Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!
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Oh, I completely agree with you and those were my first sentiments (which I expressed beforehand)! Having any kind of disappointment with a "low first" is ridiculous and saying she wanted a "high first" on her dissertation is crazy and sends such a wrong message. A first is good full stop. I know people have varying expectations and when you've worked hard, I want to get it, but being disappointed about not getting an 80 or something when it literally does not matter drives me mad. A first is a first; case closed. It sends such a terrible message to an impressionable audience and formulates unrealistic expectations.
I regret to inform you that you did not mishear the name of the religion and Holocaust module...I'm watching the results video and I can't really work out the names of the modules she did because of how she speaks
The module results she listed are:
YEAR 1
72 on academic English (that is what she said right?)
73 on poems
75 on the novel
74 on beginnings
72 on approaches to criticism
69 on introduction to creative writing
OVERALL YEAR 1: 72.63
YEAR 2
76 on religion and Holocaust memory and public life (please tell me I heard the name of this wrong)
73 on American literature
79 on theatrical and modern cultures of England
76 on 19th century writings
OVERALL YEAR 2: 76
YEAR 3
76 on Charles Dickens
80 on writing for children and young adults
74 on life and death in early modern literature
74 in the dissertation
OVERALL YEAR 3: 76
OVERALL MARK - 76
Ruby should be proud as that grade marks a great achievement, dedication and hard work, yet as I've said, she had to perform as not only is it her brand as a "Studytuber" to do well academically but she also has no other responsibilites or expectations.
University is supposed to be the period of your life where you form lifelong friendships, gain confidence, independence etc. All she has on the friendship side is Blakeney, she didn't seem to overly branch into any societies or get involved at Exeter and the independence side has marked a regression if anything else.
I think COVID unfortunately played a major role, but in terms of university as a building block for life experience, Ruby arguably failed. It's much more than just academics.
University is supposed to be the period of your life where you form lifelong friendships, gain confidence, independence etc. All she has on the friendship side is Blakeney, she didn't seem to overly branch into any societies or get involved at Exeter and the independence side has marked a regression if anything else.
I think COVID unfortunately played a major role, but in terms of university as a building block for life experience, Ruby arguably failed. It's much more than just academics.
Oooh it's finally soon! Well congrats to Ruby on her amazing grades. I'm surprised by the dissertation result and I didn't realise she'd taken an American lit module because I don't remember her ever posting about American literature.
I'm sorry but if you've read other recent posts in this thread and still make a comment like that, it's incredibly disingenuous.
First, Ruby has nothing else in her life other than studying and academics. She can devote all her time to it, while other people are balancing jobs, relationships, extracurriculars and family issues. They can't afford to make daytrips for their dissertations and so forth because there are other priorities in life, so getting a first (or even a 2:1) requires plenty of hard work and dedication while juggling life.
More importantly (and a point people often forget), that the Ruby we see on YouTube isn't likely reflective of Ruby Bones. She has to do these morning routines because it gets her money and she has an audience. I highly doubt she does those every single morning and ditto with the productivity. We've never read one of her essays and snippets here or there or basing it off Erimenthea Parker is a silly approach.
I can speak for myself that in second year I absolutely worked my a off for my Law degree and got a 69. That took so much effort and hours on campus working. As you're clearly an outsider of the UK education system, let me tell you that it takes consistency and dedication to get a 2:1, let alone a first. Trying to devalue other people's grades and hard work just because you want to make a catty comment that "if Ruby can do it, it must be easy" is plain rude.
"you can probably tell that I'm nervous haha"
Ruby slaps that on-screen as she comes out with the same nonsensical brain-addled rambling, alien cadence and weird pauses she does every time she speaks. How is this any different from the usual, Ruby?
"I wahhkred SYO HAHHRD ON...the dissartayshun...AND...I really enjoyed dyooing it AND...I koiynd of took a little bit of a punt in dyooing what I did..."
If by "enjoying doing it", you mean, "looking miserable and defeated at all times", and by "taking a punt with the dissertation", you mean "ignoring all academic instruction and basic common sense to just kitchen sink this motherfucker", then sure. You tossed every bit of unrelated tangential drivel into an essay with no structure and no grounding in the subject at hand.
"I was wroyting about LATTERS, nyot a nyovel...Latters ARE literature. I don't think scholarship rackognoises enoff that LATTERS in thamsalves are pieces of literature."
Ruby is already on a soapbox crusade of denial before she's even opened her grades - it's the scholarship's fault if she gets a bad grade, since those stuffy, narrow-minded academics simply don't recognise her expansive and VARRY CORRACKT view of what constitutes literature. This is the same tit she pulls every time she's disappointed in a result; despite all the time she claims to devote to "REFLACKSHUN", she never admits fault and there's always some excuse.
