3rd degree, what do I do now? [Considering Appeal]

Dithering_Dad

keeperbear wrote: »

Have you considered that you do this very thing, yourself?

I won't be reading any more of your trolling as you have been added to my ignore list.

I dare say that your ignore list is one of the longest in MSE. Have you ever considered that your detractors are right and you are wrong? Perhaps if you treated people better in life, your own would improve?

rainbowtrout

I wouldn't put a lot of your expectations in the appeal process. Even if you do successfully appeal, they are not going to give you a first or a 2:1. They might move you up to a 2:2, which is still perceived as a 'bad' degree by many employers (although not as bad as a third and may open more doors for you).
One of the questions for you at the moment is whether you want to stay in your current field of science, or move on to something different. In both cases there are ways of getting into jobs without good qualifications and move your way up the foodchain. For example in science you can work for a couple of years as lab assistant, get paid, and accumulate enough experience meantime to apply for a PhD. In the long run this might be better than going for a masters!
Also it may not be a good idea to emphasise in your applications (if you are thinking of making any) that your have underperformed due to personal problems. I can imagine you must have had a bad time and should have had more support from the university, but employers are going to be even less sympathetic about personal baggage than universities! After all, they are paying you to be there.
So in summary, get as much help and advice as you can, and try to move on. A third is a terrible blow when you've worked so hard, but in the scale of a lifetime it's a small thing, and plenty of people have picked themselves up from here. Good luck,

BigBouncyBall

to DD and keeperbear: could you please take this pathetic playground behavior to a different thread please - its throwing this thread off topic. You're both trolling and as bad as each other. Frankly your useless comments are unwelcome on this topic

Dithering_Dad

BigBouncyBall wrote: »

to DD and keeperbear: could you please take this pathetic playground behavior to a different thread please - its throwing this thread off topic. You're both trolling and as bad as each other. Frankly your useless comments are unwelcome on this topic

Lol, yes, we were interrupting your 10 page thread, just as you were all getting to the nub of the problem and about to get around to answering the original post.

My apologies. I dare say that after the interruption it'll take another 10 pages before you can move the discussion back to topic and make a decision.

:rotfl:

BigBouncyBall

what's the matter with you? whether this thread is 1, 10 or 100 pages is irrelevant there have been some very useful posts (if you bother to read it) and littering it with your crap posts is just pathetic. go away.

melancholly

just wondered if there was any update from the OP?

Tom_Allen

Be absolutely clear this is not the end of the world but the begining of the real world of work and achievement. 12 months from now what degree you got will be completely and utterly irrelevant - it will what you have done with your life and work in that 12 months.

As the proud possessor of a third class degree (who went on in later life to two post-graduate vocational diplomas) can I suggest that you join generations of co-achievers and get out into the real world ( not uni or graduate recruitment) where most people will not be the slightest bit interested in what your degree is - their question will be can you do the job, are you creative self-motivated and good to work with.

As someone who five years after uni was appointing other members of staff I tended to be fairly wary of graduates with 1st class degrees but not real experience of how the world is.

So emphasise the positive etc look at the exciting world of local employment - etc

Mandarin

Hi if anyone is interested, I made the appeal just under two weeks ago. Today, I got a phone call telling my appeal is succesful! Yay! I am so excited. I got upgraded to a 2:2 from a third. I know its still not a very good degree but hey I am well happy that my appeal was successful. Hopefully now I'll be able to get a place in the Financial management masters course I want to do.

b33r

Mandarin wrote: »

Hi if anyone is interested, I made the appeal just under two weeks ago. Today, I got a phone call telling my appeal is succesful! Yay! I am so excited. I got upgraded to a 2:2 from a third. I know its still not a very good degree but hey I am well happy that my appeal was successful. Hopefully now I'll be able to get a place in the Financial management masters course I want to do.

congrats :T

pboae

That's great, well done!