Not having a life in the third year!

Voyager2002

In my third year I made work the absolute top priority.

Oddly enough, my third year was my most enjoyable.

starsinmycrown

i became obsessed with my dissertation ( on dennis potter, psychosexual issues and 30s dance band music incidentally) and i would work on it for hours. on the same day i had to hand in my presentation, do a 3 hour exam and hand in a 5k essay.

I got a first in my dissertation, a 2:1 in my exam, and a 2:2 in my essay.... giving me an ok 2:1 as a semester average. I worked really hard in years one and two but my third year i had literally had enough and wanted out.

i give in... i don't think it matters that much, the grade average works in all out in the end. i tended to become obsessed with things i was interested in, and look up on wikipedia things i don't give two hoots about. Swings and roundabouts...

3nicky1

I've never experienced the magical party life that i hear about so many students having either. Roll on September I will not miss uni at all. Wish you luck in your dissertation.

DrFluffy

SirMount wrote: »

Thats easy...almost two months? Wait till fourth year...

Or 5th!!! Talk about mental burnout :o.

3 exams down, one to go! Fingers crossed for no resits!

Nichelette

I was a terrible student and probably shouldn't admit this, but I did my dissertation in 4 weeks (only about two of those were writing,the other two were spent reading) and got a first for it, so anything is possible...

Pssst

If you think you dont have a life now,wait until you join the real world..!

Miss_Liquorice

I actually figued out I haven't been on a night out since January. My second and third year flatmates both think I'm insane, haha. (I'm in Scotland where the typical degree is 4 years). My phone has had more alcohol than me this month! (I had to clean my trackball with gin to get it working again...)

Overall, I have my fingers crossed it will be worth it. Friends who are still trying to live like first years have suddenly realised we have two weeks till the dissertation is due...

mise_2

rite, i was a bit of a wriggly one at uni for gettin extensions, it's easy when you know how to play the system. One of them may not be ideal, but it's better to come out with the degree you're capable of getting 6mnths later than coming out with a lowerr grade in the summer.

Tips - go to your student support office, make an appointment to speak to the counsellor. Once you go, that appointment is a private matter between you and the counsellor, they are not allowed to disclose what you talk about in it - just go in and talk about the weather if you want, ...or tell them you're stressed out about your workload and feel it is - the best line ever to use - 'hindering my academic progress' or that you are considering dropping out, and then hint that you think the solution would be a extra time to complete the coursework. The counsellor simply fills in a form that says you were there, it should go to your course director who cannot question it, and probably wont want to in case there is a genuine reason and you get your extra time WITHOUT being penalised for being late. BEAUTIFUL!

I handed my dissertation in over the summer (which again I only knocked out in a four day all nighter marathon at the last minute) and fell out of uni with a 2.1

K that's the one you use when you really need out of the brown stuff, but when ya just want a wee night on the town instead of in the books there are
some other ways to get extra time.

if like some of my old lecturers, they ask you to email your coursework to them, send the email but 'accidentally' forget to attach the document and avoid that lecturer until you have it done or my favorite one - fill a word doc with symbols, numbers, a few wingdings and what not, save it as the title of your essay and send it as an attachment. They'll assume technology is to blame for the jibberish on the screen and you're flying...back to the union bar again You know you're gona try it aren't ya, go on, do it, it works!

melancholly

mise wrote: »

Tips - go to your student support office, make an appointment to speak to the counsellor. Once you go, that appointment is a private matter between you and the counsellor, they are not allowed to disclose what you talk about in it - just go in and talk about the weather if you want, ...or tell them you're stressed out about your workload and feel it is - the best line ever to use - 'hindering my academic progress' or that you are considering dropping out, and then hint that you think the solution would be a extra time to complete the coursework. The counsellor simply fills in a form that says you were there, it should go to your course director who cannot question it, and probably wont want to in case there is a genuine reason and you get your extra time WITHOUT being penalised for being late. BEAUTIFUL!

it's a real shame students do this... it undermines a system that is in place to help those who need it and it is entirely because of situations like this that there is less and less sympathy being given to students with extenuating circumstances.

i'm slightly doubtful your post is genuine tbh, because very few unis have hand ins direct to lecturers and most make it expressly clear that it doesn't matter why you don't hand an essay in on time, you will be penalised. this is true for computing/printing problems (and even snow issues )

i hope you have a job where your strong sense of personal responsibility and work ethic are critical!

aloiseb

No, no, I think mise should put a link to this thread on his/her CV to demonstrate helpfulness to customers.