I'm 5 weeks into my first year at University doing Pharmacy which is a four year course. While I have somewhat enjoyed the lectures so far, I hate every other aspect of being here. I'm not a drinker and hate going clubbing/partying - a characteristic that has made it problematic for me to make friends. This is especially true with my flatmates who I have heard numerous times bitching about me while I'm trying to sleep after they have come back from nights out. However, I am a shy, introverted person and came to university with the expectation that I would spend most of my time here feeling lonely.
So really my main concern over everything is that a degree in Pharmacy leads to a career in Pharmacy, and it upsets me to think that I'm going through all this (plus not to mention the enormous debt I'll be leaving with) just to spend the rest of my life sorting drugs into different boxes. Before results day, I had an offer from Cambridge to study Natural sciences, which I really expected to get the grades for after sacrificing so much in order to revise and work hard for all the exams. But when results day came around I found I hadn't made the grades simply because I hadn't written answers that were on the mark scheme in one of the Biology exams, even though they were technically correct. Following on from that I got so depressed I didn't have the will power to research other courses so just stuck with my insurance course. This being my insurance because my brother had done this exact same course so I thought of it as a safe option and I had more of an idea of what the course would be like.
Another problem I have found is that as this university was only my insurance, it meant that I had to apply for accommodation much later than others meaning that I am living a 40 minute walk away from campus, where almost all other pharmacy students are living. I'm therefore very worried about where I am going to live next year as I haven't made any close friends on my course or in the place I'm living now.
My reason for posting on here is to see whether people think I should withdraw from this university and find an alternative course, just give up on University all together and start working instead or stick with it.