drunkenfool
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Just checked my personal record on the uni database as the 2nd year results are out today, and found out I got a 1st for the spanish language core module  73%, im really happy! I got a 2.1 (64%) for the 19th centuary spanish literature module which im also really happy with, 68% for language of businesss, but only 40% for one module cos its a resit, although I was told that because im repeating the whole year I should be able to get more than 40, so I need to investigate...
Either way, Im really pleased! Ive managed to turn my whole life around in the last 18 months, and its really good to see the effort paying off
Anyone else get their results?
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Pablo
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well done mate!!
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Rachael 1985
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Congrats 
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AdZ9
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good going mate, nice to hear you completely changed lfie around in 18months, dont stop keep going 
winners never quit, quitters never win!
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Hamish
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yea i failed year two. C,D,D and 3 fails 
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liamC
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
Just checked my personal record on the uni database as the 2nd year results are out today, and found out I got a 1st for the spanish language core module 73%, im really happy! I got a 2.1 (64%) for the 19th centuary spanish literature module which im also really happy with, 68% for language of businesss, but only 40% for one module cos its a resit, although I was told that because im repeating the whole year I should be able to get more than 40, so I need to investigate...
Either way, Im really pleased! Ive managed to turn my whole life around in the last 18 months, and its really good to see the effort paying off
Anyone else get their results?
Well done mate - keep up the hard graft next year and you'll come out with a first.
I ended year 2 on an average 2:2 and just finished with a first class honours - it's worth it in the end
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Cosmo
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I ended year 2 on an average 2:2 and just finished with a first class honours - it's worth it in the end
that a 3yr degree?
Excellent work if so! I know mine took in a few of the marks from 2nd year so your final year results must of been tiptop!
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liamC
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That was a 4 year degree but my 3rd year was a placement year working in industry. (Industry being Abu Dhabi - Constant sunshine, football, and pissups on and on off the beach, with lenient employers who would let me go home early to watch the early kick offs.) - Finished with a 1st for that year as well (First in being an expat brat I presume) but because my marks were quite shit in year 2 it couldnt help me so however hard I worked in the last year depended on what degree I'd come out with.
Absolutely grafted my stones off the last year - 2am finishes most nights for 9 months straight.
For the important 20 credit modules, I finished with 3 1sts, and 1 2:1 (Missed a 1st by 3%), as well as winning a competition in the middle of all that work for my project, and for the shit unimportant 10 credit modules which I knew wouldnt go towards nothing I blagged my way through them at 40% and 57% and concentrated on scoring high in the 20 credit modules 
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Cosmo
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good work mate then
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mav
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congrats there
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Paul_J
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Not being funny, but it makes me sick the amount of people doing pointless uni degree's these days.
Drunkenfool what do you want to do as a career / job after uni? does it even feature anything to do with languages or did you just do it because you like languages and wanted to doss for 3 more years?
My mates at uni do crap like 'Geography', 'Rural Science' etc - they just colour in posters all day long and call it work. Then there's the other people doing 'media studies' who just sit watching films and call that work.
In all those cases they have hardly any work, hardly any lectures and only a couple of exams (spread across 2 weeks).... essentially passing their degree's are a piece of piss, getting a 1st is an achievement, but not rocket science (most of them dossed throughout the year and constantly laughed about how much little work they did, yet then half ended up with 1st, half with 2:1 - even 1 of them admitted it was so easy)...
How many of them with these amazing degree's have a job now? only 1, how many of them have a job related to their subject? none. How many of them are up to their eye balls in debt? all.
Yes I'm jealous, Yes I'm bitter. I did / do a course called applied computer science, which not only has hard work, but also millions of modules and lectures, tonnes of hard coursework that literally takes forever to complete (as programming is either pass or fail, not like you can do a half arsed answer and get some marks), when most of my mates had 2 or 3 exams in a 2 week period, I had 8 which meant lots of exams on same day or day after each other which gives you minimal time to revise (unless you have a super memory and can cram for every exams weeks before they start). Finally they don't mark the work / exams like other mickey mouse courses, for example it's pretty hard to get over a 2:1. a mark of like 75% is pretty much max you'll get for any work.
Where as in my mate's rural sciecnce module he got 98% in one of his modules! the coursework was a poster and presentation. 98%!!! that's stupid grading.
Enough said.
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Cosmo
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is that rant over?  
