Not enjoying uni.

Hi everyone. I'm a current first year student at a uni in Australia. When I say I'm not enjoying my time at uni, I don't mean social life. I couldn't really give a rat's arse about that. I'm really not enjoying most of the subjects I'm taking with the only one I'm enjoying being the only non-core subject and I feel like it's affecting both my motivation to do any work for these subjects, my recent mood in general and especially my grades.

I'm just straight up not engaged with the material being taught. It doesn't interest me at all and I'm kinda getting stressed over it too since my parents were rather happy about me getting into uni and it feels like I'm just throwing away this opportunity. I already have problems with general engagement and trying to focus on doing a task and this just really isn't helping me. I'm truly struggling for the first time in my life.

To clarify as well - This degree is a general ICT degree which I'm taking because I wanted to get into cybersecurity but didn't have the initial grades for out of year 12. I'm not really all that passionate about either subject though (as interesting as cybersecurity is), as my true interest lies in something media-related (post-production stuff) but I've kinda been talked down about it as lots of my family members don't think I'd get a successful career out of it.

Any help on this is appreciated as I really feel like my life right now is kinda spiralling out of control.

Submitted April 13, 2025 at 11:32PM by ritkollenos https://ift.tt/4YyTOx9