Should I go uni?
Currently y12 sitting hsc (physics chem math eng bio). I would not say I am cream of the crop state rank student, but am somewhat gifted academically, that being I pick up things and manage to develop skills a lot more proficiently than others and generally don't spend a lot of time studying and maintain decent marks (this isn't to sound bragging it's just for context). Applied for mech engineering at unsw and science at macquarie, but I don't want to study. I lack motivation, and have pretty much no discipline. I hate sitting in class and prefer pracworks/experiments, I love learning but cannot at all study, and am very bad at retaining information or memorising content. Y12 has been awful, I hate the workload and constant exams and assignments, I hate putting in effort outside of class. I do research on topics I personally like, but enter a sort of mind block on topics I don't care for. Should I enter tafe and do mechanical trade? I like prac work, but am scared that I'll be worse off than for uni. Also, I come from a household that takes academia very seriously, and if I don't go straight after high school, I'll probably be kicked out. I think that I would want to go to uni sometime in my life, but I feel that tafe is more suitable for what I personally enjoy, and I can make money instead of going straight into a lot of debt. Advice is appreciated.