Feeling extremely depressed. 5.5 years at same university

College Confidential Community
1

<p>So I'm entering the spring semester of my 5th year at the same university and I won't be graduating until Fall semester making it 5.5 years here. I'll be 24 by the time that hits and I'm starting to get ridiculously depressed thinking about it all. I'm not really a bad student I just had no idea what I wanted to do my 1st year, so I switched to engineering my sophomore year. I've actually been successful in it and I've had a great college experience but I'm just ready to move on like everybody else. Everyone from my high school class is pretty much gone, and now a lot of the friends I made that are a year younger will be out of here in a few months while I'm stuck here til December. </p>

<p>Just being at the same university for so long is starting to make me feel like a loser and I'm starting to burn out/lose much of my confidence realizing that I'm just getting older in college while many of my friends are gonna graduate and get on with their life.</p>

2

<p>Transitions are tough and realizing familiar faces have moved on might be sad, but every phase of life brings change. I remember being annoyed when someone told me , when I was in my twenties, that the only constant in life is change. The sooner you embrace it and accept it, the better. We always seem to long for a previous time, like it was magical. Just realize that magical, previous time, is also now!</p>