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I want to leave Uni (1st year)- I hate my course

I have started a degree in Law this year but I do not like the subject at all. I have the exam in a few days and I have so much to revise that I don't think it's possible.

I was thinking of leaving uni this year, applying for a normal job for the next year and then re-applying to uni the year after that.

My A-level results are AAB. Do you think other uni's will be reluctant to accept me as I have quit my first year so it won't look good? I am not considering re-applying to my current uni as I don't like it either.

What shall I do? Anyone else not liking their current course at uni?

Reply 1

Wise One

11

Agony Aunt

I have started a degree in Law this year but I do not like the subject at all. I have the exam in a few days and I have so much to revise that I don't think it's possible.

I was thinking of leaving uni this year, applying for a normal job for the next year and then re-applying to uni the year after that.

My A-level results are AAB. Do you think other uni's will be reluctant to accept me as I have quit my first year so it won't look good? I am not considering re-applying to my current uni as I don't like it either.

Firstly, sit the exam anyway. See how you do. You've paid your tuition fees and, at the end of the day, you don't have anything to lose. Does your first year even count?

If things go badly, and you just can't stomach another two years of Law, it sounds like you've already got a plan.

And I don't think you're going to find a uni that would be reluctant to accept you. If you want to start again from scratch (as opposed to transferring), I don't even think it's required for you to record the fact that you attending your current institution, and dropping out shouldn't affect your chances.

Reply 2

Spunky

14

You're so close to the exam that maybe you should sit it anyway. Everyone gets nervous before exams and perhaps you wanting to drop out are just the nerves manifesting themselves?

I suggest you take the exam, then use the summer vacation to decide what you want to do. If you only want to change course you may be able to stay at the same university and just apply for a transfer :smile:

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Reply 3

fais

15

What would you do if not Law? If it's something equally as competitive, I think it's fair to say you've missed the boat for a 2007 start.

If it's less so, you could quite conceivably knock up a UCAS application and get in for Extra/Clearing for entry this year. However, it's already been suggested you might want to concentrate on your exams before thinking about this course of action.

This, of course, is only if you know you want to do something else somewhere else. Things may change/become clearer after the exam period.

hth,

fais

Reply 4

kellywood_5

17

I agree that you might as well just sit the exam anyway because it's so close and you might do better than you think, but at the same time, there's really no point in carrying on if you hate both your course and your uni. Have a think over the summer about what you really want to do, take a gap year to work and earn some money and reapply for a different course and different unis in the autumn. Lots of people drop out, and if you put a positive spin on it by emphasising that it's made you realise how much you love x subject, I seriously doubt any uni will hold it against you.

Reply 5

holly123

i am in exactly the same boat as you but doing spanish. although i am yet to hand in a piece of coursework and we have had 5 pieces to do so i can pretty much so i won't pass. i finally decided today not to come home and not go back. i have felt like this since january but have forced myself to keep going hoping it would get better and it hasn't.

now my mum is trying to get me to take the exams by saying if i don't i will have to pay back my maintenance grant. is this true or is she just trying to scare me?

Reply 6

fais

15

As far as I'm aware, you won't need to pay back the maintenance grant.

You may need to fill out a Notification of Change of Circumstance (CO1) form but I think you'll be ok.

Maybe others can give you a more authoritative answer though..

fais

Reply 7

Bigkahuna

In the same boat with law. What is depressing is that unlike studying something like film studies where you can take it easy, everybody at law school tends to be ultra-competitive so you have to keep on motivating yourself to study negligence on a friday night, with the mitigating factor of enjoying half a bottle of Chardonney while doing so.
Sometimes I think that its only a small minority who are true intellectual lawyers who really enjoy law while the rest of us are in it for the job and prestige of the profession.

Reply 8

Lawkt

I feel the same, I am studying maths and i just don't enjoy it anymore. I havent liked my course since about jan/feb but i dont dare drop out because my mum would kill me. I know i will do badly in the exams as i just dont enjoy it and its getting me so down i'm starting to dread getting up each day. my mum really wouldnt understand me dropping out and really wouldnt allow it. i just dont know what to do!!

Reply 9

Iscariot

11

Everyone hates their course this time of year. All we do now is revise, revise, revise.

Reply 10

Wise One

11

Bigkahuna

In the same boat with law. What is depressing is that unlike studying something like film studies where you can take it easy, everybody at law school tends to be ultra-competitive so you have to keep on motivating yourself to study negligence on a friday night, with the mitigating factor of enjoying half a bottle of Chardonney while doing so.

Although I agree that law is a thoroughly rigerous and highly competitive degree (not sure if all law students are alcoholics, though), I'd have to ask whether you have any experience of film studies at degree level.

Reply 11

Bigkahuna

I was being flippent. but seriously when I flatted with guys who were doing film and they sit down and watch movies as part of their course so I am slightly bitter. I did study arts and dropped out of a MA in philosophy before law and the amount of work I do in second year law is so much more than postgrad. The sheer amount of reading is quite daunting and the socratic method just compunds the misery. I think that they should have a boot camp to prepare you before you go in. What would help in this case is to get together with classmates and form a study group. Its much easier when you have something explained to you and makes more of an impression than simply reading. Some people learn more effectively that way.

Being flippent again I just read book on Quentin Tarantino. Why bother to go to film school when you can just work in a video store for 5 years just like he did and practically watch every every movie in existence. that would be an education

Wise One

Although I agree that law is a thoroughly rigerous and highly competitive degree (not sure if all law students are alcoholics, though), I'd have to ask whether you have any experience of film studies at degree level.

I want to leave Uni (1st year)- I hate my course

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