ProcrastinationOutlook is a wonderful tool, but not when it keeps reminding you that it is now 96 weeks since you were supposed to finish a report you haven't even started yet.
Just how lazy are you? How long will you put off the essential or the inevitable? What do you fill the time with?
(We're too lazy to write something funny here. You do it.)
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chthonic, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:18)
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They say(and by they, I mean people who don't know what they're talking about) that a 2:1 is more valuable to a prospective employer than a first because it means you are both academically bright, but that you are also more likely to be a more fully rounded person - as most people who get firsts are nerds who have never seen the outside of a library and have no clue about the real world.
Personally, I think that this is made up to make people who just miss out on a first feel a bit better.
A friend of mine did no work, partied all day and night, and got a third. His tutor said to him "You may not have got a good degree, but atleast you've fucked about properly." I suppose failing through idleness is better than trying hard and still failing.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 16:19, 1 reply)
People with 2:1s earn more on averageWhich is probably the statistic behind what you just said.
But lots of people get firsts, so they range from unable-to-relate-to-mere-human types down to gosh-you're-bright types.
The explanation was probably invented by a jealous thickie who went to Oxford Brookes.
(, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 11:42, closed)
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