Lord Presents..What Made Your Day + What Ruined Your Day IV

[andmark]

Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering whether we could do with an "Academia Thread". There seems to be enough of us to allow it to work.

 

[StephenZA]

Less than 40 is a fail in the UK system.

Basically:

80-100 = Potentially a publishable piece of work

70-80 = First class

60-69 = Upper second class

50-59 = Lower second class

40-49 = Pass/Third class

30-39 = Fail

20-29 = A really bad fail

1-19 = basically nothing redeemable about this whatsoever

This would have probably saved me 2 years of my life.....

 

[sledger]

This would have probably saved me 2 years of my life.....

Haha really? How so?

 

[StephenZA]

Haha really? How so?

Couple (read 2 in consecutive years) of maths courses/exams I ended up getting (literally) 48% and 49% on and had to redo the following year... I actually ended up doing more courses than I required because otherwise I would have been sitting around doing **** all near the end of my initial degree, became a better student later in life. Degrees are a bit different here, end up doing a generalised degree (BSc in my case) across multiple subjects (in may case; maths, physics, CS, chemistry) before you specialise in final year and honours year (4th year that we require in SA because we are so backward and need to catch-up to RoW), but nothing is done as a combined focused degree with synchronised ideas; you do what the lecturer decides to teach that year. Creates a bit of a mess really. Professional degrees are more focused (Engineering, Law, Doctors etc)

Also I started as an engineering student my first year out of school and realised no ****ing ways am I this boring.... so swapped universities and degrees. I have an interesting academic background to say the least. And then I ended in experimental physics material science field were if something can go wrong it probably has.... Phd is taking ****ing forever because I spend most of the time fixing and re-engineering the equipment rather than doing research.

Point being though I would have got through those (largely useless courses) without being held back if 40% was a pass.

 

[sledger]

Aaaah I see what you mean. My condolences.

The hardest exam I ever did, relatively speaking, was the GCSE maths exam I sat when I was 16. Relative to that, no law exam I have ever taken has been as difficult.

Hateful subject.

 

[andmark]

Maths is also one of my worse topics. I ended up with a B in GCSE, but the year later, I did a General Studies exam which was all about maths and got a U. Fortunately, I got A's in the other exams for General Studies, which were all essay-based and ended up with a B overall. Weird event.

 

[StephenZA]

Here the courses are split into to half year and quarter terms; and are quite often requirements for the next set of courses. So for example if you fail a first quarter maths course can stop you taking math and/or physics courses later in the year and the following year until you pass. And there is no aggregating across subjects (sometimes they allow it in the specific subject courses but not often). And I hate writing exams, stresses me out no end.

 

[vcs]

Also I started as an engineering student my first year out of school and realised no ****ing ways am I this boring.... so swapped universities and degrees.

Wise choice

 

[StephenZA]

Wise choice

The wise choice would have been to take the scholarship for the accounting degree and be ruling the world now!..... (or at least have something in my bank account).

And the sad thing is I probably am that boring.

 

[Adders]

Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering whether we could do with an "Academia Thread". There seems to be enough of us to allow it to work.

Yeah, move all you nerds to one spot so us dumb ****s can have this thread back.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Would prefer cleaning **** and milking cows than have an office job

 

[andmark]

Yeah, move all you nerds to one spot so us dumb ****s can have this thread back.

We're all dumb ****s at the end of the day even if some of us dumb ****s like to quote Kant. Or as Socrates would say, "all I know is that I know nothing"

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Progress is Kantian...

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Ruined: So I was trying to tell somebody something important, and they go and cut me off mid sentence only to ask the exact same question I was trying to answer

Have some patience you self-centred ****

 

[Shri]

Ruined:

Shouting match with a **** who took an order at 9:29 PM when my shift ends at 9:30 PM, making me work an extra hour for free. I told her that I am not going to get paid for the hour by the guy who runs the delivery business and asked the restaurant to give me money if they wanted the delivery done. I am going to report her ****y attitude to her manager tomorrow when turn up for my shift and I'll work as slowly as possible from hereon until they wake the **** up and start paying me for my ****ing time.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

You have too much time wasting on your hands

 

[sledger]

Can you not just legitimately refuse to take it in such circumstances?

 

[Shri]

Can you not just legitimately refuse to take it in such circumstances?

I don't know. The next time it happens, I'll wait until Friday and when it gets real busy, I'll walk out in the middle of the shift to make sure they really get ****ed. Uber Eats was much less stressful. No boss, no packing, no stocking the whole ****ing kitchen every night, no making pizza boxes.

 

[zorax]

I'm sure you can

Boss @ 9:29: Shri take this delivery for me
You: Nah sorry my shift is over
Boss: No it isn't there is a minute left
You: Yes it is, check your watch again
Boss: *checks watch* it's 9:29!
You: Check again

Repeat till it's 9:30 and then go home.

 

[social]

So today was Social Jr's first game of the new cricket season and he wasn't looking forward to it at all as he hates fielding

Kid has had chronic pain in the ankles & knees for a couple of years and generally ends up stiff as a board after a couple of hours so can't say I blame him but forced him to play this year as we want him to get his arse off Xbox and into the fresh air on a weekend

Anyway, he soon discovered that he's now big enough/quick enough to bowl bouncers and what do you know, he can't wait for next week

Now just have to convince him to put the odd ball in the other half