Im a first year student at a university in South Africa. I was one of the top hundred stundents last year in high school for the whole region. Now I keep on going down. I have lost my passion for school and I don't know what to do with my life anymore. I know I want to start a business but I don't know which kind.

This is called still growing up, it is important to set goals, part of that is to adapt to new learning situations

And while you learn in college you discover your interest and learn more about what you may want to do.

Then you take time, work in that industry and find out if that is truly what you want to do

It is not uncommon for students that "didn't have to try" academically in high school find university quite an academic challenge. The memorize and regurgitate pattern of academic achievement usually ends at Grade 12. Analysis and interpretation is often the emphasis at university level classes - and professors tend to challenge you rather than give you the benefit of the doubt.

Like the Father says above - University is a time of growing up. Use this time to grow - spiritually, socially, and academically.

When goals are interupted or even stopped, we loose focus, a sense of direction, and even get mad. (If I was you I would get Mad at life).
That's normal. It's our reaction. But what we do with the dilema is what matters. Do we let it swallow us or do we come on top. For me the Bible helps me keep my focus and the things around me in perspective; that even if everything around me fails God's promises to me will still remain. For example
"For i know the thoughts that i think towards you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." check it out yourself. Read psalm see its true. GOd will establish all your desires.

Find your passion, ask yourself questions such as "Am I a thinker or a technical hands on type", take time to ponder then once youv'e decided go for it and never give up, to be successful do those things that others either won't do or can't do, think "outside the box" as the saying goes, but most of all don't ponder forever, take action either right or wrong, hopefully the right actions most of the time, you will make mistakes, but the greatest detriment to the majority of people is not acting.

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Originally Posted by POSHA

Im a first year student at a university in South Africa. I was one of the top hundred stundents last year in high school for the whole region. Now I keep on going down. I have lost my passion for school and I don't know what to do with my life anymore. I know I want to start a business but I don't know which kind.

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Hi I am new to this thing but here is something that might be able to help you out. In life we will not always be sure of what we want to become and where we are going. As long as you check out the opportunities that spark your interests and explore them then you will be able to narrow down what business you might want to create.

I am a 3 year University student at the University of Windsor in Ontario Canada. I have come to realize that what goals you set for yourself might not always be accomplished because of situational factors that you might not take into account because at the moment of interest, the goal seems like an amazing feat and you want to run head first and achieve it.

My suggestion is to lay out your options in front of you and then choose what direction seems most apealing. The job or business you create will not always be exciting and fun because that is life, and life is work. So whatever goal you set for yourself work towards it really hard, and when it seems like the world is not working out the way you want it too after you have applied yourself, possibly you should re-evaluate your position and see if this is the right way to go. But not every decision is going to be concrete.