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A place for general questions and discussions about university. 1 Hour Ago: 16th November 2011 02:03 I'm kind of not really liking the course that I am on at Uni.. Its really bad and I can barely motivate myself to get out of bed and go to lectures, or infact I just can't a lot of the time. Some of the lectures are okay, and also some of them are complete **** as far as im concerned. Its really not what I was hoping to be learning and not what I thought it would be. But I'm pretty sure that I want to have a degree, because i see it as the way forward..

I know have 3 options;

1) Drop out and reapply very quickly for something else at another uni for 2012
2) Attempt to convince UCL to transfer me to a different subject now, struggletrying to catch up and so on...
3) Stick it out and hope it gets better eventually.

(Although I have probably already ruined my chances of doing we'll as I imagine my grades will be capped due to low attendance if I miss any more of some specific lectures and the fact that I dont have a great deal of interest in a lot of it)

I want to know firstly what happens about tuition fees, and about the remainder of my student loan, is it too late to transfer, is it a bit too late for UCAS 2012...and any other advice anybody can give.

Im so confused and worried that i'm going to end up leaving and not getting another offer and/or (or disliking that too) doing nothing with my life, and equally worried about staying at uni and hating every minute of it for the next 2 and a half years.

Also obviously 2012 fees are a big issue that will clearly make a difference to me and its so annoying that they had to change this year and make this descision so much harder for me, TBH if there was no issue with fees I would probably have left already... But nobody can say that its irrelevant because it's not, I dont want to be riddled with an extra 25k debt for the rest of my life......

Thanks for reading and sorry for being so depressing. :P

59 Minutes Ago: 16th November 2011 02:26 ok, to start I should state my past- as it does give me quite a bias towards various options.
I dropped out of university, about this time, two years ago. due to not liking the course, and as a result not feeling motivated etc.. After dropping out i re-applied to a different course, and 2 years later i am in my second year, studying a subject i am passionate about, and heading in a good direction.
This all sounds well and good, but to give the otherside: dropping out is tough. the period from when I decided to drop out, to a few months later was one of the worse periods in my life. confidence is usually at a low, you have to explain to everyone why you left, people do judge, even if they say they dont. All of my friends were still at uni -dotted around, I had no money, and there were very few jobs around. within a month, I had secured a job, and would spend my lunch break sitting thinking, why did i leave uni? I was having a great time, and now im working a minimum wage job, full time, disliking every moment. There are problems with re-aplying, how can you be sure that it will work out next time? I was deadly paranoid that i would have the same problems again, and waste another year.
Luckily it all worked out, and after a pretty bad year, I returned to study, much more mature, focused, realistic. I didnt enter uni the second time, thinking it was going to be the best thing ever, and always fun, requrie no work, be inspiring etc... I came in realistic, knowing that uni is what you make of it, and if you put the effort in, you can get alot back. it may not always be great, but it is better than most alternatives.

so there are many things to consider, dropping out can be the best thing possible, or the worse. None of us can truely advise you which way to go: as none of us know you/how bad it is at uni/how you will cope with leaving.

good luck though.

(as a side, and im sure some other poster will go over it in more detail - but really dont worry about the fee rise, when paying it back, it is really nothing to worry about. a quick search on here will give you more information, but to put it simply: although it is a huge amount, you will pay it back so slowly, that you will barely notice it (unless you are earning a very high wage, in which case i doubt you will care).

45 Minutes Ago: 16th November 2011 02:40 I'm kind of not really liking the course that I am on at Uni.. Its really bad and I can barely motivate myself to get out of bed and go to lectures, or infact I just can't a lot of the time. Some of the lectures are okay, and also some of them are complete **** as far as im concerned. Its really not what I was hoping to be learning and not what I thought it would be. But I'm pretty sure that I want to have a degree, because i see it as the way forward..

I know have 3 options;

1) Drop out and reapply very quickly for something else at another uni for 2012
2) Attempt to convince UCL to transfer me to a different subject now, struggletrying to catch up and so on...
3) Stick it out and hope it gets better eventually.

(Although I have probably already ruined my chances of doing we'll as I imagine my grades will be capped due to low attendance if I miss any more of some specific lectures and the fact that I dont have a great deal of interest in a lot of it)

I want to know firstly what happens about tuition fees, and about the remainder of my student loan, is it too late to transfer, is it a bit too late for UCAS 2012...and any other advice anybody can give.

Im so confused and worried that i'm going to end up leaving and not getting another offer and/or (or disliking that too) doing nothing with my life, and equally worried about staying at uni and hating every minute of it for the next 2 and a half years.

Also obviously 2012 fees are a big issue that will clearly make a difference to me and its so annoying that they had to change this year and make this descision so much harder for me, TBH if there was no issue with fees I would probably have left already... But nobody can say that its irrelevant because it's not, I dont want to be riddled with an extra 25k debt for the rest of my life......

Thanks for reading and sorry for being so depressing. :P

don't quit unless you have a viable plan B. people who actually graduate are finding it hard to get a decent job, so you will probably find it even harder.

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