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Anyone considered throwing it all in??

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rc1n

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ARGH!!! i'm getting lectured left, right and centre about not doing any work for uni. I feel like telling the olds to get fucked, move out of home, quit uni and just doing what i like.
At the moment i feel like uni isnt the thing for me now cos i cant balance clubbing n uni. i just want to do something else for a while. Anybody else done anything like this??
Any help/advice would be really really helpful
Peace
rc1n
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It's been a long time, I shouldnt have left you without some dope pills to chomp through.... (erik B + rc1n..)
 
Just take your time and do what you want to do. I am ment to pass uni at the end of the year, but I'll be there for another already. The old's can just go get fucked if they have a problem with it. I'm doing my uni course for me, not them, and thats what you should do, live your life for you.
How old r you? I'm only 20, and why should I be worried about important shit, when there is so much more time for that later!! Try and find something that rewards you, maybe creative or a job (there are fun jobs out there), and then balance your clubbin with that.
Thats about all the advice I can give...hope it helps!
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Dude... I know exactly where you are comming from... really!
A few months back I decided quit my 'respectible' full time, Monday to Friday, job. Don't get me wrong, this job had fantastic career propects, and was in an industry that I loved, however I realised that I am too young (19) to be worrying about corporate bullshit... that and I wasn't being true to my somewhat left of center beliefs.
Now I am organising my own parties (PHARMACY- OCT 21ST- MRS WOOD
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YEAH), and am actually enjoying myself for the first time in a while.
Eventually I will probably go back to Uni, merely to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity... however right now I am having the time of my life and hopefully making a meager living through something that I dearly love
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Hope this helps...
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"Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals..."
Peace, Love and Empathy
Peter Poppa
[This message has been edited by PeterPoppa (edited 10 September 2000).]
 
I don't know about advice or help, but i can certainly empathise with your situation. I am in a similiar rut, and my lack of uni work makes me wonder if i am subconsciously sabotaging myself?
But, seeing as i can't decide what else i would rather be doing, i can't quit uni because doing uni is at least a little better than doing nothing, in terms of the smaller amount of shit i'd cop from the olds about it.
Um, hope you find the right path, and i sure as fuck hope i find the right path too.
Have a smile
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hiya
i finished uni 4 years ago and i'm working now in my chosen profession but ..... not deliriously happy you know?? i mean its ok but i think maybe working or doing other stuff before you do your uni degree is probably a great idea. at least then you can think about what you really want to do instead of being pushed into something and regretting it later. being young is about having fun, as long as you dont go overboard .... god i'm actually being serious for a change! *laughing*
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---peace out---
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WOW...*sings* you took the words right out of my mind...oooohhhhh...it must have been while you were kissing me
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...uhhh,,,yeah...enough of that embarassing shit...ummm...yeah...really i dunno what to do... u said it bro...
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hey man the best advice i can give is if you really feel like tossing it in DO IT!! i mean just take a year off or two and travel or do some shit menial job and spend the year clubbing!!
i did it (the traveling )a soon as i left highschool. i just had to get away from the seriousness of my life. i can honestly say that it has been the most life changing decision of my life (and that includes taking drugs) so much happened to me i cant explain it all here but the most important bit was i learnt who i was and from that grew what i wanted to do and nothing so far has been a hassle because im secure in the knowledge that however well i do in whatever i do Im Enjoying Myself.
thats all from me!
 
I'm sorta in the same boat... It's not that going out is taking too much time, it's just that I couldn't be stuffed with uni any more and anything is better than doing homework for uni... luckily this is my last semester and I just need to pass then its all over...
I'd say if its your last year like me, then stick it out and go mental at the end, but if you're right in the middle or near the start... bugger it off! If you really don't wanna keep doing it right at the moment, then you're quite likely to screw it up (no offense) so it won't be worth it
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I understand what your all saying but my input is that if you want to have a break from uni or give it away, just make sure your doing it for the right reasons.
I'm not directing this at anyone so, just wanted to speak my mind.
If drugs are wearing you down and making you think 'why bother', then it might be a sign that you should take it easy.
Don't get me wrong, i believe that the experience can change your outlook on life for the better and enable you to learn from it, but be careful.
Too much of anything can be a bad thing.
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expectation is a killer...
[This message has been edited by Orion (edited 10 September 2000).]
 
Hey rc1n, was good to meet you at Electrick man. Also I know what you are feeling. I had a similar predicament last year...
Was doing Honours last year and had started getting into going out. I had one of the most awesome weekends in the middle of the year when I saw DJ Bailey and MC Flux, it transformed my feelings for drum and bass and was the most one of the most inspiring nights.
However the Monday after I went to uni and found out that I had failed one of my first semester units due to the lecturer not liking the essay I wrote. Well it felt like my whole world had come crashing down, failing a unit in Honours year is not the best way to go about things. So I panicked!!!
I was ready to chuck the whole thing in and start again next year. All the negative thoughts about everything that was happening in my academic life came into my head at once: my project was going nowhere, I didn't have any support from my supervisor. I didn't like my major and I feared the whole thing was going to end in a pathetic mess.
But I went and spoke to lots of people. Friends, counsellors, the head of department, post-grad students and lecturers(some of course I didn't tell about drugs and going out...).
Fortunately, I got another chance to resubmit the essay, I got some more support from the post-grads and managed to deal with my project and write an alright thesis. Hey I even managed to come out with an Honours degree. Also I now have a job in the industry that I want to work in and often (when I am not reading/writing on bluelight) I enjoy it!!
I guess the point is that if you want this degree, do it! Uni is not easy, few people will say it is. It really is a commitment you have to make to yourself and no one else.
Personally I am glad I have finished uni, I don't want to go back to that environment for a long time now, money and freedom are too sweet.
Hope this helps in some way. If you want to talk more you have my details, contact me and we can meetup!
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raw
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Ever since I lost my mind everything has been groovy.
 
