Ambivalence…
Posted by Fyse on Sunday, 4 June 2006
In around ten hours I sit the final exam of my entire degree, and I’m not feeling exactly ready. Results thus far suggest I’m probably hovering around the class boundary between 2i and 2ii. That effectively means ‘good’ or ‘poor’, and so this paper could well determine the course of my future career. They don’t give PhD studentships to people with ‘poor’ degrees.
Then again, in about thirteen hours I will be finished. No more twelve hour days in the library. My entire degree will be done, and freedom beckons. So I guess that’s something…
Good luck, my friend. Unfortunately for me, I can only imagine how you feel…
I don’t understand the degree system on the other side of the pond. You’ll have to explain it to me sometime. Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Thanks ladies! (My most loyal of readers.)
I survived intact, but it was a pretty horrific final paper. Everyone found it hard though.
WhimsyChick - I seem to remember us discussing degree systems previously, but I’m not sure I ever explained satisfactorily. It’s a pretty odd system, where we have four broad passing categories. 1st, 2i, 2ii amd 3rd, 1st being the best. It used to make a lot more intuitive sense before they scrapped the ‘4th’ and split the ‘2nd’. Who knows if there was any method to their madness…