| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:23:08
but i'm too scared to drop out (or kill myself)
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 19:32:50
Pixie Steve where are you??? :) |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/28/2006 : 09:13:53
It's such a beautiful city, MSc will be a shock to the system. My ex (psychology PhD) told me doing a masters is like repeating your third year.
He is such a fucking liar.
Enjoy the lack of lectures and books while you can. |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 02/27/2006 : 13:14:51
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
arts students
*tuts*
the really depressing thing is right now id swap to a degree that HAS crazy things like books and lectures-moving on to a MSC in Bath next year though! |
| Fartbone |
Posted - 02/27/2006 : 11:49:48
moron
Horale Cabrones |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/27/2006 : 11:31:10
arts students
*tuts* |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 02/26/2006 : 13:38:35
This semester could be really interesting, but we've only got four hours worth of lectures a week, three of which our lecturer is telling us how great she is, im finding it reallly hard to gain the enthusiasm to fill the rest of the week with actually doing something, considering ive cut down on my extra curricular activities to make a go of my course this year-BORED!!!!! |
| VoVat |
Posted - 02/26/2006 : 09:50:04
I also started out college as a computer science major. The first semester was easy, but it got really difficult in the second. I finally switched majors at the end of my second year. I think computer science is just the kind of subject that gets really difficult really quickly.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| dr.Evil |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 23:27:15
I dropped out after 1 year. Economics was not my thing - economy students definetly not my thing. I started over at 25 - it was so much better. You know what you like - and what you don't like - and you realize what a luxurious life being a student is... I'm serious - to study stuff that really interest you, that's luxury. Take time. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 18:13:24
but if you are going to grad school they will ask. so that's a pain to explain.
good luck Pixie Steve my forum crush! Do your best and listen to your heart, but don't sweat about it.
It takes lots of us lots of classes and jobs to find ourselves only to have to find ourselves again after a little while. so hang in there I know you'll make the right choice! |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 18:07:25
i say drop it. man i dropped so many classes. no one really asks for the transcript do they in a job interview? college at least here in the us is supposed to be a four or five year party. so if it's a party in your country, drop the class and take one that's less a pain in the you know what and spend your time partying. :) |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 16:36:05
I hate my course at the moment, im not learning anything except for how to jump through hoops, only in for two days a week, and im BORED, there is only so much reading you can do....but hopefully doing a course in Bath next year! |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 16:12:28
I hate my Political Science course, but I've already had a year out so don't fancy starting again next year. Worth sticking with, I've decided. Plus Brum is a suprisingly fine city to be a student in. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 15:38:14
Mmm, Fine Art students.
Good grief, I shouldn't be saying that in my professional capacity!
 I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
| therewererumours |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 15:14:58
quote:
Originally posted by therewererumours
Eventually I got into Visual Communications(Graphic Design) and meet the most brillant people ever and had the best three years of my life!
Ha ha. It sounds so cheesy when I say that but the people in the year ahead, and below me were complete dry shites. The snobby cliquey assholes left after the first year because they were shit and the weirdos did Fine Art  . So hopefully it will all work out in the end.
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| pixiestu |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 12:55:26
quote:
Originally posted by therewererumours
Like almost everyone else I hated my first year in college. I was surrounded by assholes and weirdos...
This is what I feel like everyday at college. Actually I don't mind the courses or the tutors but it's the students who attend the place that make it shite. Most of them are either trying desperately to be popular or trying even more desperately to be some sort of rebel (y'know, the kind who think they're badasses because they listen to Greenday and have dyed their hair).
"The arc of triumph" |
| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 12:26:45
...and here's the last five, Pixiesteve:
It's educational
It's educational
It's educational
It's educational
It's ed-u-ca-tion-al
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN |
| misleadtheworld |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 12:19:48
I need to do that, right there. With the meeting of the most brilliant people ever and the 'best years' bit too. Perhaps I need to go to Manchester.
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| therewererumours |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 10:30:28
Like almost everyone else I hated my first year in college. I really thought I'd messed it all up, I was surrounded by assholes and weirdos, my tutor was a dick who berated me for not understanding the vague abstract notions he waffled on about at me(I can't wait to see Art School Confidential), plus I missed my last essay of the year and had to do it over the summer or not get into the course I wanted. Eventually I got into Visual Communications(Graphic Design) and meet the most brillant people ever and had the best three years of my life! I don't know if that's any help but I'd stick with it PixieSteve.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 09:20:54
Heh, I know what you're insinuating, but I'm just going to ignore it and say that this guy was no friend. Almost arch nemesis, actually.
It was a moment of great sadness/satisfaction when I saw a midterm of his returned with a big fat 0. He'd written full and complete answers to every question and they didn't even give him a part mark for getting even the most basic first steps correct (we're talking first year/high-school-review V=IR stuff). Really, a ZERO. Perhaps I sound like I'm being nasty, but I'm actually impressed. It takes talent to spend three hours with not a point to show for it.
The lowest I ever did on a test was 27%, but then, the class average was 32% for that one, and our prof was horrible to say the least (he was actually committed to a mental hospital a week after that test).
 "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 08:38:10
Is this "a friend" eh, Dean? |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 08:34:57
Twice? I know a guy that failed math four times. And he wanted to be an engineer...
