OT: Is this normal?

[dogscoff]

I got lucky at Uni and landed in a house in the first year with two great guys who became my best friends. Many ppl end up living with arsehloes. If you're living with arseholes, move.

Uni is all about meeting people, learning to live away from your parents, learning to deal with people and manage your time and you life and stuff like that. The academic side of it is kind of secondary. Basically you will hate it until you meet ppl you like, and then you will love it, so get out there now and start meeting people.

My advice to you would be to check out any extra-curricular student groups you can get involved with: See if there's a sci-fi society, a space-strategy-wargaming society. If there's nothing catering to your interests, start something. If you don't have any interests, make some up. See what they're offering and try a few things out- uni is a great time to try new stuff and introduce yourself to some of the things that other ppl are into. Do it. Good luck.

But yeah, if you do all that and still hate it... quit. Uni is great fun and I recommend it, and if you really want to be a [insert job here] and need a [insert qualification here] to do it then stick it out, but it is entirely possible to be happy and earn well without a university education. Worrying about qualifications/ jobs/ careers is over-rated anyway. Many of the nicest, most interesting and most satisfied ppl I know don't have too much in the way of qualifications and are far more interested in living their lives than having a career.