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Back to uni in a month-- oh no

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  • MORPH3US
    MORPH3US Posts: 4,906 Forumite
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    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
  • 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
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    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.
    :beer:
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    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.:confused:
    :beer:
  • cupid_s
    cupid_s Posts: 2,008 Forumite
    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
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    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.
    :beer:
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    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.
    :beer:
  • cupid_s
    cupid_s Posts: 2,008 Forumite
    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
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    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.
    :beer:
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    I will not let the silly course take all my self belief in my skills and intelligence.
    :beer:
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