Uni stress

[hkut]

Hey everyone

I've been having doubts about my university course recently.

I used to study a 3 year bachelors course at uni doing business (human resource management). At the end of my first year though I decided I would like to get into teaching as well. I still enjoyed HR but wanted to do this too. I didn't want to wait 2 more years to finish and then start my masters so I decided to transfer to another uni and do a double degree in business (HRM) and education.

About a week into the course someone called me and told me that I can't major in HRM if I wanted to teach the subjects I put down in education. So I changed my major to business (commercial law).

I'm now 3/4 years in and I am enjoying studying education, but I am really not so keen on the commercial law degree. I haven't been going to a lot of the classes throughout the 3 years and that's pretty evident in my grades. I don't want to work in a legal secretary office job one day but I only have about 6 more commercial law subjects to go now, and the rest will be education related.

I would stick it out since I've nearly finished it and will have to pay for it all through HECS either way, but I am afraid future employers (including in education) would look at my academic transcript and see I am not doing so well in half of my course.

I'm really struggling to decide if I should call it quits on the commercial law degree or not.

Thanks for reading and any advice you could give to me!

Hkut

[MarkJT]

hkut, not having ever gone to uni so i cannot exactly say what i would do but i reckon i would have a chat to some trusted people who are experienced in life.

Your lecturers, is there one in particular that you could sit down with and discuss your predicament? How about your parents? Another option is to sit down with a pen and paper and write out all the pros and cons to quitting commercial law or not.

What would look better for a future employer, seeing a transcript where you cut it or finished it? (I am assuming that if you cut it, it still appears on your transcript?).

I would imagine that this is putting your under a bit of stress. I would well recommend starting to practice mindfulness. It is a type of meditation and calms you down when you are getting frazzled. I use an app called, "Smiling Mind". Might be worthwhile downloading it and doing a session (10-15 mins) everyday when you get up.

Mark.