I agree, it is more about perserverence and commitment than anything else.

I out performed people who were smarter than me on my course by learning more than they did, planning ahead and refining my work through many iterations before handing it in.

In my experience, I dont thing a 1st is a measure of intelligence, it is a measure of effort.

Motivation, hard work and dedication are the key!

Sorry to hear that! I think that is often the case, that people in business often learn from their mistakes before they make it!

I now work in I.T. working with Web Applications which are a particular interest of mine, so I’m pretty pleased with that.

I would like to do some stuff for myself too, but trying to make money on the internet is extremely competitive. I think that is because it is relatively low risk… which is a good thing in many ways… low entry barriers etc…

Right now I am working for JPMorgan Asset Management as a Analyst. Going quite well I must say. I have had a few unsuccessful business ventures but I will keep trying and hope oneday I will have my own multi-million pound business.

What are you doing Jez?

Cheers

Suat

How are you getting on? Seeing it as running your own company, that’s a bit different! So do you run your own company for real now??

Jez

That was a really cool comment….

For me the key was choosing a course I was genuinely interested in, that made putting the hours in a lot more enjoyable and rewarding.

I still do not understand why other people would make the effort to get up in the morning and attend University, then sit around doing nothing in between lectures, when they could have been getting ahead, getting better grades and suffering less stress over deadlines….

Congratulations on getting a first BTW!!

This is a great site, and I wish I had found it sooner. I just found out the result of my degree (a BSc in Psychology at Exeter – and it is a first class degree with honours!) I am SO SO happy, and I must say that I worked so hard for this – day in day out. My main tip for other would-be-first-achievers out there is exactly what was mentioned on this site; treat your degree like a job. Study 8 hours a day for the degree, leaving yourself evenings and weekends free. When it is revision time, treat the degree like a demanding job which requires overtime (some, not all, evenings and weekends too). I think the reason for this succeeding is two-fold. Firstly, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is a lot of time to dedicate to a degree. Especially as others just don’t seem to put in that much hard work. I found that this time gave me time to even do my own reading around a topic, and not just the obligatory reading. Also, this strategy psychologically dissociates one from the degree. I don’t mean in an “i-don’t-care-about-this,-it’s-only-a-job” kind of way. I mean that it allows one to gain perspective about the degree, and to treat it like a very important job that must be done, but which does not have the power to make or break you. Even though the latter may be true, it is helpful not to ruminate on this.

Anyway, great site and I hope my musings may help someone…somewhere!

Amy G xxxx

The site is getting more visits month on month.

I have added a mail a friend link to the bottom of posts and have tried to exchange links with a couple of University sites, but to be honest the Uni’s are a bit precious about giving back-links.

I don’t think the fact that I run Advertising endears the site to them either!

I think Ill have to leave it to Google and word of mouth, the thing is I never Googled for this information when I was at University. It never really occurred to read up on how to study.

Having read a couple of books on the subject since, I wish I had, I could have saved a lot of time using a book or a site like this one.

Thanks for replying to my comment. This site would be very useful for current students at university. I honestly believe it could help students obtain a better degree classification. I think it would be great for you and your site if you could some how increase its exposure to uni students. Perhaps you should contacts uni’s directly and ask them to email your website address around. I mean, I only came across your website by chance one day while surfing the net. Its certainly a very valuable tool I believe.

Kind Regards,
Suat