Who needs Wednesdays anyway?

I loved my degree. Amazing time of my life. Until recently utterly useless, but I couldn't move on to teacher training without it so whatever. My Masters was shit though.
 
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Yeah education during a lockdown was fucking cack. Sat at home alone writing my dissertation was not how I shine academically (although I did anyway, it wasn't fun or satisfying and could have been better).
 
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I'm thinking about a masters, but not until it is definitely in person. I just can't do online classes and pay attention
 
ZenGiraffe said:
My master's was the best and most useful thing I've done for my career, just saying
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Ironically despite everything I've made my life slightly easier by doing a Masters.
 
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I always fancy a masters until I wake up and remember how much of chore writing assignments was as an undergraduate when my only concerns were a few hours in Tesco and fitting in night outs.

But maybe one day.
 
I really can't imagine there was a better time to be at uni than the early-00s. Everything was just CORRECT. The music was ace, nobody gave a shit about excessive drinking or drug use, nightclubs hadn't been turned into carpet shops yet, Hollyoaks was really on form...

It all just seems a bit shit these days. People are a bit worthy and abstinent and care about issues now, which we never did because we were raised in the 80s when nothing mattered.
 
ButterTart said:
I really can't imagine there was a better time to be at uni than the early-00s. Everything was just CORRECT. The music was ace, nobody gave a shit about excessive drinking or drug use, nightclubs hadn't been turned into carpet shops yet, Hollyoaks was really on form...

It all just seems a bit shit these days. People are a bit worthy and abstinent and care about issues now, which we never did because we were raised in the 80s when nothing mattered.
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It was more than fine when I went. I loved being a mature student and not give a shit about the politics. I just studied and played super hard in equal measure. I had a job as well!
 
Suomi said:
For me it was the worst time of my whole academic life, I just couldn’t fit in anywhere. I still have nightmares about waking up and being back there
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My undergrad felt wasted for the first two years. Only having a few hours at uni a week (English) meant nobody was that close, added to the fact that I lived with school friends and stayed in Belfast. Erasmus salvaged it in final year.

PGCE was way harder but actually felt like being part of a community. And we weren't even in uni for most of it.
 
Ag said:
It was more than fine when I went. I loved being a mature student and not give a shit about the politics. I just studied and played super hard in equal measure. I had a job as well!
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The idea of doing a course now really intrigues me. I know as much as I'd want to be all business I'd be far too curious about living the lifestyle again.
 
ButterTart said:
The idea of doing a course now really intrigues me. I know as much as I'd want to be all business I'd be far too curious about living the lifestyle again.
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I didn't live on campus and I barely touched the club nights. I was lucky that I made friends straight away and our group just kept growing. Also my course had over 100 on it, so there was plenty of folk to pick from. I just focused on heavily utilising the bargain pints in the various bars and writing the best fucking essays I could. I loved campus.
 
I really do want to do a masters (+ even further after maybe idk) when I complete my bachelors. I just think, WHY stop? It’s not a course that walks into a job straight after so there’s no real incentive to stop.

Equaully I’d have to do it part time if I do. I do want to start building up a career when I graduate and get out of the zero hour part time HELL.
 
Ag said:
That makes me sad.
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The saddest point was probably in the first year and the flat I was thrown into agreed to go into town for my birthday, and during the pre-drinks in the student bar they were egging me on to drink a yard of beer, which I did and then immediately chucked it up all over myself. I went home to change and then meet them by the bus stop to go to the club, and when I got there I got a text from them saying they weren’t coming, so I just decided to go anyway on my own. When I was in the club this girl I knew from my course started talking to me and I told her it was my birthday and pretended my friends were somewhere in the club and I had just lost them, and just felt like such a loser as the lie left my lips.
 
Soldi said:
I really do want to do a masters (+ even further after maybe idk) when I complete my bachelors. I just think, WHY stop? It’s not a course that walks into a job straight after so there’s no real incentive to stop.

Equaully I’d have to do it part time if I do. I do want to start building up a career when I graduate and get out of the zero hour part time HELL.
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Yeah, I really wanted to do a PhD, but matters of a practical nature have led me down a different path.
 
Suomi said:
The saddest point was probably in the first year and the flat I was thrown into agreed to go into town for my birthday, and during the pre-drinks in the student bar they were egging me on to drink a yard of beer, which I did and then immediately chucked it up all over myself. I went home to change and then meet them by the bus stop to go to the club, and when I got there I got a text from them saying they weren’t coming, so I just decided to go anyway on my own. When I was in the club this girl I knew from my course started talking to me and I told her it was my birthday and pretended my friends were somewhere in the club and I had just lost them, and just felt like such a loser as the lie left my lips.
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BASTARDS.
 
I'm hoping I get one of those honorary degrees for services to ket or something.
 
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