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Original post by Lúcio
thanks man!

bloody £40 for gown hire for the ceremony :redface:


Ours was 72 quid for gown and photo. Daylight ****ing robbery. At least my parents reimbursed me on the day! Graduation is a great day, I'm looking forward to attending my friends one in a couple of weeks

Well done on your results :biggrin:

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Original post by sr90
Ours was 72 quid for gown and photo. Daylight ****ing robbery. At least my parents reimbursed me on the day! Graduation is a great day, I'm looking forward to attending my friends one in a couple of weeks

Well done on your results :biggrin:

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Somebody I know put it in perspective - I've paid them £27,000 so far in tuition fees and they're still trying to leech that extra little bit :tongue:

They mentioned there's a photo and ceremony but they didn't say if we had to pay for anything else.

We do have to pay for our graduation certificate thing though; that wasn't cheap either!!

Thanks man, I know I probably could've worked harder over the 3 years and gotten a first, but a 2.1 is all I need for my masters course so I'm not too worried about it :smile:
Original post by Lúcio
Thank god, I actually got my 2.1 in the end! :biggrin:

Jesus Christ, having to wait this long and watch all the other Facebook statuses was so painful...


Well done! :biggrin:


I think guys look much better with a bit of stubble, but not a full on beard though.
Original post by The.Joker
Well done! :biggrin:


I think guys look much better with a bit of stubble, but not a full on beard though.


thank you!!!
i'm just glad it's all over :biggrin:

also, some guys can pull off a beard although i would say stubble is probably the best way to go
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I would like to request a CT football club roll call.

Also, I think there's 2 other CT but I can't remember them now, so someone tag those in. Oh, and @Mad Vlad too.
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I don't understand :confused:
Original post by Lúcio
thanks man!

bloody £40 for gown hire for the ceremony :redface:


Not too bad, someone I know is paying £100 for theirs. Congrats btw.
Original post by Puddles the Monkey
I don't understand :confused:


Just name which team you support mate
Original post by TornadoGR4
Just name which team you support mate

Erm.... the All Blacks? :confused:
Original post by Lúcio
Somebody I know put it in perspective - I've paid them £27,000 so far in tuition fees and they're still trying to leech that extra little bit :tongue:

They mentioned there's a photo and ceremony but they didn't say if we had to pay for anything else.

We do have to pay for our graduation certificate thing though; that wasn't cheap either!!

Thanks man, I know I probably could've worked harder over the 3 years and gotten a first, but a 2.1 is all I need for my masters course so I'm not too worried about it :smile:


You don't need a first unless you want to go into academia. I know that if I put the effort in i'd have got a first with ease, but at the end of the day who cares? Once you get your first 'proper' job your degree is largely irrelevant anyway unless you've studied something like Maths or Dentistry.
Original post by Depleted
Not too bad, someone I know is paying £100 for theirs. Congrats btw.


are you serious?
£100 just to rent a gown for a day??!
i'm not sure if it's the same anywhere but at mine you MUST wear a gown - they'll even help you out financially if you can't afford it.
maybe supplies just go crazy with prices since everybody needs to get one?

thanks man, can't say i worked massively hard, but it's over and i'm very relieved :biggrin:

Original post by sr90
You don't need a first unless you want to go into academia. I know that if I put the effort in i'd have got a first with ease, but at the end of the day who cares? Once you get your first 'proper' job your degree is largely irrelevant anyway unless you've studied something like Maths or Dentistry.


exactly - i'm only wanting to do a 1 year masters at Leeds and then go straight in to work; they only want a 2.1 in psychology or a related subject so that's all i need :smile:

precisely, once you reach the next level, your past doesn't matter all too much.
real life working experience beats a fancy degree any day.
the only reason i'm doing the masters is so that i have specialist knowledge that will help me hold down a job when i do get one.

that being said, degrees at Newcastle and Leeds wouldn't be too shabby either :tongue:
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Original post by Lúcio
Thank god, I actually got my 2.1 in the end! :biggrin:

Jesus Christ, having to wait this long and watch all the other Facebook statuses was so painful...


Congrats man :smile:
Original post by Lúcio
Thank god, I actually got my 2.1 in the end! :biggrin:

Jesus Christ, having to wait this long and watch all the other Facebook statuses was so painful...


Congrats pal

must be nice leaving the bakery after 3 hard years
I remember the days of scraping a 2:1 with 61 percent. Beautiful.
Original post by SA-1
Congrats man :smile:


thanks man; few days to celebrate and then the job search begins :tongue:

Original post by difeo
Congrats pal

must be nice leaving the bakery after 3 hard years


not gonna lie man, bakery training is tougher than you think.

you'll see when you're old enough to do yours :smile:
Original post by Bubzeh
I remember the days of scraping a 2:1 with 61 percent. Beautiful.


tfw same grade as student with no life that got 69.4 :colone:
Original post by Bubzeh
I remember the days of scraping a 2:1 with 61 percent. Beautiful.


Scraping a 2.1 despite doing **** all for 90% of the course was a pretty good feeling I must admit.
Original post by sr90
Scraping a 2.1 despite doing **** all for 90% of the course was a pretty good feeling I must admit.


I can very much relate to this.

Me and my mate went for a drink today; both in apparent disbelief that we got 2.1s, considering we both know how little work we put in :colondollar:

Although for anybody who hasn't finished their degree yet, don't do what I did - it's definitely worth putting in that extra bit of effort for a few years and getting a better grade :smile:

A 2.1 is all you really need, but a first will always trump that (unless you're up against somebody with experience); night as well try as hard as you can considering how much money it's costing :biggrin:
Original post by Lúcio

in apparent disbelief that we got 2.1s, considering we both know how little work we put in :colondollar:

night as well try as hard as you can considering how much money it's costing :biggrin:


strong advise to real life experience ratio.
Original post by swirly
strong advise to real life experience ratio.


swirls pls :tongue:
that's why i said don't do what i did :biggrin:
real life experience will always be better than any kind of academic qualification (excluding specific subjects), but a first will also always be better than a 2.1 (obviously).

my problem was that i didn't really get in to the uni lifestyle until second year when i moved in with friends.
so i did things the wrong way round - instead of having fun in y1 and working in y2, i did the opposite.
my grade in y2 was therefore pretty poor so i was playing catch-up for the entirety of my final year.

don't underestimate how important year 2 can be; even if it's only 1/3 of your degree, that's still a big chunk and it can really give you a mental boost going in to your final year :smile:

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