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 08:22:17
quote:
Originally posted by PixieSteve
but anyway, i'm going back to mummy and daddy for a few days next week. if i don't catch up and get my head sorted then, i don't know if i ever will. that said i could probably scrape by and pass this year, and then have to summer to sort it.
No, don't leave it till the summer. The worst thing you can do is leave it and get into a mess, been there done that and it was horrible. When I started uni I was doing biology and after the first semester it was pretty obvious that my marks in chemistry and molecular biology were far better than my near scrape passes in plant biology animal biology and other such nonsense. The second semester went the same way, struggled through the plain biology and was getting myself into a mess. There was one module where we had plant biology practicals and did stupid nonsense like cutting leaf discs and doing a ton of stats on them. I hated these and couldn't do the write ups. I would stay up two days in a row in the computer labs with brief breaks for smokes and dr pepper and handed in a piece of shit that barely got a pass. I ended up breaking down at the course administrator near the end of the year and she told me to stop going to these lab sessions because they were obviously pointless and look into changing courses. She went through my strengths (the biochemistry/chemistry/molecular biology) and told me of the courses I could choose that had more emphasis on these. From there I went to see my tutor and he agreed withme and I switched degrees.
It ca be pretty hard to swallow your pride and admit you're fucking up but in the end you get more respect for it that just struggling on because if you don't say anything and get nowhere people assume you are a slacker. If you admit that this isn't right and you need something else people will give you all the help you need.
I'd suggest looking at parts of your course you do like and if any other degree has more focus there. If they don't think hard about what else interests you and visit your uni site not through the current student links but through the prospective student links. Look at other courses you might like and see if you can switch NOW. The longer this goes on the harder it will be. I get the impression you don't want to leave uni and I don't blame you, but you can make the whole thing work better for you. It's not unusual to change and it's preferable to dropping.
There was a guy I knew repeated his first year twice and failed both times because he was too stubborn to admit that he had chosen the wrong course. I believe he works in a supermarket now. |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 07:49:44
Well if you hate it and fail then at least you'd have been helping some poor sap pass because of the curve.
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Don't believe the hype. |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 07:11:55
i do computer science. and i'm not having any of you on, although i *am* being a bit melodramatic. (it's nice having a thread all about me every so often)
in the last 4 weeks i've been to 2 lectures i think.. no lab sessions, seminars, tutorials, or whatever. in the last couple of weeks it's been because i'm behind and didn't see the point in going if i would be lost... obviously one of those vicious circle type things! i kept promising myself i'd take a few days out to go through all the lecture notes (that are available on the network), but that obviously never happened. had a piece of coursework in today that i simply left too late... i could probably have done it if i knew what the fuck to do. i ended up only doing a third of it, and that was copied off my mate..
but anyway, i'm going back to mummy and daddy for a few days next week. if i don't catch up and get my head sorted then, i don't know if i ever will. that said i could probably scrape by and pass this year, and then have to summer to sort it.
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| 50 Pence |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:36:58
Um, it is I that does philosophy. Well it sorta is like that newo, but in the tutorials we get to pick their theories apart or praise them respectively. I like playing devils advocate though. Doing epistemology at the moment which is quite deep.
Blats |
| Newo |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:33:30
Steve, does your philosophy course inolve actual philosophising or is it like mine was, just memorising what a bunch of dead white guys said?
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
| 50 Pence |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:32:11
Actually steve is probably just having us on. He likes his lame jokes. So do I, ha ha.
Blats |
| 50 Pence |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:31:05
Steve, hang tough, you will get through it. I'm not really enjoying my english course at the moment bu i'm sure it will improve, philosophy on the other hand is really good, anyway thats not the point. If not i'll drop outta uni too and we can form a band with fbc.
Blats |
| Newo |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:06:35
DonŽt worry about it Steve, if you were content in state education then youŽd really be fucked.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 05:31:35
Ask Jimmy.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| misleadtheworld |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 05:00:31
I hated my first year. It was rubbish. Wasn't what I wanted at all; too much music theory, too little playing with synthesisers. It's considerably better now I'm in the second year, but I still find myself thinking "I can't be arsed;" though it is the time of year to be thinking such a thing, I suppose.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 04:56:14
I switched courses at the end of my first year at uni because I didn't like the one I was on, it's easy enough at this stage but impossible later down the line. You still have time to play with, see your tutor speak to people on other courses and check out what other courses involve rather than get all miserable about it. You've still got a bit of time to play with just make sure you pass the first year.
Now pull yourself together man. |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:39:11
Why do you hate it so much pixiesteve? beleive me 2 more years on a course you don't enjoy is a long time if your constantly stuggling and unhappy, but if it gets you where you want to be is it worth it? A lot of people go through a hard few months in the first year at uni, i guess it depends if you've got the social support neccesary, its absolutely vital beleive me. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:03:08
Student Advisor! Maybe that was my true calling!
Ach, I'm just kidding Steve, do what you think is best. It'll probably get a lot better - I just didn't want you to be a statistic, yet another student drops out in the first year. I'm thinking ahead, I guess if I was a high-powered employer I'd see someone who didn't have the perseverance neccesary.
Good luck in sorting it out though. Definitely see some sort of advisor.
I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
| Llamadance |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:00:39
So, what do you think you want to do?
That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
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