despite what everyone is saying here, a Psych degree by itself is about as useful as an English degree by itself...um, it's a degree. That's about it. To actually *do* anything in that field, you'll have to go to grad school.
A degree looks good in any field and opens a lot of options as far as future employment, regardless of major. A psych degree could be a first step toward something like divinity school, rather than a PhD psych program or something. It will give kafkacat a lot more options going forward.
don't let other people's expectations and hopes restrain you from living your life as an individual and never ever let anyone hold you back from doing things you love.
In a vacuum, this is probably good advice.
Applied to this specific situation, though, it doesn't mean dropping everything to obsess over a person or immerse yourself in a faith that will always be there. You want something that will probably "hold you back from doing things you love"? Not finishing school.
You don't ask how dropping out might impact this new relationship, or what kafkacat would do after leaving school. You don't seem to consider how it might impact relationships with family, which probably fall somewhere in the neighborhood of "things you love".
By all means, don't let people's expectations dictate your course of action. But don't act against those expectations at your own expense, just for the sake of defying expectations.
marmalade.sunrise said:
I agree that you should take a semester or a year off then perhaps you'll choose to go back to school.
Taking a semester off might make sense depending on the circumstances, but it's a radical step. Before just up and telling someone to stop going to school, shouldn't you know more than just that they don't really feel like it any more?
If the situation is
"i LOVE to study and learn, but not psychology anymore", aren't there a lot of options that don't involve leaving school?
1) suck it up and finish what you started
2) talk things over with a professor, advisor, or administrator to get their input and discuss your options
3) same thing, with the school priest or some such
4) de-prioritize academics, get involved in other stuff, and do enough to graduate
5) change majors
Also, who are you agreeing with? No one else has suggested that.
marmalade.sunrise said:
don't let people tell you bullshit like relationships are temporary and degrees are forever.
Well, first of all, many relationships are temporary, and once you've earned a degree, you always have that. So it's not bullshit, or at least not literally.
What puzzles me is the dichotomy you've drawn. The OP implies a relationship between this new boyfriend and thinking about leaving school or dropping psych. It's not apparent, though, that staying in school necessitates short-changing the relationship in any way. This is not an either/or proposition.
Are you kidding?!
I didnt study psychology, studied just about everything than it, studied at three different universities, travelled the world, worked a bunch of jobs, loved and lost, lived A LOT in the years between then and now.
The only thing I wish I'd done as studied psychology, dont count out or depreciate what you've got here, think about it, I strongly urge you. :hi:
The single most important thing to take away from personality typing is that not everyone has the same needs. Psychology may be perfect for you, and all wrong for someone else.
yeah...no clue why you can't do all that...finish the degree take some theology date your bf and all that...where's the either or in this situation? i don't get it.
Same here.
you'd regret not finishing your degree more than you'd regret finishing it, I'm guessing
An excellent summation.
