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Feeling the Fear and Doing It Anyway - My Experience after Leaving University

My name is Melisa Gomez. My transition story will be based on going from first year of university, to a gap year out in the real world. Why did I leave uni? Let me give you a back story. I entered university in 2017 straight from highschool. To be honest, I didn’t really know what i was doing. Academics has always been extremely important in my family, and I was a high achiever at school. My mind had always been set on going acing a degree at the University of Auckland straight after high school. However, when I came to the decision of degree, I realised I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to study. After a lot of research, I decided to dive into a conjoint of Business and Psychology. Psych because it was something that always interested me, business because... I guess that’s the go to option when you really don’t know. This commenced to a year of stress, overworking, and many panic attacks. As I said, academia was extremely important to me, and I set myself tasks to achieve the h...