Tooting my own horn

**James Deuce** · 10th July 2004, 19:44

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** · 10th July 2004, 19:47

Congrats Jim

**What?** · 10th July 2004, 19:53

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

**jrandom** · 10th July 2004, 21:07

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** · 10th July 2004, 21:22

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 10th July 2004, 21:27

Originally Posted by Jim2

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** · 10th July 2004, 22:25

Originally Posted by El Dopa

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** · 10th July 2004, 23:11

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** · 11th July 2004, 08:32

Yahoooooo!

Ya big girly swot! Well done mate

**Mongoose** · 11th July 2004, 09:52

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** · 11th July 2004, 20:44

*goes to check his own uni results*

**Milky** · 11th July 2004, 20:49

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

**James Deuce** · 11th July 2004, 21:01

Originally Posted by 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

NIIIICE

**toads** · 12th July 2004, 09:55

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!!