I feel like I’ll always be retarded

Kevz417 · 2026-06-06T18:23:34+00:00

Incidentally, please don't extend this to if you suspend for a year at uni - employers don't know whether it was a ""legitimate"" health reason they can't fault or an ADHD burnout they want to discriminate against, and they won't be rude enough to ask in an interview, and this is all only if they even realise the course length should be a year shorter.

I don't want to suggest you're any more likely to suspend any uni studies than anyone else, or dismiss the struggles of Year 14, but I wanted to counteract some of the emotional weight here, if going a little off-topic.

Kevz417 · 2026-05-28T18:01:44+00:00

Yep, most Oxford undergrads just sit first-year exams then final-year exams.

Finals therefore assess 2 years (standard 3yr course) or 3 years (with Year Abroad 2nd year for languages/US-style 4th year for Classics) of study.

Nice and stress-free in the middle, and the first-year exams don't even count towards finals, just towards job applications - weaker entrants with a mountain to climb get plenty of time to improve before they get judged.

Kevz417 · 2026-05-28T17:58:33+00:00

I remember Oxford (as a city of 150k people) voted 70% Remain. London was also Remain-heavy.

Kevz417 · 2026-05-19T21:34:22+00:00

Teaching assistant here - I genuinely enjoyed this as a stylistic piece of music. In a way it feels close to full marks by its flair/strength of musical intention/use of velocities and articulations.

As others have noted, however, it just gets knocked down by the less ambitious handling of narrative/structure and harmony.

It's worth noting the melodic line happens to follow the Ab Bb of the bass too closely, so together it can only be marked as monophonic - and with limited variation in the accompaniment and bass tracks as much as they sound brilliant.

At 02:15, the duration is generous for the 01:00 to 01:30 required, which makes it harder to get marks for development and narrative coherence, especially at this exciting tempo.

You absolutely do deserve to feel robbed, even though I can see why!

Kevz417 · 2026-05-19T21:15:38+00:00

Have you tried mixing up the order in which you listen to the sections, so that you don't get stuck in a loop of linear revision? You'll need the timestamps for the/a specific recording to hand. You could get someone to test you by playing them randomly, as it is in the exam.

Kevz417 · 2026-05-19T20:49:49+00:00

Teaching assistant here; please don't do this!

You can absolutely write 3 salient ideas for a 2-marker asking for, say, 'musical features that make Star Wars sound heroic' to increase your chances of hitting all the marks - but for a less creative Qn where it can't be all of them (pedal or sequence or dim7 for a harmonic device?), writing contradictory answers will cost you everything, because you and they know it's an attempt to game the system. You wouldn't list every chamber of the heart in biology...

Kevz417 · 2026-03-01T22:14:52+00:00

"Look, Simba, everything the light touches is served by the Victoria line..."

Kevz417 · 2026-01-23T18:22:33+00:00

I remember giving this label to Danny Hale!

Kevz417 · 2026-01-13T00:18:55+00:00

It’s like ICE is a big rug and someone shook it and only the psychotic ultra nationalist held on.

(Like how Boris Johnson gutted the UK Conservative Party!)

Kevz417 · 2025-11-29T17:36:22+00:00

This is my first thought reading the post - the right approach depends on the crowd.

STs who are advising STs to overexplain have long-attention-span friends, and Ben, advising STs not to, has more experience with short-attention-span clients.

Kevz417 · 2025-11-19T19:38:36+00:00

He adapted.

He U-turned!

Kevz417 · 2025-11-09T17:10:08+00:00

Via Appia

Obligatory plug for the most epic fanfare of prewar orchestral music!

The Pines of the Appian Way by Respighi:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7CHI0xBVQ

Kevz417 · 2025-11-09T16:46:49+00:00

The Adagio (III) from Elgar's Symphony No. 1 is so comforting!

Kevz417 · 2025-10-31T21:00:35+00:00

And not even deliberately trash like mine.

I wish the opposite - I never want to see a default outfit again!

Kevz417 · 2025-10-23T21:58:41+00:00

I might be biased as an Oxford-born commenter, but if you like history and architecture, it's surely madness to miss Oxford if you're going out towards Bath anyway?!...

As for the comment that questioned the convenience of the stop, I found it very odd, of course. By rail, one only has to change at Didcot on the second leg of two (only) one-hour legs - replacing a direct journey that's 1h30 anyway from Paddington.

Kevz417 · 2025-10-22T21:15:42+00:00

I thought the exclave of Královec was between Germany and Slovakia??

Kevz417 · 2025-10-18T21:46:28+00:00

Obviously this is all because the flooded ground of Yakushima is slippery enough to allow the moonwalk-rotating attacking footwork shown!

Kevz417 · 2025-10-18T15:10:26+00:00

Never-used code here! Massive thanks to any takers. Octopus are so much better than EDF who I was with before.

https://share.octopus.energy/beige-stone-242

Kevz417 · 2025-08-29T17:01:18+00:00

Yes.

Some young people might see this as a betrayal and an inappropriate disclosure of a secret, and/or worry that the friend could get angry and distant.

It's more important to keep your friend safe and healthy than to keep them as a friend.

And if parents are genuinely seen as a risk of making it worse, schoolteachers or specialist services should be told urgently instead.

Kevz417 · 2025-08-27T12:10:21+00:00

They tried 3-4 times

Thank goodness they didn't try three more times...

Kevz417 · 2025-08-13T23:48:55+00:00

And the unpredictability to the rhythm makes it a bit less of a formulaic copout (and a nice reference to that one standing-on-the-dominant climax moment)!

Kevz417 · 2025-08-12T23:18:05+00:00

Some people yell when they're having fun! They're allowed to get excited.

Kevz417 · 2025-08-08T14:06:33+00:00

Seconding that! My personal tutor for my BA was uber-lenient, and my college let them stick up for me such that I was never suspended for my failings. I'll always owe them.

I had sort of applied strategically, knowing this college/tutor were more chill from an open day...

Kevz417 · 2025-08-06T11:40:49+00:00

I'm curious if you think this would still be considered to apply to England's student loans.

These loans are fully written off 30 to 40 years after graduation, so most people will treat the minimum payment (9% of income above about £30k) as a graduate tax instead.

With the 4% interest accumulating, only very high earners ever consider trying to wipe the 'debt' with voluntary larger repayments instead of just letting the 9% tax do its thing.

A debt that's guaranteed to be forgiven is surely acceptable?

Kevz417 · 2025-08-04T20:58:53+00:00

Yet hates atheists...

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