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College blues

I think if I could go back and rethink my college choice, knowing what I do now, I probably wouldn’t have ended up here. Don’t get me wrong I love all the friends I’ve met here, I just don’t think I ever expected to be this dissatisfied with the classes I’m in, and with school in general.

erinshannon

Ah, the apathy of university/college days. I’m in full sympathy with Erin on this one.

I spent my 3rd year at university studying abroad, and when I came back to do my final year I was so fed up with the whole studying thing and having no money to do anything that I was this close to giving up on my studies completely. I no longer liked my degree, and was looking at a totally different career path.

Thankfully I picked a couple of interesting classes and took up an after-school French class which was great fun and helped me to escape the dreariness of law, even if only once a week. Plus I got a bar job and had a huge amount of fun doing that.

It does suck to be a student, but it’s also the best days of your life. I had the best and worst of times while I was at university, but now I’m enjoying the post-uni world a lot too. You learn to adjust.

Erin, my advice to you would be to grin and bear it. I don’t know what year you’re in at college, but bear in mind that each semester you can change your classes and go for ones that you think will be more interesting/fulfilling.

Hell, in the US you can even change your major. Over here in the UK, you study one subject and one subject only for your whole time at uni. Of course, within that field you can specialise, and that’s what I did in my final year. I barely did any law whatsoever, instead concentrating on the philosophy amd sociology side of things within the law faculty.

So yeah, it’s not as bad as you think. And it’s never as bad as you think on your first day back.