Doing my best to conform to sterotype...
For the very first essay assigned in the first term of my History degree I decided to not bother doing the work until the nght before, I stayed up all night, wrote the thing straight onto the computer (essay planning? pah I don't think so), printed, handed in then went to bed.

Unfortunately I got an excellent grade which reinforced my laziness and allowed me to justify to myself that I worked better under pressure. So for three years I just dossed about, wrote stuff in the days before the deadline and had a great time. Of course I did the same with exam revision.
As a result, got a 2:2 which I was pretty happy about.
However it meant that I rarely rememberd much of the subject matter for more than a few days after writing it so my knowledge of the subject is pretty hazy.

Fast forward to 2002 and I decide to go back to Uni for a Master's in Comp. Sci. This time I actually made an effort and went to lectures and stuff, amazing stuff and actually quite enjoyable.

At the end of the taught part of the course in July we were then told that we could either stop now and get a post grad certificate, hand in our dissertation at the end of the summer to get a Masters or stay registered and hand our dissertation in at some point in the next 2 years (why give us such a stupid long deadline, did they really expect us to do it??) We were however warned that 90% of students who didn't hand it in by the september, would never get around to finishing.
I left it until 3 weeks before the end of the 2 year deadline. Took 2 weeks off work, moved into my parents spare room (they made me get out of bed every day and fed me, without them I'd have just slept for 2 weeks). I passed in the end, even though the final project was a bit shite, I think they just gave me a "pity pass"
So now I'm cornishbob BA MSc and with 6 yars commercial barely making ends meet working in academia as a .Net developer.
(cornishbob is going to hell on, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:11, 3 replies)

Wow
sounds a lot like my uni experience.
I figured that having a social life was more important than grades, something I'm coming to regret now!
Hope yours was as fun!
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:17, closed)

Thirded
The lazyness/social life over actually trying....

How are Masters graded? Do you get like 2:1's? 1st's? Thinking of doing a masters myself...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:25, closed)

Depends
60%) and pass with distinction (70%). You'd have to check for the course you were thinking of.
(fibonacci_cunt cunt, cunt, cuntcunt, cuntcuntcunt,..., Tue 18 Aug 2009, 17:01, closed)