Hi there,
I'm about to fail my second year resits and I'm wondering what other people have done in my situation.
I study physics at Nottingham, and whilst I didn't really enjoy the first year of my course I got through it despite sitting a month out of uni due to illness and came out with a 2:1. I found this encouraging and decided to continue despite the fact that I was finding it boring and wasn't enjoying the teaching.
Fast forward to second year, and despite doing well in the courseworks and all of my lab projects/reports I've failed all the exams. I find revising the topics extremely tedious and have a huge mental block when it comes to revision. Towards the end of the year I pretty much gave up on going to lectures and my grades dropped through the floor. I'm now about to resit the exams next week but I've experienced the same lack of motivation and have done very little revision so will most likely fail them outright.
I love the social side of uni life; I'm the president of a society, I get on well with my housemates, we've been to and hosted a lot of parties. I just can't hack my course. The workload is obscene which is so demotivating. handing in 2 assessed pieces of coursework a week plus constant lab prep all year round when the exams are still worth 80% is exhausting.
As a bit of background I've always been more interested in creative endeavours than physics, but decided to take physics because of it's wide-ranging job applications. Recently I've been working freelance as an digital/audiovisual artist and that's become a big part of my life.
Should I resit the year and try and buckle down? Should I drop out? Should I try and get onto a different course and start from scratch? I'm at a total loss, and have never felt so unsure of anything in my life.