Depressed about the thought of finishing uni..

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Very encouraging thoughts :smile:

thank you.
Also, as a masters student, does it still have the same perks as an undergraduate student? Like obviously there would be a lot more work involved but is it still as exciting the previous years in terms of meeting new people and having new experiences.

Hi.

I do an integrated Masters here at Lancaster so what I avoided in third year, I study in fourth year so to speak with a dissertation taking up 2 out of 8 modules. I've got a few friends at uni who I see every so often but I'd say it's a fine line to judge how social you'd be in a Master's year. If you're hot stuff academically you could be able to fit in a fair bit of socialising with work, it depends on the person.

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wanderlust.xx

Hah, I my exams finish in about 3 weeks and I can't wait to get back home and start my life. I can finally hit the gym, stop doing all this god damn maths, earn some money (by doing maths I like) and just try and grow as a person.

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ArtGoblin

I can't bear it. :cry:

Even though I've got a dissertation due in less than two weeks that has been stressing me out for the last couple of months, I don't want this to end. I have very little hope of getting a job when I leave, I have to move back with my parents and I have no idea what I want to do. It's so scary and horrible and I just want to stay in Sheffield and get drunk every week, even if that means having a dissertation continually over my head. I really do sound like a baby in this post, but I am a baby. Don't make me grow up! :cry:

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HARRY PUTAH

Original post by ArtGoblin

I can't bear it. :cry:

Plus you can go home knowing Uni never won varsity in your time there.

:smile:

Reply 24

izpenguin

I feel like that about school. I'm in year 10, so I still have a year left but the fact that after that life will never be like this again terrifies me. I love it here. And I'm absolutely dreading college.

Reply 25

username266003

Same here dude. That's the main reason right now I'm considering applying for postgrad. I'm graduating and I gotta find a job and all that but I still feel like a fresher. I just wanna get drunk, not get a job. :frown:

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Laurah5498

I'm half and half at the moment. I'm wanting to leave as soon as possible today! My dissertation is due in tomorrow and I've not finished my bibliography yet :frown:

I've had a really tough year this year so I'm almost glad to be going and moving on. I love Keele to pieces but I've had my time I think :smile:

Reply 27

username266003

Original post by Laurah5498

I'm half and half at the moment. I'm wanting to leave as soon as possible today! My dissertation is due in tomorrow and I've not finished my bibliography yet :frown:

I've had a really tough year this year so I'm almost glad to be going and moving on. I love Keele to pieces but I've had my time I think :smile:

Bibliography is a piece of cake. :tongue:

Reply 28

Laurah5498

Original post by RabbitCFH

Bibliography is a piece of cake. :tongue:

It's 12 pages long and I've been doing it since 10:30 this morning so I'm getting quite tetchy with it!

Reply 29

xoxAngel_Kxox

I feel like this too. I had my last lecture last week, and have one exam, and then that's it.

Reply 30

username266003

Original post by Laurah5498

It's 12 pages long and I've been doing it since 10:30 this morning so I'm getting quite tetchy with it!

12 pages?! Wow. My bibliography was 4 pages long. I used 35 sources in 45 pages, which was still quite a lot.

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sr90

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I'm **** scared at the thought of finishing uni and i'm only in my first year.

- Job prospects next to nil
- Probably lose contact with all uni friends
- Becomes almost impossible to make any new friends/relationships
- The thought of moving back home

Can't wait. God knows how you guys feel :frown:

Reply 32

muffingg

Original post by tsr-member

So I know a lot of final year students are gonna slam me for saying this as a penultimate year student. ..but it's true. :frown:

I started out uni with a love-hate relationship but I've come grow so attatched to the lifestyle here. Just wandering through the SU and knowing that in around a year's time, this will no longer be the university I go to. A bunch of new students will be sat in the same shoes I've been in. I know life goes on and I suppose I was pretty sad about leaving secondary school. ...then sad about leaving sixth form college. ...but the thought of finishing uni is one that feels the worst of them all. Perhaps because I don't really know where I'll be going next. ...but I have a feeling it won't be as exciting and as full of opportunity as uni has been. Even memories of being in the library at 2am with 6 cans of red bull and a semester's worth of studies to catch up on seem like the sort of thing I would actually miss!

Rant over!
Anyone feel a bit run down when they think about the prospect of finishing with education?
Also, has anyone already finished with their degree and felt like this before?

This might not be what you might want to hear but this post of yours actually just reminded me of how I'll soon be in that position. Even though I'm in Year 1 right now, the thought of finishing uni and missing all these people I've gotten to know and the great place of the university itself, where so many memories even in first year have happened,...this thought just gets me badly. :frown:

I think it just reminds me of living this time to the fullest of my abilities and do as many (crazy and non-crazy) things which I probably won't get a chance to do again in real life.

Reply 33

usernonapplicable

Original post by Anna150

I'm the complete opposite

I'm about a month away from graduating and i cannot WAIT. This whole final year has been a stressfull pain and the end can't come soon enough!

Reply 34

ArtGoblin

Original post by HARRY PUTAH

Plus you can go home knowing Uni never won varsity in your time there.

:smile:

I would say "at least I'll get a job when I leave" but it's not even true.

:nothing:

Reply 35

takethyfacehence

I haven't even started yet, starting this September, and I'm really hoping I get some kind of divine inspiration in the next 3/4 years for what I'm going to do after uni. I can see myself doing a Masters possibly, but still, after that. And from what I know now, I'd probably do Masters part time like a mate of mine is doing so I could work and actually afford it if I chose to do it.

The other main worry though is making lots of friends and having just that general social feel from having your peers around you, in class and in halls (particularly because I only had a couple real friends through school and bunked most days)..... and then losing loads of friends because of distance/general flakeyness of people/having to work all the time etc....

Iunno though, there's loads of things I'm looking forward to about life after uni, I just need the stability of a job for them of course and it would be nice if I was doing well socially too... will just have to see how it goes...

Reply 36

HARRY PUTAH

Original post by ArtGoblin

I would say "at least I'll get a job when I leave" but it's not even true.

:nothing:

I know/knew of a few Uni students.

They aint in graduate jobs so try harder cupcake. Besides, what I am doing is useful to the economy, most degrees aint worth their weight in toilet paper no matter where you go.

:rolleyes:

Reply 37

guantanamera

reality completely smacked me in my big fat face when i graduated and got a job. still transitioning at the moment, and i'm putting up a bit of a struggle.

Reply 38

ArtGoblin

Original post by HARRY PUTAH

Lol, typical Hallam student, can't even read.

:colondollar:

Sorry, but you did ask for it. Read my post again.

Reply 39

hannah_dru

I graduated last year and felt like that before I left a bit but to be honest, I really enjoy working and I'm happy doing this compared to writing essays and reading books. Responsibility and bills don't suck that much :tongue: