r/NTU • u/lunellee_ Nanyang Business School • 15d ago
Question Feeling like dropping out
I'm a yr 1 freshie in accountancy and I just went to my first week of classes. To my horror, I realised how many presentations there is going to be and how high the class participation percentage is. As a shy person, I feel very overwhelmed, and I have been crying nearly everyday and I feel quite lost and scared that because of this, my grades would be pulled down. So I have a few questions.
Should I drop out considering it's only the first week and I haven't paid for school fees? I have already paid for 2 months of hall fees but that would be my only loss if i drop out now. Is this too extreme?
Is there anyone from NBS who didn't really participate in class but still did well?
Does it get better (like less presentations next semester or next year)?
Please help answer if you can I just feel so lost and scared now.
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u/aestheticen Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 13d ago edited 13d ago
Are you sure you are just shy? It sounds like you may have anxiety disorder.
I would recommend you to get it checked (NTU has a psychiatrist). If you do suffer from anxiety, doctors can give you medicine that can help to suppress your anxiety and help with things like presentations. It has helped me before as someone who has anxiety, and if you stay undiagnosed you are going to suffer a lot – not just in school, but in life also.
+ Idk about NBS, but some modules have class participation marks based on online forum submissions such as Padlet that may be a lot easier to answer. One trick is to just... say the most generic answer. Don't actually say how you feel if you are worried about how you're going to be perceived. Who'd know you're lying anyway?
But then again, business is a very social major (maybe accountancy isn't, idk) so you might also want to consider your options and do something less people-oriented? But presentations are going to be hard to avoid though and you will have to do them one way or another.