Should I drop out? How long should I wait?

If you haven't even been on it a week, you really ought to give it a bit more time.

Give it time for now. It hasn't been long yet. Also at some point you are going to leave home, this is easier to do at uni which is a sort of halfway house between school and the real world than being thrown in at the deep end

Thanks guys, going to try and wait until the weekend I go back up home but it's so hard, never felt this depressed before

I've just started uni on Sunday and I'm sooo wanting to pack up and go move back home, I'd literally walk home if I could.

I've started a biology degree and even though I am a bit interested in it it just doesn't feel right at all for me. I'm not 100% sure on what career I want to have, but teaching is a possibility.

As well as the course not feeling right it's killing me to be away from home , I've cried so much this week it's unreal.

Thing is I could move back home and do a teaching degree, at a uni down the road practically, which would enable me to do the job I think I want to do and obviously that would solve the homesickness issue.

I'm just so sad and depressed constantly, I can feel myself getting ill over it and that's really not what I want to happen.

If anyone has dropped out of uni or has felt similar, how long did you wait to see if things sorted themselves out? I'm going up home on the 11th Nov and even that seems too long to wait, I literally can't bear it .

Any advice at all would be handy, thanks so much .
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Are you at york?? You're user name is like someone i'm fb friends with and I'm doing biology at york too and feeling the same...

Is it just homesickness that is the problem? Because that should just pass

No not just the homesickness I don't think, the course just doesn't feel right for me. I can't see myself coming out of uni after 3 years and actually getting a job biology related which worries me. It's either teaching or nursing (completely different I know) that I might want to do... and I don't need to be stuck here to do that.

...Then why did you choose to do Biology at uni?

Like everyone else has said, give it more time. You might start liking the course (since you've only been there a week, I doubt you've even scratched the surface by now). As for the homesickness... Eh. I can't really relate but I don't think it's worth crying over. Your parents aren't gonna just disppear or w/e. Talk to them on the phone or similar.

I dropped out of uni last week after being there for 2 and a half weeks. I pressured myself into going this year because of the fee rise next year when actually I wanted a gap year this year. I also got incredibly homesick as I was about 4 hours from home. I'd give it at least a week of your course being started before making your decision, but I don't regret coming home at all and I plan to apply to unis closer to home next year (looking at winchester which is an hour away)
Good Luck!

I also want to drop out.

I've been here 5 weeks and I've wanted to drop out since I got here but thought I should give it a while. However I still, 5-6 weeks later, feel miserable and unhappy and just really don't want to be here - so I think having given it a chance, I should drop out.

I've realised a few things since I've gotten here and I think they're my reasons for dropping out:


I'm going home next week anyway so I'm going to discuss it properly with the parents (have already discussed it at length on the phone, but in person) and see how I feel at home before beginning the drop-out process when I come back up.

I have no idea of the procedures though. Off the top of my head I know I'd need to sort out officially dropping out of uni, accommodation, student finance, unapplying for DSA, travelling back down...what else?