Why the fuck are you even going?

Fuck me, if your surname is to the back just do what my dad did, and turn up ten minutes before the end in motorcycle leathers then fuck off to the pub.

>>5313

Was he on a motorcycle? That's very odd otherwise.

>>5313
There's no chance of that at my uni, they've choreographed this thing to the minute. You're locked inside the hall until everyone's done the grip and grin, and you have to be inside by zero hour or you're turned away at the door. Further if you've not got the right rags on (rented from the uni-approved company) you'll be turned aeay also.

I'm only doing it to gratify my parents, I'd have graduated in absence by choice.

>>5314

He was indeed. A Norton Triumph, at that.


>>5315

I just told me mah that I wasn't going to do it. She then admitted that not just my father, but me mah as well, had not told their parents about the ceremony.

>>5316
Your dad sounds like he was a try-hard poser.

>>5317

Fuck off, Night Pain.

>>5317
And you sound like a cunt.

>>5317

>>5316 here.

3/10 SEE ME.

>>5320
"Daddy, some lads are saying that you really are a top card, popping on your motorcycle leathers to show how much of a rebel you are to the Proctor, Dean of School and all of the tutors"

>>5320
He is right, you know.

>>5322

Really? If his surname guarantees he will be the last person to pick up his certificate, why waste valuable living hours and money to stand in a hot, sweaty hall when you can have a very good idea of when your name will be called, and just stick your head in to pick up the sheet of paper and fuck off back to the pub?

>>5323

I'd buy your dad a pint.

As a bribe so that he doesn't beat me up.

>>5323
No, I mean about his dad being a try-hard.

>>5325

Seriously, Edgar. How are you even posting, I didn't know The Void had WiFI?

>>5327

PotY.

>>5328
Whenever people post this I read it in my head as potty.

Sage for pointless blather.

I just got my result. 2.1 with a 69% average. Story of my fucking life.

>>5330
You have my sympathies, the same happened to me.

I never could go to university.

At AS Level I got 3 Es and was told that it would be impossible for me to go anywhere good. I'd have to get straight As at A Level in order to then average the grades out to just 3 Cs. We all accepted this was never going to happen.

So I retook the AS Level year ... only to get 3 Es again. At least, I thought it was 3 Es. I thought I'd been consistent ...

Recently learned that the second time round I actually got 2 Es and a U.

My whole life is lie.

>>5332

It's okay mate, I got an X in art.

>>5332
You don't need to feel useless just because of A levels. Academic study isn't for everyone, you can get far in life from practising a useful vocation or trade.

Just don't be complacent with being a wasteman manager at some shitty coffee shop/retail place, having a properly useful skill is far more admirable.

>>5330
Yep, same here. I remember exactly why, the cunt marking my oral presentation deemed it wasn't good enough when I couldn't understand her thick German accent.

Like I've said, uni's are artificially difficult - they have to follow the bell curve and make it seem as if the course is hard by marking like utter bastards. Deplorable to say the least.

>>5334

Things worked out (sort of) but thanks for your kind words. School was a while ago for me now.

>>5333
I got a FF in GCSE vocational art.

Suddenly I feel slightly better about it.

>>5335
I'm pretty happy with my result, my uni put up with a lot of bullshit from me and were ok with me suspending in my second year due to depression and coming back. I owe their staff a lot. Just a bit miffed that I've missed out on doing something I know it was in me to do.

>>5336

What did you end up doing in lieu of going to uni?

>>5316
Do you lads think I could get away with forgoing this bullshit next year without it being a massive faux pas?

The thought of my parents, teachers and fellow classmates all intermingling is stressing me out more than any assessment I've ever had on my course. I fully imagine I will throw a tantrum if I have to spend all day doing this bollocks.

>>5340
I think all universities in this country will let you graduate in absence (ie not turn up). The 'graduation' ceremony is really just a dressing up party with no real reason for them existing anymore.

>>5341

OP here. This.

>>5339

I became a broker. Though would rather not reveal in what industry - Anonymous and what have you. Worked harder than I'd ever done in my life and was able to 'make it'. (About 50% of the young people at the company I went to didn't/don't).

Have moved around a little bit and been really unlucky in the various jobs I've landed, in various ways. Now having taken some time out to enjoy life, I'm trying to get back into it.

My industry fell to pieces after the 2008 collapse too and hasn't recovered. It's not the greatest time to get back into things and I might have to take a pay cut but my head is in a good place again and you can't put a price on that.

It's not my "passion" but it's a job, one that I've made a good enough impression in to hopefully land me another one soon.

Despite my terrible exam results, I'd like to think I'm a fairly sharp cookie. My post with the Dunce picture was meant to amusing more than anything else.

pic unrelated?

>>5343

METEX.

>>5342
The fuck are you on about m9, I'm the OP.

>>5343

Regarding that image, aren't most folks done with fashion by the "married with children" era of their lives? Don't they spend all their fancy pants money on artisanal beers? What's wrong with walking on pavements too? I like not being hit by cars, it's mutually beneficial.

>>5345

Shit, sorry. Drunken posting...I should be a mod.

>>5346

I made this for you. I don't know why.

>>5349

Hahaha!

That was very kind of you, Anon, thank you.

>>5343
So it seems in order to be truly free, you have to be unemployed, sit on your arse, never love, never reproduce, look like a tool, get hit by cars, not even own a TV, get arrested and die penniless.

Well shit, sign me up for that.

>>5332
I got a double E in art, then the the teachers had the cheek to give me an award of merit before I left. I think they must have took pity on me and thought "He'd better leave with something.."