college advice (2 Viewers)

[sarah]

hey there,

I'm just starting a course, but this year we have to choose a mandatory broad curriculum subject as part of our main degree from an unrelated discipline.
As I'm already going to be doing a language module for extra cred I want something that's as easy going as possible.

I've narrowed it down to an environmental themed one, which looks interesting and fairly relaxed work load wise as it's continual assessment.

Or a film theory which is only two essays, but lots of film screenings and stuff and on paper sounds great... have any of you studied film theory is it very dreary??
I find analysing and tearing apart literature a bit tedious so thought I might struggle similarly with film... advice gratefully accepted!

 

[whathappen?]

environmental..i did geography as a module in college score 80-95% consistently , very very easy and surprisingly interesting

 

[sarah]

environmental..i did geography as a module in college score 80-95% consistently , very very easy and surprisingly interesting

cool I'd already made that choice! reckoned the film one would be full of waffle and crap, sure I can rent out the movies on my own.

 

[Mitchum]

Yup-I studies film theory and film history for a year. Piece of piss, frankly.

 

[broken arm]

what is the main degree?

 

[wild_cat]

Oh I can I kinda hijack this thread a bit..

But how do the grant people monitor your attendence?

I was told that they do today, after i'd missed three days already....

 

[Franco]

I studied film too.

Kept falling asleep during screenings of 'Rome, Open City'.

 

[muffin]

it depends..some colleges had attendance sheets of some sort..where ya doing yr course?

 

[flashback]

They tried handing out attendance sheets when I was an undergrad, however the improbably high numbers of Mickey Mice and Adolf Hitlers signing up ended this venture reasonably quickly.

On the subject of courses, whatever you do, dont do Chemistry.
Chemistry is fucking ridiculous.

 

[muffin]

i know in teacher training colleges its quite strict..sweetie was only telling me today its because loads of people dropped out and still got grants for a year..so now they are pretty strict on college attendance..

 

[broken arm]

double post

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i did geography in first year of my arts degree. one of the lecturers sent an attendance sheet around every class and after a while called in those of us with a poor attendance record and told us she could ensure we got shite third year work/erasmus places if we didnt buck up so i dropped geography in second year

 

[wild_cat]

Yeah, we sign a thing ever morning. Im doing a portfolio course thing. I read on some website that you can only miss 6 days in any given month, just wanna know if its true so I can stop a panicing.

 

[muffin]

6 days a month seems very excessive?

 

[sarah]

what is the main degree?

Psychology

 

[wild_cat]

6 days a month seems very excessive?

Eh, Im not sure... for some reason i think its four...

 

[Lili Marlene]

Yeah, we sign a thing ever morning. Im doing a portfolio course thing. I read on some website that you can only miss 6 days in any given month, just wanna know if its true so I can stop a panicing.

6 days a month would be over a quarter of all your classes yeah?

 

[muffin]

thats exactly what i was just thinking..it seems like an awful lot..

 

[Lili Marlene]

Not that it should matter THAT much, I missed a lot of classes in first year and my friends missed LOOOOADS more

 

[wild_cat]

Eh I dunno, but like I havent fucked it up missing three days already have I? The fucking thing hasnt been paid out yet.