get a first class degree

Ultra-über-yaying! It looks like the longest goal I’ve achieved (in terms of when it came true minus wen I started aiming to get it). 2 years, 7 months, 9 days—take that, lack of self-determination!

If I understand my academic regulations completely, I should get something like 72% overall, with a 80% mark for my third year reseacrh projcet ^{(mistyping to avoid googling)}.

Oh YAY, happy me! It’s definitely worth it, if you consider the sheer pleasure of achieving a long-term goal that will srve you for the rest of your (employed) life.

Thanks to the eternal and tireless supporters, as well!! ;)

... and meanwhile: relaxation, travel, reading, sipping iced teas on terraces, and no thinking. (Ok, or very little.)

that I wrote my first entry on this goal.

I’m pretty near—it’s gonna be over just tomorrow, in fact. It’s my very-last-ultimate-this-one-is-the-one deadline, and it’s tomorrow. I haz degree tomorrow. Well, not technically, I’ll only get the results on the 2nd July.

But hey, one thing hasn’t changed in over two years: I’M DAMN PROCRASTINATING HERE, on the very last night of my degree.

Ok. Last essay. Been accepted at a great university for an MA next year. I’ll likely get a 1:1 in July, or so I hope.

Self-talk: Move. your. ass. now!

I just created this challenge now. As I’m procrastinating while I’m writing an essay. Dear, dear irony.

I told myself I wouldn’t come here, I’ve got work and everything… If I start I’ll get stuck, all that stuff.

I’ve got 4 essays, the Education studies one is done, and I’ve still got two Philosophy essays and one Linguistics essay. That’s 6,500 words in 7 days. It’s highly doable.

But honestly, I can’t fathom whether “For.mal log.ic is useful in addressing philo.sophical issues” or not, nor say whether “Loc.ke’s att.ack on the doc.trine of inna.te ideas is successful” or not.

GRBLEUH!

Right. Now I wasn’t even here. But I’ll be back. And thanks for all your cheers for the last 2 months! :)

(The dots, because the last thing I need is my tutors stumbling on my 43T account by googling their essay topics to hunt down plagiarism…)

Laweeez, you were right. The first semester result don’t count towards the degree.

runs in circles, screams and shouts

(oh, and funny how I just choose to resume 43 Things when I have a uni assignment ^^)

70% in Education studies (essay on gender id. and sexual orientations in high schools), 66% in Epistemology (Descartes), and 61% with an incomplete essay on Hume and miracles.

Of course, there’s stuff to be happy about. I’m happy about the grades for sure, but not about my attitude, which merely consisted in doing just average, or in other words, as little as possible.

Being dishonest to myself, I could say “Oh well, grades are what I’m asked for, I got pretty good ones, sod that”, but I’ve been doing that for too long a time, and now I’m thinking that my grades are averagely good, and my attitude-towards-studies grade hardly gets a “Pass”.

OW!

B+ for the “Cartesian dualism” essay!

::shakes his speck::

Woohoo!

One B++, two ABs and one B! (68%, two 70% and a 65%).

Given the fact that the 80-100% is scarcely ever used, woohoo \o/!

But still, not enough. Getting a first is getting grades over 70%.

100-70% – 1:1 – First class degree
70-60% – 2:1 – Upper second class
60-50% – 2:2 – Lower second class
50-40% – ? – Third class degree (nearly failed)
40-0% – F – Failed

Yesterday I’ve been told that it’s extremely rare for students to get a 1:1 degree in philosophy. Yeah, and so what? I’m still motivated.
Woohoo! \o/

But still, it starts here and now. I first thought I would set “get a 2:1 degree”, but hey, what’s the deal to aim lower than the best?

“Aim at the moon, if you miss it you’ll fall into the stars.”-Anonymous