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datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:20 am

badger wrote:
datura wrote:did you get a desmond?

re the degrees for jobs, half the time the subject is irrelevant, it is more what you got first, 2:1 etc. It's supposed to show that you are self-motivated as you don't have people to push you like in school.

Tbh half the time it is bollox, you can have very clever people academically who are thick when it comes to common sense and applying what they have learnt to real life work situations.
yup i'm fully desmonded. was probably about as unmotivated as you possibly could be. didn't ever read the books and usually started the essays after they were due in. i rather disgracefully milked the depression card when i wasn't even depressed and got all my lateness penalties removed and was able to retake for the full marks even though you can usually only get a maximum of 40% retakes. depression ftw

heh, I went to one tutorial, he gave me 2 essays so I never turned up again.

I made up a whole study for my dissertation in a few days and ran out of money the last year so actually did a bit of work for the finals and got a reasonable 2:1. Shows how far you can go with a decent short term memory and good exam technique.

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:23 am

datura wrote: Shows how far you can go with a decent short term memory and good exam technique.

this is my mantra....

procrastinators FTW!

well actually... it used to be before i fried most of my brain cells so now i'm really lucky if they collide once every blue moon or so....

badger · Post by **badger** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:24 am

datura wrote:Shows how far you can go with a decent short term memory and good exam technique.

heh yeah exactly. exams were a piece of piss. for a couple of history exams on modern china and spain i never went to any lectures or did any reading, did below the bare minimum of reading for essays and my entire revision was to spend 2 hours reading their wikipedia entries. i passed one and got a conceded fail on the other so i could still go into the third year - 26 out of 100 ftw

i also managed to miss the same exam three times, which i'm pretty sure must have been some kind of university record

ahh regrets are a wonderful thing

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:24 am

datura wrote:
badger wrote:
datura wrote:did you get a desmond?

re the degrees for jobs, half the time the subject is irrelevant, it is more what you got first, 2:1 etc. It's supposed to show that you are self-motivated as you don't have people to push you like in school.

Tbh half the time it is bollox, you can have very clever people academically who are thick when it comes to common sense and applying what they have learnt to real life work situations.
yup i'm fully desmonded. was probably about as unmotivated as you possibly could be. didn't ever read the books and usually started the essays after they were due in. i rather disgracefully milked the depression card when i wasn't even depressed and got all my lateness penalties removed and was able to retake for the full marks even though you can usually only get a maximum of 40% retakes. depression ftw
heh, I went to one tutorial, he gave me 2 essays so I never turned up again.

I made up a whole study for my dissertation in a few days and ran out of money the last year so actually did a bit of work for the finals and got a reasonable 2:1. Shows how far you can go with a decent short term memory and good exam technique.

Hmm, the only half a year I actually was working quite hard was when on exchange in Wrexham. I thought it meant that you have a little bit higher demands from the students in UK. Seems I was wrong.

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:26 am

ch3 wrote:Hmm, the only half a year I actually was working quite hard was when on exchange in Wrexham. I thought it meant that you have a little bit higher demands from the students in UK. Seems I was wrong.

Wrexham

not the most glamorous place in the UK!!

were there loads of your Polish bretherin there when you were there?

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:27 am

Some courses are more intensive than others.

I only had 9 hours a week in the 2nd and 3rd years and they never took registers so I made aboout 30% of them and got notes off people who's writing I could read so I knew wtf was going on.

I always had good intentions then the half smoked zoot in the ashtray called to me after breakfast and then the day was over, lol.

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:27 am

forensix (mcr) wrote:
ch3 wrote:Hmm, the only half a year I actually was working quite hard was when on exchange in Wrexham. I thought it meant that you have a little bit higher demands from the students in UK. Seems I was wrong.
Wrexham not the most glamorous place in the UK!!

were there loads of your Polish bretherin there when you were there?

