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>> No. 5093 Anonymous
4th March 2014
Tuesday 9:28 pm
5093 Changing unis and applying after UCAS deadline
To cut a long story short, I'm in my third year at uni and fucking hate my course. Went into it for the wrong reasons, but in the last year I've worked out what I actually want to do. Applied for that course at my current uni, been turned down - I have ABB, they want AAB. Sent them an email explaining extenuating circumstances that I'm mentally ill and disabled, but not sure how successful that will be.

Seen the course at another uni, requires ABB if you're a mature student (which I will be) and you've got an obvious passion for the subject. Think I got that across on my email to them. Another uni I'm considering wants ABB too. Main problem I can see is that it's past the UCAS deadline. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Would I have to apply through UCAS? Looking at the UCAS application, it looks like a right ballache to do it again. I don't know what examining bodies were responsible for my GCSEs.
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>> No. 5234 Anonymous
31st March 2014
Monday 3:58 pm
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>>5226
Alternatively, failing twice but managing a degree third time round could be seen as showing great perseverance. Most people would have said fuck it by now I imagine. And at the end of a day a degree is a qualification, you're better off having one after 6 years than not having one at all.

My advise would be to make a schedule and stick to it. I find this helps in not falling into bouts of depression.
>> No. 5235 Anonymous
31st March 2014
Monday 9:38 pm
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>>5226

If it makes you feels any better I'll be 27 when I graduate.

2nd degree in it.
>> No. 5236 Anonymous
6th April 2014
Sunday 7:52 pm
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>>5093
will you really be so much happier in your course as to justify restarting everything from the beginning and spending another 3 years at uni?
you're, like, halfway through your final year
i get you hate it
but you've got, what, one term more to go through? will three more years of uni, and the upheaval it involves, and the money it costs, really be better than spending one more term on a course you don't like?
>> No. 5237 Anonymous
6th April 2014
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>5111

I'll defend RPGSoc. It's a genuinely fun environment for a lot of people, and can really bring socially awkward people out of their shell.
>> No. 5238 Anonymous
7th April 2014
Monday 12:31 am
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>>5236
If I continue with my current course, I'll probably have to retake the year, and then I've got another year (if not two if I stay on for the integrated masters), so realistically it's only adding one (or maybe even zero) year on to my time at uni.

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>> No. 5227 Anonymous
30th March 2014
Sunday 1:59 pm
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Unsure if this is /101/ territory but it seems mostly /uni/.

Group assignments. I want a little moan about them.

Got a mark for one of them the other day and a summary of it was my work was great but other people's work wasn't and lowered the grade. I'm quite unhappy that I get a lower score because other people don't give a shit. Probably two thirds of my second year are group assignments and I've attempted to give the best I can but I end up with half arsed work given to me and I have to re do their work for them. People who miss deadlines and I have to wait for them to finish it is another thing that happens during it.

I can see the merit in group work but usually I end up with people who just don't want to do any work. When my final grade depends on them, it's just not right.

What are your thoughts on this, lads? Picture was the only education related image in my image folder.
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>> No. 5229 Anonymous
30th March 2014
Sunday 2:38 pm
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I've never got group assignments. It seems like a lazy cop-out justified by "well in the future you will have to work with other people".
>> No. 5230 Anonymous
30th March 2014
Sunday 3:07 pm
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>>5227
>When my final grade depends on them, it's just not right.
It's very right, and it's very fair. The point of the exercise is to get you to realise that this is how life is. You will have to work with other people who may or may not be up to the job, and the success or otherwise of the project will depend as much on them as it will on you. If you turn up at an interview or assessment centre and put the failure of the task down to everyone else, then get ready to enjoy life on the dole.
>> No. 5231 Anonymous
30th March 2014
Sunday 3:19 pm
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>>5230
There's still a difference though.

