Uni student's thread.

[[pretty on the inside]]

Is anyone else who hasn't finished their exams yet sick to the teeth of everyone else having finished? I'm sat in my room stressing over my exam tomorrow while ALL of my flatmates are going out to celebrate..
I know that in 2 days it will be over for me too, but while I'm feeling rubbish from all the stress, the last thing I really want is to have it rubbed into my face that I'm still working hard and stressing while everyone else can relax and have fun..

[The One Who]

^^ I was the same. Most of my friends had finished their exams before I had even started. Just think that when you're finished you can say you deserve the break more.

[green.eyes]

i just finished
feels so good

good luck and hugs for everyone who still has them

[[pretty on the inside]]

One more exam tomorrow.. Then it will all be over.. A long night of heavy revision tonight though! =[

[Lemons!]

Awww good luck to all of you whose exams haven't finished yet.

I've still got coursework to do till Friday and I'm running short of time again as usual, but it wasn't even my fault this time! All my plans have been messed up because of people not showing up to dates, shops being closed and awful weather. I'm getting ready for another three days without sleep, yay. -.-

[demonicsoul]

i seem to finish uni for the summer earlier than anyone i know, and quite frankly im bored, not to mention lonely ><. but yeah i passed everythign so thats good :).
got given my discertation breif too peruse over the summer though, and basically im expected to not only have decided exactly what i want to do with the rest of my life (in detail) but have already made contacts in the industry by the time i go back in september. so yeah terrified ><

[pugdog]

just finished my last final. i think i did well, and i double checked all of my work, so we shall see what my final grade is.. should be online by tuesday night.

hope ya'll get good marks and can relax for the summer.. I'm applying for jobs right now.... joy

-brian

[drampty]

if its any consolation i hate being finished already? and normally i ace exams and thought id done ok, but my exam grades brought all my other grades down! *sigh*

hope everyoines ok!

[~Kaytee~]

Oooh I totally forgot about this thread.. I have 2 exams next week then semester is over yay! Actually then my whole FIRST YEAR is over Fingers crossed I pass :P

Good luck to everyone else.. and everyone who has finished already.. grr your lucky :P

[sobriquet]

Am waiting for my exam results and panicking that
a) I have failed my exams
b) I have failed my degree
c) I have passed but not done well enough to get on the doctorate course
d) I will never find a job (had an interview this morning - didn't get a callback for this afternoon)

Apparently I won't get my exam results till the end of July. I don't understand why I have to wait so long when I finished 3 weeks ago. I know they have a lot to do at this time of year but I'm sure the last two years I've had my results by the end of June.
The waiting and not-knowing is driving me mad.

[Lemons!]

I'm trying my very hardest not to think about how I've done. Now it's too late to change anything about it anyway.

[sobriquet]

I know I can't change it, but I hate not knowing! I can't believe it's taking them so long to get our marks back to us (there's an essay I handed in before Easter that I still don't have a mark back for). Really we need to start applying for jobs and they're going to want to know our grades. If you and another equal candidate apply for a job but they have their mark back and you don't, I'm guessing the employer would chose the one who already has a definite grade rather than someone who can only say what they're hoping/expecting to get.

[The One Who]

I can't remember if I told you all my results or not, so I'll say again. I'm in my second last year and averaging a 2.1. Should've got better though, but it's as good as I could expect what with everything that was going on.

[smile_it_confuses_people]

Where does everyone go to uni......... i'm trying to find freinds before i go.
i'm starting at Queens margret, Edinburgh

[pugdog]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sobriquet

Apparently I won't get my exam results till the end of July. I don't understand why I have to wait so long when I finished 3 weeks ago. I know they have a lot to do at this time of year but I'm sure the last two years I've had my results by the end of June.
The waiting and not-knowing is driving me mad.

oh, that sucks! I am fidgety waiting for my results in, when I finished my last final on friday, and all of the grades by the professors are due by tuesday night. I already have the grades for 5 classes and labs posted online, but still have 3 left that are blank.. and I hate waiting. It must be so hard waiting till the end of july. that is weak of the school to be that slow. I hope you did well, and find a job soon. hang in there.

-brian

oh, and i go to school at California Polytechnic University Pomona, pretty far away from Edinburgh

[~Kaytee~]

Quote:

Originally Posted by The One Who

I can't remember if I told you all my results or not, so I'll say again. I'm in my second last year and averaging a 2.1. Should've got better though, but it's as good as I could expect what with everything that was going on.

Just a question about the results. What's the range like over there? So is it, 1 is the highest you can get? (coz sheesh good job!!). Over here it's 1-7, 7 being the highest and at the moment I'm 4.6 but I have a feeling it's going to go down after this semester

[sobriquet]

1st is 70% and above
2:1 is 60% ^
2:2 is 50% ^
3rd is 40% ^
Below 40 is a fail.

So a 2:1 is really good - well done Clare!

[~Kaytee~]

Ahh thanks.. so different to here! Well done claire

Ok i have another question and it is possibly stupid.. but what are annotations? I have an exam next week in which we can't have notes but we can have annotations, we can also bring in our text books. Soo.. what are they? I was going to email the course person but I emailed her last week about something and she made me feel like **** for asking So I daren't ask her again if I can help it..

[The One Who]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sobriquet

1st is 70% and above
2:1 is 60% ^
2:2 is 50% ^
3rd is 40% ^
Below 40 is a fail.

So a 2:1 is really good - well done Clare!

My uni is slightly different, but in general that's how it works. Here we use the 22-point scale and use A, B, Cs. I averaged a B2, which percentage wise is 72.7%. I need to get more than 80% for a first :(

[White Noise]

I hate the way my birthday is after everything finishes at uni, it just means that everyone goes home and I have nobody around the place. Sucks.

Results day soon, here's to hoping that my lack of revision didn't screw me over.