college....the pain in my side :O

ak4

hi, im a first year at dcu studying Marketing Innovation and Technology. I really dislike my course and have not made many friends in my course but i do love the college and have made many life long friends there, i have stopped going to lectures the past few weeks and am really only seeing out the year. I really am stressing what i want to do with my life, i know i need to take a year out before i make a rash decision, would love to travel but do not have the funds to do it. I have a weekend job so im thinking try get as much work and save for going back to college. Any have any good suggestions of anything else i could do ? Also am i right that i would have 2 grand fee plus the course fee which could be about 6 grand for the course plus the 8 grand that it is estimated for a college student for the year at dcu of i started as a first year again ?

any help or personal experience would be lovely

adk11

I've this course down on my cao at the moment and just wondering if you coukd tell me why don't you like it?

munnelr3

It is true that if you register on a new programme next year you will need to pay the tuition fees and the registration fee.

There are a number of options available to you in terms of your current situation. First of all I would advise you to do three things straight away: 1. Contact your programme chair and explain how you are finding the course 2. Contact the careers service in DCU and make an appointment, they will be able to assist you exploring what other areas of interest you have. Realising your on a course you dont really like can be frustrating but it happens to students every year, the careers service deal with this situation on a regular basis so do contact them for advice.

Also you have a possibility to transfer course, so there maybe another area of interest in the Business School so you could check out with your programme chair if it was possible to transfer, to do this however you do need to pass year one examinations.

In summary, I'd say talk to the people I mentioned above, university staff are there to help.... Take the time to let them know your situation and see what opportunities are there for you...

dorkacle

I have done exactly what you are thinking about and I must say I very much regretted it. BE CAREFUL! is the best advice I can give.

What I would say to you is to literally sit down and really think about what you want to do, don't make a rash decision, that was my mistake! I decided I didn't like my course and just stopped going without thinking about it. Its not the end of the world if you do drop out but just be sure its what you want to do and have a plan for what your going to do.

I have returned to college now (a different course) after dropping out over 3 years ago, I worked full time for 2 years in that period and let me tell you if working full time in some dead end job for a year doesn't motivate you to go back to college ha, I don't know what will!

Also returning to college cost me an absolute fortune because I had already been before, tuition fees are very expensive and on top of that I pretty much lost any friends I had made the first time round. They are all finished now as well, while I am struggling through it for the second time. Very disheartening.

Just be careful and as someone else mentioned talk to the careers advisers. They are very understanding and try their best but there is only so much they can do.They weren't much help to me as they can only really help you move into linked courses and I wanted to change subject completely.

So just make sure you really don't want this course your on now, if you can weather it through to the end with a bit of effort I would personally say do that, I wish I had, 3/4 years isn't a long time in the grand scheme of things!

What ever you decide, best of luck!