Due April 2009: Episode 22 - Plug Popping, Ball Bouncing and Cervix Searching the preparations continue...

[SmuttyNuttyTaff]

chose this one hope nobody minds another quick thread!! the last one is a record i think at a day and a half!!!

MUST

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KITTY!!

So sorry Springy - hope she comes to be peaceful with her decision.

I got a 2.2 too (also what I deserved!) - and it don't matter a jot in my job. All I needed was a 'scientific degree' to get an interview and what it was or the result seemed irrelevant. Much like A-levels and GCSE's did after you got them.

Can't type today - didn't sleep much last night as all sweaty as DH wanted the mattress protector put on the bed.

Last month for me...
BB you must be getting excited - 6 days! SIX DAYS!!!

Puzzle pleeeeeeeeeeese send me your spreadsheet..am so excited I nearly had a baby...

BB - crikey!! thats almost 200 posts per thread !! i really should take the hint and restrain myself from posting so much..........but i wont i wasnt even on the first 2 threads

ooh while we're sharing I got a 2:1 and was 3 piddly marks off a First...is it wrong that that irks me more than anything EVER?
(although to be fair was having DD at the time...no regrets )

Mathsmummy - you are supposed to be in labour!!! have you finished that paper???

brettgirl, I know it's not that important - it's more the culture of huge expectations that we come from that's the problem.

& I don't think so. She's already talking about how she'll get to play with my baby anyway, so it doesn't matter. & as I've said before, after my miscarriage 4 years ago I decided it was a great idea to work in Mothercare so I could be around babies that way instead. It really wasn't a great idea, but that's how the logic went in my head

Nutty, 1/5 of the conversation is pretty impressive

mathsmummy

MM, my mum (wow, that's a lot of 'm's) was similarly close to a First & ended up with a 2:1 - she's still really annoyed about it too, even though she has the exact job she wanted in the first place & started her degree with an 11 week old baby & a nearly-5-year-old. I think you're both just greedy

I dont have a degree at all, i blame my brother though .....he's got 2 degrees and a masters and i think he's studying something else now as well, he's dedicated to being educated that boy!!. my other brother and i didn't stand a chance we was robbed of brain capacity by the first born i tell ya

The 2.2s are in the majority right now

I actually got enough marks for a 2.1 but not enough in the class . I was devastated about the injustice at the time, but now on reflection can see that if I had scraped a 2.1 it would have seriously taken the piss.

Nutty not having a degree does not mean that you don't have the brain capacity to get one!

Well I'm the dim one then because I didn't even go to university. It was a conscious decision all along though as I chose not to do A levels too. I'm not very good at applying myself to anything unless I'm really interested and as I didn't know what I wanted to do I decided it was better not to waste the time or the effort. I still don't know what to do with my life so it was the right decision but sometimes wonder if it has put me behind others in some way. Especially as most of my peers did go to uni. I come from that kind of background.

brettgirl. I'm not sure I do have the brain capacity.

just popping on while ds watches in the night garden.

would love to join in properly cause it seems like some interesting chat the last wee while but ds is just not going to let me.

springy - hope things work out for your friend and that she doesnt spoil things with your new born - but thats what dh is for too - to protect you in the frist few days/weeks if you dont want to see people.

finally in your last week of work bb? I am so impressed that you have made it right to the end without throwing the towel in.

To be honest, I don't think there's anybody who posts here who doesn't have the brain capacity to get a degree. Especially not in something they were really interested in. I think we're genuinely a fairly intelligent group of women.

MM i get that - I originally got a 2.1 but my 'average' marks were a first it was some stupid university rule that you had to get 1st in 3 of the 4 units to qualify - I got 90% in 2 and 69 in the other 2 (70 is a 1st) so I appealed and got it over-turned but if I'd have lost out on my 1st for one mark I would have been furious!!!

bronze, my DH is much more intellectual than me (I am good at facts and figures but he is much more knowledgeable about everything else) and he didn't do A levels or anything either!

In The Night Garden creeps me out. Not as much as DH, though - he refuses to stand near ITNG toys in shops, never mind watch it. Heaven knows what we'll do if LO finds it & likes it

& yes, DH will keep her away if she gets to be a pain. But he's not good at tact & diplomacy

Brettgirl - oh i know that, tbh i'm not really cut out for university (apart from the partying aspect ) i'm more of a hands on person, i dont get on with learning in a classroom/ lectures etc i drift off. I respond better to learning on the job i suppose, i pick things up better when i'm immersed in it or have to do it iyswim?.

i have no regrets about not going to uni or anything.