Student review [#48305] for Accounting and Finance
at University of Southampton

Despite getting the grades to get onto my course at the University of Southampton, I struggled immensely with every aspect of my university experience. From attending lectures to completing assignments, I found the whole transition from school to university difficult. From the beginning, I found my schedule to be absolutely jam packed with barely any time for me to relax or socialise, and I had early starts every single day. With my heavy workload and very little time to socialise, I was quickly feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. Even then, my days were so full that sometimes I had to skip lunch so that I could make it to class on time. Then there were the classes, which were so difficult that I couldn’t keep up with what the lecturer was saying and ended up having to play Catan at the end of the day. This led me to have to pull many all-nighters, and I was incredibly sleep deprived. I think I barely scraped a pass in the first year, and I thought about dropping out so often. I feel as though this was a personal issue of mine, and I don’t think that I can say that it is the university’s fault; however, I did feel unsupported, and I did not know who to turn to. Things turned around in my second year when I found a solid group of friends and we would study together, but my first year was hell.