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so i've failed uni

BlindHelperMonkey said:
and even there get a two/two, youre still fucked, oxbridge or no oxbridge.. ask my cousin
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Yeah saw something about that, where a lot of employers will immediately bin any CVs with a 2/2 just to whittle down the massive amount of job applications.

The 'traditional' subjects will always be of value though. It's the universities themselves that have greedily fucked things up by offering outrageous courses that won't help anyone. There has also been a social pressure on the fact that everyone tells kids they will need a degree to get a job, when a lot of the time those kids will benefit infinitely more by doing a vocational or something similar.
 
although the course definetly was for me, I still probably could have at least passed if I hadn't spent so much time getting drunk or mandied or stoned off my tits. Feeling a bit like a fuck up loser now.
 
tbh, it's better to have had those times with your friends getting wasted than to have spent your whole life in a classroom or libary doing dull work you don't enjoy. You could spend your whole young life working, only to have an accident or get ill and die a few years later.

don't get me wrong- in life you'll always have to work. It is better to try and find that balance. But when your on your deathbed, what are you gonna remember. The times you worked? or the times you spent with your mates, in random fields and grotty nightclubs, high as a kite, making friends with strangers, dancing until the sun came up.

there's still plenty of time for uni and to do well later in life. When your young, live for those moments, because there won't be anywhere near as many when your older.
 
Cartesia said:
Hey man. I failed every module multiple times in multiple degrees.

I thought I was just doing the wrong subjects/degrees, but finally after many years I realised wait.. no.. I am interested in all of these things. to the point where I teach myself. I simply cannot work within the framework expected at universities.
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I second that, I thought my failure to conform to the ways of the institutions indicated that I was intrinsically lazy or not clever enough. But it doesn't necessarily mean that at all, and it just turns out that self-education is the way forward for some people and that is no lesser an achievement. Should have known really, because that's always been the case looking back, the things I'm actually alright at are things I chose and pursued extra-curricularly.
 
hexagram said:
although the course definetly was for me, I still probably could have at least passed if I hadn't spent so much time getting drunk or mandied or stoned off my tits. Feeling a bit like a fuck up loser now.
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I went through the same thing, though I realised that the course wasn't for me. I simply didn't have the heart to pursue something I didn't love doing.

If you really feel the course is right, I suggest you return. This time without the drinking and stoning. Attend all the lectures and fully pursue anything you don't understand. A degree is certainly a great asset to have behind you...
 
you've failed uni, you're going to fail life, just give up now, why make it hard on yourself? ;)


fucking hell it makes me want to tear my hair out that this society makes everyone without a degree feel like a failure. me included. It's a load of cock and most of humanity for the last 200,000 years didn't even get any GCSEs and they managed OK so why we all suddenly have to be academics I don't know. It's a very good thing we have the opportunity but it should not be and is not an essential prerequisite for leading a worthwhile life. Jesus didn't have a degree and he's a big film star, hitler too! In some cases, people with degrees have gone on to be murderers, thieves and capitalists. Thatcher and Bono both had degrees (god rest their souls).


Don't take this as an anti-intellectual rant, it's not, I like reading, thinking and learning as much as anyone, but it doesn't have to be done in a special building for a fee (or not, in Scotland) then rubber stamped by bureaucrats.
 
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^ Having a degree won't make you a good person, no. But it does tend to make you successful career wise. Exemplified by Thatcher and Bono.

If you have an oppurtunity to finish one, take it.
 
Knock said:
In some cases, people with degrees have gone on to be murderers, thieves and capitalists. Thatcher and Bono both had degrees (god rest their souls).
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:|

In life it's about what you enjoy doing. Having a degree doesn't make you better than someone who doesn't, and doesn't necessarily mean you'll be more successful.

But if the OP is academic and wants to further his skills and abilities within the subject, he should certainly consider going back. Having that degree may lead to the life he is suited too.
 
The OP says the course was not for them.

But the bigger point is, the OP is not alone. Many people are in the same situation. Our social structures fail people all the time by expecting them to fit into a rigid framework.
 
