Bad situation at the university?

[Jamie]

First, I think it's wrong to study all the time, 24/7. You must have some breaks, I know I must otherwise I just can't concentrate. Especially in the summer, you should be enjoying yourself more.

I think you should talk to your parents about it. As far as they know, they probably have no idea that you don't really like taking your subject at Sorbonne.

If you talk to them about what you would really want to do, whatever it may be, then I'm sure they would understand. If you are studying 24/7 it is not much of a life! You shouldn't need to study that much in order to just pass - it should be possible to pass without studying that much. I really think you should talk with your parents, it sounds like they think you are enjoying taking English literature etc and have no idea that you really don't like it

You need to do something you enjoy in life, not something that someone else wants you to do. My dad wanted me to be an accountant or something, but I really didn't!!! You don't want to be doing something as a career that you actually HATE. If your parents are nice enough I'm sure they will understand your dilemna and whatever choice you decide to make

 

[ciobotea_andrei88]

Hy! I am in the first year at the university, in Paris. I'm not French. I'm at Sorbonne, at English language, litterature and civilization. I am not studying very well. Neither is my native language. In the first semester I had 11 exams and I passed only 2. So I have to give the 9 in September. But only 30 students from, I don't know, maybe 150, passed all the exams. It is very difficult, and much more difficult for strangers. And I don't like all my subjects. I hate litterature (I only like reading). I hope that this semestre I will pass more of the exams. Other problem is that I don't feel anymore that I do it for me. I fell that I'm doing it for my family and that I have to learn only in order not to upset them and to make them feel satisfied. Even for the subjects that I like, I learn only in order to pass. I don't know at all the subjects. And my father is telling me from time to time to learn. And I don't like this because I learn, I don't have to learn all the time 24/24. I would like not to learn all day long. I would like also to read a little, to go cycling, things for which I do not have the necessary time. In the summer vacation it will be the same problem because I will have to learn for the exams from the first semestre which are in September. I fell as the worst from the family because my brother is doing very well at school and my father learned very well, he wrote books... Today I told myself that I should start to think that I learn for my, not for anybody else. Because, I think, I would be mure relaxed and not so worried. I would also like to do what you would make in my place next year: or I continue in the second year, or I begin again the first year with all the subjects, or begin again the first year making only the subjects where I didn't pass. Excuse me that, maybe, I didn't write very well or in a very good order. Could you give me some advices, please?