The University Thread

Both. I was shit at it though and spent most lessons sleeping and eating my lunch.

Applying for my PhD before the January deadline. Putting forward a research proposal, if I don't get funding then feck knows what I'm going to do :/.

I've been considering a PhD recently, but probably wouldn't be applying until next year as I want to see how my project turns out to see if I'm good enough.

Have you got to apply for funding separately? Funding for scientific places seems to be fairly good luckily.

I only did it at AS level, didn't stay on for the full A level. Got something like 3 out of 200, already knew I was leaving so wrote about Barney the dinosaur.

Been offered a place at Swansea for computer science \o/

Who the fuck does a Masters in Computer Science? There's fucktons of jobs for computing related courses, I got mine while I was still in college

I got my grade back for my first piece of assessed work in my third year - somehow managed to get a first on my Politics essay.

Think it's only my second first throughout my time at uni. Need to keep it up if I'm going to get a 2:1 overall though..

Good, keep going, a Desmond is completely pointless.

..what's a Desmond? A 2:2?

Oh, I see.

Well I need to get 64% this year to get a 2:1 overall. It's doable, but if I did straight Politics (which I just got 73%) I'd be fine. It's just that my Economics is so bad and will inevitably drag me down a grade come the end of the year. Wish I did straight Politics.

I've got a 4,000-word Politics essay due in next month but am struggling to come up with a great question title. I know I want to write about EU-US relations, but I'm struggling to come up with a question I'm 100% happy with. The title of my module is "Political Change: The EU as a Global Actor" so the question has to be in relation to EU foreign policy and how it's been shaped over time.

The best I can come up with so far is;

"How has the EU’s growing role as an international actor shaped EU-US relations over the course of its existence?"

Any advice on how to tighten it up a bit? I don't feel like I've worded it properly. I've emailed my tutor asking for some advice but he probably won't reply for a few days, so any suggestions would be welcomed.

I would maybe go with. "To what extent has the EU's developments in international agency affected its relations with the United States?"

That help?

I have to answer this question in 4000 words for next month: "How does one study ideology?". The other questions are boring and inconsequential. For my "approaches" module.

Starting my revision for January exams and its dawning on me how much reading I have to do.

Ah well, I wasn't looking forward to Christmas anyway