Dissertations - Uni
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no one, their all on strike at the moment 
actually at my uni the person who was your tutor (i see mine weekly) also co-marks your dissertation. I will present it to him at the start of may as well as my second assessor (someone i havent seen other than once at christmas.) They will then come to a decision and put forward a mark which will then be assessed by the uni board of directors, and a final overall grade will be decided upon based upon my 2nd year modules and the 6 i've done this year.
In terms of the other stuff, the actual project is demo'd and they have a ticklist, they then of course have to read through and mark each report by hand (the only hard bit of being a lecturer )
sadly im also posting in this thread instead of finishing my report about the java DNS thing
actually at my uni the person who was your tutor (i see mine weekly) also co-marks your dissertation. I will present it to him at the start of may as well as my second assessor (someone i havent seen other than once at christmas.) They will then come to a decision and put forward a mark which will then be assessed by the uni board of directors, and a final overall grade will be decided upon based upon my 2nd year modules and the 6 i've done this year.
In terms of the other stuff, the actual project is demo'd and they have a ticklist, they then of course have to read through and mark each report by hand (the only hard bit of being a lecturer
)sadly im also posting in this thread instead of finishing my report about the java DNS thing
Lagz said:Lol, does your second year count towards your final degree? If so count yourself lucky! I've got a whole 2 months before I graduate and I currently have 0% of my degree in the bag. Good luck though
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i think i'd rather take the approach and have everything on the final year than the more modular approach at imperial. Because before I even went into the third year, I'd already done about 30% of the degree and the trouble was I really didn't take the first two years anywhere near seriously enough (too much drinking and partying) and looking back i'd rather the first year had counted for nothing beyond passing it to continue.
Just means i have to work flat out for the third and fourth year to guarnatee a 2.1, otherwise it will have been 4 years wasted...
Ah the joys of being a first year, longest essay i have written this year was just over 3k words , got the pleasure of my dissertation to look forward too in a couple of years.
Mates of mine are all doing theirs at the moment so they are all a tad stressed, most have only just started writing but tbh it's the reading that it by far and away the most time consuming bit of a History dissertation the actual writing is not that hard.
, got the pleasure of my dissertation to look forward too in a couple of years.Mates of mine are all doing theirs at the moment so they are all a tad stressed, most have only just started writing but tbh it's the reading that it by far and away the most time consuming bit of a History dissertation the actual writing is not that hard.
my uni forced us to have the research portion (first 10k words roughly) finished by christmas, I had to present it to my 2nd assessor and actually earned a small portion of my overall marks back in january. I think it was a good way of doing it myself as they want a very scientific style document, with a formalised research section and then the design etc using a formal software design method (comp science btw) which is what i face for the next 4 or so weeks.. still at least i have the app done
You've got my pity there.BUSH said:
The most frustrating thing I've found in a similar situation to yours is that everyone else I know has seen their supervisor regularly and gained advice yet we'll still get marked exactly the same. :/On a password protected directory on my webspace, on 2 HDs on this PC and 2 HDs on another PC.afraser2k said:I say it every year, but remember those backups people!
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You should be fine as long as you're really focussed once you start. Have a good structure, find out all the major authors on the subject, and **stay on topic** and you should be fine.
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Well I left it pretty late to even start mine - about 6 weeks after it was due in. I was a complete idiot and let my work get well on top of me in my final year, I have one of my uni lecturers to thank for getting through and actually finishing my dissertation, he was really helpful and stuck up for me when he could have just written me off.
I finally handed it in over 6 months late, and was supposed to graduate at a later ceremony than all of my class, but was so embarrassed at myself I didn't even bother going, I just got my certificate sent through the mail.
It's probably my biggest regret so far, and was the difference between me getting my 2:2 instead of a 2:1.
So if anyone out there is leaving it really late, take my advice and don't!
I finally handed it in over 6 months late, and was supposed to graduate at a later ceremony than all of my class, but was so embarrassed at myself I didn't even bother going, I just got my certificate sent through the mail.
It's probably my biggest regret so far, and was the difference between me getting my 2:2 instead of a 2:1.
So if anyone out there is leaving it really late, take my advice and don't!
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Scam said:Surely its a bit late for that?
Hehe, you would think so wouldn't you!
afraser2k said:I say it every year, but remember those backups people!
I had a girl phone me on Saturday night who'd laptop had died
(it couldn't see the HDD anymore!). That was unlucky, as not everything was backup (not recently anyway), and she was off on a trip 6hrs later, heh.