Nigel's Shiny New Life Thread

[Cain]

I would suggest religious.  As I understand it, there is a huge demand for PSRE teachers, so much so that they were offering cash rewards for those who signed up, until recently (I understand such bounties have since been stopped by government).

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

After having a poke around the local Uni's websites it looks like Anthropology BSc going onto a PGCE in Religious Studies may be my primary choice (I'd need to check which Access diploma I would need) which is based at Southampton Uni, with Environmental Science BSc as my second choice, leading to a Science teaching PGCE (although getting my Access diploma in Science may be a bit of an ask locally) which is at Bournemouth Uni. The Bournemouth Uni website seems very mature student friendly, the Southampton one, not so much.

Anthropology is something I have considered studying at undergrad level before, also has the added benefit of making my early 20's obsession with tribal culture and the occult seem less of a supreme waste of time.

Environmental Sciences looks like fun, and would channel my angry eco-hippy into getting off my arse and actually maybe making a difference. I excelled in science (mostly Biology) at the 11-16 level before I dropped it to do Media Studies, English and Classics, which was probably the biggest fuck up I made at that age.

Also after speaking to Payne, the requirement that I do my undergrad course within 30 miles of here seems not as essential, but he has just got a promotion to transport management and handling all the accounts for North Hampshire, and ideally I would prefer that he got at least a couple years experience there before uprooting us to somewhere else. This is kind of the main reason I'm not jumping up and down yelling about jewellery undergrad courses in Dundee or at St Martin's College of Art and babbling on about silversmithing and shiny things.

[Cain]

I'd just like to add, both my Religious Philosophy A Level teachers were apathetic atheists, and they were awesome.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

After having a poke around the local Uni's websites it looks like Anthropology BSc going onto a PGCE in Religious Studies may be my primary choice (I'd need to check which Access diploma I would need) which is based at Southampton Uni, with Environmental Science BSc as my second choice, leading to a Science teaching PGCE (although getting my Access diploma in Science may be a bit of an ask locally) which is at Bournemouth Uni. The Bournemouth Uni website seems very mature student friendly, the Southampton one, not so much.

Anthropology is something I have considered studying at undergrad level before, also has the added benefit of making my early 20's obsession with tribal culture and the occult seem less of a supreme waste of time.

Environmental Sciences looks like fun, and would channel my angry eco-hippy into getting off my arse and actually maybe making a difference. I excelled in science (mostly Biology) at the 11-16 level before I dropped it to do Media Studies, English and Classics, which was probably the biggest fuck up I made at that age.

Also after speaking to Payne, the requirement that I do my undergrad course within 30 miles of here seems not as essential, but he has just got a promotion to transport management and handling all the accounts for North Hampshire, and ideally I would prefer that he got at least a couple years experience there before uprooting us to somewhere else. This is kind of the main reason I'm not jumping up and down yelling about jewellery undergrad courses in Dundee or at St Martin's College of Art and babbling on about silversmithing and shiny things.

Anthropology sounds like a really fascinating choice, and being able to stay local is a big bonus.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  There's a mutiny in that abysmal sociology class.

So apparently the instructor sent out some kind of email to all the failing students (more than half of the remaining class... I think only six of us are passing) and got major blowback and some of the students are opening a formal grievance with administration. Only ten students came to class today.



I'd feel sorry for her, but she's earned it. Every bit of it.

She gave me back a PERFECT 100% paper I turned in last Thursday, and she'd docked it by 25% for turning it in late because she'd changed the syllabus. While I was out sick on the only day I've missed all term. WTF.

OH AND

In the revised syllabus she switched all of her T's with TH's, so I thought a paper due today was due Thursday. I'm gonna email it to her half-assed, because I've learned that it's better to do a shitty job and turn it in half-assed after four days of work than to turn in a perfect paper after a week.

[Don Coyote]

Damn. That sounds lulzy if retarded from a college level instructor.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Damn. That sounds lulzy if retarded from a college level instructor.

Oh it goddamned is. SO retarded.

I finished and emailed that paper to her right after class just to spite her, though. Fuck her if she thinks she's taking away my A. FIFTEEN FUCKING PAGES YOU CUNT. READ IT ALL.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am now in SPITE COLLEGE mode.

[navkat]

HOW MANY SHINY NEW LIVES HAVE YOU SPAWNED NOW, NIGEL?

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

A friend once told me when he finally graduated that college isn't primarily about education, but about sticking it out through the crap to the bitter end.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i am not fucking doing that kind of college. This one class is a big enough taste of that, and I have the support of the  science department, and I am in school to learn so I will do a better job of screening instructors from now on so I don't end up with someone like this again.

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

Sounds like you learned already. Well, I might add. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Sounds like you learned already. Well, I might add. 

OH YES. Much to my dismay.

I will NEVER take a class again without first researching the instructor.

[Scribbly]

We had a similar fucknozzle at university. Thankfully I didn't take his class, but he almost cost several of my friends their degree (or at least, it felt like it at the time) by marking essays as '0' if he detected a single error in referencing.

I believe that the decision was overturned after class rebellion at the fact that referencing was only allowed, by University regulations, to account for 10 per cent of the grade of the paper, but he caused a LOT of stress to a lot of students.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

We had a similar fucknozzle at university. Thankfully I didn't take his class, but he almost cost several of my friends their degree (or at least, it felt like it at the time) by marking essays as '0' if he detected a single error in referencing.

I believe that the decision was overturned after class rebellion at the fact that referencing was only allowed, by University regulations, to account for 10 per cent of the grade of the paper, but he caused a LOT of stress to a lot of students.

Yes. This crazy woman is like that. Dinged 25% for turning in a paper after class instead of before, unrealistic expectations, delusions of grandeur, poor communication, etc.