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so i've failed uni

With motivation (almost) anything is possible. But motivation isn't distributed equally amongst us, and our skill sets and ability to learn in certain environments are very different, for whatever reason of nature or nurture. Despite being intrigued by both of the courses I started, I finished neither, and as knock quite rightly commented, this was down to an incompatibility between the way in which my mind works and the 'rigid structure' of the institutions. Those of us that feel like that can succeed given the opportunity to learn in our own way, at our own pace, and with our own rules.

Perhaps the difference is we're more stubborn, more prone to disorganisation or stress, or more resistant to authority and hierarchy. Maybe we just need to be in control of our destinies in a way with which educational establishments don't quite sit. It isn't a boast to say "I couldn't hack uni," but nor is it something to be ashamed of, nor something that makes us lazy or weak.
 
To paraphrase Woody Harrelson, "I could have gone to med school. It was just the... science part... that would have given me trouble."

;)

If you are studying maths and you can't, I don't know, work out equations under test conditions, what hope do you have performing your job when qualified when people's lives depend upon it?
 
One Thousand Words said:
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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Agreed 100%, it might sound harsh but it's completely true, I was surprised at how pathetically easy uni was in the UK, it felt like being in a special class for retard kids, the levels have been dumbed down to a level so to allow people who should be nowhere near a university to still go there and graduate. University on the continent is a completely different business, much harder.

I had the worst attendance record ever and had to resit so many exams, matter of fact I knew I could fail 4 modules per year and then do them again in the summer, with no issues. My degree wasn't even one of the easiest, I knew people who managed to fail the various media studies and event management.

Seriously university is by far the easiest part of your life, high school back in Italy where we had to study philosphy and latin was many measures harder than uni in the uk, I spent so many years fucked up out of my mind and still managed to bring that piece of paper home.

Postgraduate is another story, Master Degress are a lot of more challenging and require quite a bit of effort, but failing undergraduate there's no excuses, it's really easy as shit.
 
you can always go and work in that call centre where they sing songs and throw custard pies.

hell on earth. you couldn't pay me for that shit. what's the name of the programme? wanker man.
 
Did seem pretty easy this year, everything I actually tried at (but still did it in the night and hours before the deadline) I got 1st or 1:2 grade. Things that I put together as a barely workable shambles that I thought I would fail on and that only just met the grading criteria I got 3rd or 2:2! Exams I reckon could be a bit different but my course is 100% coursework so I should be alright.

Pandering to the grading criteria and word count is key. If you hit the points they want you to on that you're sorted! Add some original thinking/analysis on top and you're looking at a 2:2/1:2 most of the time.
 
I wrote essays the night before deadline that were basically off the tangent speed rants and got pass grades, did exams on pills which I didn't even prepare and managed to pass, seriously, my undergraduate disseratation I did in three days on blue dolphin pills and dabs of wheez. Getting my BA was the easiest thing I've ever done. Master is a whole different business, I underestimated the course and paid for it.
 
I'm wondering what the degree of the OP is that he's failed?

It was very hard to fail even when I went. I think you had to punch a lecturer at least. Otherwise, you got a third, or a pass. Even Oxbridge do this.

But a lot of it is degree dependent. Science undergrads worked 28 hrs + labtime, minimum, per week. That's not a doddle. And to get a First, without some sort of natural gift, required seriously hard work, even for arts students. I went to uni with someone who got a First. Shared a house with him in fact, so I saw how hard he worked. He never had anything like the social life I did, he was always in the library. Always. It paid off though. He got the highest marks anyone had ever got in politics at Essex University. Ever. What did he do with his degree? He became the guitarist in ADF.

Also in my year was another person who did the exact same thing. Worked his arse off. He needed to, he wasn't the brightest spark. Several of us regularly tore him to pieces in class discussions. Used to look forward to those classes, just for that. But he too, somehow, came out with a First. And with his degree he became....







....Speaker of the House. John Bercow.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
I'm wondering what the degree of the OP is that he's failed?
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A lot of the condescension that goes on in discussion about university degrees at the moment is about 'the pseudo-sciences.' Science degrees are perfectly doable with dedication and persistence, but as you pointed out definitely not 'a doddle,' as I discovered.
 
Are we talking about getting a third as a degree though? Passing is one thing but what's the point of doing a degree just to pass. A 2/2 hardly does anything for you either. Scraping the grade to go onto the next year involves doing some work a few days before the exam without really needing to go to lectures but if you want your degree to actually count for something waltzing into the exam unprepared is gna do fuck all for you, for a science anyway (dunno about other courses).
 
Too lazy to read this whole thread.

I failed my first year, but didn't like the course. Had a few years out, went traveling, went back to a better uni on a better course and flourished because i loved the subject matter! Now im big pimping in a job doing what i did at uni, but for work, like getting paid for it n sutff.

Do your research on le course, be honest with yourself and you'll be ight! (this was nearly 10 years ago though in the good ole days)
 
muttonchops said:
Too lazy to read this whole thread.

I failed my first year, but didn't like the course. Had a few years out, went traveling, went back to a better uni on a better course and flourished because i loved the subject matter! Now im big pimping in a job doing what i did at uni, but for work, like getting paid for it n sutff.

Do your research on le course, be honest with yourself and you'll be ight! (this was nearly 10 years ago though in the good ole days)
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im sure leaving university, embarking on a gap-jaunt and funding a whole new period of higher education is a a lovely way of going about it, alas.. some people actually have to fund their own existence though life. absolutely barbaric, i know
 
This one thing I never got about you UK lot is how the fuck do you all go travelling? Like seriously met so many people, girls mostly, who were all like "yeah I went travelling for a year", fuck's sake is it all daddy sponsored or what? Everytime I stayed abroad for more than a few weeks it's because I was working there full time.
 
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