Start my degree friday, any advice?

Gadge

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My company are paying for me and another work mate to do a degree (BEng).

Its part time, over 3 and a half years.

Anyone have any advice or tips? Good sites to help us? Forums?

cheers
 
goto every lecture, not matter how boring/easy/stupid it may seem. sit at the front and not with the hungover/drunk people at the back who constantly feel the need to chat absolute rubbish about how they're housemate got laid by some stacked lass the night befor
 
Write loads of notes, do the work early, not at the last minute, wear a vest when it gets cold.

Just common sense really, dont be a fool and you'll breeze through it.

mrmoose said:
... about how they're housemate got laid by some stacked lass the night befor
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mrmoose said:
goto every lecture, not matter how boring/easy/stupid it may seem. sit at the front and not with the hungover/drunk people at the back who constantly feel the need to chat absolute rubbish about how they're housemate got laid by some stacked lass the night befor
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Good advice, Uni is easy if you turn up and have half a brain. All my friends who failed or dropped out of uni were more than giften enough to complete their course but didn't because they were more interested in getting drunk and messing about.
 
If there is anything that isn't clear to you during a lecture raise it, or make a note and go and speak to the tutor at the end. Don't let anything pass you by as it will come back to haunt you later on.

True story
 
Mat said:
Write loads of notes
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I find this to be quite bad advise (just my learning style) as people write what is on the board when you can dl that of the site later, i find you learn much more just sitting and listening, and just noting down the odd thing or page to look up.
 
Print off lecture slides and take them to each lecture with you. Write what the lecturer says next to the relevant slide EVEN if you don't have a clue what he/she is spouting. It may save your **** in the future.
 
dont skip a lecture every week because you think "its easy and you know how to do it"

it also comes back to haunt you when you have a class test and cant even understand the questions
 
it may be a daft question but its not like school is it? class / teacher situation. Basically you just listen to someone talking about the subject, take notes and do your own learning?
 
Gadge said:
it may be a daft question but its not like school is it? class / teacher situation. Basically you just listen to someone talking about the subject, take notes and do your own learning?
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You have lectures, which are basically the above and then you have seminars which is where you're in a small(er) group of say 20 and go through questions/problems with someone. If you're doing a science you'll have labs, where you spend time performing experiments at the expense of other students who have paid the same but get less contact time and use less equipment.
 
Gadge said:
it may be a daft question but its not like school is it? class / teacher situation. Basically you just listen to someone talking about the subject, take notes and do your own learning?
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Yup, that's basically it.

There'll be assignments though, and depending on the lecturer/module content their may be weekly work they like to check. They won't send letters home to your parents though if you don't do it :p
 
Mulder said:
You have lectures, which are basically the above and then you have seminars which is where you're in a small(er) group of say 20 and go through questions/problems with someone. If you're doing a science you'll have labs, where you spend time performing experiments at the expense of other students who have paid the same but get less contact time and use less equipment.
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Actually if your doing science you get labs with a demonstrator between about 6 of you, and instead of seminars you get tutorials with a lecturer/researcher in groups of three, work shops where you do questions in groups of 20 with a few demonstrators, and pass groups in groups of 4-5 with 4 year 3 -phd students helping you with problems at the expense of people doing pointless subjects :)
 
thanks for the advice.

Not looking forward to oral presentations, no way!! Im a quiet person and this will be a big thing for me :(
 
i am doing a degree part time over 4 years.

Biggest class so far has been 12, some have been just 3 people. If you are a dedicated course without the full timers should be ok.
 
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