Tooting my own horn

[James Deuce]

I managed an A for my Uni paper.

I am now draped over my chair in a reasonable facsimile of a single celled organism. I had no idea I was that worried about it.

Must open a bottle of wine now.

[Two Smoker]

Congrats Jim :niceone:

[What?]

'On ya Jim. An "A" must call for a good wine, if not a single malt...

[jrandom]

Sorry for my denseness, Jim, but back in the dim dark past I must have missed a thread on what you were studying. What was it again? [Edit: Aha. Dope thread. Masters level management paper. You masochistic bastard.]

But well done on nailing it, anyway. Whatever it was. Good man.

*I'll* be back at AU as a Hapless Student in my Copious Spare Time (TM) next semester, doing a postgrad dip. Woe is me. I hope to be adding to the 'hurrah, I passed' threads, and not starting a 'buggrit, this studying crap is harder than I remember' tradition.

[James Deuce]

Sorry for my denseness, Jim, but back in the dim dark past I must have missed a thread on what you were studying. What was it again? [Edit: Aha. Dope thread. Masters level management paper. You masochistic bastard.]

But well done on nailing it, anyway. Whatever it was. Good man.

*I'll* be back at AU as a Hapless Student in my Copious Spare Time (TM) next semester, doing a postgrad dip. Woe is me. I hope to be adding to the 'hurrah, I passed' threads, and not starting a 'buggrit, this studying crap is harder than I remember' tradition.


Thanks for the comments folks.

I'm doing a M.Comms (IT) at Victoria. I've just been informed that the Degree programme is being wound up and I will be one of the last to finish. Plus all my electives have turned into Management papers only. Which is a crock of shit (please excuse outburst) as I'd already lined up a couple of options that had been tentatively approved and had nothing to do with Management BS (tm). Plus all the good lecturers have left. And been replaced with Germans and Australians. I'm going to end up paying a fortune (or at least a brand new bike) for a degree that will be worth zip, nada, zero. Still the Management types that inspect qualifications on CVs aren't to know that that I paid money for idiots to teach me nothing, which by definition makes me an idiot. If they don't pick up that I'm an idiot in the 1st interview then quite frankly I wouldn't want to work for them.

[El Dopa]

If they don't pick up that I'm an idiot in the 1st interview then quite frankly I wouldn't want to work for them.

Is that the 'Groucho Marx' approach to working for a company?

But good onya Jim. Hopefuly things aren't as black as you paint them WRT the rest of your degree.

[James Deuce]

Is that the 'Groucho Marx' approach to working for a company?

But good onya Jim. Hopefuly things aren't as black as you paint them WRT the rest of your degree.


Thank you sir, and yes I was paraphrasing the Great One.

As an example of how black things have become, the German hired to replace the Malaysian faced a mass walkout for one of his papers, and the School of Information Management has been forced to move the people who would be attending the other paper he was taking into a totally different School for a paper that is similar in content.

[MikeL]

Congrats, Jim.

I'm glad I'm not a student now.

What I hear from my son (also a Jim) doing a Masters in Pol Sc makes my blood boil...

[Ms Piggy]

Yahoooooo! :2thumbsup Ya big girly swot! Well done mate :apint:

[Mongoose]

Well done that man!!
Hope the fuzzy feeling has suitabley cleared out of the head after your wine and yer take a blast on yer cycle to celebrate!

[Milky]

*goes to check his own uni results*

[Milky]

Of the 5 papers I am taking, so for my results are 3 x A- and 1 x A. Still waiting om my mark for the calculus/maths modelling paper that I took though. Hopefully, with a similar second semester, I shouldnt have any troubles getting in to the specialisation I want next year :niceone:

[James Deuce]

Of the 5 papers I am taking, so for my results are 3 x A- and 1 x A. Still waiting om my mark for the calculus/maths modelling paper that I took though. Hopefully, with a similar second semester, I shouldnt have any troubles getting in to the specialisation I want next year :niceone:

NIIIICE :rockon:

[toads]

congratulations jim2, I think an "a" is a great acheivement and definately worth celebrating, keep up the good work we need all the intelligent people we can get in this country, just don't go and take your qualifications out of the country eh!!

