The course was awful and I went a bit mental for the last few months. If you're really not enjoying it and haven't been for a long time, it'll be quite liberating to just get it off your shoulders. But it's not a decision to take lightly.

or think its worthless and want to do something else, I suggest getting on with changing it now before you throw another year away, get further into debt, and start collecting further 'i should've done this or that' based regrets and sit in your parents farm based bungalow rocking backwards and forwards hating everything about your loathsome self and wondering when it will all end.

so i can't give an informed answer.

It would be the very last option though. Is there a possibility of transferring to another uni?

I dropped out after 2 years, which left me with a diploma. I was having doubts in the first year, but was pressed into continuing- which in retrospect was a mistake.
If you're not enjoying it or think you're learning, then maybe a break will do you good- you can always reapply.

or both

Don't be rash here. Consider the actual cost of the money you've dropped on your tuition so far, for a start.

I did this after a year. By christmas it was clear things weren't working. I stopped going to lectures, bought a play station and sat in the student bar all day playing pool and drinking Snake Bs for 2 terms. I left, got a job and have done a few courses at nightschool. It's now all good!

1. what u study? if its somthing arty and ur not enjoying, then stop cos it probs wont get u a better job than if u didnt have one.
2. u'd probs have to move back home, so if u live in the sticks ur probably not aware how hard it is to get a job there, that u can actually live off.

sooo yeah do it if u live in a city and have opportunities the respect of having a degree can be offset by.

if you've just come to the end of your first year drop out. If it's the second or third year stick it out/retake a year if you have to.

do you know what you want to do in your life career wise?

...don't leave if you can find another course which you think might be more suitable at the same place.

I know a couple of people who moved courses twice in two years, they both eventually settled on a course and finished it, and are doing that for a job now.

One was studying some kind of science, Chemistry perhaps and left mid year to work in a pharmacy full time and the other was doing phsychology and realised she didn't like it as much as she thought she would, so she keft mid year also and is going to college to do photography next year.

I think if you have an idea of what you'd rather do and know how to go about doing that instead, ie stay in education or work, I'd say drop out because you don't seem to be enjoying it.. This would probably be the best time to drop out if you are going to.

In retrospect, I think my life might have been better had I actually considered leaving after my first year. I had a pretty miserable year all told, just felt very alone and pretty dislocated from everything. Hence starting to post on here a shitload more.

I never considered dropping out, because I've always expected to go to uni, and I had this overriding feeling that it would be the best years of my life. Thankfully I have enjoyed second year, but I don't think Bath is really 'my' university. I don't think the atmosphere suits me. Ironically, in this case at least, my course is what kept me at uni I think. I really enjoy a lot of it, and I have spread my wings a bit in terms of friends, and also stopped being so afraid of being different.

All I'd say is that you need to weigh everything up. If the course isn't right, you shouldn't be there maybe. But university isn't just about the course, and maybe something you think is worthless will be good because you actually enjoy doing it.

you should stick with it if you've done a year already. only 2 left and you'll have a degree, otherwise you're left in limbo with the possibility of no uni or 3 years to do a degree. is it worth a year of your life, basically?

due to money issues and just generally not enjoying University life.

I took a couple of years out, clearing debts, working etc. And I'm now back at a much better Uni with no significant money problems, and having a much less stressful time.

I still hate the majority of students I've met though.