 So I've been studying at tertiary level for the last eight years or so now and something that I've learnt the hard way is how to trust myself. I know what I'm capable of and I know my strengths are and what I'm not so great at and had I made decisions based on that knowledge I think I'd have saved myself an enormous amount of stress. I started taking a research paper in the second semester and it's a self-directed research paper on a topic that I'm really interested in. Had I done that same topic in a taught lesson I probably would have got much better results. It's easy to get swept away with the exciting things of doing something new and that's fantastic. Stick with it. Just bear in mind, listen to yourself.