Results February 2011

Slippers

Finally!

I'm doing the MA Qualifier in Economics. These are my first ever economics classes (all are third year classes).

Advanced Microeconomics

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A+
Applied Econometrics I

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A+
Financial Economics

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A+
International Monetary Economics

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A

That would be a GPA of 4.15 if my course had a GPA.

Hopefully this is my first step towards switching this country to full reserve banking with fiat money. How did everyone get on?

Econoline Van

Nerd

Slippers

It's what happens when you find something that matters. I only got 155 points in my first leaving cert and didn't even get in to the final year of my degree.

TDOie

Nerd.

smk89

Sooo..... you want a medal or something?

Slippers

Are you talking about my first post or the second?

partyndbs

F F G G G F

**Timbuk2**

Well done, OP

RandolphEsq

Nerd

Econoline Van

Slippers wrote: »

It's what happens when you find something that matters. I only got 155 points in my first leaving cert and didn't even get in to the final year of my degree.

Well, fair play to you, that's a good achievement.

Killer Pigeon

Ponce. :mad:

Again I hate life.

Chet T16

I done **** in my leaving cert too, is that a good achievment aswell?

antomorro-sei

Fair play fella!

I'm still yet to see an A Grade appear on my results.......

ihatetractors

Well done, i usualy only see d' and c's(doesnt matter til next year). Forgot what an A looks like, must have taken serious work though!!

CokaColumbo

Fantastic results but seriously why start a thread on the internet simply to advertise your academic credentials? Seems a bit much!

Killer Pigeon

CokaColumbo wrote: »

Fantastic results but seriously why start a thread on the internet simply to advertise your academic credentials? Seems a bit much!

It's called mutual masturbation.

Slippers

CokaColumbo wrote: »

Fantastic results but seriously why start a thread on the internet simply to advertise your academic credentials? Seems a bit much!

I can hardly start the results thread without including my own.

parker kent

Slippers wrote: »

I can hardly start the results thread without including my own.

You could say, "so results are out, how did everybody get on. I did well and was delighted with my results" or something like that. It is great you did well, but plenty of others will do well too without looking like gloating.

Slippers

Why be vague?

For the record I thought if I managed an A+ in econometrics I'd get a 4.2 so I'm not delighted.

parker kent

Slippers wrote: »

Why be vague?

For the record I thought if I managed an A+ in econometrics I'd get a 4.2 so I'm not delighted.

Because nobody likes a gloater and your post could be interpreted as saying "Look at me, I'm great". I just don't see the point in posting your grades anyway. Whether you get 6 As or 6 Fs, it just seems a bit pointless. Maybe say whether you were happy, sad or indifferent.

Slippers

I'd be as quick to post up my results if they were bad. Here's the thread I made when I failed to get into the final year of my degree: Next step after a BSc General in statistics?

It's good to get it out of your system. It's like the payoff for all those months.

If anyone isn't happy with their results don't give up. Maybe you just haven't found something you believe in yet. You'll get there in the end.

Killer Pigeon

Slippers wrote: »

I'd be as quick to post up my results if they were bad. Here's the thread I made when I failed to get into the final year of my degree: Next step after a BSc General in statistics?

It's good to get it out of your system. It's like the payoff for all those months.

If anyone isn't happy with their results don't give up. Maybe you just haven't found something you believe in yet. You'll get there in the end.

I was thinking of going down the economics/ finance root after my physics degree (quite honestly I'm getting bloody sick of physics). Do you need the MA Qualifier if you're not from a economics/ business background to do the MA in Econ.

Slippers

No, the website says you can get straight in with a physics degree or something else mathsy.

My grades weren't good enough to get straight in even though I'd just scraped a 2.1 in a Higher Diploma in Statistics in the mean time, so to get into the MA I could either do the Higher Diploma in Economic Science which is 12 modules or the MA Qualifier which is 6 but doesn't count as a qualification on its own if you decide not to continue to the masters.

I reckoned I had a better chance of turning around my performance if I only had 6 modules instead of 12 so I picked the Qualifier, plus, it's cheeper than the HDip.

parker kent

Slippers wrote: »

I'd be as quick to post up my results if they were bad. Here's the thread I made when I failed to get into the final year of my degree: Next step after a BSc General in statistics?

It's good to get it out of your system. It's like the payoff for all those months.

If anyone isn't happy with their results don't give up. Maybe you just haven't found something you believe in yet. You'll get there in the end.

Not sure if the last bit is aimed at me...if it is I have graduated three times, so I've long since got there!

conor.hogan.2

What 3 couses did you do? Is this your fourth? wow

parker kent

Not in UCD any more, I was staff until October. I did a degree, 2 masters and a few girls in Glenomena :pac:

conor.hogan.2

Cool.

Glenomena girls, now that course is easy.

Iwasfrozen

I got 3.2 GPA. Not great but I'm pretty non the less. Calculus 1 really screwed me over for anyone unfortunate enough to be doing it now.

Slippers

parker kent wrote: »

Not sure if the last bit is aimed at me...if it is I have graduated three times, so I've long since got there!

If it were aimed at you I would have said "If you aren't happy". Well done, how did you find the subject for you? Are you working in the area now?

Yuugib

Hey OP, congratularions with your results! This is the sort of achievement we should be seeing more often good luck with the rest of the studies, hope it'll be even better.

Slippers

Thanks for the encouragement! I see so many graduates leaving the country. I'm not going to be pushed out by someone else's poor management of the economy, I'm going to stay here and do something about it.