People With A Degree

Sounds about right, if I remember rightly mine had to be handed in febuary /march time. Mine was horrifric as I wrote it when I was 7 months pregnant and had lost 90% of my brain cells :crazy: Good luck with yours

that sounds pretty keen to me

for my first undergrad. one I started five days before it was due in

what are you reading?

***(STARDUST)*** said:

Sounds about right, if I remember rightly mine had to be handed in febuary /march time. Mine was horrifric as I wrote it when I was 7 months pregnant and had lost 90% of my brain cells :crazy: Good luck with yours

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lol, that can't have been easy

ddd

very normal mate........
although i had all the research and hands on work done well before the hand in date i wrote the whole thing in 2 weeks! not a good idea, i didnt sleep during this period and the ink was still wet when i handed it in at 4:01 (supposed to be in at 4:00).
so at the moment your fine..........

peelo said:

that sounds pretty keen to me

for my first undergrad. one I started five days before it was due in

what are you reading?

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oh er i think i'd self destruct with worry if that were me

reading archaeology

Ruby Soho said:

oh er i think i'd self destruct with worry if that were me

reading archaeology

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I'm much better now... I get things done very early on.

But I have to create artificial deadlines just to get the blood pumping

Thargor1 said:

very normal mate........
although i had all the research and hands on work done well before the hand in date i wrote the whole thing in 2 weeks! not a good idea, i didnt sleep during this period and the ink was still wet when i handed it in at 4:01 (supposed to be in at 4:00).
so at the moment your fine..........

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sounds like me - did an applied computing degree.

The program was written months before hand but did the entire 50 page document (20,000 words) in about 2 weeks - I didn't really sleep either and most was done after 11pm as I work much better when its dark!

I'm specialising in Anglo-Saxon Period, esp burial

I've got to have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow who is one of the worlds leading experts in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

i'm gonna look like a right prat with my limited knowledge...and she's not friendly either

I've got 2 degrees (sits smartly up in chair feeling good about self). First dissert I worked on for about 4 months off and on achieved a first, Hons BA Anthropology. Never spent one minute working as Anthropologist.

Second I wrote in two weeks...and the was at Oxford. Graduated last spring, with distinction I might add. Hons BSc Computer Science.

Wahoo!

Shane

shane r said:

I've got 2 degrees (sits smartly up in chair feeling good about self).

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I've got four and part way through fifth.

shane r said:

I've got 2 degrees (sits smartly up in chair feeling good about self). First dissert I worked on for about 4 months off and on achieved a first, Hons BA Anthropology. Never spent one minute working as Anthropologist.

Second I wrote in two weeks...and the was at Oxford. Graduated last spring, with distinction I might add. Hons BSc Computer Science.

Wahoo!

Shane

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I've got the equivalent of 4 degrees

(Engineering degree, master of science, and an LLM - equivalent of bachelor of law and master of law)

I'm not doing 5 like Peelo ( ), although after next June I'll be able to add PG Dip after the others if I wanted to.

I've done 3 dissertations of lengths between 6000 and 17000 words, and I started writing about a week before the deadline!

Five won't be the end. At least another one after that... two if I have to. Hoping to skip masters this time.

well as seen as you've got 3 million dissertations done between you...you can do mine!

peelo said:

Five won't be the end. At least another one after that... two if I have to. Hoping to skip masters this time.

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I couldn't justify the cash! My last tuition fees were £6500, and the ones for this year are £8500. I am self funded as well, I don't get a loan or any other help, so the costs involved are an important consideration.

I'd be interested in doing a part time PhD if I ever find a subject I care enough about!

Ruby Soho said:

well as seen as you've got 3 million dissertations done between you...you can do mine!

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there are places you can 'buy' dissertations from

there's a woman on my current degree who is an archaeologist

DESIGN7O said:

I couldn't justify the cash! My last tuition fees were £6500, and the ones for this year are £8500. I am self funded as well, I don't get a loan or any other help, so the costs involved are an important consideration.

I'd be interested in doing a part time PhD if I ever find a subject I care enough about!

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yeah I couldn't and wouldn't do anything at the moment which isn't funded... my fees were a mere £1250 because the degree is funded

but yeah my MSc was £4500 and that was a good few years ago now

I want to do cranial osteopathy as an add on but that comes to £9K in fees

and yeah I have the problem with a doctorate that I'd struggle to find a single person or place to fund and supervise it... in that it would be a crossover area

Well to try and answer the question...

Talk to the Dissertation tutor and find out what is her favourite subject and what she likes. even if you do not like it do what she likes. The job here is not to do something you like or do original work it is to pass your degree.

Make certain that you keep talking to her all the time and listen to what she says.

Start now - at least getting ideas and the shape of what you are going to do. Write up a test dissertation and get her to look at it before you write up the real one

All the above talking about writing in 2 weeks is all very macho but is rubbish. Do it as I say and it will be a reasonable experience and you will end up with a good mark and importantly a recommendation if you want to do a second.

I'd NEVER leave Uni if I could avoid it, I just can't afford to stay on. I'm a foreigner so fees are astro, especially at Oxford.

PS The one I did in 2 weeks was 16, 000.

Shane

I don't know how other students do it.


I live at home and i don't drink and i find it difficult and expensive at uni

How do those who live at uni with there mates and drink every night get through it?