I've just finished my first year of uni and I am really unsure as to whether I want to go back. I didn't really enjoy my first year; I didn't make the new friends I wanted to and my work suffered as a result. After getting quite down about the whole thing and almost dropping out countless of times and not attending my lectures I spoke to my tutor and sat my exams. I've just received my results now and I failed two modules, meaning I need to resit over the summer to pass my first year.
Ultimately my ambition is to become a vet but having messed up my A-levels I am reading zoology with the view to getting into that afterwards. The thing is I have always wanted to go travelling and now I find myself wanting to put on hold education altogether and go and experience all the things I want to abroad while I'm still young. A few of my friends from back home have just come back from travelling themselves and are going again in a few months, and the idea of packing it all in and going with them is really appealing.
I suppose the reason I have stuck with uni until now is because I didn't want to give up on my life's ambition, (among the problems presented by the financial aspects of dropping out) but putting studying on hold for a year or two is different; I am worried however that I would never go back or end up doing something totally different because I couldn't get back in. I mean I have got some good friends in uni; one of my best mates from back home is down there with me and I am supposed to be living with him next year. I suppose I know that next year will be different, and I won't be stuck in shitty halls with a load of medics who were never there, but then on the other hand I really don't see myself going back. I suppose honestly what I really want to do now is move on and 'find myself' (as cheesy as it sounds) without all the pressure of exams and 'achieving my potential' which was so hard to do this year when I found myself in what felt like an impossible situation where I really wasn't enjoying myself.
Sorry for the 'essay', any advice would be much appreciated, Thanks.
Ultimately my ambition is to become a vet but having messed up my A-levels I am reading zoology with the view to getting into that afterwards. The thing is I have always wanted to go travelling and now I find myself wanting to put on hold education altogether and go and experience all the things I want to abroad while I'm still young. A few of my friends from back home have just come back from travelling themselves and are going again in a few months, and the idea of packing it all in and going with them is really appealing.
I suppose the reason I have stuck with uni until now is because I didn't want to give up on my life's ambition, (among the problems presented by the financial aspects of dropping out) but putting studying on hold for a year or two is different; I am worried however that I would never go back or end up doing something totally different because I couldn't get back in. I mean I have got some good friends in uni; one of my best mates from back home is down there with me and I am supposed to be living with him next year. I suppose I know that next year will be different, and I won't be stuck in shitty halls with a load of medics who were never there, but then on the other hand I really don't see myself going back. I suppose honestly what I really want to do now is move on and 'find myself' (as cheesy as it sounds) without all the pressure of exams and 'achieving my potential' which was so hard to do this year when I found myself in what felt like an impossible situation where I really wasn't enjoying myself.
Sorry for the 'essay', any advice would be much appreciated, Thanks.