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2013-10-30 10:29 9307623 Anonymous dropping out of uni (1373752674182.jpg 608x476 158kB)
dropping out of uni IT IS HAPPENING, I haven't gone for my classes today any drop outs here? i feel like i realised something, too bad i had to took all those actions to get here, but the time wasn t totally wasted since i learnt something about living on your own

1 min later 9307636 Anonymous
>>9307623 Take a step back OP. I was on the verge of dropping out, hell one quarter I withdrew from all my classes but one. Why are you thinking of dropping out?

4 min later 9307653 Anonymous
i dropped out of highschool so yeh i guess I'm a dropout

4 min later 9307661 Anonymous
>>9307623 I dropped out after my first year because I hated my major. I had to, since here you can't change without reapplying. At least I got to be a part of a small research project. That was the only useful thing I've gotten out of it.

8 min later 9307677 Anonymous
Reporting in. Enjoy the freakout from your parents.

9 min later 9307685 Anonymous
I dtopped out OP and failed a few papers. It's ruined my life. Can't find a job. Have to pay rent soon. If I go back my depression will come back. I wont get help. I do nothing but sleep for 12+ hours, play vidya and masturbate. Suicide is looking like a pretty good option so far. Find the reason why you want to drop out and fix it.

10 min later 9307695 Anonymous
>>9307677 lol. I didn't tell mine for 3 months. I just don't tell them anything since they always negative about what I want to do.

11 min later 9307697 Anonymous (Hoarding.jpg 2048x1536 588kB)
Dropping out is a slow gradual process and they let you mess up a whole lot for a long time, and even then they'll take you back. I got into a lot of trouble with drugs and then ended up in some govt mental facility. i missed all the second year, they let me retake the year, stopped caring, did other stuff, and they were still phoning up offering me to go back about a year after that

15 min later 9307726 Anonymous
i quit after 2 years planning to go back eventually, but not until i am able to deal with my depression a bit better I am really digging 5-htp and weed, when i am taking the 5-htp and smoking regularly i feel really great during the day, but kind of burnt out towards the night so I don't know if this is a viable long term solution

24 min later 9307777 Anonymous
>>9307623 yer I now work in a shitty warehouse where everybody h8s me good luck

32 min later 9307829 Anonymous
>>9307695 so you havent gone to classes for 3 months? i thought about it, it isn't fair, but my parents wouldnt understand i want to go to an escort untill i am here, because a virgin >>9307636 >why dropping 1. it is impossible for me to study on my own, i have 0 motivation, i lost interest in learning after primary school - i got good grades since then because i had some good overall knowledge, i got very good grades at final exams in high school 2. too many people, i got some depressive feels, i am here alone, if i was with some of my old buddies maybe it would be easier, but we would probably do dumb shit like drinking, so it isnt really an option 3. i would learn on my own, at home, all those things ive learnt here, in a day they let you do some dumb exercises, work in groups, its like filling your time with bullshit i thought uni is more serious than fucking high school i dont know if i should drop out and resign right now or exist in my dorm for another month, but without attending the classes

38 min later 9307866 Anonymous
>>9307777 i dont think that i would find better job if i studied but not learn anything throughout this process

44 min later 9307897 Anonymous
I am in the same boat. Started school but already fucked up my first period (lied to parents about it) and don't know what the fuck to do. It just started and I am way behind everybody and instead of doing something about it I am just sitting here at school on 4chan. I'm drowning in self-pity and irrational helplessness because I always give up at everything I do. I don't want to accept my fate of being an eternal loser, but fuck me if I'm not sitting in the failure train towards hobodome.

49 min later 9307932 Anonymous
you want a fucking pat on the back kid?

51 min later 9307944 Anonymous
>>9307829 I knew my uni experience would of been exactly like yours so I never went. Joined the army instead.

52 min later 9307950 Anonymous
You're sabotaging yourself

56 min later 9307975 Anonymous
>>9307950 wat xD why people that study are so mad at me, i just dont feel it, i may start in the next year, but not now

1 hours later 9307989 Anonymous
>>9307975 That is pure procrastination. What are you studying?

1 hours later 9307991 Anonymous
I dropped out after two years. Biggest mistake of my life. While you have a chance now OP dont fucking do it ok

1 hours later 9307994 Anonymous
>>9307975 >wat xD You're literally babbys first troll. But I am responding to other people who may be lurking who feel similar about dropping out. Do not drop out. Try harder, goddamnit.

