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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
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 Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:23:08
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but i'm too scared to drop out (or kill myself)
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:43:57
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You've been there one semester, you big girl. Get a grip.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:46:03
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ahem. most drop outs are in the first year, usually during the first semester. besides, i'm halfway through the second, and the summer is mostly exams...
i hate you
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:47:00
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change course
change uni
change course and uni
drop out and form a band with me,
i'll be peter, you be paul, 50 can be Mary
it's up to you. It's all and only up to you. Be brave young soldier. |
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
4903 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:49:48
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:50:24
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making a decision :'(:'(
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:53:09
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Originally posted by PixieSteve
ahem. most drop outs are in the first year, usually during the first semester. besides, i'm halfway through the second, and the summer is mostly exams...
i hate you
Show some resolve young man. Nobody likes a quitter.
(PS, difference between semesters and terms...)
I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:56:54
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oh i see, thanks.
after i submit these abysmal coursework attemps it's reading week, so i'm going to go into catch up mode (i haven't been to anything for ages..) - after that i'll RE-EVALUATE
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2543 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:58:26
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You should have a student adviser for just such problems. Go and talk to them. What do you want to do course-wise? Do you hate the course, is it the campus, or are you just missing your mammy ;)?
That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 01:59:26
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oh it's entirely the course.
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2543 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:00:39
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So, what do you think you want to do?
That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:03:08
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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 |
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zub_the_goat
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 02:39:11
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| 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. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 04:56:14
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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.
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 05:00:31
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 05:31:35
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Ask Jimmy.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:06:35
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Don´t worry about it Steve, if you were content in state education then you´d 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. |
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50 Pence
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
284 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:31:05
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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.
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50 Pence
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
284 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:32:11
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Actually steve is probably just having us on. He likes his lame jokes. So do I, ha ha.
Blats |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:33:30
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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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50 Pence
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
284 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 06:36:58
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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.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 07:11:55
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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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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 07:49:44
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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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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 08:22:17
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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. |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 08:34:57
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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." |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 08:38:10
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| Is this "a friend" eh, Dean? |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 09:20:54
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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." |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 10:30:28
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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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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 12:19:48
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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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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2006 : 12:26:45
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...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
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2564 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 12:55:26
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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" |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
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Posted - 02/23/2006 : 15:14:58
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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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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 15:38:14
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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 |
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2462 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 16:12:28
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zub_the_goat
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 16:36:05
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| 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! |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 02/23/2006 : 18:07:25
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| 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. :) |
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