at UO was an exception.

I talked to my advisor about it and he thinks that either option is reasonable. I also talked to my philosophy professor earlier in the day, but it wasn't very helpful one way or another. I have the class tomorrow so I will go in and give it one more chance. I need to decide by Friday what I'm doing. Technically the drop deadline isn't for a while, but I don't know how much longer I can get a full refund for my books and I just don't want to drag this out any further.