Should i drop out of university??

Question

Ok..i am entering my 2nd year of university.

and i really dont feel like i am learning anything. I believe i am a very intelligent guy..and not one of those all brains and no common sense students.

I just feel although i am wasting my time here where i could be doing something more productive i dont mean just working a run of the mill job i just think i was destined to do somerthing spectacular and is it really worth it to get piece of paper.

Answer 1

i've seen people changing colleges a lot and i my self also transferred. There are some schools( mainly public schools), that do not teach at all.(you basically study your textbooks, no learning in classroom at all) There are many weeder classes and professors who do not really care about student learning. In my case, I first transferred to community college than went to private school, and it has been way better than the first public state school that I attended. so if you think your current school is absolutely horrible and you're not learning anything, try other schools.

Answer 2

Now maybe the answer is to rethink what you are studying or doing with your time. Keep the same major, but take some cool electives and see if anything really turns you on. If so, then switch. Or you can look at the school work as paying your dues for a great job, and spend you time in college getting involved with excellent clubs or activities that do interest you.

I learned almost nothing in my undergrad years, but I do have the piece of paper that is the MINIMUM entrance into most quality jobs. 99% or decent jobs require a bachelors degree at minimum.

When I post a job I am hiring for, I will typically get 100 or more resumes. Like most of the employers I know, I eliminate all the resumes without college degrees, just to make it easier for me to go through the candidates. If you don't have one, even though you might be a smart person, I will eliminate your resume out of convenience.

Finally , I would say go ahead and drop out if you want to earn $17,000 less than everyone else for the rest of your life. That is a statistical fact.

Answer 3

Dont ever drop out! Thats horrible, when I bet there are hundreds of students wishing they could be were you are!
How would you ever get a good job and support your family!
I dont know about the other girls, but being with some guy who wasnt tough enough to finish colledge is NOT on my agenda! Plus, who would go out with a guy who hasnt even experienced the parties!

Its great that you think you have brains and that the class is low level cause your so bright but maybe you could go another way! Take different classes. Art History is supposed to be good, and religion classes gave some people a whole new perspective. And even if you dont learn and its just an easy grade then it still comes out in your porfolieo.

I hope you think long and hard about this cause you may be throwing away your life!

Answer 4

A formal degree is never a bad thing to have.

it shows your future potential employer that you have what it takes to "jump through the hoops" and do whatever bs you need to get a job done. It shows you have a capability for organization and literary and functional regurgitation.

Depending on what field you are in, it may or may not be a requirement for your future "greatness".

I sense you are enrolled in the humanities. If so, or even if in business, you may successfully have a great career without a degree. If you attempt greatness in a Math, Science or Engineering field without a degree, you are in for major disappointment. A computer science degree is less important if you are a great programmer, but more important if you anticipate being in charge of others in a large orgnaization.

If I were doing it again, I would concentrate on making as much money as possible. Greatness comes from contact with the movers and shakers of society, you need lots of cash to affect change. Better to have the problems of wealth and boredom than the problems of being poor and bored.

Understand that whatever you are doing now is not what you will be doing five years from now. Almost no one works the same job for twenty years anymore.

Get your ticket for a trade. You may have to move to where the greatest opportunities are.

I live in Calgary. Journeymen make six figures here. Attach yourself to the oil and gas industry and even an apprentice welder is being paid 60k plus.


In a couple of years, you buy your own tools and truck, a couple more you have a couple of people working for you, if you don't let your vices get the better of you, you can put the money back into your business and own your own home free of mortgage by the time you are thirtysomething, be worth seven figures and have twenty or thirty people working for you.

People in university often think that a building or industrial trade job is beneath them. But, if you are set up your business in the right market, there is sick money being made due to the shortage of skilled labour.


The people who will then rely on you and your family will think you are great. You can then involve your self in local politics as a backer or even run yourself, or sell your business and focus on your next dream.

By then you will have the credibility to be taken seriously in whatever you have to say. Then you will truely be on your way to greatness with more than half your life to go.

Answer 5

You may feel like you're destined for something spectacular but do you have any idea what that might be? Spectacular things don't just fall into people's laps. You have to go out and make opportunities for yourself. College is a good place to be to make things happen. So you're bored and don't think you're learning anything? Boo hoo. College is what you make of it. It CAN be much more than a piece of paper if you do more than just sit in class (or skip classes) and whine about how boring it is.

Answer 6

The fact that you made it through to the second year is wicked I think. It's slightly the same that I made it to 2nd year at college but isn't it an achievement. I don't think you should give up now. Unless in your heart it is the right thing to do. You should do what I have to do now. Go back to when you first made the decision to go to university and then see if the reason you chose university is a reason to stay. eg. If you wanted to be a doctor, but now after a year it is no longer what you want. So you decide to pack it in and do something else.

Answer 7

Maybe you just need a change, depending on the college you go to, study a semester abroad, see if you can study at a neighboring school, or even take different classes. I'm a second semester sophomore and I got the same feeling you did, it's the sophomore slumps. Definitely get yourself off campus, believe me, no one knows everything.

Answer 8

That piece of paper is your ticket into the professional world. w/o it you will always have to prove yourself to people with one, even if your smarter than them. Get the degree while your young, have some fun while doing it and then go do what you want to. You are very lucky to have the chance at an all expenses paid education, i wish I would of had that opportunity.

Answer 9

Sounds like you already have your mind made up. Follow your heart, college is not for everyone. Just be aware that you will have to live with the consequences of your actions.

Be aware that employment opportunities are limited to those without adequate education and experience.

Have you considered a trade school? It may be a better option for you.

You need to ask yourself these questions, and be prepared to live with the consequences of your decision.

Answer 10

Yes it's so worth getting that piece of paper. I told a friend of mine who now makes $122,500 a year as an IT Technician consultant and he graduated from one of the best historically black colleges in the country which was Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and he wanted to quit his junior year until I told him you got one more year look at what you're about to throw away if you quit and because of my encouragement he's going to be a millionaire in about 5 years and he's only 29-30 years old making 3 times the money that most people his age would dream about. You need to surround yourself with positive people who will encourage you. I did this for my best friend of more than 5 years and she was a single mother with two kids paying her way through school with disability benefits(she's blind) and whatever work she was able to find at the time that didnt restrict her because of her vision. Her father helps pay her kids tuition for catholic school, but her mother's not a very supportive person. She's got a supportive boyfriend(also a college grad) and friends who are college grads behind her. You have so much more to gain if you went ahead and got done. If you quit you won't want to go back and finish you're almost there. If you want to get done faster take some summer school classes to put yourself a semester ahead of your classmates and then do it again the following summer to get done faster. But you sound like a smart guy don't beat yourself down like this......you are meant to do something spectacular with yourself because God has a plan for you to make that happen. If you don't believe in yourself it won't happen. It took me 6 years of frustration, rage, anger, tears, laughter, and a lot of other emotions to finally walk across the stage in 2001 with my associates degree with honors with 3 well known academic honor societies, Phi Theta Kappa, National Dean's List(2nd generation recipient since my mom got this very honor 30 years earlier in 1977 and then my sister became the 3rd generation when she got it a year and a half ago) and the United States Achievement academy. The person who inspired me to get to where I am died when I was 15 and he was blind, but his wish was for his grandchildren to get educated and go to college and when I graduated twice in '01 and again in '05 with my bachelors I realized I had so much more to gain and I wanted to quit many times, but I wouldnt let myself do it because something told me I was going to do something great in my life and quitting means I was taking the chicken s*it way out and quitting is what cowards do. Yes if going to college is worth that piece of paper I would gladly go through the hell I endured to get it again.