One is a real problem and you could end up losing your job and the other is completely made up and apparently has no consequence. There was one group assignment where there was a real problem that had to be solved and there was a significant improvement in the same person's performance.
>> No. 5232 Anonymous
30th March 2014
Sunday 4:00 pm
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>>5231
>One is a real problem and you could end up losing your job and the other is completely made up and apparently has no consequence.
Well look who's never had a real job.
>> No. 5233 Anonymous
31st March 2014
Monday 7:34 am
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>>5227

I only went tot he pub, agreed to do everything then didn't bother doing it. Oh, the days.

Nowadays I actually have to do shit I agree to do...

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>> No. 5202 Anonymous
23rd March 2014
Sunday 9:42 pm
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I've been dealing with English for quite a time, amassing knowledge and vocabulary. Though I still screw up with the tenses, I've run into another problem recently. The problem is… well, my language knowledge is rather bland.

I suppose it's a vocabulary volume problem, thus the solution becomes a little more obvious: read. Well, read what? The internet is a so-so, varying greatly. Classics? That may be, but what exactly? I'm not particularly familiar with English classic literature. And aside from classics — what else could help?

What do you reckon, lads?

Not sure altogether where to post this, but since it's about learning, let it be here, in /uni/.
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>> No. 5219 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 5:34 pm
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>>5204
>adding flair and flourish of the kind that Stephen Fry advocates
I don't know if Stephen Fry is an ideal model in this case. His vocabulary and manner of speaking seem natural coming from a 56 year old upper-class Oxbridge graduate, but that's not necessarily something everyone should aspire to emulate.
>> No. 5221 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 8:07 pm
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>>5219

Stephen Fry is not someone anyone should attempt emulate in any way, unless they plan to be more competent at suicide than he was.
>> No. 5222 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 8:10 pm
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>>5204

It's also worth noting that Will Self uses an amazing range of obscure vocabulary in his books, and has a wonderful narrative voice and turn of phrase to boot.
>> No. 5223 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 8:24 pm
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Today at work I received a change document stating that the justification was to avoid "several hours' nugatory work". It's almost like someone was sat there with the thesaurus thinking it would make them sound clever, when in actual fact half of us had to resort to the dictionary and wondered why they didn't just say "wasted effort" instead.
>> No. 5224 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 8:52 pm
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>>5223
I see where you're coming from, mate. My struggle is not for nagging people and pretending to be clever but rather a way to master the language a little further.

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>> No. 5170 Anonymous
23rd March 2014
Sunday 2:29 pm
5170 studying abroad in summer
Lads I got accepted by my uni to go study in summer in China.

I'm a second year student and I've had some work experience already but wanted to get an internship to hammer home muh CV.

It's a really good uni and the course itself looks interesting and one in a lifetime kinda thing, I'd be there for 1-2 months.

Any opinions on this? Experiences? Will employers be impressed by muh study school in China or will they just think I'm a pleb who didn't get an internship?

Thanks m8s.
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>> No. 5200 Anonymous
23rd March 2014
Sunday 7:04 pm
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>>5198
Well thanks a lot for your time anyway, would hardly call a reasonable request an abortion though.

But I do appreciate it, I'll just post elsewhere in future to avoid a shitfest of pedanticism
>> No. 5211 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 1:53 pm
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I think it's a good thing to do. Not done it myself as my courses haven't offered that sort of thing, but everyone I know who has studied abroad really enjoyed it, and if it's a once in a lifetime opportunity you should definitely go for it.

Also I think employers will be impressed by study in China. Obviously China is an important world power, and western businesses will want to forge closer ties with China in the future probably. As you'll have had some (albeit only a couple of months) of experience in the country, I can't see them viewing it as anything other than a positive.

Go for it, m8.
>> No. 5215 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 3:49 pm
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>>5195

That isn't what you asked for.

Any answers I could give you would be researched myself, which is something you can do yourself.

It annoys people. The only person who could give an opinion that wasn't baised is someone who has studied in China, so all I can really say is "sounds lyk laf" which isn't helpful or sensible to base your career prospects on.