I think 90% of the town is Polish, lol.

badger · Post by **badger** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:28 am

ch3 wrote:Hmm, the only half a year I actually was working quite hard was when on exchange in Wrexham. I thought it meant that you have a little bit higher demands from the students in UK. Seems I was wrong.

if you want to do well at uni you have to work quite hard. other than that it's far easier than a levels. i was shocked at how little work you had to do. wish it had been a bit harder really because then i might have pushed myself... such is life

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:30 am

datura wrote:Some courses are more intensive than others.

I only had 9 hours a week in the 2nd and 3rd years and they never took registers so I made aboout 30% of them and got notes off people who's writing I could read so I knew wtf was going on.

I always had good intentions then the half smoked zoot in the ashtray called to me after breakfast and then the day was over, lol.

you have got to have been an arts student!

we used to have 35 hours scheduled a week plus another 8 "personal time work"...

i was running a wine shop at the time so managed about 2hrs a week... sometimes....

badger · Post by **badger** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:34 am

dr ddd wrote:
you have got to have been an arts student!

we used to have 35 hours scheduled a week plus another 8 "personal time work"...

i was running a wine shop at the time so managed about 2hrs a week... sometimes....

one term i had 5 hours taught every week. technically you're supposed to reading the rest of the time to make up over 30 hours

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:34 am

in keeping with the theme I am currently tryign to fill out a UCAS form, fuck knows what ind of shit they're looking for in the personal statement...

Any help would be appreciated.

badger · Post by **badger** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:37 am

frebentos wrote:in keeping with the theme I am currently tryign to fill out a UCAS form, fuck knows what ind of shit they're looking for in the personal statement...

Any help would be appreciated.

just waffle about crap and big yourself up basically. i've still got my old one on my computer at home (god knows why), will PM it to you later if you like

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:37 am

dr ddd wrote:
datura wrote:Some courses are more intensive than others.

I only had 9 hours a week in the 2nd and 3rd years and they never took registers so I made aboout 30% of them and got notes off people who's writing I could read so I knew wtf was going on.

I always had good intentions then the half smoked zoot in the ashtray called to me after breakfast and then the day was over, lol.

you have got to have been an arts student!

we used to have 35 hours scheduled a week plus another 8 "personal time work"...

i was running a wine shop at the time so managed about 2hrs a week... sometimes....

BSc in Psychology

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:38 am

badger wrote: will PM it to you later if you like

yea man if you could thatd be good. Got to get this in this week, originally looked at a 4month course in brighton but found out two days ago that I wont get funding for courses any shorter than a year, so hence a mad rush to apply for BA's in London now.

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:41 am

i hate filling out stuff like that, you just write a load of insincere bollocks in flowery language you'd never use normally.

dr ddd · Post by **dr ddd** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:42 am

datura wrote:i hate filling out stuff like that, you just write a load of insincere bollocks in flowery language you'd never use normally.

i am really good at this..... it's just knowing what people want to hear and emphasising accordingly.

then they meet me

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:44 am

datura wrote:i hate filling out stuff like that, you just write a load of insincere bollocks in flowery language you'd never use normally.

somethign along the lines of,

"Arite, want tae pure gies a place an aw that, i wurk hard, specially wen um runnin fae the polis."

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:49 am

frebentos wrote:
datura wrote:i hate filling out stuff like that, you just write a load of insincere bollocks in flowery language you'd never use normally.
somethign along the lines of,

"Arite, want tae pure gies a place an aw that, i wurk hard, specially wen um runnin fae the polis."

My tutor in Wrexham was laughing, that I understand his Scottish accent better than English students

gena · Post by **gena** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:05 pm

Just had to suffer through a video recording when I'm treating a patient. Tomorrow my class and teachers will have a look at it so they can critisize me...

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:12 pm

Just got informed that I'm on international friends list for DMZ on 3rd, so can get in without queuing. Now I need to find a place to crash and someone to feed me. I'm cheap maintenance, few apples will do. Anyone?

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