So today I got my uni offer, but it wasn't for the course I wanted, it was actually one of my lower preferences. Now this course is not really in my field, it might actually be wayyyy off. I'm a really artsy person, I'm SEVERLY artsy. I'm not trying to boast but tell me to make a cubby house at the age of 3 and I just might've made something impressive. But I'm barely academically well off. I go below average and as some of you might know from before, I've got two nieces who always compared themselves to me (they're my age). Everyone except my oldest sisters would compare me to them. All I heard from everyone was, "so they're your nieces, aren't you meant to be smarter?". No it doesn't have to be that way.

I'm quite a positive thinker, so much that my mum hates it (God...). I knew my strengths, however the problem was no one else did, because they only looked towards one thing, marks on my papers. I am what some would call a leader but I like to call myself a trend starter. I popped up new things in the family and in class, of course they were generally craft things and my nieces would also follow suite. I found out you can carve awesome stuff in cuttle-bone? bam it's done better by one of my nieces.

I've got too much pride I think. Who's face am I trying to protect? I can't make myself seem like the smart-intelligent one amongst the family, because I AM NOT.

TLDR: Can someone tell me where I'm heading? I've enrolled in a course that's in the science field when I'm more into the art field. I've learnt in my life at school that you're an idiot for trying to compete with another person because you've got someone else to compete with, and that's you.

You're going to intellectual hell.

Feels like this is still relevant.

>>1 So was the course you wanted an art course and you didn't get into it?

And there's nothing wrong heading in the direction of science. That is, continuing with a science field. At least you have a fallback plan if an art career doesn't work out. Basically, you can pursue art after you do science. At least a science degree guarantees you (more or less) that you'll find a job to make a living. Then you can shift gears towards art and see if you get it to work out.

That's exactly what I'm doing actually (though in my case I realized late, like two years into my science degree, that I didn't enjoy science at all and was just going with the motions).

Also, competition with yourself is good, but competition with others is also important. It allows you to have a reality check and see where you're standing, if you need to work harder, sets a level you wish to reach, etc.

Wanted to get into arts. Parents didn't like it, told me to become doctors. Ended up in boring science. Abandoned bio and chem starting from the 2nd year and moved into psychology (basically an art).
Looks like there's a lot of ppl with similar problems.
And this post is old.

>>4 Let's thank our pie face leader for that.

>>2 Which I guess it is somewhat.

>>3 I've realised that I go better by competing with myself than with others, but true about the standing point.

Update: I'm a law-ish student now.