Final weeks of my degree...

[arwenant]

After 5 years I am finally finishing my degree with the final exam on the 23rd May. I am exhausted and due to the way life goes, I no longer want to do what I wanted to do when I was 18, so feel like i'm finishing the degree for the sake of it. I can't wait for it to be over. Did anyone else feel like that? Or have a complete change of heart during the degree which has meant you've never used your degree?

Also how much should I worry about the final classification? Is it really significant?

TIA just having a morning of no motivation!

[Toes]

Arwenant, could you afford to take some time off when you finish your degree? There are lots of grad jobs during the summer months in France, which would not only give you a bit of experiance, but also be great fun, and give you a chance to think what exactly you would like to do.

Factor 30, why can't students, studying A level maths be bothered? At my kids school you had to have gained an A*, A or B at GCSE to do A Level, and my youngest is only 20, so not long ago. If they can't be bothered to study why are they allowed to?

[factor-fiction]

A level maths students are usually highly motivated. I teach the whole secondary/sixth form age range though, and most of my teaching is with age groups 11-16.

[JonnyBoy12]

Four year degree has taken five years? I thought that all degrees took three years unless you took a year out which I personally would not do.

I would want to do it all as soon as possible.

[Toes]

Johnny, It depends on what degree you are doing, as to the amount of time it takes.
Eldest did Maths with Ecconomics 4 Years
Youngest is doing Vetrinary Medicine 5 Years.

4 yrs Uni + 5 yrs Uni = 9 years very skint person!!!!!

[factor-fiction]

JonnyBoy12- I understood arwenat is also working as an accoutant so was probably doing the degree part-time

[Eve.]

Language degrees are commonly 4 years long as there is a year out abroad year in the third year.

I had a place at St A's to do french, russian and italian until getting pnumonia over my A levels and my special circumstances being screwed up meant I ended up elsewhere. My brother and sister in law also went there, lovely place.

[jno]

yes, I did that. I completed the course anyway for the reasons murraymints says - it showed I could learn, it showed I could achieve the task in front of me. My subsequent career had nothing to do with my degree. Decades later, the same is true of jno jnr. But I think we both benefited from years of exercising our brains.

[cathfromsaron]

yes, ditto!

i would get it and stick it on your CV and move into the area you want!

cath x

[NOX]

Don't fall at the last fence arwenant, stick with it, get it, stick it on your CV and use it to your advantage- doesn't mean you have to be employed in anything like the sector you took your degree in, but use it to your advantage.

[arwenant]

Thank you all for the lovely answers, you've all helped encourage me at the last hurdle, ridiculous how the brain goes into shut down at the last minute! Feel brighter now! :)