Gaz Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 What was wrong with the first post? Would you care to back up your claim with some evidence? Are you Peter Grant? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I've just been sorting out graduation. For the money it's costing me to borrow a gown for an afternoon, I could hire a transit van for 24 hours. Daylight robbery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Why don't you try wearing a transit van for your graduation. Would make for an amusing photograph. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Just seen that coursework I spent a month labouring over got a lower mark than someone who did it literally the night before, after receiving my help. Great 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaDundee Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Just seen that coursework I spent a month labouring over got a lower mark than someone who did it literally the night before, after receiving my help. Great In our engineering class the few girls always get significantly higher coursework marks. Me and my lab partner usually submit identical lab reports but she usually ends up with about 10% more marks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 In our engineering class the few girls always get significantly higher coursework marks. Me and my lab partner usually submit identical lab reports but she usually ends up with about 10% more marks. Meh, I accept that sometimes you are just going to miss the point of the assignment and it appears that is what happened here. A typical way of greatly increasing your marks is by getting as many sources and doing as much "research" as possible, and it totally backfired here. It means instead of going into an exam with a 1st equivalent, based on previous test, I go with a mid-low 2:1 which is a pile of pish from my point of view. Just seems I totally wasted my time doing all that work and should have just winged it at the end 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) I have done every essay the night/morning before its to be handed in and got consistently better grades than my pals. I think some folk just work well under pressure. They usually spend the week before doing all dayers in the library reading books and writing quotes and all that. I just can't do that. I must point out that this is a diddy degree in History at Stirling. These rules probably aren't applicable if you're studying medicine or something. Edited April 18, 2012 by JamboMikey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I have done every essay the night/morning before its to be handed in and got consistently better grades than my pals. I think some folk just work well under pressure. They usually spend the week before doing all dayers in the library reading books and writing quotes and all that. I just can't do that. I must point out that this is a diddy degree in History at Stirling. These rules probably aren't applicable if you're studying medicine or something. I'm exactly the same as you. Except now, I have to turn in my dissertation, and the same thing doesn't really apply... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddie06smfc Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Got my SAAS letter through for next year earlier in the week having only applied late last week. Just need to make sure I get in next year. It's a pain in the arse having to troll through everything when you only need to change one field. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I have done every essay the night/morning before its to be handed in and got consistently better grades than my pals. I think some folk just work well under pressure. They usually spend the week before doing all dayers in the library reading books and writing quotes and all that. I just can't do that. I must point out that this is a diddy degree in History at Stirling. These rules probably aren't applicable if you're studying medicine or something. I've been more like this lately, however I now have two essays for Friday so can't really do them both tomorrow. Only 1000 of 2500 words through the first one, determined not to go to bed until I finish it tonight. Yet here I am on P&B. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I don't know about anywhere else, I'd imagine it's similar, but at Stirling you've got to pay £45 to graduate. Originally I thought this was to cover costs for the ceremony, but it's still £45 if you graduate in absentia. I'm a little annoyed at this. Fortunately, I'm not in so tight a financial situation at the moment where I can't put together that much money, but I can envisage a situation where I (or others) might be. It just seems like a bit of a cheek to wait until the end, once you've actually completed every academic aspect, and then they demand £45 before you can actually graduate. If it's that important, stick an extra £45 on the tuition fee at the start of the year. I'd like to know what the justification for this fee is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I have done every essay the night/morning before its to be handed in and got consistently better grades than my pals. I think some folk just work well under pressure. They usually spend the week before doing all dayers in the library reading books and writing quotes and all that. I just can't do that. I must point out that this is a diddy degree in History at Stirling. These rules probably aren't applicable if you're studying medicine or something. I too fell into this category. Then again, I could have just been far superior to everyone else in my year anyway. Early morning stingy-eye-syndrome certainly helps though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 It's not been a good couple of weeks assignment wise for me. That HRM report was slowly uploaded on the deadline (I'm still seething about that) and my International Relations essay missed the deadline by 15 minutes on Monday*. *4:45pm deadline to be handed in. I was in Inverness that weekend. Plan train that will get me to Glasgow with time to spare. Train is delayed several times along the way. Drop bag off at flat then wander over to the McCance building. Go to hand it in and remember that my watch had been running 15 minutes slow that morning. On the plus side, my exam revision is going well 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushroom Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Handed in my dissertation... I'm done for the year... I love music. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I've got a 4,000 word essay due for Monday. I know exactly what I'm going to write, I've done all the research, but I just can't find the motivation to sit down for four or five hours and get the whole thing typed up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddie06smfc Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Had my first exam today, fair paper should have comfortably passed. Got my second tomorrow and then the other 4 over the next 3 weeks makes a change from 6 over 6 days in December. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) Stirling Uni, the bogs in the corridor where computer labs 2Y5 and 2Y8 are, somebody has made a 'Log of your shit' chart in one of the stalls on the wall. I logged my Thursday shit in there in red ink. Edited May 1, 2012 by JamboMikey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Stirling Uni, the bogs in the corridor where computer labs 2Y5 and 2Y8 are, somebody has made a 'Log of your shit' chart in one of the stalls on the wall. I logged my Thursday shit in there in red ink. Is that in the middle cubicle? If so then it's good to hear that is still going strong, noticed that a couple of years ago when I was at Uni there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Na, its in the one furthest from the door. Its possible that the old one was cleaned off and someone has resurrected it though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 The annual Portal crash as you frantically refresh to select a half-decent module is well underway here in Stirling. Come on tae f**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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