expected to have classes for 7 hours straight with no break?

Indie_Kid

P3dro wrote: »

I would much rather have your sitution. It would let me work the rest of the week. As it is I have about 2 hours classes a day, spread out. Tomorrow my first class is 9-11. my only other class is 4-5. It's much the same the rest of the week, count yourself lucky, and turn up 10 minutes late for one while you eat a sandwich if you want.

I had this and it was such a pain. 9.30-10.30, 11-12, 2-3 and then 5.30-6.30. It seemed pointless going to uni for one hour. Thankfully, I did manage to change the 5.30-6.30 to 12.30-1.30 - much better.

Oldernotwiser

sh1305 wrote: »

I had this and it was such a pain. 9.30-10.30, 11-12, 2-3 and then 5.30-6.30. It seemed pointless going to uni for one hour. Thankfully, I did manage to change the 5.30-6.30 to 12.30-1.30 - much better.

Surely you weren't "going to uni for one hour" as you were there anyway. What's wrong with spending the gap between 3.00 and 5.30 in the library or resource centre?

moggylover

[QUOTE=eklynne;40229016]I think you're picking me up wrong. a degree in tourism is surely specific to the tourism industry, no? It's not like a history degree which can be fairly general and not necessarily career focused. You wouldn't start a degree in teaching and declare halfway through that you didn't want to have a future in the profession would you?


I agree that not all degrees should (be expected to) lead to jobs. I think the OP has chosen a commercial degree whilst not really being that concerned that her future lies in that area. I find it easy to understand why people would construe this as being a pretty poor attitude and approach to higher education, particularly in Scotland where students fees are being paid by the taxpayer. It's not my opinion, but I can see why people get frustrated.[/QUOTE]

As I have a teenager coming up for those horrible choices we have to start making at 16, and having spoken to a lot of his friends on the subject, they all feel pressured to have a "degree" of some sort. They tend to go for the subjects they are best at and push on with it, not because they are necessarily what they want to use, but because they really don't know what they want to do (which is probably the most common point to be at at that age with no experience of the working World) for the rest of their lives, and try getting a degree that they think they can achieve even if that is just for the sake of it.

That, tbh, hasn't truly changed much since my own day because I had lots of friends at Uni who were studying something that very much interested them, but that they had no idea whatsoever how to channel once they had that degree.

However, I have seen many a post on here by those "responsible" for hiring and firing to the effect that they see having a degree as being "proof" that someone can work hard to achieve something and that they would thus tend to offer an interview, job to someone with a degree even were that degree not in the field they would be working in.

Personally, if the hiring and firing system is that stupid then none of the bits of paper really come to mean anything:( Oh for the days when HR was called Personnel, and you had no chance of being in charge until you were old enough to make better judgments about people:(

eklynne

I'm starting to think littlepinkstars is on the wind up. Even my 15 yo dd who has a part time job 2 nights a week, walks the dog for an hour a day and does all her own washing doesn't moan this much.
The word 'spoilt' comes to mind. I feel sorry for people who just moan about stupid stuff. Grow up, I'm actually embarrassed for you as you're at a Glasgow Uni like me and I'm grateful every day that I'm getting a good degree from a good University for free. Whinger.

Oldernotwiser

eklynne wrote: »

I'm starting to think littlepinkstars is on the wind up. Even my 15 yo dd who has a part time job 2 nights a week, walks the dog for an hour a day and does all her own washing doesn't moan this much.
The word 'spoilt' comes to mind. I feel sorry for people who just moan about stupid stuff. Grow up, I'm actually embarrassed for you as you're at a Glasgow Uni like me and I'm grateful every day that I'm getting a good degree from a good University for free. Whinger.

She's not a Glasgow, she's at Calley.

eklynne

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

She's not a Glasgow, she's at Calley.

I know, I said she's at 'a' Glasgow uni

rozmister

eklynne wrote: »

You wouldn't start a degree in teaching and declare halfway through that you didn't want to have a future in the profession would you?

I'm in my 3rd year of a 4 year degree in Public Relations. I'm pretty sure I don't want to work in PR or Marketing or this kind of discipline for the rest of my life. I realised this at the beginning of my 2nd year but, already £6,000 in debt and with no relevant experience in the field I wanted to go into, I decided to continue. It is a cruel harsh world out there and having a degree which includes a year in industry means if I can't find a way into my dream field I have a degree I've worked hard for to fall back on and have something to show for my debt and time. I'm reasonably good at what I do and more than capable so it seems pointless to throw away my half a degree to pursue another one when I could just as easily do a Masters or learn on the job once I graduate and work my way into where I want to be.

Oldernotwiser

eklynne wrote: »

I know, I said she's at 'a' Glasgow uni

You also said that she's at a "good" university.;)

charlie792

I have to admit theres the OP complaining about too many lectures, I wish I had more (yes I know, self study and all that) but I have 4hrs on a Monday morning and thats it, 22 weeks of the year. I feel like I never see my uni or my lecturers, Id love a bit more class contact time - for structure if nothing else.
IMHO the OP should be grateful to be getting this contact time for your money - I feel like Im paying a damn fortune to never see anyone....

littlepinkstars44

wooo Spanish times have changed to 2-4 on a Friday!
Meaning i can now go to the 11-1 seminar instead of the 1-3 one. And get a 1 hour break!
Just means that i miss an hour of another class, but i'm not too fusses about that as it's Hosted Project and its all group work with our individual companies, not the uni.

Also i am the only person in my Spanish class, so this could be fun!