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i did marketing & management 2nd year i got 55% * 3rd yr i averaged 67% woop, scraped a 2:1 yipee, was never at uni, had about 6 hrs per week, you love it, but im looking for a job now
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i did graphic design, and im a graphic designer now! (bored of 9-5 office hours tho )
my mate just failed last yr of his course, but he did use it as a doss and admitted it. He did sports science and had about 2 hrs uni a week. He has to resit it next year if he wants the degree but hes applied for the police force so he isnt going to. So he has spent 4 yrs at uni, come out with nothing except £16k in debt
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Originally posted by Cosmo
is that rant over?
It was quite a rant.
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Dom
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paul i feel you know absolute sweet FA and like you say, bitter at the fact you decided to do a course that was/is out of your depths. Lets be honest, i bet there are a load of people on your course that find it absolute piss easy.
Still, i dont understand how you can call subjects like media studies and geography, piss take courses. Not only are you very narrow minded but underestimate how much work there is in these courses. I've done media studies and i agree with you that you watch a lot of tv/film, but you certainly don't sit on your arse. Instead you have to know the depths of an advert or film and, for example, how it influences targeted audiences, and depending on the course put this in practice, producing tv shows, small films etc I know a number of people that have made it into production companies and their earning a pretty wage.
And you may be thinking i know sweet fanny adams about science courses, but part of my uni degree is to design and produce digital filters, i had algorithms stretching two sides of A4 that had to be programmed in C - it was certainly challenging and intense, but i found it no more harder than writing a 4,000word exam-essay on x advert influences x target, or how the fifth element film score enhances the film, or producing and filming a 20minute tv show or music video.
eitherway, drunken, congrats on the results
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congrats on the results man.
ive just finished my 2nd year and averaged 64%. The last two years have been abit up and down for me, I commute 3 hours roundtrip 4 days a week so that I can help out(family reasons).
Im sitting science and technology which is basically all computer based and some aspects of it are quite hard. Im also looking into the business management side of it all and starting my placement year in a couple of weeks as a trainee manager for a respectable company.
Would love to pull my final year upto a 1st class honours but to be honest cant see it happening as Im not very good at exams. All my assignment grades were excellent just the exams brought them back down.
Not complaining though as I aimed for a 2:1 so Im happy 
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Well done
Paul
My degree was in Information Systems. Pretty much gave me the basics for anything computer related. I wanna do IT Support but there is nothing out there with my name on it Starting to think maybe development is what i should be looking at 
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Fucking wish they'd give me my grades 
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Originally posted by Paul_J
Not being funny, but it makes me sick the amount of people doing pointless uni degree's these days.
lets not get started on teh fact you can do a degree in kite flying then 
well done matey
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worked mine out for first year, got 69.46 so either a first or 2.1 depending on one result which i'm unsure of by a point and could swing it
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Haimsey
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im still waiting for my first year results....
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drunkenfool
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Originally posted by Paul_J
Not being funny, but it makes me sick the amount of people doing pointless uni degree's these days.
Drunkenfool what do you want to do as a career / job after uni? does it even feature anything to do with languages or did you just do it because you like languages and wanted to doss for 3 more years?
Pointless degree?! Yes it does have something to do with what I want to do with my life, so id hardly call it pointless. Im not decided on a career yet, but i'm pretty sure that I will be moving to Spain to live after I have finished my degree, and being bilingual opens up so many jobs that you wouldn;t even consider, like my mate who has just got a job working as a translator at the M.O.D. I would say translation is my favourite part of the degree so I woudlnt mind doing something similar, but at the end of the day I could just move to spain and use the fact that im a native english speaker to my advantage. (especially in the north of spain where there are a hell of a lot less english people, thank god )
I started off doing physics with spanish but dropped physics after the first year. I did pass it, but only just. Looking back at it I know i could have done well if i wasnt a lazy pisshead stoner student back then, but to be fair the majority of people in my class were fucking weird, and if i were to go into the physics world of work, im assuming my workmates would be of the same type of people and i think I would have hated it long term
Ive now sorted out my life with regards to giving up drugs, giving up smoking, hardly even drinking, eating healthily, swimming about 20km a week and working hard at uni, and im over the moon that its paying off. It's not a mickey-mouse degree by any standards, i worked my ass off this year to get the results I have, treating uni pretty much as a 9-5 job instead of just going up for the 12 hours of lectures a week I had.
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Everyone that went to uni from my year at school done exactly what Paul is talking about, got 15k in debt and ended up working in a job that I was doing 3 years before them at the bottom of the ladder.
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Everyone that went to uni from my year at school done exactly what Paul is talking about, got 15k in debt and ended up working in a job that I was doing 3 years before them at the bottom of the ladder.
yeah but in 5 years time when you both have experience and it comes to a chance at promotion then them having a degree would be a big push for them getting it.
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