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I'm a year 12 student in my first year of college and I'm constantly being asked what I want to do at university. I wish I could tell them something but nothing comes to mind. I was very heavy on doing medicine last year but I didn't get the required grades to do 2 sciences at college. Truthfully, I'm glad because I don't think I could have handled it. My mind changes constantly and I'm never set on doing anything. I'm worried because I'll have to apply to universities soon and I don't have a clue what I want to do. I look at the courses universities offer and still can't decide which path to take my life down. Im aiming for a job that will let me earn a comfortable amount with flexible hours. I do Biology, Psychology and Law. I feel like I'm too shy/introverted to do a law degree and I don't want to carry on psychology. How do I begin in finding out what I want to do?

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Original post by Amburgerr
I'm a year 12 student in my first year of college and I'm constantly being asked what I want to do at university. I wish I could tell them something but nothing comes to mind. I was very heavy on doing medicine last year but I didn't get the required grades to do 2 sciences at college. Truthfully, I'm glad because I don't think I could have handled it. My mind changes constantly and I'm never set on doing anything. I'm worried because I'll have to apply to universities soon and I don't have a clue what I want to do. I look at the courses universities offer and still can't decide which path to take my life down. Im aiming for a job that will let me earn a comfortable amount with flexible hours. I do Biology, Psychology and Law. I feel like I'm too shy/introverted to do a law degree and I don't want to carry on psychology. How do I begin in finding out what I want to do?


I used to have similar issues with course n uni choices. I always knew I wanted to do Biology, but never what specific type. I just resorted to making a list of the diffrent types of biology, n I went down seeing if I had the slightest intrest.

Once I narrowed down to the ones that sounded nice, I began to look into what they each feature, keeping only the types of biology that kept my intrest (I did this at the 2nd stage because being interested in your work matters most).

Then I went to look at future careers and what they pay like, what I'd do that sorta thing. Eventually I narrowed myself down to Biomed.

Uni wise I just used UniFrog. It's pretty easy to get to grips with, and hella helpful. I used their shortlist maker to pick my 5 choices.

TLDR, Skim through the courses you can do based on ur subjects, keep the cool sounding ones. Look deeper, keep ones that still seem intresting. Look at careers for a tie breaker. Unifrog for universities.

P.S I used Google for course research, no one particular website. Since ur not sure about law and psych, maybe try bio first?

P.P.S Don't worry too much about not knowing yet, plenty of my mates at the start of Y13 had no sense of direction, but they still managed to decide happily and are doing pretty well for themselves.

Reply 2

Original post by Rareficwabaca
I used to have similar issues with course n uni choices. I always knew I wanted to do Biology, but never what specific type. I just resorted to making a list of the diffrent types of biology, n I went down seeing if I had the slightest intrest.
Once I narrowed down to the ones that sounded nice, I began to look into what they each feature, keeping only the types of biology that kept my intrest (I did this at the 2nd stage because being interested in your work matters most).
Then I went to look at future careers and what they pay like, what I'd do that sorta thing. Eventually I narrowed myself down to Biomed.
Uni wise I just used UniFrog. It's pretty easy to get to grips with, and hella helpful. I used their shortlist maker to pick my 5 choices.
TLDR, Skim through the courses you can do based on ur subjects, keep the cool sounding ones. Look deeper, keep ones that still seem intresting. Look at careers for a tie breaker. Unifrog for universities.
P.S I used Google for course research, no one particular website. Since ur not sure about law and psych, maybe try bio first?
P.P.S Don't worry too much about not knowing yet, plenty of my mates at the start of Y13 had no sense of direction, but they still managed to decide happily and are doing pretty well for themselves.

Thank you so much! Honestly, I feel like what I needed was a push in the right direction and your advice really helped. I will probably start looking more in depth into careers in biology and then use Unifrog for all the Uni stuff. Thank youuuu

Reply 3

Original post by Amburgerr
Thank you so much! Honestly, I feel like what I needed was a push in the right direction and your advice really helped. I will probably start looking more in depth into careers in biology and then use Unifrog for all the Uni stuff. Thank youuuu


Ur welcome, come back here if there's anything else ofc.
Original post by Amburgerr
I'm a year 12 student in my first year of college and I'm constantly being asked what I want to do at university. I wish I could tell them something but nothing comes to mind. I was very heavy on doing medicine last year but I didn't get the required grades to do 2 sciences at college. Truthfully, I'm glad because I don't think I could have handled it. My mind changes constantly and I'm never set on doing anything. I'm worried because I'll have to apply to universities soon and I don't have a clue what I want to do. I look at the courses universities offer and still can't decide which path to take my life down. Im aiming for a job that will let me earn a comfortable amount with flexible hours. I do Biology, Psychology and Law. I feel like I'm too shy/introverted to do a law degree and I don't want to carry on psychology. How do I begin in finding out what I want to do?

Hi @Amburgerr

I changed my mind a lot before starting my course. It is a big decision to make so it is normal to be unsure.

Some things I would recommend are:

Look on the UCAS website at different course options and try to go to some open days if you can. This will help you to see what options there are for what you could do.

Explore all of your options, including university and apprenticeships. You could even consider a gap year if you do not feel ready to go to university.

Try to get some work experience related to your interests to see if that gives you an idea of what course you want to study.


Hope that helps!

Sophie.
BCU Student Rep.

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