I've not long completed my second year studying maths at university, and received my results yesterday. And without wanting to go into details, I'm incredibly pleased with them. I'm currently on a first (i.e. 70%+) but now I have to make a fairly big decision, one which I should've made a while ago.
As it stands, I have only one more year left at uni (as an undergraduate at least). However, I have the option to stay on for a fourth year, to complete a masters. Given my results, this shouldn't be too much of a step up, considering that this only involves choosing an additional ten modules to do in the fourth year, most of which are of a similar level of difficulty to the options I would be taking in my third year.
Pretty much the only reason that I'm not currently doing a masters is because it means ten more exams. And I hate exams. They make me physically ill, and a much less tolerable person. But this seems like a shitty reason really, considering how much I enjoy maths normally.
And there are loads of upsides to such a decision, such as an extra year before I actually have to decide what to do with my life, an extra year with loads of my friends and basically an extra year doing what I love, and then ending up with a better degree.
I really need to just suck it up and go for it.
On an entirely unrelated note, have a video (providing this actually works):
I think in this current employment situation England is in, it would probably be worth it to stay on and get a Masters degree. Otherwise it is likely that you will leave university and, unless you go abroad, be working in Subway or Macdonalds.
