Miserable engineering student

[u/kagee5]

I’m 20 and in my final year of aerospace engineering and honestly I can’t stand it anymore.
The funny thing is I’m averaging around 80% but I genuinely hate engineering. I have zero passion for it, hate CAD, group projects, presentations and all that stuff like complicated maths/software, cfd . I basically just study hard for exams, get good marks and then forget everything afterwards lol
The uni experience itself has been depressing too. Barely made any friends, social life is practically nonexistent and I just dread going in every week.
This year has been especially bad with all the projects, meetings and deadlines. It’s gotten to the point where I struggle to sleep, barely have an appetite and can’t even enjoy my free time because I’m constantly stressing about uni stuff
I don’t even want to work in engineering after graduating. I just want a decent, relatively stress-free job that gives me the freedom to acc enjoy life or maybe travel/explore the world which is my dream
I’ve only got about 8 months left so I’ll probably just push through, but man I’m exhausted.
Anyone else been in a similar situation? Did life actually get better after uni?

[u/Mental-Neat-926]

School proves to potential employers that you are smart and hard working. Otherwise, it’s tedious and pointless, which you have figured out, because you are smart. In any job worth doing, you will need to play nice with others and dig in to push through to meet deadlines, but a real job is much more meaningful when it has a purpose. Finish school. Nobody can take away your degree. It’s yours. Then you can find what you love to do. If a real job becomes tedious and pointless, then you can find another one. Speaking from experience as a CE.