University ups and downs

studentphil

pboae wrote:

Now you are just whining again. Your Uni hasn't 'given' you poor results, you did that yourself. Maybe that course/Uni/whatever wasn't the best choice for you and your learning style, but it was still your choice, and you can still say you've changed your mind and do something else instead. Or you can stay there and wade on through it, again it's your choice, but either way it's not the University's fault.

Okay, well it was my bad choice with a good bit of family pressure. Okay it is my fault that I know reading is one of my weakest skills and I picked a subject that demand reading of a type I am just not suited to. Okay, it is me that because I good good A levels thought that I would be able to manage.

pboae

studentphil wrote:

Okay, well it was my bad choice with a good bit of family pressure. Okay it is my fault that I know reading is one of my weakest skills and I picked a subject that demand reading of a type I am just not suited to. Okay, it is me that because I good good A levels thought that I would be able to manage.

So what's the problem? You made a bad choice, now you know where you went wrong you are in the ideal position to make a better choice. So go and do it.

studentphil

pboae wrote:

So what's the problem? You made a bad choice, now you know where you went wrong you are in the ideal position to make a better choice. So go and do it.

I suppose so but there is nothing going for a graduate without a high 2.1, so I doubt I have many/ any choices for the future be they better or worse.

pboae

Now you are making ridiculous generalisations to justify your excuses. There are as many choices as you choose to see, of the friends I studied with the one who is most successful now got a 3rd.

If your degree is that worthless, and making you that miserable, just stop doing it.

studentphil

pboae wrote:

Now you are making ridiculous generalisations to justify your excuses. There are as many choices as you choose to see, of the friends I studied with the one who is most successful now got a 3rd.

If your degree is that worthless, and making you that miserable, just stop doing it.

It is not really an excuse for anything. It is a fact of the world that high 2.1 or first do vastly improve your chances.

pboae

There's a huge difference between improving your chances (though I am not sure that is actually true) and removing all your future choices. But that is fairly irrelevant really.

You believe your degree will be worthless, and you hate doing it, so why don't you do something to change that situation?

studentphil

pboae wrote:

There's a huge difference between improving your chances (though I am not sure that is actually true) and removing all your future choices. But that is fairly irrelevant really.

You believe your degree will be worthless, and you hate doing it, so why don't you do something to change that situation?

If I left it would kill my mother to start with. I would be probably unemployed in 10 weeks time, so I might as well finish my degree as it is more productive.

pboae

So it's some else's fault again (now your Mother's), it's your decision to make not hers. If you think finishing your degree is more productive, then do it, but stop pretending you haven't chosen to do that.

studentphil

pboae wrote:

So it's some else's fault again (now your Mother's), it's your decision to make not hers. If you think finishing your degree is more productive, then do it, but stop pretending you haven't chosen to do that.

It is not my Mother's fault but making her happy is vital to me and to making sure my life is happy.

Look at this way, even with an average degree my choice of jobs is much larger and most importantly which my choice of what qualifications I could get in the future are vastly improved. A masters was something I wanted to do but it is not possible at the moment, but a degree opens up PG DIPS and that then might open up a full masters.

misskool

studentphil wrote:

I am not critical of anyone here personally.

Clearly the university system has failed me and I take issue that I have not been taught right, but that is not personal against anyone here.

If you fail university it is not purely because the university has failed to teach you. Why do you think like that? Have you not thought that you were just not intelligent enough to learn what has been taught rather than place the blame for someone else?

You are always picking at higher education and looking at their fault and you're always blaming your lecturer and now the post grads who take time off their research to teach.

That is insulting to anyone in higher education.

If you find the situation, why not quit and get a job and work your way up?