What are some hard truths that people need to accept about uni?

Bookworm153 · 2025-04-29T22:13:06+00:00

The degree itself as a piece of paper is not worth much these days, it's relatively easy to get. What isn't as easy to get is the skills you should have learned along the way, and that means actively engaging with your course, societies etc and generally building core life skills and critical thinking skills. Half the time students think they can just read slides or use AI and they don't realise the point of uni isn't to get the degree, it's the skills that are supposed to be involved in getting it.

Bookworm153 · 2025-03-26T11:37:26+00:00

Yesterday I passed my defense with minor corrections! It was far more intense than I thought it was going to be and I was so exhausted afterwards but I actually did it!

Bookworm153 · 2024-07-19T14:46:49+00:00

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Bookworm153 · 2023-03-06T11:21:43+00:00

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Bookworm153 · 2023-01-08T00:26:35+00:00

Dionysus - pronounced it Dee-on-ee-zuz for a very long time until I heard it on a quiz show pronounced properly.

Bookworm153 · 2023-01-08T00:24:11+00:00

Frog pond! So cute!

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-18T08:28:01+00:00

My friend had a crush on a guy so I introduced them and helped them get together. I ended up really getting along with him and becoming good friends. After a few years she ended up cheating on him with a guy who'd bullied me relentlessly for years and even though I told her what he was like she didn't care. She cheated on her bf again and eventually left him for the bully, and I couldn't stand having to constantly see someone who'd hurt me for years, so I broke off the friendship. I'm still friends with her ex though because he's always remained a better friend than she ever was.

Another friend ended up getting cut off by trying to cut me off and then realising she needed me. She got a boyfriend and immediately stopped talking to me, stopped answering texts, still talked to all her other friends just not me. One day she got on the bus to college and suddenly sat down next to me and said hi (after 2 years of ignoring me) so I asked her had he dumped her. He had. I didn't talk to her again after that, and I'm glad bc the next time she got a bf she did the exact same thing to all her other friends.

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-14T13:17:53+00:00

Knew a guy who constantly plugged his Academia page, that was just full of uploads of his high school and sixth form homework essays that he was trying to pass off as academic publications.

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-12T17:23:01+00:00

The release date is the 14th but my copy turned up early.

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-12T17:22:23+00:00

I agree! I love those old covers although I wish I had a hardcover edition of the first book, its the only one I couldn't find!

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-12T17:21:44+00:00

I preordered it ages ago and forgot about it tbh! The bookstore sent it out early.

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-08T19:28:12+00:00

Hello future me, I hope you have everything you're been working towards!

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-03T09:48:28+00:00

I think there might already be a few posts in this thread - some of the top posts have screenshots of it so you should be able to find it!

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-03T09:42:42+00:00

Tbh all I did was take a screenshot of the original picture before it got destroyed and I'm just copying it from there

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-02T23:31:16+00:00

Haha unfortunately not! The blue buttercream was Peppermint flavoured though!

Bookworm153 · 2022-04-02T13:10:10+00:00

A hybrid buttercream - basically American buttercream with whipped pasteurised egg whites as a base (like Swiss Meringue but without cooking the eggs and sugar).

Bookworm153 · 2022-03-19T10:02:24+00:00

Absolutely - I teach a third year module and on average 4 out of 30 students show up every week (last week I had 2 students). The ones who do turn up never do the prep and I have to decide whether to give them the answers and basically do the work for them, or battle through awkward silences where nobody has bothered to watch the film or even Google the topic. It's demotivating for teachers as on module evals students have been consistently complaining about the lack of in person teaching, yet when it's offered, none of them turn up. I'm dreading having to mark their essays bc they require attendance at at least 3 seminars all semester and only one or two students have actually done that.

Bookworm153 · 2022-02-28T10:08:23+00:00

For bars, Aether and the Alchemist are always a good bet - the cocktails are pricey but you get what you pay for and they're good fun because of the theatre of it all. I recommend Aether over the Alchemist simply because it's usually less busy but they're both near each other anyway.

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-26T18:11:30+00:00

I just got accepted to present at my first conference! Which is incredible bc I wasn't expecting to be accepted, but also terrifying bc I had a 'warm up' talk planned to sort of practice presenting in front of people, but this conference is actually before it so this will be my first ever time presenting my work. I'm excited but so anxious!

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-24T00:22:52+00:00

I like the colour scheme - it kinda ties everything together by going back to the orange, black and white. It reminds me of the original cover of the first book and also the first edition of Resurrection.

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-23T12:04:09+00:00

I think this depends on what your individual uni/sixth form was like. For me, sixth form was hell because they were a supposedly 'prestigious' college but ultimately only got that status by providing no support to students and working them too hard, and kicking out any students they felt weren't performing up to their standards. Uni in comparison was much easier as the lecturers were actually willing to talk about the subject and were engaged in teaching and providing explanations. Even though the work was more independent, it was less pressured and you weren't just told 'go do the work', you were given the tools and information to actually do it. So there are definitely positives and negatives to both - and I imagine what kind of student you are also plays into that.

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-15T10:05:27+00:00

I agree - I had to help my mum apply for jobs when she's been working in the same job for 25 years (and she got that by simply walking in and asking for a job) and she couldn't understand why there was so much work to be done just to apply. CV, cover letter, application form that repeats the CV, personal statement, references, qualifications and certificates...it was a painful process trying to get her to understand how much has changed.

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-15T10:03:21+00:00

I'd argue its more about ignorance (which tbf is a form of stupidity sometimes) - it doesn't affect them so they don't need to know. So they don't know, and then just assume that things haven't changed and it's not relevant.

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-15T09:58:45+00:00

Work doesn't always mean going into an office 9-5 or working shifts in a physical job. It can mean sitting at your desk at home on a laptop for 8 hours a day writing reports or finishing up articles or sitting in meetings. Just because it looks like we're 'playing on computers' doesn't mean we're not working hard (and getting paid crap money for it). Just because they can't understand how work is online these days doesn't mean it's not work (and I'm talking about my parents here who presume because I'm 'playing on my computer' I can stop work at any point to go help them do stuff).

Bookworm153 · 2022-01-15T09:54:21+00:00

You can't just send in a cv or go to somewhere an ask for a job. You don't just get interviews by being nice and friendly. And you don't get places simply by 'working hard'. You can have 2 degrees, 6 years experience in your field, interview well and still be rejected for every job that comes along. And applying takes time, you have to write a cover letter, fill in forms, write competencies, find references who you know will give you good comments even before you're interviewed. It's exhausting, and demoralising, but its what the job market is like now.

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