No.11637
>>11485>Has anyone here dropped out of collage or university?Yes actually.
>Was it a good decision?For the time yes. I was very inexperienced and had little means to pay for it. Me back then wasn't going to be able to pull it off. My second go around we're getting that degree though. However long it takes.
>>11486>I've dropped out of lawOoh how was it? I've considered pursuing a degree in that field. Its been a long time dream of mine to get behind the civil rights movement like my grandfather and his father before him. They were in the offices of the NAACP and LULAC back in the day as an accountant and a treasurer. The lawyers were the real warriors though, and that's where I want to be.
No.11638
I was heavily encouraged to go to university after school but had no real ambition or direction. I decided to study biology because it was one of the few subjects I enjoyed in school but quickly fell behind, failed all my courses, and dropped out after a semester.
>>11486 has the right advice, working menial jobs for 5 years was really useful. I think a sense of pointlessness and depression is just endemic to who I am because I've never been able to shake it but at least now I have the maturity to sustain full time study in something useful.
Don't feel like a failure, it's just part of growing up. Spend the next couple of years figuring out what it is you want to do if you need to, just try not to waste it. My main regret is simply not going back sooner or using my time to have more interesting experiences. Still, it's good to know that it's never too late; I know a chick who quit her job as a pharmacist to study CS because she was bored of her career. There's no shame in being in education when you're older, not everyone follows the same trajectory in life.
No.11653
I studied pre-med for 3 years but had to drop out because I was just doing what I was told and wasn't really coping and ended up in a psych hospital. I spent about 5 years in and out of different life stages and only last year I finally went back to University to study what I really want to.
It obviously really, really affected my life and its progression but I would never say dropping out was a mistake. It's just part of the tapestry of my life it took to get where I am now.
No.18422
I had thought of it many times. At many times, I felt like college was trying to keep me in for as long as they could, but I finally escaped. I have ADHD. I can't really function like a normal person. When I was failing classes or missing assignment dates I felt like a legit failure, just like you are now. Now that I'm out, I don't feel anything like that. I feel free, in fact. Funny thing - I didn't know I could graduate once I finished the current semester / classes until I went to a councilor, and when I finally finished the class, I went in again because I hadn't gotten an email about graduating. Well, I was queuing up to see another one, and I was waiting to see one when I checked my email and found the email saying I had graduated. I went to the front desk and said, "I don't need to see the councilor anymore. I just graduated." and walked out of the building. I then took a drive, looking at the different buildings I went to when I was doing gen ed and everything was in person. Then, I never went back to that place again.
If I gotta say anything, you should speculate on what makes you feel this way and get help for it. Like, if you legit have personal issues or disabilities like ADHD, you should ask for different treatment from your school and seek medication for any disabilities. I would have liked, even loved to have quit, but that overall would have made my life a lot worse in comparison. I hope you make the right choice for yourself regardless.
