Advice on "Dropping Out" of Uni

MORPH3US

If this company will genuinely let you onto the same scheme now as graduates normally go on to and that is what you want then I would go for it!!

I'm sure your uni would let you defer for a year / take a year out so you can do this job, then if you hate it, you can still go back in a years time. If you love it, then you can forget about uni!

Good luck, let us know what you decide and how you get on!

M

elisebutt65

One thing I would ask the company is whether they would take you on part time whiolst you finished your degree.

This way you have incomings and don't raise the debt level, they get a graduate at the end of it, You get plenty of work experience fot your C.V. and also yoy get through the honey moon period and find out what it's like to work for them long term.

The first year at Uni is a bit tricky anyway. I've just finished my 2nd year and it is a huge improve,emt. The work load is heavier but there are less subjects to cover. My first year we covered about 12 subjects whereas last year we only did 8. Next year I have dissertation and 3 subjects.

I love it - It baffles me when people say they aren't enjoying it and I intend to carry on and do the PGCE post compulsory so I can go on to become a lecturer and hopefully work for a college that will sponsor me through my Masters and Doctorate. If I won the lottery I would just continue studying for the rest of my life!!!:rotfl:

pavlovs_dog

ts_aly2000 wrote:

The thing that amazed me most at uni was the amount of faffing about that went on. I'd just come out of working where things were done, and into an environment where most of the people I was 'working' with didn't have a clue in the world how to do anything. It was a huge dissapointment. I'd built up this view that university was an environment full of inspired individuals and striving for better science and alike. University is full of alchoholics, druggies, and a whole load of people who shouldn't even be there. We can thank Blair for that!! It was a big blow to my view of the world, that something which could take a year at most was stretched out to 3-years of constant !!!!!!ing about.

i could have written that myself. my first year and a half was a big disappointment, and nothing like what i had expected it to be.

however now, 2 years through a four year degree, i am starting to enjoy it more; the people who shouldnt have gone are now starting to settle down, and ive found tutoring some of them in the more advanced aspects of the course a very rewarding experience (and ties in nicely with my planned career in education).

but i agree; the univeristy experience nowadays seems far to based on the social life rather than the academia

elisebutt65

pavlovs_dog wrote:

however now, 2 years through a four year degree, i am starting to enjoy it more; the people who shouldnt have gone are now starting to settle down, and ive found tutoring some of them in the more advanced aspects of the course a very rewarding experience (and ties in nicely with my planned career in education).

Yup - it does get so much better and I love helping the other students when they get stuck. I've organised study groups all through the summer break for dissertation work. It's all supposed to be so we can bounce ideas off each other but in reality it'll be question time for me - lol. I've already got my research question, Aims, Objectives and Introduction done and am starting on methodology next week and we don't even have to start until October!!

This is what gave me the inspiration to become a lecturer - I was originally just going to get the degree and then just try and find a job with no clear career path. It sounds really pompous to say that I love imparting knowledge(it does, doesn't it???) but it's great!!! The best bit is when you're doing group work and the rest of the students are a bit lacklustre but are willing to try and you manage to get them to up their game so you get A grades - did that twice this semester:p

Maybe I'm just mad but I love this learning malarkey now - I always used to be the first to bunk off 20 years ago at school and deliberatley flunked my A-levels as I didn't want to go to Uni!!

pavlovs_dog

sounds like we're kindred spirits elsie :rotfl:

how are you finding juggling the dissertation with the kids?

elisebutt65

TBH??? Not to great at the minute - both kids are off today as they have really gross heat rashes all over - look like crocodiles.

Also college have decided to move and redecorate the library during ht ebreak so I can only get a the reference bboks, which means a 40 minute trip into Brum and take loads of notes unless I order the books from my local library. Got a trip planned to Birmingham Uni Library in September as my tutor's getting me access there so I can get to all the Psychology/economic and marketing journals I need. Basically doing the evolution of customer buying behaviour alongside the development of technology in tour operations, so need all the current stuff as well as loads of historical stuff. Then got to fit it into 10,000 words - lol. My tutor has said as it's an interesting subject I could possibly get away with 13,000 as long as I keep the interest going.

Really stuck on methodolgy at the minute as I need a load of textbooks.