1 hours later 9308016 Anonymous
>>9307994 i thought about staying in my dorm to get access to the city, but dropping out of uni so i will be away from my parents for a few months, i will have some opportunities to go outside and i will just wait it through

1 hours later 9308108 Anonymous
Help me out guys. I dropped out of high school three years ago, last year, because I couldn't decide what to do with my life. I worked these years and studied another language, but my future looks so grim. I know I can't do anything I like without at least my diploma. So I joined high school again three weeks ago, and let me tell you: it's been hell. People are nice, but the classes are so undisciplined and they act like kids, making noise all time and the teachers cannot make lesson properly, most of the time. And the school won't kick anyone out. I'm stunned by the lack of maturity in these guys. And also, everytime I go to school I feel like I don't belong there. I don't laugh at immature jokes. I don't find the lessons to be interesting. Everything is just so dull, and the people behave like kids. I'm used to work with mature people, but these kids pass the whole time talking about stupid shit, fake money, weed and buying shitty headphones (yesterday a whole hour was passed with some guys arguing very loudly over which beats headphones are the best, no one could follow the lesson and the teachers won't do fucking anything because they don't care). Inb4 change school. I cannot. I live in a small town, and this is the only fucking school available. Wat to do. I can't endure this, it's just so fucking stupid and demotivating

1 hours later 9308119 Anonymous
>>9308108 At the last year*, fuck

1 hours later 9308130 Anonymous
>>9308108 I feel you. What would happen if you stood up one lesson and just said "everybody shut the fuck up, I am here to learn" ?

1 hours later 9308156 Anonymous
>>9307695 That feel when parents think you're studying online but you're secretly been NEET for more than a year.

1 hours later 9308161 Anonymous
>>9308156 >studying online i wish i knew that feel how much was it?

1 hours later 9308178 Anonymous
Something like 1k+ per unit. Need to pass 24 of them to claim a degree. I gave up after 15 I think. (failed like 5 of them)

1 hours later 9308201 Anonymous
>>9308130 I'd be labeled as an asshole or killjoy, ostracized by the class and nothing would change. Our dean even came in the class and was amazed at how shitty it is. Threatened to kick out some people, but they cannot do it - so no one gave a fuck about it. I fucking hate this shithole. In my country we don't change classes like in US's high schools, so I'm stuck with this class till the end of the year. I tried putting it on a nice ground, saying that it's important to finish high school and get an education so it would be best to be silent and try to follow, or at least don't cause utter CHAOS every day for six hours, but I think no one cares. Even if I dropped out of highschool, so coming from me could be a hint that as much as shitty is, it's important.

1 hours later 9308220 Anonymous
>>9308201 What country are you living in?

1 hours later 9308358 Anonymous
>>9308220 Ukraine >original comment

2 hours later 9308374 Anonymous
>>9308358 Why can't the students get kicked out?

2 hours later 9308402 Anonymous
im either going to be dropping out at the end of the year or failing. grades have been slowly getting worse over the last 2 years. failed a class during the first semester this year and i can tell ill be failing 2 this semester. when i had an interview with the course coordinator after failing a class first semester it was recomended i only take 3 classes this semester to lighten the load a bit and hopfully improve my confidence when it comes to uni work.but depression certainly doesnt help. especially untreated depression. its been getting worse for the last year and a half cause i just cant even motivate myself to get help whats the point anyway? not looking forward to the conversation with my mum but too late to change it now. going to try to loose some weight and join the army and get trained to be an electrician since only need high school passes to get in. oh and as far as i know no one knows that im depressed. a few of my friends might suspect it but they are too aspie to bring it up or realize how bad it is.

2 hours later 9308425 Anonymous
>>9308374 They would have to kick 3/4 of the school, probably. Also it's convenient for the school, because since it's a small town and this is the only school available the teachers have to work here or be transfered, the staff gets money and there aren't many students. The school is small and they cannot divide classes, so my class is made of about 30 ppl. As I said I believe they just don't give enough of a fuck, since they get paid regardless - even if they can't teach properly. It's a sloppy system in a fuckhole of a country. Fuck Russia, I wish they would stop being bitches and just let us enter EU without whining like fuckers, maybe then we would have a better system

2 hours later 9308445 Anonymous
>>9308425 How can Russia hinder you from developing a better school system?

2 hours later 9308463 Anonymous
>3 years (free on scholarship) >drop >change major, go back (out of pocket) >another sem in >constantly want to kill myself >hate everything >about to murder my room mates, seriously I'm so angry that I can't think straight >tired of feeling like a little kid and having no money >tired of paying for the privilege of working my ass off >absolutely no fun, ever >relative gave me 400 as a back-to-school gift because she was proud of me >considering mailing it back to her Idk, the job market seems better than it did 3 years ago. I may actually find something decent. Fuck college. I would have to stay here another 2 or 3 years taking only core curriculum, IE 5 maths/science with no gen eds to pad them. It's just going to suck, and for what? If I manage to get a part time or some sort of entry level, I can make it work. There's a slew of tiny somewhat low paying side jobs I can do as well. I think I'm just going to finish up the semester. If I don't go to jail for murder. If I could live by myself, even something the size of a closet would be fine, just no fucking room mates.

