But Not Today...

[usuakari]

I've handed in my last assignment for this degree. It feels like a total anti-climax, but I suppose that's what I get for doing the third year all arse-backwards and in about 7 months. If I'd finished at the end of my two months in A&E I suspect the sense of achievement may have been a little higher, especially as I suspect that the academic marks

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[splodgenoodles]

Congrulations! Have a virtual toffee apple, and maybe a bunch of bagpipers doing 'Scotland The Brave', which is what I always imagined whenever I dropped another important essay into the essay box in a quiet-as-death university corridor last thing on a Friday...

[usuakari]

Thank you Splodge. You can have the virtual toffee apple for me though - bleargh!

It's funny that you shold mention the quiet-as-death corridors. I've done that many a time, either late in the afternoon, or early in the morning. It's a real university thing, that one.

[sealwhiskers]

I bloody *love* the Mass Effect games. Just recently finished the third installment. I manged to have my full party intact back when I played the second one.
If you don't mind spoilers I'll tell you how, but it's not really all that intricate, just takes some work.

[usuakari]

I can do the reading myself, I think. :) I'm just outraged at this continual death of 'my' people.

Bastards.

And those games owe so much to B5 it's not funny. Although playing spot the other SF references has also been amusing.

[tyellas]

Congratulations on wrapping the work! It's true, later in life degrees can feel a bit anticlimactic.

[usuakari]

Thank you Tyellas. It's kind of sad, but both dgrees seem to have ended more with a whimper than a bang. The first in a different physical state, state of mind, job, and 8 or 9 years after I began it; and now this one. That'll teach me for not sticking with my biology degree the first time at uni...

[mimdancer]

I do remember the feelings of anti-climax as I drove my car away from Uni, knowing that I would only be back for the ceremony.

That, and the sheer relief of having it over. I was over the whole formal education thing.

I just do it informally now :)

[usuakari]

How do you think you'd feel if you went back and did another course (undergrad or post-grad)?

For a variety of reasons, I don't think I'll ever be over formal education of one sort or another.

[mimdancer]

Twitchy and terse!

I think that is how I would be!

[usuakari]

Heh. It's been like that occasionally, but mostly it's been remarkably similar to doing it when I was 18 and 27. The high proportion of mature aged students may have helped.

[kitling]

It did feel anti-climatic submitting my final essay, even more anti-climatic submitting the final thesis - someone really should have shook my hand and said congrats I feel.

Congrats to you sir!

*shakes hand and buys drink*

[usuakari]

Thank you Kitling. That's two anticlimaxes. Wonder what a third would be like...