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Hi,

I am currently in my third year at university and doing Psychology. I really struggle with the social aspect especially with the lecture rooms, seminars that are unstructered and the breaks between the lectures. How does anyone else cope with this?
Also I have extreme anxiety over what will happen when I finish my degree with regards to work. Has anyone achieved getting a job after graduating?

I have a BS is psych but I've never made use of it. I trade stocks now. The social part sucks, if you're in school why don't you just concentrate on school?

Fair enough, I wish I could just concentrate on the studies, sadly I am to self-cnscious of what other people are thinking of me and feel a failure due to my asperger!

A four year degree in Psychology is useless unless you have an internship for a year and a 3.5 GPA or above. My sister had a 3.0 and no internship, and she is bouncing from job to job because she learned the hard way

Can you visit some meetings with a light touch with the goal of meeting political students and/or artistic students?

My problem was mainly loss of interest in course work. Structure never bothered me. Planning on trying psych next.

I just finished my fourth year in psych. Without doing further study your options are limited to research and similar work. I'm doing a graduate program next year relating to social statistics. Other options would have been research assistant jobs or other graduate programs.

As for filling in the gaps between classes, I usually went home, or studied in the breaks (when I didn't make the effort to hang out with fellow students). It's university, nobody should be judging you for being studious. It only matters whether it bothers you to be avoiding the social side of uni.

An undergraduate degree is not meant to determine what you do in life in terms of a career. In this respect, college is over sold to students as a way to get a job. It isn't. I had a dual BA in History and Political Studies and ended up working as a product manager for an electronics company. Prospective employers look at your undergraduate education as a means to gauge how dedicated you were, grades, and if you were able to complete a difficult task, graduating. Liberal arts education is the opportunity to learn a little about a lot of different subjects, then just begin to specialize in one, hence your major. If you want to work in the psychology field, then you need to move on to graduate school and truly specialize.

I am hoping to go on and do a Masters in Occupational Psychology. I am in the UK!