If you had made a thread saying "Decided to study in China, what do you all think?" People would have replied in earnest. However, the userbase didn't come here to do your research for you or to plan yor life for you. This isn't something transient like a phone recomendation.

Honestly, just do it. I can't see how it could possibly hurt your CV to have studied a summer in China and if you look at it like a sort of working holiday I'm sure it would be a blast.
>> No. 5220 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 7:13 pm
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>>5215
>Honestly, just do it. I can't see how it could possibly hurt your CV to have studied a summer in China and if you look at it like a sort of working holiday I'm sure it would be a blast.

You literally could have just posted that and avoided the cuntoff, assuming you were the one lambasting the lad about research.
>> No. 5225 Anonymous
24th March 2014
Monday 8:56 pm
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>>5215
>Any answers I could give you would be researched myself
>so all I can really say is "sounds lyk laf"
Not the OP, but it seems like the best option in that case is not to post in the first place.

>However, the userbase didn't come here to do your research for you
... which is a relief, because the OP didn't come here to ask us to do their research for them.

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>> No. 5161 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 5:29 pm
5161 Student exchange
So I was wondering if there are any universities in the UK, that have exchange programs with Russia. Preferably in the engeneering/maths/physics field.
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>> No. 5163 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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I can't see it on the Erasmus site. Although, admittedly, I've only looked for about thirty seconds.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/erasmus-country-guides-about.htm

Chances are if a university has exchange options then they're through Erasmus, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. Or just go to whichever uni you want for now and then get into postgrad, there's a lot more opportunities for travel there.
>> No. 5164 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>5162
OP here.
Well, I'm from the other side of iron curtain, actually.
>> No. 5165 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 6:22 pm
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I tried to find such a place and failed.

Your best bet would be to sign on somewhere reasonably outward-looking and then move early to find a Russian university which has a curriculum which matches one year of the course; if you can demonstrate well in advance that a year abroad would be feasible I think most places would in principle be open to it.

Alternatively, study on the continent. The French, for example, have dozens of such programmes.
>> No. 5167 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 7:01 pm
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I'm living in Moscow currently as an expat, and have been looking at their uni's for the past few months with an idea of resuming my PhD studies. I'll share my experiences, but they may not be fully informed for engineering/physics/maths. Everything I say is also assuming you don't speak Russian - just ignore my post if you can.

HE here is really fractured into a ton of small institutes and academies. They are all trash or government sponsored. I can speak for Moscow (where anything of value is), but there may be options at St Petersburg too. I really wouldn't advise going to any other city - educational prospects there will be completely mickey mouse.

Of the legitimate or prestigious institutions there are only two universities in Moscow that teach in English at all - I could go into a lot more detail as to why I believe it is so, but it may be irrelevant. Anyway, they are The Highest School of Economics (don't let the name fool you, they cover humanities, engineering and social sciences too) and Skolkova Tech (mostly business/computing but maybe do engineering and hard science).

MSU (lomonov) has a faculty for foreigners but it is mostly for teaching them Russian language/culture - it certainly doesnt cover the subjects you mention. There is a major re-shuffle in Mathematics and Hard Sciences (I hate this term, but for want of a better word...) teaching going on at the moment. I'm not really in the know about it, but it's some major restructuring of everything - you could search around I guess. Anyway, I believe only private research organisations have any formal teaching in English - none of the publicly funded institutes do.

As >>5165 says, you may need to forge your own exchange. I don't think any of these will have exchange programmes at all, HSE and Skolkova are brand spanking new and are only just kicking off their English-language based programmes at all, I doubt they have the ties.

I'd also point out that anything other that these 2 are a complete waste of time academically. I haven't checked any league tables (which are worthless anyway), but general levels of HE here are pretty tragically bad. There is a lot of current investment, but it won't kick in for a generation or so.
>> No. 5168 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 7:51 pm
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>>5167
What you've written would be really helpful and I greatly appreciate your work, but as I' ve mentioned in >>5164 I am from Russia, not the UK. Still very interesting info.

