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I'm really panicking about this 2000 word essay that I've got due in on Tuesday. The 2nd year is so much harder than the 1st and the majority of stuff has gone over my head - I read a book and I don't understand it - I've written nothing yet. Does anyone else in their 2nd year of uni feel this way? I'm starting to wonder if it's for me. What kind of job can someone get with 2 decent A level grades and a few shit ones get? Shelf stacking? :'( |
2nd year of uni too hard. What to do?
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SG 1,896 posts
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What sort of degree are you doing? -
Goban 10,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMaybe the course isn't for you, can t transfer into something else? -
Stickman 29,986 posts
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Registered 17 years agoYou can get many, many jobs. Expect to start on around £15k a year I'd say. -
jonsaan 27,052 posts
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Registered 15 years agoGet your head down and man the fuck up. You'll be working a long time. Stay at Uni. -
2000 words is not even 4 pages. If you know what you are writing about you can do that in a day. .gif)
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PearOfAnguish 7,573 posts
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Registered 17 years ago2000 words is fuck-all. Do some research and bung a load of quotes in there, lecturers love (correctly referenced) quotes and they can take up lots words. Once you've done the research it'll only take a few hours to type up even if you're slow. -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoBreak it down into smaller, more manageable chunks - say 300 words each? If you know what you want to say in that paragraph or two, and can type reasonable quickly, it will take about five minutes. -
2000 is not much really. What is the subject of the degree?
PearOfAnguish wrote:
2000 words is fuck-all. Do some research and bung a load of quotes in there, lecturers love (correctly referenced) quotes and they can take up lots words. Once you've done the research it'll only take a few hours to type up even if you're slow.
I hate essays with loads of quotes, makes the writer look like a idiot who can't even paraphrase. Far better to put it into your own words with a footnote referencing the author. Shows you understand the material and doesn't interrupt the flow. -
SG 1,896 posts
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Registered 13 years agoSyrok wrote:
I know. But as per the OP, I don't get what I'm writing about. The subject's philosophy by the way. Metaphysics.
2000 words is not even 4 pages. If you know what you are writing about you can do that in a day. -
The second year of uni is where you are actually meant to do the work. Don't be so damn lazy! 2000 words is nothing, it might look a lot if you've never done it but you'll find yourself writing 3000+ in no time, just pick up a pen and start. It's the hardest part. -
PearOfAnguish 7,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agoYou can also try summarising the important points. Make a big list and then simply expand on each one and add sentences to string it all together. -
Oh, and I've found that a sodding 15,000 word essay is a hell of a lot easier than a fucking 500 word cover letter, so I say stick with Uni. -
SG wrote:
If' it's metaphysics then 80% of your essay will be quotes (strict and non strict) so don't worry too much. There isn't much of your own thinking you can put into a second year meta physics essay.
Syrok wrote:
I know. But as per the OP, I don't get what I'm writing about. The subject's philosophy by the way. Metaphysics.
2000 words is not even 4 pages. If you know what you are writing about you can do that in a day. -
disussedgenius wrote:
Yeah, this!
Oh, and I've found that a sodding 15,000 word essay is a hell of a lot easier than a fucking 500 word cover letter, so I say stick with Uni. -
SG, if the books you are meant to read aren't helping find some simpler ones first! There are 'basic guides' to almost everything now. -
2nd years was a massive shock to the system for me, I actually had to work every day rather than the once a week in 1st year!
Keep at it though, you'll adjust in time. -
heyyo 14,356 posts
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Registered 16 years agoRead different books, if you can't do it still then just scrape a pass and hope you find the rest of the modules easier - or else just scrape through those as the 2nd year doesn't really count towards your classification.
Or do what I did, toward the end of my 2nd year doing a mathematics degree (really struggling come May exams, wondered how the fuck i'll even scrape a pass in final year modules) combined my degree with another subject - psychology - and now i'm on relatively easy street no more maths to do, however, 1.5 more years of psychology left. -
SirScratchalot 7,921 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSecond year is pretty make or break, this is where you have to put in a massive time investment until things 'click'. It'll get easier as you go along, really, and you learn ways to study.
My only functional one for absorbing large amounts of stuff was to summarize on the side as I read, then summarize the summaries until I had a few pages of essentially keywords with short descriptors, with arrows between them to describe their internal relationship.
Granted this will change with any particular subject, but for me the summary is the only way to retain a several hundred page book. -
Is this essay supposed to be on primary sources (actual philosophers) or secondary ones? -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou're struggling with a subject whose cornerstone is bullshitting? -
Aranel 669 posts
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Registered 14 years agoIf you really aren't enjoying it and you don't think it's just a passing stage because you don't want to do this particular essay, can you switch courses?
If you do drop out, it isn't the end of the world - you can do an OU degree whilst working (and you won't have to do the first year as they will let you transfer credits).
Personally, I would say stick with it if you can though! (even though I quit after my first year and have no regrets
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asphaltcowboy 5,157 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSG wrote:
Given this, I can't say I'm surprised unfortunately!
2nd year of uni too hard. What to do? -
the army could always do with some more fodder in the middle east i guess
or you could man the fuck up
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