damn-am i the only person here that didnt go to uni?
well if you dont like what your doing at uni now,u prolly never will,how bout a change in direction,a different course or something.
but yeah,as said before if u only got a couple more months or something to go,it would be worth just sticking it out.or defer(sp?)im not up on uni terms
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and go overseas for a few years.
i do have one bit of advice for u tho',if u do get a deadbeat job,make sure it has absolutely no responsibility attached to it,and u can get out of it quick or u might find yourself in it for longer than u realize
leave home? YES. tell olds to get fucked? NO-unless they deserve it
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Thanks alot guys
i guess i was feeling the fxts of a drug free mind and too much parents, still deciding what to do
Peace
rc1n
P.S
raw - r u going to digital??
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It's been a long time, I shouldnt have left you without some dope pills to chomp through.... (erik B + rc1n..)
 
and i thought i was the only one who's voluntarily sabotaging his/her own future by dedicating myself into d'nb and clubbing. it's past week 8 and i still haven't done any readings for all my 3 subjects since week 1. i haven't even bought any textbooks, and financially i'm also at an all time low thanks to myself not calling work to get my shifts.
i can't be bothered to do anything, although it's my final semester at uni (if i pass everything, that is). my days consist of jerry springer, missing out classes, sleeping in classes, more daytime tv, staying at home doing nothing, clubbing/raving, sleeping all through the day... i deserve a nobel prize for introducing another meaning to life.
but i want to graduate asap and join full time employment just so i can move out of the house and have my own life no matter how shitty it is...
 
I don't want to sound like a sole voice of conformity or reason here, but this is my viewpoint.
The problem with chucking it all in, and burning your bridges now with the idea that you should have fun while you're young and worry about serious stuff later when you're "old and responsible", is that fun often doesn't pay, and you must sow the seeds before you can reap the fruit, so to speak. Without building contacts now, and working for goals which you'll achieve in the future, you may find that later in life, the endpoints you aimed for are an unreasonably long way in the distance.
You should think carefully, long and hard about your decisions because no matter whose advice you listen to, the decision is your own. Or it should be your own decision without being swayed by anyone, because you're going to have to live with whatever choice you make. Whatever your choice, I'm sure that the people who love you will support you, eventually.
BigTrancer
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Digital: I am there!! Well I will be when it is on...blah blah...
I also sent you an email about it all too!!
On the point of telling your folks to get fucked. Don't!!! Parents are pretty cool once you don't live with them. Thats my experience anyway.
Also they become a good source for free cake!!!
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raw
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Ever since I lost my mind everything has been groovy.
[This message has been edited by raw (edited 12 September 2000).]
 
Whatever you decide to do think about it VERY CAREFULLY (I really stress that).
I decided not to finish high school because I knew that I wasn't ready at the time for serious study, and I thought that I'd work for a year and then go back to school, but it didn't work out that way. I got a crappy job which really isn't all that great and I've lost a lot of my friends, because of the fact that I don't really have much in common with them anymore due to the fact that most of them are studying.
At the moment I'm trying to save money to go overseas to America and Canada and travel around there for a year. I find that trying to work towards a goal keeps me sane. As for going back to school well if I went back now I'd be wasting my time because I really don't know what I want to do with my life.
So before anyone decides to throw away their Uni Degree or their job, just remember that you can't turn back time and you may regret your decision later on. I know I do sometimes.
 
BigTrancer... Dont get me wrong... I'm not suggesting that anyone burn their bridges so that one must make a fresh start later in life... Although I gave away what I did, I now have so many contacts and friends in a number of similar industries that agree that have done a wise thing, that I am now set up for life... doing something that I love.
Remember we are only here once (as far as I can tell) so we should enjoy it... money and career are not the only things in life...
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"Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals..."
Peace, Love and Empathy
Peter Poppa
 
No problem, PeterPoppa... actually when I mentioned that one should exercise care before "burning their bridges" I was actually referring to the original posters comment which said they were thinking of "telling the olds to get fucked, move out of home, quit uni and just doing what i like"... by doing an abrupt about-face on ones life like that I can imagine that it would take a while to get used to the new lifestyle. In fact, it might take more mental adjustment to become accustomed to the new path chosen, than to refocus and rededicate oneself to their original path. It could be a lot more work than it looks to change all those facets of ones life in the hope of making everything better at once.
BigTrancer
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if I wasn't so close to finishing my degree (2 months to go!) I'd have to take some time off for sure.
I've done a three year degree but it's included 2 years of study and 1 year of full time work. I've never had more than a month break the entire three years due to summer school and work - I'm tired and I'm over it.
I have a contract next year to "look forward to" pfft, but all I want to do is finish with good marks and go and laze myself on an island in Thailand.
rc1n, hang in there if that's what you want, you're ultimately the best judge of what's best for uni and uni is designed so that it can always be done at a late stage - so a semester or a year off won't make that much of a difference in the long run. Either way if you stay or you go the education you get in life is just as important.
Good luck to everyone for exams coming up!
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