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>> No. 5121 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 10:04 am
5121 Unis worth going to?
Lad m8s, please keep it civil and I mean no disrespect because it obviously largely applies to the individual, but what are the 'good' unis? What are the ones that people will read on a CV and think 'hey that's pretty alright'.

So far I've got it to: Oxbridge, LSE, Imperial, UCL, Durham, St Andy's, Warwick, York, Bristol, Exeter, Edinburgh.

Any ones that shouldn't be on there? Any that should? These are the ones I'm looking at applying to, are these regarded as the best ones?

I honestly have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to unis, I'm atleast in for AAA and was thinking of Oxbridge, Warwick, York and not sure where else to apply. I know one from Oxbridge obviously is, but are the other two worth anything?
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>> No. 5157 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 4:38 pm
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>>5149
If as you say you can walk three As (I don't disbelieve you, in retrospect A-levels were mostly forumulaic) you will get a shock at pretty much any uni with regards to workload and self-management. Out of interest what subject do you want to apply for?
>> No. 5158 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 4:44 pm
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>>5156
>being around high calibre students

This is definitely true. It shifts your expectations of what is a normal amount of studying and generally people are more open about talking about their studies. Also a lot of degrees are now graded against other similar departments in the country in finals so going to a uni that pushes you harder will give you an advantage with regards to getting a 2.I/I.
>> No. 5159 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 4:46 pm
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>>5155

It's an important point. It isn't just about the name on the CV - a genuinely good University will give you significantly more personal development than others. Larger and more varied/established societies, better visiting lecturers, additional seminars/programmes which give minor certification and so on are important to your skillset and CV.

You also have to bare in mind that some Unis are specialists in certain disciplines, and employers in that sector will value those close to as much as Oxbridge.

As far as some 'prestige' ranking system goes purely for wow-factor I imagine that after the top bracket of oxbridge there is a 2nd tier comprising London/LSE/Durham/Warwick, a third tier of the Russell Group (which are pretty interchangeable in size/prestige and quality in general terms) and then everything else well below. I guess most will disagree with me.

Anyway as other lads have said, if you go somewhere in the Russell Group it's much more about the classification of your degree than the institution. One piss-take on this are the 'old' Scottish universities which call the Bachelors a 'Masters' and give a hilariously big CV advantage to those not in the know.
>> No. 5160 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 4:54 pm
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>>5159
>As far as some 'prestige' ranking system goes purely for wow-factor I imagine that after the top bracket of oxbridge there is a 2nd tier comprising London/LSE/Durham/Warwick, a third tier of the Russell Group (which are pretty interchangeable in size/prestige and quality in general terms) and then everything else well below. I guess most will disagree with me.
Students and people heavily involved with education in general tend to overestimate the awareness of a lot of employers as to what is and is not a higher tier university outside of Oxbridge and maybe the London Unis. I've had interviews with people confused about what the difference between the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, UMIST, and Victoria UoM is, for example.
>> No. 5166 Anonymous
19th March 2014
Wednesday 6:59 pm
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>>5159

Oxbridge do this as well, although you only get it 3 years later. Plus it's an MA, and a lot of employers know that an MA from Oxford just means a BA (which all of their undergrad degrees are), as no Oxbridge masters programmes award an MA.

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>> No. 5083 Anonymous
4th March 2014
Tuesday 4:44 am
5083 Comp Sci with 2 A Levels
So, thanks to depression and a poor work ethic, I'll only end up with 2 A Levels (Maths and Computing), plus the EPQ thing if I get round to doing it. Having been told that I can go to Uni next year (albeit a shit one), I'm looking at uni's offering Computer Science or something similar that take the equivalent of 2 A Levels (around 200 UCAS points). Uni of Wolverhampton seems to stand out but to be honest, the choices aren't very inspiring. So, my questions: 1) what is the Uni of Wolves like? 2) Is it worth just doing a foundation degree for a year or two then trying to get into a better uni?

