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Dropping out and changing courses next year?

  • 15-11-2015 2:19pm
    #1
    JuliaNeill123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi, I'm currently doing arts in ucc in cork but to be honest I don't really like it, I was thinking of doing psychology through arts but now I don't think I do anymore. I think the reason I picked arts was because I wanted to go to college straight away but now I hate it and I'm not settling in. I'm lonely and feel a bit depressed to be honest.

    What I originally wanted to do was veterinary nursing but I only got 370 points so I didn't get the points for the courses. I know dundalk it does veterinary nursing but I think it's 400 points :(

    I'm so confused and I really want to take a year out to clear my head and sort myself out, I think I went to college too soon as I'm 17 and I hate it in cork and just look forward to going home every weekend. I'm really unhappy here. But I know my parents will be so disappointed if I drop out and they wouldn't want me to take a year out. I don't know what I would do if I did take a year out but I don't think I can do arts for three years. It's not even Christmas in my first year and i already hate it.

    I was hoping there would be a way I could drop out, take a year out to sort myself out, get work experience with veterinary nursing while I'm off, then try get into dundalk it to do veterinary nursing since that's what I truly want to do. But I know I'll lose my grant for the first year and i won't have the money to do it then. I feel trapped now I don't know what to do. Any advice?


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  • #2
    Tempi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Tempi


    When I went to college first I was the same age as you, I was too young really, wasn't sure what I wanted to do and ended up feeling incredibly lonely and isolated and dropped out after my first year. My parents were disappointed but they got over it. There is nothing wrong with realising a course isn't for you. In my humble opinion doing a course for the sake of doing one is a bad idea, it's making you miserable and that will only get worse as time goes on.

    Getting experience in a vet clinic should be doable, try contacting your local vet clinics and see what they say. Getting experience in a vet clinic before doing the course is a great idea. As someone who was a vet nurse for 3 years it's a tough and often thankless job, it is incredibly rewarding too of course but you need to 100% sure you want to do it. Repeating your leaving cert is also an option open to you. I know the thought of doing it again is probably horrifying but honestly if I could back in time to 17 year old me I'd be telling myself to resit it. You aren't many points off of what you need and if Vet Nursing is what you really, really want to do then it's an option. Another thing to do might be to send whoever is in charge of the vet nursing course in Dundalk college an email. Explain to them that you didn't get the points and ask them if there are alternative routes into the course.


    What you really need to do is talk to your parents, let them know how you are feeling. I doubt they'd want you to keep doing something that is making you so unhappy. There are many options available to you but it's hard to see them when you are feeling depressed and trapped.


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