Regretting your course, regretting your choice of uni? (1 Viewer)

[lala2]

B. Med Sci UNSW- 3 years of hard work, social sacrifice, health sacrifice, a GPA of 3.9... for what reason exactly? To earn ever so slightly better money as a lab assistant compared to what I earn right now as a dispensary assistant....
Guess I'll do Masters of Pharm; however my boss (at the pharmacy) tells me a lot of pharm grads he knows are having a terribly difficult time getting registration atm as they are no more useful then a dispensary assistant but cost more per hour.

Yes, it's going to be very competitive getting grad jobs. I'm going to apply everywhere, even outside of Sydney otherwise I would've wasted four years just to not even get registered. You'd be surprised how many people either work at pharmacies that don't take on grads, or work at pharmacies that do but they don't like it. I just hope everyone doesn't get the same idea to apply outside of Sydney!

 

[jules.09]

I'm looking to do either Commerce or Pharmacy as well.

Why is there such little ethusiasm for Commerce?

Probably because it sucks?

I've always thought doing Law, for journalism would be pretty wicked, as opposed to being a solicitor.

 

[Cocopops.xox.x]

great post.

 

[Uncle]

I'm looking to do either Commerce or Pharmacy as well.

Why is there such little ethusiasm for Commerce?

1. Asian
2. Asian
3. Asian
4. richprickgoldmininghoepimpcapitalistfucker
5. JEW

 

[ascentyx]

i know what you mean kow_dude....im in pretty much same boat except my course is too specialised...--actuarial studies....-__-
mainly because i realized that i did not enjoy studying any of the subjects .....
with regards to the money focus of commerce....its going to happen and be the focus in ANY field.....that's the reality of life....but just that commerce might not let you feel satisfied because its all business orientated and u dont seem to be helping society, unlike health/sciencs where u at least help ppl in a direct way....
....i feel like an ass coz i've finished my degree just this year.....didn't even think about changing course during the degree coz i only treated it as something i HAD to do....

nice, u managed to get to the end of actuarial studies even though you don't really enjoy it, that requires skill lol. i really really enjoy doing actuarial but i hate all the other bullshit units we have to do, ie accounting eco etc etc lol.

 

[*rUsTy*]

Well I've gone from being interested in journalism into teaching...

 

[Dr. Oyster]

1. Asian
2. Asian
3. Asian
4. richprickgoldmininghoepimpcapitalistfucker
5. JEW

yes, No. 4

 

[Rockyroad]

Say more than regrets guys.
I wanna know what you wish you did instead.
Advice like - I wish I stuck to my passions or whatever
Uni easier than high school?
Which uni is best, which would you have gone to if you could hve chosen any...?

 

[ehtefaz.hedayet]

1. Asian
2. Asian
3. Asian
4. richprickgoldmininghoepimpcapitalistfucker
5. JEW

nicely evaluated

 

[Juliet]

I love my social work degree, though it is tough at times. Can't think of anything else i'd rather do, i'm glad i stuck with searching for my passion and didn't give up. UNSW has been fab, except when they were renovating the library. Will i regret never having a six-figure salary? Ask me in 15 years.

 

[tallkid34]

I love my social work degree, though it is tough at times. Can't think of anything else i'd rather do, i'm glad i stuck with searching for my passion and didn't give up. UNSW has been fab, except when they were renovating the library. Will i regret never having a six-figure salary? Ask me in 15 years.

Despite the rather unattractive things I've heard about social work, you're doing something you evidently enjoy at the potential disadvantage of a low salary.

I have more respect for you than half of the lifeless individuals around me at UNSW.

 

[Andi0390]

I regret listening to my parents.

They told me to go to ANU, and that everything would be nice at university, and that all the people are happy and nice, etc. it sounded very nice. I am normally very realistic and I don't know how they managed to delude me that I actually wanted to stay a minute more in Canberra than I had to, and I don't know how they tricked me into believing that anything would be all nice anywhere.

I think its because university applications are in summer, and I get messed up with the heat.

Now I am in New Zealand, and I am glad that I came here because if I hadn't I would have regretted it for a long time, but now I know its not like I thought it would be, I will be settled about it. It has shown me what I like about Australia, and how people are different, and how no matter where you go you have to wake up to yourself.

Next year I am going somewhere like Wollongong, down by the beach, where I can hopefully relax in the summer, and where maybe the people aren't so uptight as in Canberra. Or Tasmania, because I have never lived there and my family won't visit me because its too far away.

So yeah, my regret is not listening to what I wanted to do. If anyone is choosing universities out there and are reading this, think it through. Don't go somewhere just because the reputation is great, or thats where your parents want you to do. Don't do a course because you think thats what everyone thinks you should do.

Its your life, and you get old quick. Don't waste it on regrets. And if you find you are in a situation you don't like, make the best of it, pass, or excel, and then transfer.

 

[Ben1220]

No regrets here at all, but I think people would be able to make a much better decision after a year of proper tertiary study. First year subjects should be the same for many courses, and chances are, if you want to change, it wouldn't be to a course that is too different from the one you are doing now. Thats the problem with having such a highly specialised/vocational undergraduate education, as is the norm in Australia. Having thousands of double degrees doesn't make a uni better, it just makes more choices for students straight out of high school who don't know enough to pick the perfect course for them. The best universities in the world often have very few undergraduate courses, just look at MIT, you don't do a course, you just do subjects, and choose your major after 2 years. The same applies at Harvard I think, and probably most of the other ivy leauge elite universities, everyone does a Bachelor of arts or science to begin with, and you just choose the topics you like, as you learn more, you learn what you like and what you don't, and you end up picking a major that works for you. As opposed to being locked in before you even start.

 

[babikakez]

I'm starting to realise that I like the International Studies component of my degree a whole lot more than the Politics component. Thinking about transferring to Arts/Mass Comm next year, with a Mass Comm major in PR.

 

[spence]

No regrets here at all, but I think people would be able to make a much better decision after a year of proper tertiary study. First year subjects should be the same for many courses, and chances are, if you want to change, it wouldn't be to a course that is too different from the one you are doing now. Thats the problem with having such a highly specialised/vocational undergraduate education, as is the norm in Australia. Having thousands of double degrees doesn't make a uni better, it just makes more choices for students straight out of high school who don't know enough to pick the perfect course for them. The best universities in the world often have very few undergraduate courses, just look at MIT, you don't do a course, you just do subjects, and choose your major after 2 years. The same applies at Harvard I think, and probably most of the other ivy leauge elite universities, everyone does a Bachelor of arts or science to begin with, and you just choose the topics you like, as you learn more, you learn what you like and what you don't, and you end up picking a major that works for you. As opposed to being locked in before you even start.

You're not locked in to a degree, it's really not hard to change courses - I've done it twice

 

[Studentleader]

Regretting Computer and Mathematical Sciences & Commerce @ UWA - first year units are crap and I only have lectures for the rest of my course (apart from econometrics tute and statistics lab) so I should have done something online.

 

[alisneaky]

Doing B Oral Health at Newcastle...the course is very new....i was the first intake year....very disorganised...changes every year.....the university is very good though....