Occupational Therapy, Trinity - Will I be able for it?

chinacup

I know this is a question only I can really answer but I'd welcome others input.

Basically I am a 23 year old, after an almost 4 year hiatus from school/college. In that time I struggled a lot with some mental health issues and a lack of motivation and kind of got into the habit of not seeing things through, not being able to stick at a job, a course etc.

I have insecurities for that reason that I will not succeed if I do this course. My other concerns are that because I've been out of practise with academia and the fact that I only got 325 points in my LC that I would struggle with the work. Majority of students there will be very astute having come from LC and needing at least 500 points to be accepted so I am slightly concerned I will be a fish out of water in terms of the social aspect.

That aside I think the course suits my personality well and its a career that I could be good at. The fact is time is ticking on and I'd rather not just settle and do something easy like makeup artistry or culinary arts - I want to be challenged but with what is against me I am afraid it won't work out.

In terms of what I'm doing to tackle these insecurities, I will be starting a therapy for my particular MH issue which looks promising and will consider medication.

I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who knows about the course and can offer advice! Or from anyone who has found themselves in a similar situation, words of wisdom would be very much appreciated!


Thank you :pac:

Siobhan6

College is what you make it. Trinity has a habit of making people feel like they're below standard because everyone is really smart, but it's not true. I was surprised when I came to college at how easy the transition was from school, and I did A levels and not leaving cert so it would have been even stranger for me than for others. On top of that, I had to pay for my degree by myself so I had to work a LOT, and I'm still sitting on a II.I. It's not that i'm madly intelligent, I just decided that's where I wanted to be so I put in the work to make sure I achieved it.

In terms of your mental health, I had issues with it before I came to college as well. I'm not trying to compare mine to yours, but I found that coming to college actually helped me massively because it gave me something to focus my thoughts on. If I were you I wouldn't settle for second best just because it's the easier option - too many people in life do that, but maybe that's just me.

I don't know specifically about your course, but I do know that for me, college helped motivate me because the deadlines made me work really hard because I didn't want to disappoint myself. I was dead scared too before I came here, but in the end it did me a whole lot of good!

Hope that helps

chinacup

Siobhan6 wrote: »

College is what you make it. Trinity has a habit of making people feel like they're below standard because everyone is really smart, but it's not true. I was surprised when I came to college at how easy the transition was from school, and I did A levels and not leaving cert so it would have been even stranger for me than for others. On top of that, I had to pay for my degree by myself so I had to work a LOT, and I'm still sitting on a II.I. It's not that i'm madly intelligent, I just decided that's where I wanted to be so I put in the work to make sure I achieved it.

In terms of your mental health, I had issues with it before I came to college as well. I'm not trying to compare mine to yours, but I found that coming to college actually helped me massively because it gave me something to focus my thoughts on. If I were you I wouldn't settle for second best just because it's the easier option - too many people in life do that, but maybe that's just me.

I don't know specifically about your course, but I do know that for me, college helped motivate me because the deadlines made me work really hard because I didn't want to disappoint myself. I was dead scared too before I came here, but in the end it did me a whole lot of good!

Hope that helps

Thanks for that siobhan its really encouraging to hear someone do well in coll who's struggled with mental health esp at trinity! I didn't get into trinity but secured an interview for my top choice at dcu in the end which - if I get - would be much better & less pressure I think! But still a huge challenge! Left trinity at no.2. I'd read your reply at the time but never got the chance to wb between broken laptop + moving house but it was really helpful!