I'm so glad that this thread exists, want to get something off of my chest. Worried about telling my friends because of the complete and utter hate I'll undoubtedly get for 'throwing away such an opportunity'.
So, I've just finished my second year of a BSc (Hons) Computer Science with a fairly high average - well above a first in fact and I've done much better than I could have even imagined.
I applied for a lot of postgraduate placements at some of the best Universities across the UK and the US of which most have accepted (Kent, Cardiff, Aberystwyth, Bath, Newcastle, UCL...), some I was unsuccessful.
I applied for a well-known Amercian technology University in April and hadn't got a reply, until I was emailed by my department to come down as there was an urgent letter there waiting for me.
So I went down there, thinking it was my payment for the summer internship I've been doing since June. When I saw the envelope I thought it was a rejection.
It was not.
Full acceptance for the class of 2015. Went weak at the knees and jumped around like an idiot in my department.
When I got back up to my dorm I called my mother who cried for a bit, everything was good.
And then I thought about leaving Aberystwyth, and I realised that this was something I didn't want to do. I love this University for all of the wrong reasons and I don't want to leave for a while.
I'm currently torn between my head (that's screaming GO YOU FRIGGEN IDIOT) and my heart (which wants me to stay here).
What do.