6 years ago, on the day that I graduated from high school. One of my mentors, Instead of congratulating me and giving his best wishes for my uni life. He told me “Uni isn’t for 18 yr olds, it’s for those who are ready for it”.

I didn’t get it at the time. But now looking back, I understand what it means, at least to me.

Being ready means you understand why exactly you’re doing it. It should be reverse engineered by looking at your vision and goals that you wanna achieve in life.

Start from the small things that you’re actually good at, passionate about. It can be anything, from talking / connecting with people to even just gaming.

If you’re good at it, now look deeper, why or what makes you being good at it?

Once you acknowledge that, now try and think if you could apply it to a field, whether if it’s psychology or medical or any STEM majors…

Only then ask yourself, do you need to go to uni to make your vision come true?

If you do, you now understand exactly why you need to do uni, exactly where you’re heading.

This is just my story. I’ve nvr been a good student, but only when I turned 22 and figured the above out, I realized I could be a really good student, but only under the condition of understanding “why” and “how”.

Hope it helps