The Higher Education Megathread

Karl wrote:
Meowmix wrote:Aw lovely, was an A profile, seeing as nearly the entire thing came down to my Graded units.

They are mostly just pass or fail for all modules, but these units are what they show universities when applying. You'll get in with a C to most places, but having an A gets you considered for courses that might not naturally come from that HND.

Awesome. Which institution conferred your HND? I'll add it to the OP.

Aberdeen college, thank ye.

7256930752 · Post by **7256930752** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:22 pm

I forgot I never came in here because I was embarrassed of having a foundation degree.

Anyway, this year I finish my BEng in Power Systems with Aston University.

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **That** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:25 pm

EDIT: Oh, sorry, I was about to ask your grade - thought you said "I finished"!

Best of luck with the rest of the BEng, pal! :wub:

I've updated the OP.

7256930752 · Post by **7256930752** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:17 pm

Finishing this summer. I guess if we're including HND's it would be FdSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2010-2013 Distinction. And the BEng is 2013-2015. Thanks Karl.

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Corazon de Leon wrote:It's good for the CV, I've spoken at a couple of conferences and whatnot, and everything I do goes straight onto the CV under "Transferable skills." Are you an undergrad or a post-grad?

Sorry for the late reply. I'm final year undergrad. It's a good point about the transferable skills thing - i always said i'll write a short paper (about 4-6 pages) once i get a working system. But i keep getting the impression that he's pushing me to do it before term's out - which is annoying as hell. He'd probably want his name under it too right? despite not having done any of the work? My supervisor has his name under about 200 papers last year. dafuq.

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **Moggy** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:44 am

Trelliz wrote:

So the movie myth of all American colleges having evil funhating Dean's is true? :shock:

Hello, Dean? You're a stupidhead.

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **That** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:03 am

So I'm being seconded to the Life Sciences department over in the College of Medicine, to take up a project in computational biochemistry.

Anyone from that field in the house? I haven't studied biology or chemistry since GCSE (the professor assures me "it'll be fine" though :slol:

).

It looks like I'm going to be helping them set up some computational models for some of the reactions they're interested in, with a broad view towards developing new medicines.

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **Igor** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:59 am

Karl wrote:So I'm being seconded to the Life Sciences department over in the College of Medicine, to take up a project in computational biochemistry.

Anyone from that field in the house? I haven't studied biology or chemistry since GCSE (the professor assures me "it'll be fine" though ).

It looks like I'm going to be helping them set up some computational models for some of the reactions they're interested in, with a broad view towards developing new medicines.

Third year biologist, yo.

Got a rejection letter for my PhD application today

I really thought I had a good chance of getting in what with actually working in the research field for about 3 years now, and considering the faculty I applied to (education) is moving more towards looking at research in education using more objective methods, which is something I have experience in.

Now just thinking of what I should do from here.

Applied to be Visual Studies Technical Assistant at London College of Fashion, maybe working in HE for 1 year as gallery technician will help. 2 typos on my statement but wrong word typos instead of spelling typos so sometimes get away with those. :fp:

23k pro rata /a and maybe some inroads into teaching, only really interested in technical instruction at the moment. There's an almost identical job for less hours at the same UAL campus due tomorrow night so will go for that too. But most of all betting on the National Theatre job. Whether I get some or none of these at interview would be a career split between education and professional arts respectively. Not entirely sure I want to be stuck in a learning environment forever to be honest. :dread:

I get the feeling I should be doing a lot more professionally before I return to school, but universities to pay pretty well and it's nice to feel hip around the kids, very relaxed environment most the time.

I made it to the interview stage of the fully funded PhD selection process :shifty:

21st May is my big day!

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **Igor** » Wed May 06, 2015 3:58 am

Anyone ever used 'performance enhancing drugs' in academia?

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **That** » Wed May 06, 2015 4:00 am

Knew some folks that did. Apparently worked well for a while, but over-use them and you burn out.

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **Igor** » Wed May 06, 2015 4:20 am

Karl wrote:Knew some folks that did. Apparently worked well for a while, but over-use them and you burn out.

I'm experiencing the effects of modafinil for the first time and the closest I can describe it is that my hands won't type as fast as my brain would like them to. I've raced through an essay on MDMA for my toxicology work in, honest to God, about a third of the time it'd usually take me through distractions and procrastination. Things are making more sense than they usually would, concepts seem easier to grasp. I feel like a kid the first time he smokes weed. :dread:

I've been awake since 7am yesterday, after a poor night's sleep (girlfriend wouldn't stop fidgeting). Train back up to Leeds from London at 10am, work from 5pm until 10pm. I'd usually be dead as soon as I got home. Instead, while I do feel sleepy, my brain still feels alert. I've got a very mild headache that's probably due to not drinking enough water. The vast majority of the reports I've read indicate that sleep debt doesn't usually build up either - five hours sleep and you're up and as awake as you'd have been with eight hours.

It's been incredibly easy to focus entirely on one thing and ignore anything else. I've been sat in a packed computer cluster and while the background noise would usually annoy the strawberry float out of me, an hour had gone by and I'd forgotten there were other people here. The downside is that for about 45 minutes I couldn't look at anything else but the spacing between the lines on a Word document. :lol:

Interesting. I'm going to experiment with dosage up until exams are over at the start of June and then review how well it's worked. To be honest, even a short-term aid in reducing somnolence for the time being would be nice. Working until 10pm each night and also having to fit in degree work is tough.

EDIT: [10:37am] Approximately 27.5 hours since I woke up. 250mg taken over the course of about 18 hours. No drowsiness, no sleepiness. Tiredness, sure. But mentally alert, less erratic and more focused than I usually am at the end of a normal day even with a full eight hours sleep the night before. Over the last few years I've noticed the same people that seem capable of sitting down at a computer at 8pm and not leaving for twelve, fourteen, even sixteen hours - usually medics. I think I've discovered their secret. I'm obviously not considering this as something I'd keep up for long, but it's interesting. Shame I didn't discover it three years ago.

7256930752

Had my final exam yesterday :mrgreen:

. That marks the end of 5 years of studying for my degree and 12 years of post secondary education studying. Contemplating a masters but definitely going to have a year without doing a course of some type, looking forward to getting home and not having to study.

How is everyone getting on with exams, dissertations, etc?

MA funding :dread:

PostRe: The Higher Education Megathread by **That** » Sun May 17, 2015 4:16 pm

Congratulations Hime! Good luck with your results, and if you plan on going back for the MEng I hope it goes well.

First exam tomorrow. Listening to ClariS (hi StayDead) instead of revising. All is going to plan.

Good luck chaps.

PhD interview on Thursday morning. Absolutely bloody bricking it :dread:

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