Cheers ladm8s
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>> No. 5102 Anonymous
7th March 2014
Friday 7:20 pm
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>>5101
To back up the point about experience over education, I've dealt with graduates with good grades who are absolutely useless in real life, and I've dealt with those whose grades were not so hot but did at least have a good head on them with lots of common sense. We have a bunch of apprentices in our office, with varying levels of education, and the brightest button of the lot is the one who dropped out of uni in his second year.
>> No. 5103 Anonymous
7th March 2014
Friday 7:32 pm
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>>5102
It's not particularly important, but what industry are you in?
>> No. 5104 Anonymous
7th March 2014
Friday 8:13 pm
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>>5103
I'm in IT. I've seen the same pattern elsewhere, though in those cases I've only seen the ones that actually got the job, and didn't get to see if they were the best of a bad bunch or managed to bullshit their way through the process.
>> No. 5105 Anonymous
7th March 2014
Friday 8:31 pm
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>>5083
By the way what is A level Comp Sci like? I almost took it but chose business studies instead.
>> No. 5107 Anonymous
7th March 2014
Friday 8:41 pm
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>>5101 Thanks mate. I thought she might be talking shit, but then outside of the actual subject (even then, they teach VB.Net now to the year below!) my school doesn't seem to know much about the whole software development/computer science thing and they kind of apply who they do know about other subjects or just Uni in general to it, which doesn't particularly work well IMO.

So, now I know it is a good idea to spend my year learning as much as I can about programming and the theories behind it (assuming I don't end up in some other school taking a new A Level and retaking others) while building a portfolio to show I am actually competent enough, I'm considering trying to get an apprenticeship at a tech firm for the year to give me something to do, with structure so I don't get lazy and stay in bed all year. I know they aren't just everywhere but it's probably still worth a try, the experience and networking could be invaluable. It'd save me from doing a 4 year degree with a placement as well, which would be a nice option to have. Is this actually a reasonable idea or is there too little chance of getting a placement somewhere?

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>> No. 5041 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 10:30 am
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Any lads who studied abroad: how did you afford it? Where did you go, and how did you find your programme?

I took on a Masters at my undergraduate uni without much idea of my options, a mistake I don't intend to make again if I manage to get further.
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>> No. 5060 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 3:50 pm
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>>5058

> Did it just pop into your head one day to relentlessly Google it to and chase down leads?

Yes. Try it, then come back with a more clear set of questions and, as above, will be happy to oblige.
>> No. 5061 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 3:55 pm
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>>5060

*I

Sorry lads, it is pushing midnight here and I am off to bed...
>> No. 5062 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 4:36 pm
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>>5059

What should? Whether I can receive funding for accommodation and board whilst studying in Sweden? Because that's all I personally was asking and posting about.

I made this post >>5049 as previous searching had indicated that I would have to fund living expenses myself. I only posted it because >>5048 suggested that most Scandinavian countries will pay for your living expenses.
Reading through, http://www.csn.se/en/2.1034/2.1036/2.1037/2.1040/1.9366 doing a bit more searching and from previous searches this doesn't seem to be the case to me?

If you have other information or knowledge to the contrary I'd be grateful to hear it as all the places I've looked have indicated that apart from the actual course fees I'd have to fund myself.

I honestly don't understand why people feel the need to be so willfully unhelpful, especially at what seemed to me a very reasonable OP. He doesn't seem to want a list of links but actual first hand experience. Why that inspires such ire in some posters is a mystery to me.
>> No. 5069 Anonymous
5th February 2014
Wednesday 8:30 pm
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Okay, I feel this is just about close enough not to merit its own thread:

Have any /uni/lads managed to get proper summer work abroad - that is, the sort of thing which will bear scrutiny on the CV, and receiving at least enough remuneration that you're not left out of pocket?

