1st Class Honours
After waiting over the weekend to finally use a computer with internet to find out my degree results I discovered that was awarded FIRST CLASS HONOURS in BA (Hons) Marketing!!!!!!!!
When I first clicked onto the University website and discovered my results I have to say a brief moment of emotion overcame me - here I was thousands of miles from home in scenic Whistler, Canada, and I could not believe the words that read in front of me...
"The examining board agreed on 8/07/05 your award of First Degree Honours."
That was all that was stated after four years of academic study in the first and second year followed by a placement in industry with Uniq Prepared Foods (a multinational food company). The fourth and final year presented a return to academic study and that brief statement which concluded my course meant so much to me that it was quite incredible.
I checked the same website again and typed my username and password in again, checking the name and award as well as probably pitching myself several times over, utterly indescrible.
So I rang home and managed to get in touch with Granddad after no answer at home and later on that Sunday I spoke to Dad and told him what I had received but wanted to check the letter that was to arrive in England on the Monday.
By that time I was in Vancouver and had arranged to phone Dad at 11am from there (7pm UK time) after he had got back from work. Dad went through everything I had got and the exam results were really quite impressive as well as my dissertation result which really enabled me to get a first. It was an amazing phone call, there I was using a public phone overlooking the gorgeous Vancouver harbour watching seaplanes landing in the harbour with Dad at home with the most important letter in my life in his hands!!!!
I was so happy it was unbelievable, such a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders and more importantly all that hard work had finally paid off. I had spent numerous weekends in the library, woke up early and worked until late not to get a first but in the view that I wanted to work as hard as I could so that I had no regrets and do the best that I could. So after receiving a first I cannot really complain!!!
Thus, I have chosen these two pictures to summarise my time at University and both were taken on the epic Cory Pass hike in Banff, Canada (see above photos). Only five members of the tour group actually did the hike and as you can imagine it was a great relief to finally reach the summit after three hours hiking purely uphill to the extent that sometimes it felt as if my heart was ready to jump off the cliff and leave me to it!!!
Truly amazing.
When I first clicked onto the University website and discovered my results I have to say a brief moment of emotion overcame me - here I was thousands of miles from home in scenic Whistler, Canada, and I could not believe the words that read in front of me...
"The examining board agreed on 8/07/05 your award of First Degree Honours."
That was all that was stated after four years of academic study in the first and second year followed by a placement in industry with Uniq Prepared Foods (a multinational food company). The fourth and final year presented a return to academic study and that brief statement which concluded my course meant so much to me that it was quite incredible.
I checked the same website again and typed my username and password in again, checking the name and award as well as probably pitching myself several times over, utterly indescrible.
So I rang home and managed to get in touch with Granddad after no answer at home and later on that Sunday I spoke to Dad and told him what I had received but wanted to check the letter that was to arrive in England on the Monday.
By that time I was in Vancouver and had arranged to phone Dad at 11am from there (7pm UK time) after he had got back from work. Dad went through everything I had got and the exam results were really quite impressive as well as my dissertation result which really enabled me to get a first. It was an amazing phone call, there I was using a public phone overlooking the gorgeous Vancouver harbour watching seaplanes landing in the harbour with Dad at home with the most important letter in my life in his hands!!!!
I was so happy it was unbelievable, such a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders and more importantly all that hard work had finally paid off. I had spent numerous weekends in the library, woke up early and worked until late not to get a first but in the view that I wanted to work as hard as I could so that I had no regrets and do the best that I could. So after receiving a first I cannot really complain!!!
Thus, I have chosen these two pictures to summarise my time at University and both were taken on the epic Cory Pass hike in Banff, Canada (see above photos). Only five members of the tour group actually did the hike and as you can imagine it was a great relief to finally reach the summit after three hours hiking purely uphill to the extent that sometimes it felt as if my heart was ready to jump off the cliff and leave me to it!!!
Truly amazing.
posted by Adrian at 3:17 pm
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