whats the difference? BSc or BSc (Hons)

[strugstu]

anyone know

I was crap at ballet too - my teacher despaired of me! But I won a free holiday in a Butlins talent competition when I was 5 (doing ballet)!!!

My mum still has the horrid plastic trophy on display in her china cabinet! ROFL!

Rofl tamum and janh, I'm a slow learner and did I mention that I'm crap at maths as well

My mum has a plastic trophy- I won a school quiz competition.

Was a geeky girly swot, but no good at sport.

Methinks we have hijacked this thread somewhat.......

Me too - geeky girly swot - I noticed you didn't confess your grades on the other thread

I only just passed French though.

Very similar list to mine btw, but I did Biology instead of Physics, and German instead of History.

.. and it all felt so important at the time.

Now all it seems to be is a BARRIER to getting a job!

OMG leave u alone for an hour and i now have complete CV's for the lot of u (lol)
So to summarize, nobody really knows the answer, and i should just be grateful for what i get!!! roll on august

Give strugstu a First immediately! Fantastic ability to skim read a document, immediately extract the salient points, and summarise succinctly and coherently.

What a fab thread...! Shame I only got here after everyone else had gone to bed! Just wanted to add

(a) I was a Sprite too! (Did you sing 'Here we come the sprightly Sprites / Brave and helpful as the knights'?)

(b) Snafu... did you go to Reading?

Ellbell, I can't answer for snafu, but I did However, when I was there (in the mists of time) you had to pass the first year with at least a third to be able to stay at all- quite a lot of people I started with were chucked out at the end of the first year.

When were you there Tamum? I was an undergraduate there 1985-1989. (Groan... 20 years ago... I am a fossil!)

That makes me something like primeval soup then Ellbell I was there from 80-83 as an undergrad and part of the time as a PhD student from 83-86. I was in Childs Hall, how about you?

Yamum. we have our 25 re-union gaudy this year. 25 YEARS! WTF!????? How the hell can I be that old!

Blimey, hmb, we really are twins, aren't we? (apart from the fact I never ever got 92% in Latin. I did come top once, though)

And boy do I feel my age today. have the most awful chest infection and totaly deaf in one ear, which made teaching so much fun today! Not!

I was in St Andrews, though I did have an almost-fling once (lots of flirting, nothing came of it) with a chap in Childs. Nice chap. Terrible skin (probably caused by Childs food). You're not still in Reading are you, Tamum? I hovered around there for a long time, but finally moved away a couple of years ago.

No, I left in 86 never to return, Ellbell. Childs food was truly appalling, tis true.

Poor you hmb

Poor you, HMB... sounds like you should be in bed... definitely not teaching.

Tamum... yes, until quite recently in Reading you had to get 45% (so better than a low Third) to be able to continue with a subject after the first year, and at least 40% in order not to be thrown out altogether. This system only changed a couple of years ago.

I think all hall food was singularly awful. I briefly became a vegetarian, just because at least cheese salad was recognisable as such... unlike most of the stuff with so-called meat in. We'd have jumped for joy if offered a turkey twizzler!

I get the feeling that most student halls are self-catering these days.