2 hours later 9308483 Anonymous
I dropped out of highschool. Don't recommend dropping out but sometimes things will work out. I'm 20 now and making about $52,000 a year. At a job I really enjoy.

2 hours later 9308497 Anonymous
>>9308483 what do you do, if I can ask?

2 hours later 9308526 Anonymous
>>9308445 It's hard to explain without analizing the past, I guess. We've been part of Soviet Union and even today we kind of are Russia's bitch. They don't want us to join EU, and their influence has always been really bad to our country. We have an extremely corrupted government and it's really hard to come out of the russian's grip, because our country could actually be really wealthy, but right now it's just a complete mess. Read this, it's decent if you want to have an insight about the thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrup tion_in_Ukraine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia %E2%80%93Ukraine_relations

2 hours later 9308531 Anonymous
>>9308483 Flour milling. It's factory.. But its far from brain dead tedious work.. As most people assume factory is. It's often quite mentally and physically challenging.

2 hours later 9308542 Anonymous
>>9308531 >>9308497 Ooops meant to quite you not myself.

2 hours later 9308592 Anonymous
Well damn, I came here to see if anyone was struggling with uni, I'm served. I guess now I have work my ass off to find a professional I can interview. And rev-up these notes. And all the other stuff too.

2 hours later 9308620 Anonymous
>drop out of uni >go back home >pick up instrument >get new hobbies >start lifting >improve life overall >be 100x happier >going back to uni next year much better prepped

2 hours later 9308658 Anonymous
>>9308542 Quote. Fuck being up this early.

3 hours later 9308825 Anonymous (trident.jpg 538x718 46kB)
>>9307623 >>9307677 >>9307697 >>9307726 >>9307829 >>9307897 >>9308108 >>9308156 >>9308402 >>9308620 Especially >>9308620 . Folks I have been through your situations and they all share different aspects of what I went through. I'm seven months out of dropping out of uni, here is how it went for me: >doing course that I love but is mega obscure >motivation has always been bad, but is getting worse and worse >intelligence that carried me through HS and into first year can't keep up >get heavily depressed, all the fucking time >stop socialising to leave time for study >still don't study, get even more depressed >basically stop going to all classes >sleeping 10+ hours a day at really irregular times >end up in a disgusting slump for about three months >idontthinksotim.xlsx >drop out mid semester >move back home >shitstorm from parents >use newfound time to pursue hobbies and free study >find self growing out of guilty student mindset >start studying things that I want to with vigour never felt before It's now been like seven months since I stopped attending classes. I'm currently designing a jet engine, volunteering at a dog shelter, and regularly going to the gym. I'm doing a job that I want to do which pays for my lifestyle easily. Next year I'm planning to study an engineering diploma, but it will be on my own accord. More importantly than all that, I feel fucking fantastic because my dome has had time to de-stress and chase up all the little fleeting curiosities that get quashed by the grind of coursework. My parents still don't understand/approve of what I'm doing. I only reccommend dropping out if you have something else you want to do in mind - if not you can easily find yourself trapped working in a retail job and all of a sudden you're 40. However, if you keep looking out the window and not allowing yourself to do things that you want to do... fucking go for it this can be great. The rules of being a student only apply to you if you let them. Pic related

3 hours later 9309043 Anonymous
>>9308825 that post was way too long to fall off page 10

4 hours later 9309068 Anonymous
>>9308825 >if not you can easily find yourself trapped working in a retail job and all of a sudden you're 40 Or graduated and either being a 60 hr/week slave or nojobs. Bad possibilities on both sides. But thanks for the post. Seriously, dropping out is sounding appealing more and more. How can you design a jet engine with no degree?

4 hours later 9309093 Anonymous
>>9307944 >would of It shows.

4 hours later 9309128 Anonymous
Do what you want but make sure it's in demand. If you're going to drop out of University, at least go learn a trade so you have something to fall back on.

4 hours later 9309137 Anonymous
I've already basically dropped out. I have no desire to work for someone else, so academia is a waste of time, especially with the shitty liberal arts degree I was pursuing. Of course, it's possible for me to take this attitude since I've got a decent amount of inheritance money and some investment plans for the future.

5 hours later 9309543 Anonymous
do not drop out of uni. ever. or you will be cleaning toilets for the rest of your lives for assholes like me

5 hours later 9309593 Anonymous
I dropped out in the final year half way throug it. Couldn't deal with it anymore. Saying that though I've done better than the people I know, I've moved out and have plenty of savings while they're living with their parents whining and drinking and abusing the dole

7 hours later 9310404 Anonymous
>>9309543 There have to be some liveable jobs that don't need a degree.

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