^^^
hexagram said:
It wasn't the right course for me at all, there are people who really suit that sort of thing but I unfortunetly wasn't them, but it's still two years down the shitter with nothing to show for it.
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The post you've quoted doesn't make sense unless you assume they meant to write:

"although the course definetly was not for me"

i blame the booze ;)
 
whiteline said:
tbh, it's better to have had those times with your friends getting wasted than to have spent your whole life in a classroom or libary doing dull work you don't enjoy. You could spend your whole young life working, only to have an accident or get ill and die a few years later.

don't get me wrong- in life you'll always have to work. It is better to try and find that balance. But when your on your deathbed, what are you gonna remember. The times you worked? or the times you spent with your mates, in random fields and grotty nightclubs, high as a kite, making friends with strangers, dancing until the sun came up.

there's still plenty of time for uni and to do well later in life. When your young, live for those moments, because there won't be anywhere near as many when your older.
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If the best days of my life involved sitting on worn out sofas smoking in shitty share houses or sweating in an after hours club on a Sunday morning just shoot me now. As much as I had fun back then it isn't a patch on the shit I get up to now I have a proper paying job and zero other responsibilities. I was pretty sure I was thankful for working my 20yr old arse off last month when I was drinking beers under a palm tree in Tahiti. You don't need a university degree to be successful but those who make it without one all at least have the common drive to work hard and smart enough to know when they can play up and when they have to switch on.

It takes real effort to fail a university degree, at least failing every single subject it does. At the most you are looking at 20 contact hours a week. Even the laziest of plebs can get out of bed 3 mornings a week, sit through a lecture or 5 and blag their way through an exam with next to no preparation. If you think this is tough then god help you when you have a family to support or have ambitions more than bumming your next smoke from someone at the pub Friday night. It might seem harsh that people are judged a failure or not in life but the Universe is a harsh mistress and if you were any other creature on this planet you would have been tested a lot more severely before you die than this.
 
you're a prick!

I didn't try to fail uni, and I got good marks in certain subjects (programming). I was terrible at maths, because it didn't make any fucking sense to me, not because I wanted to fail. I think maths is taught poorly, or it was where I went to school. And then I went on to have a Mr Smokes Blunts career. And now I can't type.
 
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Hexagram said:
although the course definetly was for me, I still probably could have at least passed if I hadn't spent so much time getting drunk or mandied or stoned off my tits. Feeling a bit like a fuck up loser now.
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Hexagram said:
It wasn't the right course for me at all, there are people who really suit that sort of thing but I unfortunetly wasn't them, but it's still two years down the shitter with nothing to show for it
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Ooook. I'm starting to see why he fails at everything.

Good luck to ya, bro... You can always become a bluelight moderator :)









Actually, no... I think even those positions are taken...
 
One Thousand Words said:
If the best days of my life involved sitting on worn out sofas smoking in shitty share houses or sweating in an after hours club on a Sunday morning just shoot me now. As much as I had fun back then it isn't a patch on the shit I get up to now I have a proper paying job and zero other responsibilities. I was pretty sure I was thankful for working my 20yr old arse off last month when I was drinking beers under a palm tree in Tahiti. You don't need a university degree to be successful but those who make it without one all at least have the common drive to work hard and smart enough to know when they can play up and when they have to switch on.

It takes real effort to fail a university degree, at least failing every single subject it does. At the most you are looking at 20 contact hours a week. Even the laziest of plebs can get out of bed 3 mornings a week, sit through a lecture or 5 and blag their way through an exam with next to no preparation. If you think this is tough then god help you when you have a family to support or have ambitions more than bumming your next smoke from someone at the pub Friday night. It might seem harsh that people are judged a failure or not in life but the Universe is a harsh mistress and if you were any other creature on this planet you would have been tested a lot more severely before you die than this.
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Haha, not quite sure I'd agree with that line. Blagging your way through uni exams probably reflects the respectability of that degree.
 
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