I have just started my first year for a history degree at my dream uni. I picked history because it's something I thought I would really enjoy and I did thoroughly enjoy both A level and GCSE history. My main concern is the reading, we're set up to hundreds of pages of mainly academic articles and reports (usually at least twenty pages long) which I just don't find interesting at all, when I try and sit down to do the reading I just zone out. I don't really like the independent style of learning, I don't mind extra material to support what's already being taught but it seems to be more that we're given a couple of hours lecture on something and then expected to effectively teach ourselves. When I look around my seminars all my course mates seem to thoroughly enjoy this and I have tried but I just don't feel like I fit in with that, I enjoy history as a subject but I don't know if I'm 'passionate' about it as such and I'm just not enjoying the course like I thought I would. Also, in the first year we don't get to focus on one time period instead all modules are generic more focused on teaching us how to study history academically and different approaches to history in which we may have a 'case study' that will involve an hour or two of lectures, lots of reading and then moving onto a new topic with little attention to the facts of the period, this removes what I used to enjoy at GCSE and A Level. This is making me think perhaps I should change courses and do business management instead which may be more vocational? Can any History (or business) students give me some advice? Will the course improve? Did anyone else initially feel like this about the reading and has gone on to enjoy the degree?