Hi,
Today after over a month of hating uni, I dropped out. I have no idea how to feel. I feel like I've made a huge mistake even though I know how much I hated it here and hated my course. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I've said I'm going to apply to go somewhere else on a different course in September, but I'm worried I'll hate that just as much. I also feel like a big failure...who goes to uni for a whole month and meets people and makes friends just to go and drop out? I feel like my family are going to be so disappointed with me.
I have nothing to go back to. I have the security of my A level grades but don't have the security of a place in September like my friends who are on gap years. I'm worried I won't get onto the course I want and will then have just wasted another year. I am going to have nothing to do when I'm at home and will just be waiting on going to uni in September, which I don't even want to do as I hated it so much this time around.
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- 30-10-2017 17:12
Why don't you get a job until next September and save some cash for the next time round? Then you will have somethng to do. You might even find a way that doesn't involve uni at all.
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- 30-10-2017 17:23
Try going for a degree apprenticeship?
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- 30-10-2017 17:24
(Original post by vanderwoodsen)
Hi,
Today after over a month of hating uni, I dropped out. I have no idea how to feel. I feel like I've made a huge mistake even though I know how much I hated it here and hated my course. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I've said I'm going to apply to go somewhere else on a different course in September, but I'm worried I'll hate that just as much. I also feel like a big failure...who goes to uni for a whole month and meets people and makes friends just to go and drop out? I feel like my family are going to be so disappointed with me.
I have nothing to go back to. I have the security of my A level grades but don't have the security of a place in September like my friends who are on gap years. I'm worried I won't get onto the course I want and will then have just wasted another year. I am going to have nothing to do when I'm at home and will just be waiting on going to uni in September, which I don't even want to do as I hated it so much this time around. -
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- 30-10-2017 17:31
(Original post by vanderwoodsen)
Hi,
Today after over a month of hating uni, I dropped out. I have no idea how to feel. I feel like I've made a huge mistake even though I know how much I hated it here and hated my course. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I've said I'm going to apply to go somewhere else on a different course in September, but I'm worried I'll hate that just as much. I also feel like a big failure...who goes to uni for a whole month and meets people and makes friends just to go and drop out? I feel like my family are going to be so disappointed with me.
I have nothing to go back to. I have the security of my A level grades but don't have the security of a place in September like my friends who are on gap years. I'm worried I won't get onto the course I want and will then have just wasted another year. I am going to have nothing to do when I'm at home and will just be waiting on going to uni in September, which I don't even want to do as I hated it so much this time around. -
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- 31-10-2017 00:15
I think the way you feel now is you panicking about what your next steps are. I don't believe that dropping out was not a choice you took lightly and you gave it great consideration. In the end, you don't want to waste time and money studying something that you hate.
If you still want to go to uni, research courses and universities that interest you. There is no rush to go to university if you feel it isn't for you - you could look for apprenticeships, employment or internships. Take the time now to decide what you want to do, and then the path to get there. Your parents won't be disappointed in you, they are seeing you take charge of your future. -
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- 31-10-2017 00:23
same. I feel great lol.
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Well, I did this and went and got a job, flitted off around Europe for a bit, and when I felt ready, came back and did a degree I was actually interested in. Now finishing up a PhD and teaching the **** I'm nterested in, so dropping out doesn't need to be a marker of failure. Sometimes recgnising what isn;t for you is as significant as realising what is.
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