On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:02:28 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>Question: How rare is it to get a first?

First-class honours: about 11%
Upper second-class honours: about 45%
Lower second-class honours: about 30%
Third-class honours: about 7.2%
Ordinary degree: around 10% transfer to the Ordinary degree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification


>> True, so stop reading comics online and spending hours playing games. Finish
>> something.
>
>I've tried to do that a couple of times. But... no finished product 
>here, eh? :-/
>

Yet?

>>> 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. 
>> 
>> I've not read any of your technical writing only your posts here and I can't
>> comment about that.
>
>Well, Darren and Andrel seem to think I have excellent skills in this 
>direction... but as I say, nobody at uni was impressed.
>

I'll take their word over computing "accademics"

>> People don't *delight* in pointing out that you can't spell, they are doing it
>> to help. I can't spell for toffee (I used to get the belt at school every week
>> for my spelling) so I almost always use a spell checker, for everything even
>> this. Appearances are important.
>
>It just seems that every time I post some long and wordy post about 
>something, Warp replies with a 1-line reply saying "you spelt that 
>wrong". When I've just spent ages writing something, a meta-comment 
>about something that is both obvious and irrelevant isn't what I'm 
>really seeking.
>

I don't supose you do. So don't give him the opportunity ;)


>I'm just really frustrated and upset right now. Hopefully I'll get over 
>it later.
>

Understandable, I'm sure that you will.

>My point is that knowing, rationally, that something is true doesn't 
>necessarily help you *believe* it. 

Again, true.

>Ever tried rock climbing? 

No, I get vertego but I have worked "at height". I've frozen a couple of times,
not nice.

>Sure, I 
>*know* that nothing bad can possibly happen to me... but I'm still 
>pretty terrified, all the same! o_O

Being brave is feeling scared and still carrying on. (Or is that stupid?) :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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