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Originally posted by Sam Jay
I'm taking a gap year next year. I don't even want to go to uni, lol. I have no idea what I want to do. It's not that I wouldn't be able to get into uni, I'll probably be able to get into any course I want (I'm looking at an ATAR of high 90's minimum right now, I think), but I just don't really want to do it.  |
I got 96.50 in 2009 and went straight into Uni in 2010. I went for a year and a half and got pass/credits/distinctions on all my subjects. Then in semester 2 of 2011 I met a guy and got into a relationship, started coming out, making new/gay friends, got really distracted, etc. and failed 3 subjects. After failing semester 2 of 2011, I deferred for a year and a half (all of 2012 and semester 1 of 2013) and lived in Kings Cross and lived a really, really gay life. Then I started getting letters from UTS saying my credit points were about to expire if I didn't come back and there was NO WAY I was repeating Statistics, Finance, Accounting, Economics, etc. Some of the first year subjects were the hardest subjects of my entire degree (my business majors are Marketing and Management) and the only reason I (barely) passed Finance and Stats was because of all the statistics and financial maths (like annuities) that I knew from General Maths the year before. Anyway, I went back for semester 2 of 2013, got all passes/credits. I'm just finishing semester 1 of 2014 now and am looking at all distinctions. And then next semester is my last
The point of my story is, getting back into uni was the hardest thing I've ever done, and I came so close to just not doing it. Pretty much everyone who defers never goes back, including my brother and one of my sisters. So many people I went to high school with deferred, and you can only defer a maximum of 4 semesters (2 years) and then all your credit points are expired and you have to start your degree again. Whether it's the same degree or another one, all your credit points are gone. So my advice would be, only go to uni when you're ready and when you know what you want to do. If you think you're the sort of person who would defer half-way through, then don't go. Wait until you're ready. If you defer, the probability of you not going back are extremely high. Or you'll go back and you'll do something else. And then all that time and money you spent starting another degree will go to waste.
I think it's actually smart to take a year (or two) off to actually figure out who you are and what you want to do. I sort of rushed into Uni because of the pressure from my family. It's amazing how much I've change in the 4 and a half years since school ended. Not only have I changed, but I've been so many different people along the way. And now that I'm at the end of my degree, I wish I had studied a Bachelor of Communications (Media Arts and Production) because I want to work in TV or fIlm. I'm only 22, so I could do a post-grad course at AFTRS or NIDA for something in production or directing. Plus a Bachelor of Business is an amazingly useful degree. No matter where you work, it's gonna be a business. So it'll help me get a good job.
But yeah, figure out who you are and what you actually want in life before you jump into the deep end of the pool. I know it sounds cliche but everyone here is still so young and they're trying to figure out what they want to do. It's like we tell 18 year olds to pick a degree that will decide their career for the rest of their life, when only one week earlier, those same 18 year olds had to put their hand up to ask for permission to go to the ****ing bathroom. You're gonna change so much over the next few years, and what you want to do in life will probably change too. So if you don't know just yet, just take the time to figure it out. Otherwise you'll end up angry that you wasted so much time and money/debt on a degree you don't want/won't use.
we'll be right, sis 
