Back to uni in a month-- oh no

MORPH3US

Is there an option not to do a dissertation, thats what I did!!!

Don't worry about it though, wait till you get back with all your mates and i'm sure you can all bounce some ideas around between you!

M

barginboyrob

i love uni at the moment and can't wait to go back.........hmm..i guess thats because i've only done the first year

studentphil

barginboyrob wrote:

i love uni at the moment and can't wait to go back.........hmm..i guess thats because i've only done the first year

Uni is meant to be good fun and I have met some great people and in many ways it has changed my view of the world. It is just the subject that I hate sometimes so much.

studentphil

MORPH3US wrote:

Is there an option not to do a dissertation, thats what I did!!!

Don't worry about it though, wait till you get back with all your mates and i'm sure you can all bounce some ideas around between you!

M

You must do a dissertation and I tried to talk them out of making me do one, but it is a must.

cupid_s

I really feel sorry for you. I had a absolutely sh*t time with various things in my first year at uni and the only real thing that kept me going was the thought that I was doing the best uni course in the world. I absolutely loved everything I had to do and not much of it actually felt like work - it was so easy (for me).
Even if you hate your course though, so much else comes out of it (like mrs phil...?) and at least you have a degree. Try not to worry that much. You said you'll still get a 2.2 and there's only one more year of crap study left and then you'll be moving onto much better things.

studentphil

cupid_stunt wrote:

I really feel sorry for you. I had a absolutely sh*t time with various things in my first year at uni and the only real thing that kept me going was the thought that I was doing the best uni course in the world. I absolutely loved everything I had to do and not much of it actually felt like work - it was so easy (for me).
Even if you hate your course though, so much else comes out of it (like mrs phil...?) and at least you have a degree. Try not to worry that much. You said you'll still get a 2.2 and there's only one more year of crap study left and then you'll be moving onto much better things.

I know it is the thought of saying goodbye the naffy course after next year that keeps me going. I have met many great people there Mrs Phil being one. I do not hate all the subject just some of it, what annoys me is with a different subject I could have been so much happier and got so much of better mark than a crumby 2.2. (Mrs Phil has a 2.1 so I can be the stupid husband with a 2.2)

I have had two years of lossing my belief and my confidence in my ability and that is not very good.

studentphil

They say problems in your earlier education should not matter if you work hard on the course now. I had a lot of reading problems when I was younger and I still a slow reader and the amount of long complex readings on the philosophy stuff has made my life hours and hours of hell.

cupid_s

you need to get friendly with someone who's already done the third year of your course (preferably someone who got a 1st/2.1). take them for a few drinks and pick their brains
or maybe asking mrs phil for a bit of advice/guidance on course things might be good (doesn't really matter what she did maybe you just need someone to work things through with) as she's obviously so clever.
I am currently trying to submit a transfer report to get into my third year of my PhD. I am having a miserable time with it and I don't know why. All I have to do is write up what i've already done but i keep getting writers block. Hubby has been brilliant in motivating me and giving me ideas and if he just nudges me in the right direction i seem to get a lot more done.

I think you're subject sounds really hard! You should have took something sciencey like I did. Every question has an obvious answer - it's either right or wrong and i like that. And there's not endless reading. I don't know how you cope doing philosophy.

studentphil

cupid_stunt wrote:

or maybe asking mrs phil for a bit of advice/guidance on course things might be good (doesn't really matter what she did maybe you just need someone to work things through with) as she's obviously so clever.
I am currently trying to submit a transfer report to get into my third year of my PhD. I am having a miserable time with it and I don't know why. All I have to do is write up what i've already done but i keep getting writers block. Hubby has been brilliant in motivating me and giving me ideas and if he just nudges me in the right direction i seem to get a lot more done.

I think you're subject sounds really hard! You should have took something sciencey like I did. Every question has an obvious answer - it's either right or wrong and i like that. And there's not endless reading. I don't know how you cope doing philosophy.

The laugh is I helped Mrs Phil through her final year last year. It is much easier to help other than to help yourself. She did Languages and politics and culture all of which I am able help with and the philosophy skills transfer to helping with that greatly. I helped her stucture and come up with arguments for her essays but her essays were not philosophy as such.

PHDs are just that battle with writting and staying on track. I am sure you will get there. I do enjoy philosophy and the thinking and doing it, but the reading is killing to me. Philosophy is sadly a subject that favours those good at English and that is not really me.
I think I shall just take the skills I learnt from philosophy after next year and put it all behind me. If I ever do PG study it wont be philosophy.

studentphil

I will not let the silly course take all my self belief in my skills and intelligence.