If so, how?

I've got(-ish) French and Russian, but I'm on a non-language degree; I'll not specify which in order not to narrow the scope of the discussion. Third year, going on fourth of four.
>> No. 5070 Anonymous
6th February 2014
Thursday 3:48 am
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>>5042
Its free in EU countries where it is free for residents but there is no obligation under EU law for similar financial support so I'm wondering where you got this from.

I've actually been looking at this myself for future plans (I study undergraduate atm) and whilst it is indeed free to do a Masters in Stockholm there are no local scholarships for EU residents and you need to prove an income of 7,000kr a year to cover living costs. There is probably a need for more keeping in mind the housing situation in Sweden is much like ours and the cost of food, drink and cigarettes is outrageous.

I have however found that the Skills Funding Agency in the UK might give me money towards my studies, or at least the lady on the phone told me so. I need to get the University in Stockholm to register to it but when I pull my finger out I will let you guys know how much money I can sponge off the government.

>>5049
Bollocks, I'm not the only one looking into this and I could have saved some typing if I had read the rest of the thread and seen my twin here.

>>5059
Stop being an annoying faggot. >>5042 made the statement of certain states paying for you to study and the only theoretical way you could do that would be to study part-time and look for work (in order to claim jobseekers).

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>> No. 5011 Anonymous
1st November 2013
Friday 4:19 pm
5011 Pieces of paper
I hope this doesn't dishearten you Unilads, but fucking hell. Degree certificates - I've found toilet roll more useful in my life.

For the first time in ten years I have been asked to provide a photocopy of my degree cetificate - and ignoring the look on my face when I recieved it and realised I could have photoshopped one in less than 5 minutes - this would be an issue as it in in a different country.

So, I call Transcripts and discover that they are happy to email me a scan as long as I can provide name, DoB, years studied and degree title. Hmm...sounds secure, yes? So actually, in five minutes on facebook I could request any qualification that my many friends were awarded.

Five minutes after this, I recieve an email from my new employer, who has been alerted to the possible difficulty. It read in full:

>If it causes you hassle don't bother about it. It is only for in house HR.

So, not only could I have forged a degree, or blagged a real one all within five minutes, it turns out just saying that it may cause you a little effort to get a copy is fine.
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>> No. 5013 Anonymous
1st November 2013
Friday 4:33 pm
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>>5012

Sorry, I am not complaining about the degree istelf, I loved it, learnt a lot and met come incredibly good people - indeed this job comes via a friend on an elective course.

It is just the shit about the certificate. Especially given how much they charge for copies.

However, should I ever need a Masters in something interesting I now know it is only a phone call away. It is a nice stop-gap until I actually get round to post-gradding in Scandinavia. Anyone with experience in a field but no qlaification should think about this one. It may require a legal change of name, but fuck it, that is hardly an issue.
>> No. 5037 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 5:56 am
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Well, if I could plausibly sell myself as having a first from Oxford, then I probably would have been admitted there anyway.
>> No. 5038 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 7:34 am
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>>5011

Fuck it, I'm just going to become a fraudster. Everyone's always complaining about idiots who don't know what they're doing being inexplicably elevated above their intellect, so what's one more on the grand old funeral pyre of humanity?

What are you, the filthy, oppressed dregs, going to do about it?!
>> No. 5039 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 8:40 am
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>>5038

I plan to mess with your life through the medium of Druidic magic, so the question is really what you are going to do about that?
>> No. 5040 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 9:50 am
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>>5039

I'm not too sure. However, my fake Theology degree might have a trick or two up its sleeve...

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>> No. 5025 Anonymous
19th December 2013
Thursday 2:09 pm
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Right, lads.

I just sat a Higher Chemistry assessment and I think I missed full marks by 1 because of a question I'm sure must have been wrong, or because I didn't study enough. looking for some help from some *actual* chemists.

