Status report
Apr. 21st, 2009 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfAfter two days of being fairly motivated, some kind of paralysis of will set in and I didn't manage to do anything worthwhile (for uni) for five days. This, of course, is wonderful if you *already* don't have enough time to prepare adequately. But at least I discovered some truly beautiful flash games (about which, more later. After exams.)
So. I did the maths today, and found out something fairly surprising, and faintly comforting (though also faintly depressing - strange, how the same fact can be both comforting and depressing): If everything goes perfectly and I achieve the best result that's still possible after all this procrastination, in every single one of my exams, I will get the final average grade of 1.8. This is the depressing part, because once, I had a *realistic* chance of getting something quite a bit better - and, keep in mind that this 1.8 grade is only marginally possible anymore now; it's really very, very unlikely. However, here's the comforting part: if everything goes truly, truly crappy - including failing one of the exams completely - my final average grade will still be 3.3. And that's only if the thesis was crap as well (I still don't have the result). If the thesis was okay and the American studies exams go okay and only archaeology goes crap the result will be somewhere in the 2.3 - 2.6 range. 2.1 is still possible, too, though less likely.
These grades aren't great, but they aren't exactly disastrous, either. I'm a bit surprised that even failing one exam doesn't change the average all that much. It's still a bit crap that I'll end up with a 2-point-something grade, because my CV doesn't contain anything else that particularly recommends me to prospective employers, and I'd hoped that I could at least polish it up with a really nice final grade ;-) but then, for the kinds of jobs that I'd *like* to do, it's very likely that even a 1.3 wouldn't suffice to get me into them without additional skills and experience I don't have; and as for the jobs I can *realistically* get, I doubt the grade makes that much of a difference, as long as it's not an outright horrible one.
So. I did the maths today, and found out something fairly surprising, and faintly comforting (though also faintly depressing - strange, how the same fact can be both comforting and depressing): If everything goes perfectly and I achieve the best result that's still possible after all this procrastination, in every single one of my exams, I will get the final average grade of 1.8. This is the depressing part, because once, I had a *realistic* chance of getting something quite a bit better - and, keep in mind that this 1.8 grade is only marginally possible anymore now; it's really very, very unlikely. However, here's the comforting part: if everything goes truly, truly crappy - including failing one of the exams completely - my final average grade will still be 3.3. And that's only if the thesis was crap as well (I still don't have the result). If the thesis was okay and the American studies exams go okay and only archaeology goes crap the result will be somewhere in the 2.3 - 2.6 range. 2.1 is still possible, too, though less likely.
These grades aren't great, but they aren't exactly disastrous, either. I'm a bit surprised that even failing one exam doesn't change the average all that much. It's still a bit crap that I'll end up with a 2-point-something grade, because my CV doesn't contain anything else that particularly recommends me to prospective employers, and I'd hoped that I could at least polish it up with a really nice final grade ;-) but then, for the kinds of jobs that I'd *like* to do, it's very likely that even a 1.3 wouldn't suffice to get me into them without additional skills and experience I don't have; and as for the jobs I can *realistically* get, I doubt the grade makes that much of a difference, as long as it's not an outright horrible one.
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Date: 2009-04-22 07:30 am (UTC)Tut mir leid, aber das ist nun wirklich überflüssig, sich solche Gedanken zu machen. Sieh lieber zu, dass Du diesen Abschluss endlich bekommst und weiter machen kannst. *hugs*
Grades aren't everything
Date: 2009-04-25 06:40 pm (UTC)MSB
Re: Grades aren't everything
Date: 2009-04-25 06:57 pm (UTC)As a friend of mine recently put it: "You have practically no chance to find a job anyway. The only thing you can hope for is that you will get lucky at some point - so you may as well stop worrying." :D
(BTW - sorry I didn't reply to your mail at the beginning of the year - well, if you still read my blog you probably know what kind of year this has been for me so far.)
Re: Grades aren't everything
Date: 2009-04-29 04:31 pm (UTC)> still read my blog you probably know what kind of year this has been for me so far.)
Don't worry. The days when I expected an answer to an e-mail are long gone :-)
I don't actually follow your blog but I check it from time to time see if you're still alive and well. And every time I'm amazed that nothing seems to have changed aside from a few minor details (such as your subjects of study of fandoms). I still can't believe that you're actually about to graduate. No offense, but I kind of got this image of you in my head as the "eternal student". I wish you the best of luck in finding a job and I strongly disagree with your statement that you do not have additional skills. Your enthusiasm for fandom itself IS a skill. As is creativity and your writing skills. And your ability to dive deeply into a topic. I'm sure there a magazines that need people like that for writing reviews. Or start your own magazine? There are a lot of fans out there of various franchises, fans that need to be fed.