Think I'm going to fail Uni

shifty_uk said:
I've held relatively senior and well paid jobs since I was 16 but thank you very much, it was greatly appreciated.
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You've been working in senior jobs for the last 5 years yet are half way through a full time degree? Interesting. If your job before Uni, aged what, 17-18, was so senior (Congrats for reaching a senior position at such a young age) why did you chuck it in?
 
Education really isn't for everyone, depending on what you want to do later on in life. My parents were pushing me to finish college and then go to Uni initially, until I got a letter from college after the first year basically asking me not to come back :o for me there was really no motivation at all to carry on education, after leaving secondary school.
 
02goswej said:
I just finished my first year at Uni and did great.

But I died feel a bit funny a month or two after moving 600 miles away from home. Got over it and started to enjoy it!

University isn't for everyone. It's just a damn shame it's quite hard to get an IT Job without a Degree nowadays (So I've been told).

Computer Science is what I'm studying, passed 1st year with 90% (But then again I love programming ^^)

This is probs just a bump for you, if not have you had a look at some other course options?

/Johnathan
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Same ive just passed my first year of doing computer science as well, I wudnt of passed if it wernt for my awsome friends as we balance work and play equally :P , the women are the best thing. Now im going into second year im going to settle down abit and not go out as much and work a lot harder. These things happen mate. If i didnt go to uni i would have regretted it for the rest of my life. I just hope i pass uni as i dont wan to fail and come back to my life back home. Find the power to work mate, just think it will all be worth it. I was so desperate to get a car the other week and only just had enough to get 1, then after a 1 hour convo with my dad on the phone convinced me not to as i dont need 1. He said "wait untill u have finished and get a better 1". Its all about sacrifices and getting something better out of it. Hope this helps :) and good luck
 
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I'd suggest trying to at least have something to hand in unless you're willing to effectively remove yourself from the course. If you hand in some work that is at least vaguely addressing the task you were set then you've got a chance of passing, your lecturers do want you to pass (in almost all cases) and will be looking to give you marks but that's impossible if you don't hand in anything.

I'd suggest also going to speak to student services and/or your assigned tutor as soon as is reasonably practicable, if you've got reasons why you are struggling then telling them promptly will make it much easier to mitigate any potential problems. Even if you've got no real reasons then the simple fact that you've come to them and informed them may be viewed as addressing the problem and help them to give you the benefit of the doubt should your work be borderline.
 
im kinda the same I dont tend to put as much effort as I could just seems to be a weakness of mine but I get decent mid to high marks and havnt failed anything yet and this year is my last for ba but I really hate the fact that I get so many essays to do when the course I signed up for is a practical subject they just seem a waste of time when acadedmic skills isnt my strong point
 
I resit like every year. Still passed though. Sometimes Uni isn't for some people, or not the right time. It's especially stressfull around exams. Just tough it out.
 
you got to get some self discipline.

the people i hang around with (even in our 3rd year) were just all smoking and bbq all day all night doing cool stuff that i wanted to be a part of and had been in the year 1.

but i knew if i did what they did i wouldnt get the grades i wanted, id get the grades they wanted.

i had to cut myself off for small amounts of time, especially round the final exams for revision etc. no more 2am basketball and smoke offs etc

yea it sucked but who are you at Uni for? Yourself or someone else? yea having friends is cool but they will understand if you need to revise. if they dont then they arent really friends at all.
 
Nickg said:
you got to get some self discipline.

the people i hang around with (even in our 3rd year) were just all smoking and bbq all day all night doing cool stuff that i wanted to be a part of and had been in the year 1.

but i knew if i did what they did i wouldnt get the grades i wanted, id get the grades they wanted.

i had to cut myself off for small amounts of time, especially round the final exams for revision etc. no more 2am basketball and smoke offs etc

yea it sucked but who are you at Uni for? Yourself or someone else? yea having friends is cool but they will understand if you need to revise. if they dont then they arent really friends at all.
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Nothing wrong with 2am basketball -_-
 
I'm not a fan of the course I'm on at the moment. It seemed great until I actually started it :P
Now I'm too far in to change course but I got about a 2:2 from my second year grades and I put way less effort into it than I should've. Because I don't like the course, though, I find it hard to make myself do work outside of the lectures which is going to gimp me in the long term :(
 
BENJAMIN HERBLE said:
so why the eff did you bother with Uni, being as you had such a senior well paid job at what? 19?
pah
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because after a 2 year placement in industry(which I'd had since 16) I fancied a change, an opportunity to run departments in retail was available to me, I took it. Before long, it wasn't where I wanted to be. University seemed like the only option after that. "Well paid" was perhaps a slight exaggeration by everyone elses standards but at the time, I seemed to be doing ok.

Between last night and this morning, I've done the work and submitted it. My lecturer comes back from annual leave on Monday, I'll discuss it then.

Thanks for all the replies and ''do it'' attitude.

Edit: Surprisingly, after I admitted defeat last night was probably the easiest sleep I've had in weeks.
 
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You just have to sort out a schedule. I could never be bothered to do any work at home, or in the labs at uni.

So I made a day a week and went with a friend who was similiar to the library and studied/done work there. Ofcourse I had to do some in the labs, but I found that in the library, in the sections where it was desks only, no computers, I got a lot more done.
Having someone in the same situation helps as well as you push each other on. It's not your final year, it only has to be a couple of hours a week probably.
 
shifty_uk said:
because after a 2 year placement in industry(which I'd had since 16) I fancied a change, an opportunity to run departments in retail was available to me, I took it. Before long, it wasn't where I wanted to be. University seemed like the only option after that. "Well paid" was perhaps a slight exaggeration by everyone elses standards but at the time, I seemed to be doing ok.

Between last night and this morning, I've done the work and submitted it. My lecturer comes back from annual leave on Monday, I'll discuss it then.

Thanks for all the replies and ''do it'' attitude.

Edit: Surprisingly, after I admitted defeat last night was probably the easiest sleep I've had in weeks.
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Your earlier experiences sound like my friend, Dave.
What uni/course?
 
I lost motivation by the end of my first year. I struggled on through and graduated with 60.4%. :o

Myself and my friends worked out we did our entire degree in just under 2 weeks - everything was an all nighter. :p

It depends on how you are as a person - whether you can stick it out or perhaps change your course. :)
 
I'll be going into my third year in September and I know what you mean about lack of motivation etc. I was miserable as I made the decision to move away from home, and I also ended up quite far away from my boyfriend. I've successfully got through year 1 & 2 simply with the view my degree is a means to an end - I'm doing it because I know I need it to get where I want to be in the long run and that helps me personally :-) good luck xx
 
shifty_uk said:
Not because I'm thick but because I just haven't put the effort in, frankly. This is my resit year, I've passed semester one but in semester two I let it slip and as a result got landed with three resits. Two application builds are due tomorrow and I haven't finished them because I just don't have the will.

Since starting Uni I've been somewhat depressed and incredibly anxious about the whole thing yet I've never quite got into it or bothered much. I prefer working if I'm honest but it's just something I had to do.

Just thought I'd vent as I'm feeling pretty down. :( Anyone been in this situation?
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OP I think I was in your boat. I did 2years computing (not sure why)

Thought it was the course, changed to a subject I actually did like..

But thought enough was enough and left.

I just didn't like education/uni... It wasn't for me end of.

I'm glad I swapped courses but it has led me on a certain path in my life now. I want to work within construction.

But at the moment I'm doing something I should have done after school, I applied for the army before quitting uni to see what happened, to be totally honest with you I kept thinking to myself, am I actually doing this? I am crazy to be quitting Uni again?

But I went away for the 2 day selection they do and It confirmed where my life was going, I loved it! I know for the people in the forces here that the 2day selection is not even 1% of what basic will be but there wasn't anything I hated.

ANYWAY, Uni helped a bit because if It has given me a wider vision and I'm joining the royal engineers and getting a trade out of it.
 
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