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Big Decision; but can't make up my mind!

  • 24-07-2011 7:08pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    Hey all....

    Just hoping some one out there can give me a bit of advice....

    Background:

    22yr old female, been on anti-depressants for in excess of 3yrs now. Mainly due to family background- domestic violence, leaving home & college stress. Left home in 2007, but I've never truely moved away if you know what I mean (keep running back every few weeks...) I have also attended conselling sessions since 2008...then came my downfall to self- destruction...poor college grades (scrapped passes), started binge drinking/eating, and also self harming.

    In recent times I have been more back on track and doing well. I have in my bad times knocked up quite a bit of debt, this I am trying to sort out at the minute.

    I have just finished third year in college, I have been out on placement for 6 months, something which I have really enjoyed, even though at times work is pressurising & stressful! I feel that the experience I have gained from this job is invaluable...

    I have now been offered a permanant position in this company, in the current climate its experience on rather good pay which I don't think I will get anywhere else for a long time. I have still one year to go in college; this is where I have a tough decision, I feel with my academic history that I don't want to graduate next year on just a pass. My average over my last exam results was around 46%. (I put this down to my inability to absorb information from books, I havn't read a book for pleasure or otherwise since my Junior Cert!)

    I feel that with the way I dealt with college before placement, and my academic record that a year out would be my best way forward. however my family disagree & college reps agree with me....

    I do not know what to do! Anyone have any advice, I do not want to go back to square one regarding my mental health & I truly feel that I will return to college in a year or so to finish up & get my degree...I feel that experience will help me more that trying to work through books...which I cannot do!


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  • #2
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    as a one who teached a semseter in an irish university, i can safely say, read what?! unless you are going to NASA!

    darling, what you need is a degree for a practical life, not for research, as i know that research in ireland is like selling cheap in somalia.

    what will come in exams, is just what your tutor just said in the class, hence, just listen, and you wont forget then!

    go to class with an intention to listen and understand, then you will not need to read a book, unless your education is something related to cancer research!


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