My friend is leaving Uni...

Why has she been unhappy with her course?

Its a break in, loads of my mates have been broken into or had cars nicked etc. just becasue you get broken into doesnt mean you quit uni

My mum and dad havent moved house becasue they have been burgled 3 times!

On a plus side at least she told her housemates, one lad lived here who was fine one day then the next I came back from uni and a guy I didnt know was moving stuff out the house. I was just getting prepaired to battle a robber and I asked him who he was and he said my housemates dad. He then said he is moving out!

nice one, thanks for that mate!

Uni/college has its ups and downs and a lot of people dont really like their courses, i hated the start of my college course and was home sick at uni for the first week. If I gave up on both id still be in a warehouse throwing boxes around at 6am in a freezing wagon instead of having the best 4 years of my life :)
 
If she is not enjoying the course there is no point in doing it really in my opinion. So you should respect her decision of wanting to quit. If you are good friends it shouldn't be that much effort to try keep in contact with her.
 
You did the right thing. If she's unhappy, then the best thing for her to do is leave and figure out what will make her happy. At this point, she is only half way through the year, and if she doesn't want to be there, it's a long time to "stick it out" and be miserable.
All you can tell her now is that you will miss her, and maybe that you expect her to come back and visit, or invite you back home at some point. Leaving uni is tough, she will need your support now.
 
I was in a position where I wanted to leave to University because I was unhappy, despite my friends saying they'll miss me. Regardless, I left. I had the intention of leaving and after a few events happening that week, just made me want to leave even more. It was a good thing really because now I am in a much better position, mentally also as I am at a different University enjoying my course :) I still keep in touch with my old friends so its not the end of the world. I do visit also which is good.
 
Sounds to me that the break in was more "the straw that broke the camels back". The worst thing at uni is not liking your course, I went through it last year and seriously considered droppping out of uni.

Maybe have a chat to her and suggest to her to come back to uni next year and start again in a new course (I assume she is a first year). A couple of my friends have done that this year (as well as me) and the difference is amazing. Last year was one of the worst years of my life, this year one of the best! :)
 
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