Now here's something I haven't spoken about here yet... My Second Year Results.

I could list all the individual module marks I got, but that would just be drivel. Overall, I got a rather lucky 68.9%.

My initial reaction was dissapointment. I've worked so so hard this second semester to get my grade up to a 1st. I thought I deserved it, myself.

But having had time to think about it, I'm mostly happy with the mark I've received. Mostly because it's still a decent mark considering the social life I lead at Uni and because I've improved from the first year.

But I'm upset because of a number of reasons...

The least is that in one of my modules (Communication and Networks), I thought I did brilliantly in the exam. I thought it was the best exam I've done in my educational career. And I didn't think my coursework was that bad either. But overall in that module I got 61%, my lowest mark. And I don't think it's right, not for one moment.

The second reason is that I'm just so fucking close to 70%. I'm one percent off a first. That just pisses me off. Especially with the latter point about my Comms and Nets module. But also because of my next problem...

I've had 4 exam periods in my time at Uni now. And what makes me most angry about my results is that this semester I've tried so much harder than I have ever before since I started school. And I've done worse in alot of modules than I did in the first year when I wasn't trying one bit. There is absolutely no correlation between the work I put into a module and the mark I get out of it. It's really crap.

When I can't see the fruits of my labour shining though when I get my results, what hope have I got in the future if I put effort in? It drains my motivation for this degree course when I know I get better results in some modules when I do no work than if I put 100% effort into some of them.

BUT. THE MOST FRUSTRATING AND DISGUSTING THING... is that (as you should well know) my name is "M Chapman". There is another "M Chapman" on my course. A Martin. A friend of mine. When I phoned my personal tutor for my results, he gave me the above details but stressed that these might not be correct because there has been a mixup between Mac and I. Now this in inexcusable, in my eyes...

These exams count towards our final degree level, which set us up for life. It's the most major thing that has happened to most of us. And it seems the department doesn't care. At University, we've given unique id numbers. Mine is 402175495. It's a huge number. 100,000,000 combinations. There could be one hundred million people at the Uni and not a single duplicated ID. (There are currently 20 thousand). So why on earth were Mac and I confused?!

If I hadn't lost my interest in my degree, I'm sure I'd be complaining. I'd be interested to see what Mac has been told about all this.