does anyone else hate their uni course but are still doing it because they have to?

what the title says...not asking for advice btw. I'm a second year chem student and i find my course very hard, some parts are not interesting at all....i thought about dropping out in first year but then my results turned out pretty good so i kept on. Now i'm quite worried my grades are gonna become bad, but it's too late to drop out as i don't have anything to fall back on which is why i've stayed on

Not exactly hating my course but after I started I realised that the uni offered a course that I'd have preferred to do. Currently studying psychology, but the biology course they offer (which annoyingly I would have been accepted onto with my grades) allows you to specialise in neurobiology which would have been so up my street. Shame, and annoying, but I'm already a few years behind in my education so starting over again isn't really much of an option; even worse is that I know it's entirely my fault as I should have done more thorough research before applying to my backup uni. Hey ho, live and learn.

I a studying psychology what don't you like about it so far?

what the title says...not asking for advice btw. I'm a second year chem student and i find my course very hard, some parts are not interesting at all....i thought about dropping out in first year but then my results turned out pretty good so i kept on. Now i'm quite worried my grades are gonna become bad, but it's too late to drop out as i don't have anything to fall back on which is why i've stayed on

I honestly couldn't say I liked a single thing about the course I began. But I quit mine in the first year and wish I did so sooner.

Yeah I am studying psychology I passed first year alright but am hating second year. I don't know whether I should drop out or not as I don't know what I should do if I did.

I am hanging on at the minute but afraid that my degree will be worthless and I wil end up just doing a normal job like retail or something.

Do you think you will drop out at the end of the year?

Not exactly hating my course but after I started I realised that the uni offered a course that I'd have preferred to do. Currently studying psychology, but the biology course they offer (which annoyingly I would have been accepted onto with my grades) allows you to specialise in neurobiology which would have been so up my street. Shame, and annoying, but I'm already a few years behind in my education so starting over again isn't really much of an option; even worse is that I know it's entirely my fault as I should have done more thorough research before applying to my backup uni. Hey ho, live and learn.

Yes - I had a very similar experience to you. by the mid-point in my 2nd year I really did not like my course.

Keeping on going was the best thing I ever did though. Had I dropped out I would have had to start all over again and I would have waisted 2 years of progression and hard work.

Instead, I kept going, graduated with a decent grade, started working in a sector I am actually interested in, and now 3 years later, alongside working, I am studying a masters that I do actually like.

I honestly couldn't say I liked a single thing about the course I began. But I quit mine in the first year and wish I did so sooner.

no i don't think i will, looks like we'll just need to stick at it :/

Yeah I am trying my best to motivate myself studying something I have lost interest in.

Are you in the same situation and how do you keep yourself motivated?

Yeah it is going to be hard to get a job now either way whether you are a graduate or not. I actually think that if everyone wasn't in university they would be unemployed anyway!

It also feels like a chore for me.

The sad thing is the only person I know who has a job lined up is in their final year who has done one internship and managed to get a job with a £35,000 starting salary.

They are from a very wealthy background though which says it all. It is who you know not what you know.

Not a fair world.

yeah exactly, so i'm gonna keep going with the course. £35000 is a lot! i imagine they did have some help if they come from a wealthy background. It really is not fair is it :/

Yes I don't think they even had a part time job, any extra curriculars, voluntary work etc. They were able to afford living in London so went to a top university which would have helped.

Just one/two internships and landed the job. Background does play a big part now and who you know as contacts.

Most other people have to do a lot of extra-curriculars, quite a few internships, a part time job, voluntary work just to even have a competitive application.

TBH I would quite like to just have a job in retail after I finish university.

I don't think I will actually use my degree as I can only see myself getting a 2:2 at most. My attendance is like 25% or something most of it is online or in a book so I don't always see the relevance of every lecture.

wow, i mean internships do help but if they don't have anything else i feel like they defo got help, i bet they even got help with getting those internships. Really? retail jobs sound soul destroying though, i can't be in one forever tbh. I don't think i'll end up going into something chemistry related, like that's how bored i am wth it and i think i'll get a 2.2 as well :/

what the title says...not asking for advice btw. I'm a second year chem student and i find my course very hard, some parts are not interesting at all....i thought about dropping out in first year but then my results turned out pretty good so i kept on. Now i'm quite worried my grades are gonna become bad, but it's too late to drop out as i don't have anything to fall back on which is why i've stayed on