My son is in his final year at Nottingham doing a Maths degree.
He did well in his first year mostly helped by his A* grades at A level he suspects.
The second year he did really badly in, was miserable, buried his head in the sand about getting help and support and consequently failed a lot of his exams and then got even worse marks in his resits.
He failed the year but got an average of around 45% so apparently he was "allowed" back to go on to year 3.
He is now mid January exams and he is telling me after each exam how much he hates it and wants to leave.
Getting a Maths degree from Nottingham was his dream since he was 13 when he put the uni prospectus on his wall.
I get the impression that the uni don't want to help unless he sees his GP and says he is depressed. He is refusing to do this and honestly, I don't think he is depressed but I do feel he needs a bit of nurturing and huge impersonal lectures and being "left to it" aren't suiting him.
I think he is just miserable and every failure knocks his confidence a bit more.
I didn't go to uni myself, so I don't really know what he should do and have to trust what he is telling me as a grown man but I suspect he has not put as much effort in as he could do and I also suspect that as a quiet, shy person, he has not asked for much help and has fallen off the radar a bit.
I really don't know what to advise him.
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Thebluehen · 18/01/2019 20:25
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