Right so I'm in my final year at uni, last semester went well enough, didn't get bad marks and kept on top of all my work, almost had fun so to speak. However I didn't get my dissertation handed in, it was due at the start of february. This was because of serious trauma to me (which I will not go into so don't ask) in the period before christmas, and continuing into february this year, in fact it is still there just at the moment I can't do anything about it. I was able to talk to my advisor of studies, a great man, who managed to get me an extension to the dissertation until august, meaning that I graduate in December, and I provided him with suitable reason to do so. He also suggested the possibility of moving to part time or taking a temporary leave of absense.
Now I thought this would be fine, and that I'd be able to cope with my modules this term, I only do three, along with the dissertation that essentially I have to do after my finals. I also didn't like the idea of spending another year, or part of, at uni, as I don't like it much and I really want to move out of Northern Ireland.
However, I missed a lot of classes at the beginning of this semester, and out of the three modules I'm only 'on top' of one of them, which I really enjoy. I hate the other two and for example I had a class test yesterday for one of them (worth 10%) and I only answered 1/5 of the questions even though I did revision. I also struggled with the work for that module in some coursework and ended up handing it in late, losing 10%. And for the other module I have a 15 page assignment due in tomorrow that I only heard about today, now some of you say I could have checked myself, and thats true, but that's really where the problem is. I have no motivation at the moment, I struggle to do normal things, let alone extra work. At one stage I was drinking very heavily, almost to put everything out of my mind, but I'm not any more. I just can't seem to keep on top of anything at the moment apart from the GIS module that I enjoy.
This is where I'm asking for advise, do you think that from what I've said I should try and go part time, banking all my modules and maybe just keeping GIS this semester and continuing with others next year. Or should I take a leave of absense for the semester, get my head sorted and go back for semester 2 next year. Or should I try my best to get on top of my work and probably come out of uni with a 3rd or 2:2, when I really want a 2:1?
I have a part-time job that I can ask for more hours in if I need to, and even switch to full time if I take the time off. I'm just really stuck as to what to do, and It's upsetting me a lot at the moment, I want to finish as soon as possible but I also want a good degree, which I was on track for at the start of the semester and I'm not any more.
Sorry about the length of this, but any helpful advice would be nice.
Now I thought this would be fine, and that I'd be able to cope with my modules this term, I only do three, along with the dissertation that essentially I have to do after my finals. I also didn't like the idea of spending another year, or part of, at uni, as I don't like it much and I really want to move out of Northern Ireland.
However, I missed a lot of classes at the beginning of this semester, and out of the three modules I'm only 'on top' of one of them, which I really enjoy. I hate the other two and for example I had a class test yesterday for one of them (worth 10%) and I only answered 1/5 of the questions even though I did revision. I also struggled with the work for that module in some coursework and ended up handing it in late, losing 10%. And for the other module I have a 15 page assignment due in tomorrow that I only heard about today, now some of you say I could have checked myself, and thats true, but that's really where the problem is. I have no motivation at the moment, I struggle to do normal things, let alone extra work. At one stage I was drinking very heavily, almost to put everything out of my mind, but I'm not any more. I just can't seem to keep on top of anything at the moment apart from the GIS module that I enjoy.
This is where I'm asking for advise, do you think that from what I've said I should try and go part time, banking all my modules and maybe just keeping GIS this semester and continuing with others next year. Or should I take a leave of absense for the semester, get my head sorted and go back for semester 2 next year. Or should I try my best to get on top of my work and probably come out of uni with a 3rd or 2:2, when I really want a 2:1?
I have a part-time job that I can ask for more hours in if I need to, and even switch to full time if I take the time off. I'm just really stuck as to what to do, and It's upsetting me a lot at the moment, I want to finish as soon as possible but I also want a good degree, which I was on track for at the start of the semester and I'm not any more.
Sorry about the length of this, but any helpful advice would be nice.