What is this CH3CH2CH2OCH3 called? It's definitely not a Ketone, or at least It shouldn't be, and it's not an ester. It's one of the products of a CH2 insertion at the Hydrogen on the Hydroxyl group in propan-1-ol, but I had to draw it and name it and I guessed and wrote butan-1-one even though I know that is probably wrong.
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>> No. 5032 Anonymous
19th December 2013
Thursday 5:51 pm
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2-4-5 Trioxin.
>> No. 5033 Anonymous
19th December 2013
Thursday 5:52 pm
5033 Different lad
>>5031
Get real you preening idiot. It gets the same end result and now this pointless thread can thankfully be closed.
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19th December 2013
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>5025
No actual chemist uses the systematic name for any but the simplest of compounds. Walk into a lab and you won't find any propanone, you'll find acetone; you won't find any diethyl ether, you'll find ether. It's simply not worth rewriting the textbooks for standard reagents any chemist is familiar with. Furthermore, when chemists synthesise molecules with tens or hundreds of functional groups they aren't gonna arse about with a name hundreds of characters long, it's gonna be called something short and sweet (aspirin, procaine, NanoBalletDancer (pic related)).

What I'm saying is if you're studying a chemistry degree and they put any emphasis at all on systematic names, it's not a serious chemistry degree. Systematic names are mark-farming for A-level students, nothing else.
>> No. 5035 Anonymous
19th December 2013
Thursday 6:32 pm
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>>5034

See, we were talking about this the other day and decided it was a fucking farce due to the prescriptive nature of the marking scheme for Highers and A levels that you can answer a question 100% correctly using all the correct context and descriptions, but if you don't use the word they are looking for you get it wrong.

That is a Joke.
>> No. 5036 Anonymous
19th December 2013
Thursday 7:43 pm
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>>5035
Yeah, that is definitely the weakest point of Chemistry at that level. It's easy marks that doesn't require any deep understanding which is great for weaker students bumping up their grade, but unfair to those that have greater understanding but poor exam/study techniques.

Physics A-level is worse though, so many questions require to the state the obvious, it is far too qualitative in general and few quantitative parts are too simple and rely on marks for silly things like using an arbitrary prescribed number of decimal places that has no basis in any kind of uncertainty analysis. I tutor students at A-level physics and feel very confident in my understanding, however I would not get full marks in an exam for not knowing the specific blindingly obvious point the examiners are looking for in an explanation question.

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>> No. 4988 Anonymous
26th October 2013
Saturday 9:28 pm
4988 Betting Odds
I don't understand the numbers that are displayed in betting shops. I don't under the concept of odds in betting. I add them up and they don't total 100%, so I have no idea what those numbers represent. I keep this a secret, lest people laugh at my stupidity.
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>> No. 5004 Anonymous
27th October 2013
Sunday 12:09 am
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>>4994
Fuck me. Thanks. The decimal one seems much, much simpler.
>> No. 5005 Anonymous
27th October 2013
Sunday 12:48 am
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>>5002

You fancy Christina, you do.

Is it because cerebral palsy ladies have constantly twitching fannies?

Just asking.
>> No. 5006 Anonymous
27th October 2013
Sunday 1:07 am
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>>5005
>Is it because cerebral palsy ladies have constantly twitching fannies?
Jesus Christ.

Is it true?
>> No. 5007 Anonymous
27th October 2013
Sunday 1:30 am
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>>Is it true?

Pervert


Yes.
>> No. 5008 Anonymous
27th October 2013
Sunday 1:37 am
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http://www.bettingexpert.com/blog/how-to-convert-odds

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>> No. 4974 Anonymous
23rd October 2013
Wednesday 5:06 pm
4974 .GS Marks my Nab.
I had a Unit Assessment today and I got one short of full marks and it is pissing me off no end and I want your opinion, because my lecturer hasn't explained it to me yet and I feel quite annoyed with myself.

