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The picture in your signature is very large, mf.

SBSP wrote:The picture in your signature is very large, mf.

It is, I am sorry.  Will make it a wee bit smaller.

Much better.

so which one is the dog and which one is the ice cream

Yes voters got rekt

ur the one getting rekt with ur ape degree

vel wrote:ur the one getting rekt with ur ape degree

>Implying he doesnt look proud

u sherlocked me imo

Actually what I posted wasnt even an ape, you could have deflected my bantz back onto me

you would know because you are basically studying monkey archaeology

Zzonked, how much of a step is a Masters from a degree?

I hate when a sports contest is decided by a poor decision from a referee

Especially when it results in the end of a teams season and the end of some players careers

Keyser Söze wrote:Zzonked, how much of a step is a Masters from a degree?

Do you mean how much of a step up from an undergrad?

The only real difference is that you have to be a lot more independent. If you can do that then it's not much more difficult. I had to write my own questions and stuff like that, plus there's a lot more research I had to do on my own. On the other hand it's taught a lot better because the classes have maybe like 1/3 the number of people that the undergrad classes had, so you could get better more personal teaching.

Lel redding is 4nurds

I'm doing a dissertation this year, would you say that's similar Zzonked?

Probably.

In my 3rd year dissertation I didn't go and meet my assigned tutor once and just did the whole thing without any advice. It was a stupid decision though, because I could have failed because showing that you have drafted your work was something you got marks for and the tutor is supposed to say how much they think you've drafted your work. I was pretty nervous that I'd fail when I handed it in, but I just included some printoffs of the same work but before I drafted it and it seemed to be enough.

Jordan Henderchip wrote:I hate when a sports contest is decided by a poor decision from a referee

Especially when it results in the end of a teams season and the end of some players careers

Just another element of luck usually, isn't it? I think it'd be a lot healthier if we treated it like we do when the ball takes an unexpected deflection or a player slips over, just part of the game.

Zzonked wrote:Probably.

In my 3rd year dissertation I didn't go and meet my assigned tutor once and just did the whole thing without any advice. It was a stupid decision though, because I could have failed because showing that you have drafted your work was something you got marks for and the tutor is supposed to say how much they think you've drafted your work. I was pretty nervous that I'd fail when I handed it in, but I just included some printoffs of the same work but before I drafted it and it seemed to be enough.

I made pretty much the same stupid decisions. Didn't start it until March 2013 (supposed to start it around May 2012), met my tutor twice, the first time with a completely different title to what I ended up doing, wrote the whole thing on a diet of Relentless, Greggs and more Relentless in the space of a week. I was genuinely shocked when I got a first. Loved doing a BA, could never have done that in a BSc. or LLB.

I am shocked that you were shocked.  Mediocrity is your greatest enemy.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:I made pretty much the same stupid decisions.  Didn't start it until March 2013 (supposed to start it around May 2012), met my tutor twice, the first time with a completely different title to what I ended up doing, wrote the whole thing on a diet of Relentless, Greggs and more Relentless in the space of a week.  I was genuinely shocked when I got a first.  Loved doing a BA, could never have done that in a BSc. or LLB.

A 1st for your dissertation or 1st overall?

Glen Miller wrote:I am shocked that you were shocked.  Mediocrity is your greatest enemy.

I set myself very high standards, I didn't feel that the dissertation met them. Happily my tutor felt otherwise.

Keyser Söze wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:I made pretty much the same stupid decisions.  Didn't start it until March 2013 (supposed to start it around May 2012), met my tutor twice, the first time with a completely different title to what I ended up doing, wrote the whole thing on a diet of Relentless, Greggs and more Relentless in the space of a week.  I was genuinely shocked when I got a first.  Loved doing a BA, could never have done that in a BSc. or LLB.

A 1st for your dissertation or 1st overall?

Dissertation.  That and my exam performances were exceptional, I got 100% in one of my final exams which is unheard of, but my coursework dragged me down a lot.  Ended up with a 2:1 which I was disappointed with, but it got me a good graduate job so I can't complain.

It's so easy to slip into leaving it late like that. I think because it's so big it's daunting, so you keep putting it off because it feels bad to think about.

There's an important lesson there though, get on top of things early so the vicious circle can't start.

I'll probably end up like that especially as I'm abroad so I'll be talking with my tutor through email, but it's a creative writing one so I guess it's not the same thing.

I'm glad I don't have to do any of that writing malarkey.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Dissertation.  That and my exam performances were exceptional, I got 100% in one of my final exams which is unheard of, but my coursework dragged me down a lot.  Ended up with a 2:1 which I was disappointed with, but it got me a good graduate job so I can't complain.

Isn't the dissertation worth the most? I'm sure if you got a 1st in that than employers will probably tell that you're capable of working to the standard.

Fuck. Was it a maths based one or a written type thing? If it's maths based than I could maybe understand but getting 100% in a written based exam is practically impossible.

Keyser Söze wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Dissertation.  That and my exam performances were exceptional, I got 100% in one of my final exams which is unheard of, but my coursework dragged me down a lot.  Ended up with a 2:1 which I was disappointed with, but it got me a good graduate job so I can't complain.

Isn't the dissertation worth the most? I'm sure if you got a 1st in that than employers will probably tell that you're capable of working to the standard.

Fuck. Was it a maths based one or a written type thing? If it's maths based than I could maybe understand but getting 100% in a written based exam is practically impossible.

I've done it before in A Level (Religion I think) but at Uni thats mental really.

Keyser Söze wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Dissertation.  That and my exam performances were exceptional, I got 100% in one of my final exams which is unheard of, but my coursework dragged me down a lot.  Ended up with a 2:1 which I was disappointed with, but it got me a good graduate job so I can't complain.

Isn't the dissertation worth the most? I'm sure if you got a 1st in that than employers will probably tell that you're capable of working to the standard.

Fuck. Was it a maths based one or a written type thing? If it's maths based than I could maybe understand but getting 100% in a written based exam is practically impossible.

Yes, I might have mentioned it a few times in interviews.

Written on UK Foreign Policy.

Sean wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:
Isn't the dissertation worth the most? I'm sure if you got a 1st in that than employers will probably tell that you're capable of working to the standard.

Fuck. Was it a maths based one or a written type thing? If it's maths based than I could maybe understand but getting 100% in a written based exam is practically impossible.

I've done it before in A Level (Religion I think) but at Uni thats mental really.

I had a few 100%ers at A Level, albeit in piss subjects like General Studies and one in a Politics resit.

Besides the money, do you actively enjoy what you are doing?

Glen Miller wrote:Besides the money, do you actively enjoy what you are doing?

Not really, but I've always felt that enjoying what you do is a pretty fucking lofty ambition. The reason I get paid is that I'd rather not be there but I'm there anyway. At the moment I'm working from home most of the time which is pretty good. When I'm not working, which with most office work I find is most of the time, I can be chatting shit on here, continuing my Game of Thrones marathon or doing the thing that every man who works from home does but doesn't talk about in polite company.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Glen Miller wrote:Besides the money, do you actively enjoy what you are doing?

Not really, but I've always felt that enjoying what you do is a pretty fucking lofty ambition.  The reason I get paid is that I'd rather not be there but I'm there anyway.  At the moment I'm working from home most of the time which is pretty good.  When I'm not working, which with most office work I find is most of the time, I can be chatting shit on here, continuing my Game of Thrones marathon or doing the thing that every man who works from home does but doesn't talk about in polite company.

That sounds great, I've always wanted to work on my diary at work.