RS6
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got 2 exams to go!
shit or bust!
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ed
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Originally posted by Dee
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.
That's why i'm in a job at the moment earning £20k then? I haven't even graduated yet and when I do I will have about £9k of student loan debt, which gets paid off at no more than £5 per week so it wont even be noticable with the ammount I will be earning once I have MSc behind my name.
[Edited on 06-07-2007 by ed]
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Dee
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Yes but your doing a degree that is worthwhile, they just went to Uni to doss about and waste time.
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antscorsa
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its also an experience tho!! sometimes u make freinds do things that are worth it!! moneys not everything in the world
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drunkenfool
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Originally posted by antscorsa
its also an experience tho!! sometimes u make freinds do things that are worth it!! moneys not everything in the world
Definately, my three years there so far have been an amazing experience, and I still have my year in Spain to come starting in september! 
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ClaireF
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i failed but only have to do 3 assignments to pass, but not sure if i want to though.
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MarkM
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I did a Law Degree at uni...have done my LPC also...
Does this get the seal of approval? 
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by Dom
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 
2 Side's of A4 ... wow, that must taken all of what 2 minutes to program in C?
Most of my assignments resulted in programs that were like 4,000 lines of code (say 40 + pages of code, each with their own problems to over come and unforseeable errors), per assignment and needed a essay (usually 1500-2000 words at least) write up to just explain analysis / design methodology / implementation etc. On each assignment.
Secondly, no i'm not shit at my course. I got a high 2:1 (almost first) at end of my 2nd year, (which is bloody hard to achieve!, beating a fair few of my peers) - There is no one who finds my course easy, on my course lol - we all struggle through it. I'm currently on my placement year and will be returning for 3rd year soon. 
Regardless of 'easyness' / 'cleverness' - just the general number of modules / lectures, tutourials, practicals etc - compared to most of my mate's took the piss. I literally was on campus all week, (ok with gaps inbetween) but generally from 9-5 most days. My mate who did media studies had like 2 lectures on a monday, 2 on a friday and that was it
There aren't people who find it 'piss easy' on my course, as it's not an easy degree. You may not get your head round it as you thought 'your degree' was challenging, yet I could probably do it in my sleep. Bit like my mate's Geography exam paper he was showing me, the questions I could've answered with GCSE geography knowledge!
Don't joke with me that media studies is hard, I did it at A-Level (as a doss subject) and yes you have to write in depth stuff, analyse things deeply on a lot of levels and come up with creative solutions to things / storyboards etc. but overall it was piss, especially compared to what I'm doing now.
Finally... So you did media studies - great! what are you doing now for a job?  .... IF you do have a job? does it have anything to do with media studies? ... no? .... Degree a bit pointless then? .... yup!
[Edited on 06-07-2007 by Paul_J]
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by 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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I wasn't calling your degree mickey mouse. I was saying rural science, geography, media studies are mickey mouse.
I said is your degree pointless... Were you going to use your degree to get a job? You answered Yes... Therefore not pointless, so I have no problem with that congrats on the grade.
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by Cosmo
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Originally posted by Dee
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.
Not necisarily... Employers don't value degree's as much as people make out these days, just because so many people get doss / mickey mouse degree's. Yes quite possibly if the degree is relevant to the job it may benefit them, but not if it's mickey mouse and something completely different. Employers are wise to what is a worthy degree and what is not worth the paper it's printed on.
My mate for example, 1st from Media Studies - he's awesome at the stuff, lives across the road from pinewood studies, his dad WORKS at pinewood studio's - yet he still is unable to get a job in the media industry.
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