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I don't know what to study at uni - help!
Sine:
--- Quote from: zhen on May 20, 2017, 06:29:08 pm ---Right now I honestly don't know what I want to do when I finish year 12, but my parents are pushing me to do medicine (like most asian parents). So, I'm wondering what studying medicine is like in university. Is it interesting and is there a lot of math and chemistry involved (these are my favourite subjects at the moment)? I don't think that my grades are good enough to get into medicine and I'm not good at umat and interviews, but I just want to see what the hype is about and whether or not I should consider doing it if I magically get a high enough umat and atar.
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there isn't much math - if any (i'm not doing med but know a few people who have)
If you are considering it I'd say to just do it and drop after a year if you aren't happy with it.
zhen:
--- Quote from: Sine on May 25, 2017, 09:43:13 pm ---there isn't much math - if any (i'm not doing med but know a few people who have)
If you are considering it I'd say to just do it and drop after a year if you aren't happy with it.
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Yea that's what my parents are telling me. Since it's really hard to get into medicine and on the tiny chance that I do get in, it should be really easy to transfer to other courses if I don't like it after one year. On the other hand if a miracle happens and I get in but decline, it's a lot harder to get back in again if I regret declining it. I'm planning to try my hardest to get in and if I don't get in I'll pick another career path and move on. But if I do get in, I'll try it for a year and see what happens.
Joseph41:
--- Quote from: zhen on May 25, 2017, 09:49:55 pm ---Yea that's what my parents are telling me. Since it's really hard to get into medicine and on the tiny chance that I do get in, it should be really easy to transfer to other courses if I don't like it after one year. On the other hand if a miracle happens and I get in but decline, it's a lot harder to get back in again if I regret declining it. I'm planning to try my hardest to get in and if I don't get in I'll pick another career path and move on. But if I do get in, I'll try it for a year and see what happens.
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Sounds a good plan to me. It's always so hard to know until you actually try it lol - it sucks.
If I were to ask you right now what potential career you're most passionate about, what would you say?
zhen:
--- Quote from: Joseph41 on May 30, 2017, 09:08:31 am ---Sounds a good plan to me. It's always so hard to know until you actually try it lol - it sucks.
If I were to ask you right now what potential career you're most passionate about, what would you say?
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Being a teacher or a scientist were the things I was passionate about over the last couple of years. But that passion kind of died as soon as I found out about the awful conditions scientists have to face and the lack of jobs and financial security. Teaching also has a lack of jobs and financial security too. Well, I've had a bit of experience teaching, since for community service I ended up teaching prep and grade one students from disadvantaged families English and maths. That was pretty fun, but only because I only had to deal with small groups of 2 to 4 and also because they were all really good kids. But, I don't think that it would be as enjoyable if I had to deal with a larger class of rowdy high school students. So, teaching doesn't look as appealing anymore. I also wanted to be medical doctor throughout my childhood, which may have been because of parental influence, but I'm not so sure anymore because I didn't want to do biology, which is probably going to be the main focus of medicine, since in VCE I heard it's a lot of memory work. So, my plan is to try my hardest and if I get into medicine, I'll try it out for reasons mentioned in my previous post. But if I don't get in, I'll probably do something science/teaching/ commerce (maybe commerce, since I enjoy maths to an extent) related.
zhen:
Sorry I'm bumping this thread. It's been months after I initially posted in this thread and I still don't know what I want to do in university. Right now I'm even more unsure of what I want to do than I was before. I feel like I just want a meaningful career where I can actually help other people out. This year so far I've felt like I've grown in so many ways. I've had many hardships throughout the year. But, my friends and atarnotes have always been there for me when I was depressed and ranting on about my unfair circumstances. I know it's a bit cliche, but I feel like I really want a career that I can look back on and say that I truly made a difference. So, what advice do you all have on this? There's medicine, which is probably the most obvious career choice for helping people, but what other careers do you all think I should consider? I just don't know what to do and VTAC applications have opened, so I'm just asking for some advice.
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