[jrandom]

Hopefully, with a similar second semester, I shouldnt have any troubles getting in to the specialisation I want next year :niceone:

Well done that man! Keep it up all the way through and you'll notice that there are a few tasty scholarships for the top engineering grads...

[maybe]

Good on ya I don't think I have ever had an A in my short life.

[SPman]

Good on ya I don't think I have ever had an A in my short life. Whats with all these A passes....girly swat stuff!
Why ....back in my days,,,mumble mumble....an acceptable pass was a C...a "gentlemans pass"! Shows youve done enough work to get through, but have spent adequate time on other, more worthwhile, social pursuits!:rolleyes:

[James Deuce]

Whats with all these A passes....girly swat stuff!
Why ....back in my days,,,mumble mumble....an acceptable pass was a C...a "gentlemans pass"! Shows youve done enough work to get through, but have spent adequate time on other, more worthwhile, social pursuits!:rolleyes:

Damnit. I feel like someone's quoting something I said once :)

Thanks for all the feedback folks - I think Milky's achievement is unreal though. Hope there's a few more like him around

[Milky]

Well done that man! Keep it up all the way through and you'll notice that there are a few tasty scholarships for the top engineering grads...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....HAHAHAHAHA.....HA

seriously though, that is coming from me who doesnt spend as much time as he could on his studies... within engineering there are people who seemingly live to study. I had a look through the internal assessment marks for one engineering computing paper I am doing, and this person got: 60/60 60/60 19/20 and 18/18. Leaving them on 49.75/50% for that portion of the course so far. With marks like that how can you compete??? Seems that I am a reasonably intelligent type person, but I miss out on the academic scholarships for having a life of sorts :ride: and miss out on the all round scholarships because I am not sporty/leadershippy/culturally developed enough. :pinch:
I guess it depends on the yardstick you use for measuring yourself against, but for a lot of the time, I see many many places where I am non-scholarship material :(
Life is tough....

[Milky]

...Hope there's a few more like him around
I am sure there are... I think that there are also more who dont have the culture at home/ in their upbringing to take the natural intelligence they have forward through their schooling. There were a bunch of guys at my intermediate who were rather smart, but didn't have the channels to output that intelligence into anything meaningful for them. Skateboarding seemed to be the only solution at the time :msn-wink:
It is difficult to say how people will turn out as they grow, but I truly believe that there are much much greater numbers of potentially intelligent people out there than most would admit. I think I was lucky that I fitted in with the way the schooling system operated, and enjoyed the challenges that were presented to me along the way. It also helped that I was (deputy) head boy - deputy in brackets, 'cos my superior got booted for smoking :mellow: - and that allowed me to get a bit more involved with the teachers, other students, organisation, planning, fundraising etc... I think all in all I was simply lucky to walk the path that I did. :niceone:

[jrandom]

I think all in all I was simply lucky to walk the path that I did. :niceone:

Many of the guys I know who've done well think the same. I suspect there's a lot that comes down to hard work and guts, though. And ten years down the track your grades and scholarships won't matter much anyway (well, apart from getting you into your first job, which might be more decent if you're an 'A' or 'B+' student).

I worked for six months last year with the top AU engineering grad who came in to do a project we had going begging. He got a Rhodes Scholarship and is now at Oxford doing his PhD. He had a 8.85 GPA (about 98% average marks). He got that by being quiet and boring and working very, very hard... in his case it *is* going to help in the long term, because he certainly couldn't have afforded to go to Oxford otherwise. But I don't think that academic performance is a primary indicator of how happy you'll be when you're 40.

[Milky]

too right :niceone: