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Changing my place wouldn't help. I'm going to fail because I can't understand the lectures, reading the books takes me about an hour to read five pages, and all the exams are oral so there's the language barrier to overcome on top of the actually learning stuff.

The social life is great, I love the city, but I ****ing hate uni and I just want to cry every time I think about going to lectures.

:hug:

Aren't there language classes for foreigners with a focus on academic aspects? I know there are some at UCL.

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Reply 1741

Lizia

Original post by Ivanka

:hug:

Aren't there language classes for foreigners with a focus on academic aspects? I know there are some at UCL.

Thanks

No, they don't seem to exist. There's a generic language course, but that's the same grammar stuff we did at uni in England so it's fairly useless. I just find it so depressing, even when I understand every word on the page (after looking 90% of them up in the dictionary), I don't understand the concept they're trying to get across.

I guess I just need to man up, but I'm so worried about this. Especially since the pass mark here is 18/30 and SELCS give no information on what happens if you do fail.

Reply 1742

rockrunride

Original post by Lizia

and SELCS give no information on what happens if you do fail.

This, a thousand times this.

Reply 1743

Ultimate1

Original post by kerily

I'm having exactly the same existential struggle with exactly the same analysis sheet :teehee:

Are you a maths person too? :holmes:

Well ,take a guess :tongue:

maths person ofcourse :sexface:

Reply 1744

Lizia

Original post by rockrunride

This, a thousand times this.

Do you know anyone who did fail? I emailed Novella in a panic the other day to ask, but I just know she'll reply with something horrible.

It's so dumb. I'm not awful at Italian, and everyone else must cope somehow. I'm just sick of spending every moment worried sick. At least if she mailed back and said "You can't progress to fourth year", I'd know where I stood.

I wish I'd done a language assistantship now. I was worried about being stuck in the middle of nowhere Italy, but that's preferable to how I feel now.

Reply 1745

kerily

Original post by Ultimate1

Well ,take a guess :tongue:

maths person ofcourse :sexface:

A disproportionate amount of UCL maths people appear to be pretty active on TSR. Says something about the course, possibly :tongue:

I need to know who you are now :pierre:

Except, you know, 200 people per lecture, I doubt it's that easy :tongue:

Reply 1746

Ultimate1

Original post by kerily

A disproportionate amount of UCL maths people appear to be pretty active on TSR. Says something about the course, possibly :tongue:

I need to know who you are now :pierre:

Except, you know, 200 people per lecture, I doubt it's that easy :tongue:

Lol I'm in the lecture right now.

But wait you're very eager meet me, I need to be careful you might be a dangerous person :hmmm:

maths rocks pre uni. During uni it's a living nightmare ( well the maths ain't but the worksheets are :zomg:

)

Reply 1747

TheAngryMongoose

So, Applied Problem Class, Algebra Problem Class and the entirety of Mathematical Methods; anything else I can skip and/or fall asleep during?

Original post by Ultimate1

But wait you're very eager meet me, I need to be careful you might be a dangerous person :hmmm:

No need to worry about it. Kerily IS a dangerous person.

Reply 1748

Ultimate1

Original post by TheAngryMongoose

So, Applied Problem Class, Algebra Problem Class and the entirety of Mathematical Methods; anything else I can skip and/or fall asleep during?

Wow Algebra really isn't that boring, especially with Johnson dissin' half the class :tongue:

TheAngryMongoose

No need to worry about it. Kerily IS a dangerous person.

kerily

Cheyzzz Kerily, what is your response to that alegation.

Reply 1749

destination unknown

how easy is the practice center in giving medical certificate in order to delay a deadline?
thanks.

Reply 1750

kerily

Original post by Ultimate1

Lol I'm in the lecture right now.

But wait you're very eager meet me, I need to be careful you might be a dangerous person :hmmm:

maths rocks pre uni. During uni it's a living nightmare ( well the maths ain't but the worksheets are :zomg:

)

You were on TSR in the lecture? :teehee:

Is Wendl not an interesting enough lecturer for you? :emo:

The worksheets aren't bad per se, just time-consuming - but then I did STEP, and it was honestly a really good preparation for the sort of maths we're seeing :tongue:

Original post by TheAngryMongoose

No need to worry about it. Kerily IS a dangerous person.

I can assure you that that's all lies :colone:

Although I do seem to lead quite a strange life at the moment, but that's not dangerous so much as interesting :tongue:

Reply 1751

Ultimate1

Original post by kerily

You were on TSR in the lecture? :teehee:

Is Wendl not an interesting enough lecturer for you? :emo:

The worksheets aren't bad per se, just time-consuming - but then I did STEP, and it was honestly a really good preparation for the sort of maths we're seeing :tongue:

I can assure you that that's all lies :colone:

Although I do seem to lead quite a strange life at the moment, but that's not dangerous so much as interesting :tongue:

Wendl is a very funny lecturer tbh. He's got this subtle sense of humour which I personally find very entertaining. I was on during the 5 min lecture break :wink:

yep same here. The worksheets ain't that bad but they are so time consuming. I at least want a little bit of life :frown:

an interesting and strange life eh? :sexface:

Reply 1752

paddy

Oh my dear sweet Lord I have absolutely zero motivation. I'm procrastinating a coursework project that was due in at 13:30 yesterday.

I just want my degree, why can't I just have my degree now :emo:

Reply 1753

Ultimate1

Original post by paddy

Oh my dear sweet Lord I have absolutely zero motivation. I'm procrastinating a coursework project that was due in at 13:30 yesterday.

I just want my degree, why can't I just have my degree now :emo:

Can't you just take the 3 year degree if you don't want to do the masters(of course if you really, really, really don't wanna do your masters :tongue:

)

EDIT: Oh wait only just read you were one year work placement, not 4 years masters :tongue:

ooops.

Reply 1754

rockrunride

Standard. I'm hitting a mid-term crisis though I only have 8 hours a week and I plan to use reading week almost entirely to work.

Reply 1755

kerily

Original post by Valh

Are halls going to be like a ghost town during reading week or do most people stay in London for it?

I'm going to Berlin, and pretty much everyone else I've spoken to is going home, if that's any use. (My halls are a ghost town anyway :awesome:

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Reply 1756

Ultimate1

Sooooo happy for reading week coming up :awesome:

Reply 1757

PJ991

I've got 2 essays to do for the end of this month. Urgh.

If you had a 2500 word essay, how long do you think you'd spend on it, including reading for it, excluding procrastination?