Sweeeeeet! I just got an email from my dissertation supervisor saying that my grade average for my honours year in History/Classics was 80%, which means I graduate with a first class honours Bachelor degree in History and Classics. So basically I get a little '(hons)' beside my name on the piece of cardboard they'll give me at the grad ceremony. Bonus! I'm a happy chappy I tells ya! I should hopefully graduate again next year with another Bachelor in English. Then it's off to teach English in Japan. Right on!

OK, I'll quit my ranting now.
CHeers.

Later ya'all!

Congratulations! It soulnds like you have worked hard to get there.

Wow!! Thats great news.
Well done, I hope your efforts paid off.

That's awesome news Aaron. Enjoy the future and the sense of achievement you're feeling right now. All the best for what's to come.

Great work! I sort of know what it's like. Our DM has not been able to play for a couple of monthe now since he has to read 2-3 books a week for his English classes. At least it will be over soon!

What are you basing this on? The course could be piss easy to get 80% on, or Hiero could be brainy boffin bastard, and in both those cases he would not have had to work hard [img]tongue.gif[/img] :D

There's no need for hoping, or did you miss the fact that his account of his supervisor's email was in past tense? [img]tongue.gif[/img] :D

congrats [img]smile.gif[/img]

Haha, it was a bit o' both uncle Vask ;)

By the way, how are you feeling now that you're all grown up and graduated? Whatcha been upta?

[ 11-19-2004, 07:04 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]

I had a nice 4 month break in which I did crap all except for a long hike in the Pyrenees and a month pissing about in Budapest.

At the beginning of October I moved to a different town to go to a different uni to start my PhD in mobile ad hoc networking. Now I'm doing crap all under the umbrella of doing a PhD and getting paid for it :D j/k, but it has been slow to get started, since there's so many tools to learn to use and too much reading to do.

Grats Aaron, and don't be teaching the little japanese kiddies your other bad habits. :D

I'm sure Aaron won't be teaching the japanese kiddies to chew their fingernails or to tap on the table with their pens. I mean what other bad habbits does Aaron have? I'm sure there's no such thing as whack-backy over there :D

besides, who said he was teaching kids?

Dude, hella respect on going for the PhD! [img]smile.gif[/img] For me a PhD just sounds too gargantuan an academic undertaking to actually get started right now. Glad to hear you're living the good life though man! :D

Man, a hike in the Pyrenees! Sweet! Did you put pics up on Stealthy's?

I'm currently enjoying a month's piss-around time of my own. Staying with my folks in Christchurch (a 6 hour drive up the coast of the South Island) for a month before heading back to Uni in January to complete an English BA. I have four projects for the next month: 1)grow a beard. 2)get a tan. 3)finish all the novels I got half-way through then ran out of time to complete due to uni work. 4)get rid of this goddam beer-gut that has been creeping in over the past month or so! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hahaha! Cheers man! From what I hear from others who have done the JET program (Japanese English Teaching) it's more the Japanese who have a 'bad' influence on their English teachers, heh heh ;) Anyways, I won't be heading away until the year after next, still a year of English study to go.....

heh, thanks - the way I figured is this:

If I went and got a job, I'd probably be bored and stuck in the job. If I do a PhD, I'll probably also dislike having to work, but at least I'm still a student, living on campus and I'm getting another qualification (if it pans out - there's a major viva after one year! erk!) and hopefully more doors will open to more interesting stuff. Plus the funding I get is tax free, so if I got a job, after tax off I'd probably only be getting around 30-40% more than I get now. Long live the student days! :D :D

I think you've already seen some photos, remember they are on page 52 at stealthy's

http://groups.msn.com/StealthysSite/...x.msnw?Page=52

the last 3 on the page (except for vesselle's one)

of course I've got about another 200 photos, but can't post them all :D

[ 11-19-2004, 07:41 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

Awesome! Congrats Aaron, well done! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
Make sure you celebra... no wait, I don't have to tell you that. Have fun! ;)
*hugs*

Whoa, you're going to teach English in Japan? It's too early to tell for sure, but that's one of my possible future carrers. :D There are some other possibilities I've been considering, but all of them involve Japan. :D


By the way, is there any specific reason why you're going to teach in Japan instead of some other place?


Good luck on your studies. [img]smile.gif[/img]

* Geisha's
* Sake
* Cheap beer

Congrats, Hiero! I've always wondered what the "(hons)" meant after someone's name... and now I know [img]smile.gif[/img]

Congrats!

Well it means different things in different places, but it's all about your type of degree. For example, on my course, everyone who graduated with more than just a "pass" i.e. above 40% average grade, got an honours degree, because it was a difficult enough and adequate length course. If you got 35-40% you just got a pass and no honours and if you got less than 35% you get no degree.

Congratulations, Hiero! I know you must have put in some hard yards because you don't get honours just by showing up, so I'm so pleased for you [img]smile.gif[/img] . Best of luck with the rest of your studies and then your teaching in Japan [img]smile.gif[/img]


It is kind of scary. I'm glad in a way that I'm doing a combined coursework-research PhD so that I have other stuff to do rather than just research so it isn't just 3 years stretching ahead of me to do a mammoth project. But then at the same time it's bad because I have 4.5 years to do this thing and so I really have LESS time to do the research given all the coursework and prac. Ah well, I'm pushing ahead with it anyway [img]smile.gif[/img]

But good, as Vaskez said, because in Australia you don't have to pay anything for a PhD, which includes all the courses, whereas if I'd done a masters or professional doctorate I would have had to pay like $20,000 over the two or three years for the coursework. And there are scholarships for PhDs! I'm thinking of starting an investment portfolio LOL :D

Heh, well here you DO have to pay to do the PhD, unless you get funding from the research council (like me :D ) and then the university pays your fees for you AND you get the studentship :D which is sweet.

Congrats, Dude!! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] There's nothing nicer than having little italicized latin words next to your degree on your diploma. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Yeah. At our uni honours constitutes an entire additional year of study. Bachelor degrees entail three years of study, and if the student's grades are good enough, they may be offered to study an additional, more intensive fourth-year of 'honours' papers, which includes writing a 20,000 word research dissertation. The student's 'class' of honours depends on their grade average for their fourth honours year. 80%+ is first class, 65%-79% is second class, and 50%-64% is 'provisional'. Anything below 50% is a fail.

Aelia : You don't have to pay to do a PhD? Sweet! I may well have to emigrate then [img]smile.gif[/img] I only have to live in OZ for 2 years off and on in order to obtain citizenship as per our ANZAC buddy-status, and I'm seriously considering moving to Melbourne once I start getting that 'settle down' feeling [img]smile.gif[/img] Nice work on getting into the PhD. I could imagine you as a fully-fledged lecturer/professor, well, moreso than I could with Vaskez anyway [img]tongue.gif[/img] you'd do very well [img]smile.gif[/img] (I could just imagine Vaskez marking his student's papers: "what the hell is this crap you're giving me? You kids are so damn STUPID! Why do I even BOTHER???" ;) )

Yes, I can see him doing sarcastic jokes in the middle of a lesson, putting a leg in front of students at random times, only to laugh as he watches them fall, and calling them little whippersnappers. :D