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hate my college course

  • 27-11-2009 11:14pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I started a very technical postgrad in september.Its a conversion course and very different from my undergrad.From the very start I couldn't understand the concepts being introduced.I made two very good friends who already had a technical background,they started helping me out and I began to make progress in assignments.But although they helped me understand everything,I find it boring and monotonous.About six weeks in I decided to drop out but I got scared.I thought of being unemployed,no one is hiring anyone from my undergrad subject area.So after a week off I went back.The last few weeks have been hell.I've a massive workload but I find it so difficult.I can't sleep properly,my appetites gone and I feel on the brink of tears the whole time.I want to leave the course.I can't understand it,I find it boring and I know I would hate any job in it after.I've been going out alot and everytime I go out I get so drunk because I just want to escape my life somehow even if its only for a few hours.I don't recognise myself any more.I got a first in my undergrad,i've always grasped things easily.I know that this is the wrong course for me.I know I'm halfway through but I don't know how much more I can take.


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  • #2
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Hi,

    A brief history of me: I started a BSc hons. in Computer Science in 2000 and then left it a few months before the finished dated (in the final year). I've never gone back to finish it. I've now just started a PhD in the UK in an area unrelated to my second undergrad degree (after my comp. science one) and am also considering leaving.

    What you should ideally do is go in each do and do the minimum that is required of you, and start applying for jobs 'in the background'. The nature of research is that no research role is permanent, and many experienced supervisors will tell you that researchers come and go easily. So, treat this PhD as a job, if anything, and start looking elsewhere. Now is a good time to apply for October 2010 PhDs, by the way.

    I also encourage you to talk to both your parents/partner/family and your supervisor about this. I would'nt tell your supervisor that you're thinking of leaving; rather, I'd just say that you are struggling a little to become familiar with all of the new information, considering that it's a new area for you and all...


    Kevin


  • #3
    unreggd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    OP I think you've made your mind up

    You have to like a subject and want to learn it out of interest to do well

    Don't worry about what people think or how bad it is dropping out of college

    Staying in a course for the sake of it is 10 times worse

    It's become a health concern for you now, so I say leave

    You tried it, found out it's not for you, no harm done

    Good Luck :)


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