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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
swirls pls that's why i said don't do what i did 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