i got borred after first paragraph, Come to sunny ol worthing ! close to britons clubs blah blah work in a hotel some where blah blah im bored - wow my attention span has gone
Finish your A-Levels. Leaving with only four months (won't some be study leave anyway?) left is pointless.
After they're done, don't fret about the university decision. You're young and have got all the time in the world to make a mistake or two.
I'm a pretty good example: at eighteen I went to a scumbucket uni for a few months, left, and have been working every day for just over a year. Now I'm planning on returning to a different uni this September (provided anyone accepts me). Bear in mind this'll be two years after finishing my A-Levels, but I'm really not concerned. 20 isn't that old.
Don't worry! Get a job! Take a year out and travel! Go to uni! Hate what you decided on? Leave!
You've honestly got nothing to be concerned about.
Napi, I don't know if there's a medical term for what you're feeling right now, but probably the best thing you might consider doing is to see if you can speak to a range of students at Southampton Uni, but don't concentrate on those doing Computer Science, see if you can ask as many students what the university is really like, not just what the tutors, and prospectus say. No-one knows what the university is like more than the students. Try asking the seniors what life has been like through their term at uni. Try asking the freshers what expectations they had of Southampton Uni, and what those expectations turned out like.
When you've got a feeling of what the university is like, try spending a week nearby to the university, and see what the local life has to offer. Being at university doesn't mean that your life disappears for 4 years. Don't just do the tourist thing, sample the culture, go to the pubs, see if you can blag your way into the student bars, sample the nightlife, and see how you like Southampton. Get a clear picture of what you think life in a new city will be like, then make your decision.
I actually followed those steps when I was applying to study Computational Chemistry in Sheffield, but the decided that I would become a PC engineer, which I've now been for 3 years. Only 20, soon to be 21. *sob*
Just get the flavour of what the area, and the university, and your Computer Science course will be like. Then make you choice.
Failing that, take a gap year, and see if you can get some more info. It may mean that you won't leave uni until you're 23, but at least then you'll have build up a more accurate picture of your life in university.
Hope I could be of help. Just remember to talk to people about your concerns, as if you don't voice them, then they may get bigger.
<!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+Mar 10 2005, 04:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ Mar 10 2005, 04:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Man, I didn't make it in time before the edit. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> He has a bunch of school, in which he no longer participates. He has three or four years left of college, and gets sick of the thought of sticking around for that long.
I know it's no comfort at all, but just about everyone who doesn't outright like going to school(I suppose people who feel like they learn something every day liked it all along) get's the "oh god x years more of this crap? I'm leaving... going to work... slouch.. something" feeling.
It doesn't pass.
You <i>have</i> to resist the instinct to be lazy. Be proud of yourself when you do your homework(not just when you finish it), because you deserve it.
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Finish your A-Levels. Leaving with only four months (won't some be study leave anyway?) left is pointless.
After they're done, don't fret about the university decision. You're young and have got all the time in the world to make a mistake or two.
I'm a pretty good example: at eighteen I went to a scumbucket uni for a few months, left, and have been working every day for just over a year. Now I'm planning on returning to a different uni this September (provided anyone accepts me). Bear in mind this'll be two years after finishing my A-Levels, but I'm really not concerned. 20 isn't that old.
Don't worry! Get a job! Take a year out and travel! Go to uni! Hate what you decided on? Leave!
You've honestly got nothing to be concerned about.
When you've got a feeling of what the university is like, try spending a week nearby to the university, and see what the local life has to offer. Being at university doesn't mean that your life disappears for 4 years. Don't just do the tourist thing, sample the culture, go to the pubs, see if you can blag your way into the student bars, sample the nightlife, and see how you like Southampton. Get a clear picture of what you think life in a new city will be like, then make your decision.
I actually followed those steps when I was applying to study Computational Chemistry in Sheffield, but the decided that I would become a PC engineer, which I've now been for 3 years. Only 20, soon to be 21. *sob*
Just get the flavour of what the area, and the university, and your Computer Science course will be like. Then make you choice.
Failing that, take a gap year, and see if you can get some more info. It may mean that you won't leave uni until you're 23, but at least then you'll have build up a more accurate picture of your life in university.
Hope I could be of help. Just remember to talk to people about your concerns, as if you don't voice them, then they may get bigger.
He has a bunch of school, in which he no longer participates. He has three or four years left of college, and gets sick of the thought of sticking around for that long.
It doesn't pass.
You <i>have</i> to resist the instinct to be lazy. Be proud of yourself when you do your homework(not just when you finish it), because you deserve it.