3ab-3 x 7b5c

This makes no sense to me. At a guess I would say:

21ab3c

But that is after 3 hours of rumination. I left it blank on the test paper.
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>> No. 4983 Anonymous
23rd October 2013
Wednesday 8:18 pm
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>>4980
>Write the number '4759' in words.
>ON A GCSE PAPER.

see >>/pol/51150
>> No. 4984 Anonymous
23rd October 2013
Wednesday 8:41 pm
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>>4982
>>4983

To be honest, if you are looking for:

>people unable to function in society.

/pol/ is definitely a good start.
>> No. 4985 Anonymous
23rd October 2013
Wednesday 8:44 pm
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>>4980

Was it higher or foundation? And all the piss easy questions are at the front, so this is hardly a totally fair representation.
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23rd October 2013
Wednesday 8:49 pm
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>>4985
I know that they get progressively harder, but surely everything in there is supposed to be a test of one's skills? The fact that it is included at all suggests to me that there are some people who couldn't answer it.
>> No. 4987 Anonymous
23rd October 2013
Wednesday 10:02 pm
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>>4979

I left school at 15... and returned 10 years later to get highers, one of which wasn't Math. Because there are so many people in my HND that are in their late 20s early 30s, we are being given a crash course in the math we need. We do theory one week, Nabs the next. We are doing Statistics and all sorts of Int 2 and higher level stuff, so it's hardly taxing.

Well, the Higher Stats was not for the loose arsed. I just had a brain fart on one question and was looking for advice, which to be fair I didn't really need in hindsight as I had worked it out myself.

Should have aced the fucker.

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>> No. 4882 Anonymous
22nd September 2013
Sunday 6:41 pm
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Lads, I'm living with 8 women this year and whilst that may sound like a dream from a teen movie I don't quite know what I'm doing. I assume the fact that they are digging into ice cream means I should keep my head down for a few days but I could do with some top-tips.

Obviously I can't sleep with any of them its the living with part I'm getting my head around.
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>> No. 4968 Anonymous
22nd October 2013
Tuesday 1:07 pm
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>>4966
I started wondering why no-one has made a disposable toilet brush yet. And then I found they have.

This should be the standard.
>> No. 4969 Anonymous
22nd October 2013
Tuesday 1:31 pm
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>For more stubborn stains, I put on two medical gloves and clean the stain off with a flash wipe. Then I make a fist while holding the flash wipe and use my left hand glove to pull the right glove off and inside out. Then I hold that glove in my be-gloved left fist and pull the left glove off and inside-out too. Then I drop it into a carrier bag. No toilet water drips anywhere.
I bet you actually do this as well.

You two are aware of the "aerosol effect", right? Toilets spew bacteria in a 10ft radius when they flush. I've heard it termed "fecal mist".
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16033465
>> No. 4970 Anonymous
22nd October 2013
Tuesday 1:46 pm
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>>4969
Quantities in all these cases are so fucking small it makes no fucking difference except to appease retarded sentiment.
>> No. 4971 Anonymous
22nd October 2013
Tuesday 2:02 pm
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>>4970
Hush, I'm trying to wind up the obsessive-compulsives.
>> No. 4972 Anonymous
22nd October 2013
Tuesday 3:09 pm
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>>4969
Yeah, I don't see how my use of bleach could possibly help there.

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>> No. 4952 Anonymous
21st October 2013
Monday 11:06 pm
4952 BTEC
IT btec or Engineering BTEC both level 3 ?
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>> No. 4967 Anonymous
22nd October 2013
Tuesday 11:52 am
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I'd say IT because I know people who have done non A-level IT qualifications in college and have jobs in the field, whereas I'm fairly sure you need a degree to become a proper engineer (which will require at least A levels in maths and physics and/or chemistry for chem eng).
>> No. 4973 Anonymous
23rd October 2013
Wednesday 1:27 pm
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>>4967
I'd say the same, although I'd say you could go on from a level 3 into a uni course fairly well.

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