When you've been a college student on and off for 5 years, you hear it all.. Here's a short list of the most common things I've heard at uni ? I didn't go to any lectures, and now I'm freaking out about the final. Got any hints? ? Even though I'm a 3rd year student, and in every single paper I've ever written, the abstract wasn't included in the word count, for this report, is the abstract included in the word count? ? How many tutorials can I miss without academic penalty? I'm too hungover.. ? Even though you said the 12th at least 5 times, and today is the only the 10th, when do we get our marks back? ? Let's organise a study group before the exam, so we can chat about how much we don't know, and who got with who at the end of year ball ? I can't find any articles on the single most researched topic ever! ? I didn't know we had class today.. Despite it being at the same time every week for the last 12 weeks.. ? What's our professor's name again? ? Even though you're talking about Topic A, I'll interrupt the lecture to show you my skills and knowledge by going off on a tangent about Topic B.. I sah smert ? OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod only 10 more weeks til the final, I HAVE to start making study notes, like yesterday.. And send them to everyone I know.. And revise them.. And revise them again.. I'M NOT PANICKING, YOU ARE!! ? Class? Nah.. Uni bar? Hell yeah! ? I think people who wear shoes to class are so blasé.. I'm waaaay too cool for that.. Or attending class.. Or studying.. Oh hey, can I see your exam notes? ? Anyone got $1 for ramen? ? I'm not worried, there's still 4hrs to go before this 2000 word paper is due, I can totally smash it out ? P's get degrees ? I say I was up all night studying, but in reality, I was playing games, watching videos of cats, reading crappy ad-filled articles about the Kardashian's, and didn't sleep til 4am, so yeah, I am snoring in class right now.. ? Do you think that obscure, one-off comment our professor made about that topic not even relevant to the subject in gonna be in the exam? ? Probably should've studied instead of binge watching all 9 seasons of HIMYM. For the 3rd time ? ? Will there be food? ? There's not enough coffee in my cup for this.. ? Write drunk, edit sober. ? Only __ more weeks til freedom!! What do kids say at your college?
At my school, on the way to an exam, a lot of people say or think, "I should just walk in front of the bus so I don't have to take this test, and the school will pay my tuition." It's kind of depressing, but very common lol
my bad, it's the Aussie system.. 50-64% is a Pass.. 65-74% is a Credit, 75-84% is a Distinction, 85-100% is a High Distinction we don't do ABC's here
I wondered what p's get degrees meant. Are we the only ones who classify with first, 2:1, 2:2, 3rd and pass?
This is more of a workforce problem I think but we realized this upon looking for our OJT's. That company says they want Fresh Grads ... With already 3 years of work experience. Where exactly do they expect "experience" comes from?
During final exams, we all yell "Take one for the team!" cause the beautiful rule here is: If someone dies or gets seriously injured in class during the exam, everyone receives an A. it's horrible but it's college life
Are there going to be free food/things? Are we really required to go to class? Does attendance count for a grade? Will there be any extra credit we can do? What all are we going to be tested on? When are the quiz/test dates again? When is our break? Why do teachers give us questions over irrelevent things? I have never heard him talk about this test question in lecture AT ALL. How hard is the test going to be?
? How many more meals do I have to use up before we have another new set of meals? (Our uni does 10 meals as min, a week. If we don't get those 10 meals finished for the week, we lose out on that money. It does not roll over like other unis. :cry: ) ⌚ I hate my teacher. They suck cause I have bad grades. They don't know how to teach. ✏ My teacher writes too damn small for me to read her/his chicken scratch and jot down lecture notes for the test. Why the hell does my teacher not make study guides for us? Our life is hard as it is. The uni food here sucks. Take me to some nice place to eat, Friend. I'm gonna be fat with all this stress eating. I need to exercise my stress off. But [insert excuse here].
classification system over here in England. Almost any decent university ranks undergraduate degrees as with honours unless you only get a pass. A first is the highest rank, second class are split into upper second (2:1) and lower second (2:2) then 3rd. Then the people who don't graduate with honours get their pass. Most people end up with second class honours so I'm guessing the 2:1/2:2 distinction was brought in to differentiate. A good degree is usually classed as 1st or 2:1.