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Stephen wrote:
> I wouldn't call a 2:1 nearly failing and you got your degree which is more than
> I ever did.
Every term my grades got lower and lower. It was just a matter of time
before I started failing modules right, left and center. Fortunately the
course finished shortly before I arrived at that stage.
Looking at the transcript, most of my grades were very low, except for a
few A+ and A* grades for subjects that had some actual technical
content. I guess that should be encouraging... except that these days
employers seem to care about project management skills far more than
technical ability. (And social skills rank higher yet.)
> It is hard to finish projects when you don't have the motivation, we all know
> that.
Yeah, well, employers want finished items. They aren't impressed if you
don't finish a project because you "got bored of it".
> Who said that you were an excellent writer and why can't you write
> reports? That is something that comes with practice and tutelage.
People here keep trying to tell me I'm an excellent writing and I should
go into technical writing and all this kind of thing. But then, some of
these same people seem to delight in repeatedly pointing out the
(self-evident) fact that I can't spell. And the number of reports at uni
that were down-marked for being "poorly written" is staggering.
>> Who the hell am I trying to kid? I'm nobody!
>
> If you are nobody then why does everyone here spend their time with you?
I'm really not sure sometimes. Maybe because I'm amusing or something?
> Don't despair things can get better only if you don't give up.
I don't know if you'll understand this, but... when failure is all
you've ever experienced in life, it can be really, *really* hard to
believe that success is actually possible. Everything I have ever
experienced tells me that failure is inevitable. It's hard-wired into my
very notion of what the real world "is". It's very hard to see past
that. (No matter how logically "obvious" it may be.)
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