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Double First/Triple Starred first

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Reply 40

warioland3

At my stage of life, just getting to the place will seem like getting a quadruple 1st :smile:

Reply 41

musicbloke

A girl in my year in my college just graduated with a triple starred first, coming first in tripos in her final two years. This scares me.

MB

Reply 42

Craghyrax

minimo

When I came to Cambridge my aim in life was to get a Double First. Now my aim in life is to someday be a Mod on TSR. How things change...

A double first :eyeball:

Lol..

Mine were:
a) get into Cambridge.
followed by ... 'oh crap, I'm in #zomg#'...
erm erm erm
b) stay in and don't get kicked out :idea:

..and then after a erm, stirring speech by our Senior Tutor at our Matriculation ceremony:
c) avoid a 2.2

Lol when I'd just met all my housemates for the year, an English friend declared his intent to produce the best first essay that his supervisor would have seen. We all watched him in hushed concern for the first few days :p:

I resigned myself to the notion that my first essay would be a disaster..which has meant only pleasant surprises, never huge disappointment.

Reply 43

Craghyrax

tony_ron

..AND he still has a more active social life than me! :frown:

That's actually the ultimate sin. I don't mind people getting quadruple starred firsts, so long as they work their behinds off for it :smile:

Reply 44

Schott

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Reply 45

Craghyrax

tony_ron

I know it's not fair. Traff should be strung up by his testes.

You evidently feel quite strongly about the matter :biggrin:

Reply 46

Schott

Trust me I was being kind.

Reply 47

SsEe

I know a mathematician (actually maths and comp sci) who just reads through his notes the day before the end of year exams and gets 95%.

Grrrrr!

Reply 48

coldfish

Can we make a pact to return to our respective colleges and kill anybody who got a first without trying? The world would be a better place. Or, at least, we'd all become relatively more clever.

Reply 49

Opsimathmo

SsEe

I know a mathematician (actually maths and comp sci) who just reads through his notes the day before the end of year exams and gets 95%.

Grrrrr!

Ooh which college?

Reply 50

Craghyrax

coldfish

Can we make a pact to return to our respective colleges and kill anybody who got a first without trying? The world would be a better place. Or, at least, we'd all become relatively more clever.

A former student came to one of our Superhalls this term. He'd got all firsts without doing anything. He was a right cocky lad too :rolleyes:

Law..

Reply 51

FadeToBlackout

coldfish

Can we make a pact to return to our respective colleges and kill anybody who got a first without trying? The world would be a better place. Or, at least, we'd all become relatively more clever.

But how do you KNOW they didn't try? Everyone claims to not work, but also works in their room, etc. etc. and does more than they say!

Reply 52

coldfish

They can die too. No mercy.

Reply 53

ukebert

Those who do well with no work, even if they only pretend not to have done any work are below the lowliest earthworm.

I would like a doubly starred doo daa, but I think I'll probably scrape a 2.1 :frown:

Still got 6 months more work before I can start though :banghead:

Reply 54

=gabriel=

Camford

To quote Dr Frank King "Starred first is simply a way to attract people to do lame subjects"... not my words. Ask the man himself if you wish. He's the guy in charge of all clocks in the university... so he says. The man is a legend though... at least to us uber geeks (I'm not that uber... but I'd like to think I'm a geek... being compsci and all...)

Sorry this is unrelated to getting multiple firsts but Dr King is not that much of a legend, he lectures the compulsory computer course for IA NatSci without even bothering to check the prerequisites, started going on about Fourier series in the first lecture. Most people fall asleep within the first 20mins and the attendance has been declining from lecture to lecture...he is funny though, when taking about his clocks