Ruby handed in a pile of rambling, incoherent nonsense for her dissertation, somehow got a SEVENTY-bleeping-FOUR for it, and still pulls a "Welp, I have been brutally victimised once more" face. It's no shock that she expected 80-90+ for this tit. She felt entitled to it. She was talking about how her work would impact future scholarship even as she wasted an entire year shoehorning in completely unrelated bull. She thought it would be a publishable piece of work just because she went on a time-wasting, inconsequential Dark Academia trip to the archive collection with mummy holding her hand the whole way. So it's no shock that she's not satisfied with a low First. But good lord, the entitlement.
Ruby says she wanted it to be higher because she spent so long on it. This is not how academia works, Ruby. You don't get rewarded for wasting more time than you needed to spend because you didn't plan properly.
Ruby somehow got an 80 for her creative writing. We've seen the quality of her writing. We've seen samples of what she handed in ("WHAT A DEPACLE!"). They at least called her out for that mistake in her feedback. But then Ruby says, "I misspelt "tappackle". I don't know how." She clearly doesn't know how the word is spelt or pronounced. And that wasn't even only the lone, glaring issue in that assignment. The structure was a mess, ping-ponging between rhyming, just repeating the same words in lieu of a rhyme, and then just abandoning rhyming structure altogether. It was inconsistent and lazy.
She mispronounces numerous words in this video alone. "Precentages." "Specicifity." And those glaring language mistakes are consistent, too regular and too numerous to list with her.
She got a 76 for her Dickens module, when this sloppy, barely-thought-out mess was one of the assignments which was worth a substantial percentage of her grade:
Ruby Granger #18 Still no deal with Waterstones but half her food was mailed from home
I don't see her getting a real job after uni, at all. She'll probably turn this channel into a "history" channel and indulge her Victorian cosplays to her heart's content. I bet she has dreams of becoming a Bernadette Banner kind of character, who basically live for the aesthetics. But I...
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And yes, she later showed that she really did just weaponize her privilege and get her YouTube fanbase to try help her get a higher grade, even though the assignment should stand on its own merits.
What the Christ is going on with Exeter Uni's grading standards?
Oh, right. Grade inflation.
After a few days to stew in the grades that she was somehow disappointed with despite being rewarded highly for coasting by on the work of others, she comes out with another lip-service disclaimer about the dangers of fixating on grades. It really just feels like excuses for why she wasn't rewarded with a 97+ grade and a building named after her at AXATAR University to acknowledge her genius and hard work.
"Yooooou could hand the same piece of wahhrk to tyoo...LACKTURERS...and...one moight give yoooou TAN MARKS higher than the othha one."
There it is. That's what Ruby's been telling herself to explain why she "only" got a 74 - if only another LACKTURER had graded it, they would've seen her true brilliance. It's also nonsense. There's some amount of subjectivity in grading, sure, but final projects are graded by two different markers who confer on a final grade. She literally reads out the feedback from two different lecturers for one piece of work in this video.
"We need grades so that employers know what level we tend to work at."
How to tell me you've never had a job without telling me you've never had a job.
Ruby contradicts herself right away - "don't worry if you only got a 74, even though I'm devastated, because at the end of the day, a first is still a first if it's a 74 or a 99, but those numbers are needed for employers to know how smart you are." I can't even with this nonsense.
No employers are ever going to ask or want to know what score you got for your uni modules. Next to no employers are going to care what your overall degree grade way, and the overwhelming majority of them won't care if you have a degree at all and will place much more value on your work ethic and experience. If you got a degree of any grade, that's an advantageous extra - an employer will know you can stick something out for 3 years and work to a schedule. But they aren't going to brutally bully you or fire you for getting less than an 80 on your dissertation.
Even as she's trying to downplay the importance of grades, she's massively embellishing their worth in the real world, not helped by her having zero experience in the real world.
Ruby emphasises that the grade is "JOHST A NOMBA!" Which is great and all, but as in all of her lip service disclaimers about the dangers of toxic productivity, romanticising academia, fixating on grades, etc., she always approaches it like she's an innocent victim. "We all do this," she says, as if she's just one of you guys, toiling away in academia as the system pressures her with unfair expectations and propagates an unhealthy mindset towards grades.
It's all bull - she's the biggest proponent of that toxic mindset I've ever seen on YouTube or elsewhere. She includes sections in the overpriced, poor quality planners where people can add their dream grades to strife for (and be disappointed when they don't get them). She's visibly disappointed for all to see with every high grade she gets, even knowing she didn't work for it. She coasted on her privileged situation and shortcutted her way through. She skipped the required reading, relied almost entirely on her roommate's work, monopolised her tutors' time and reverse-engineered essays from other people's ideas. That work wasn't hers, and the only thing she has to be proud of is that she gamed the system and never got penalised for it.
She turns everything into a numbers game - "I read 496 books in 2 hours!", "I did all these things in 1 day!" - and every single time, she lies and fabricates daily vlogs which show her accomplishing more in a day than is physically possible, all to breed admiration and jealousy in young fans too naïve and trusting to see through her lies. It cultivates a clear message to her impressionable fans: Work yourself to death trying to accomplish the impossible. Never eat. Grades are everything. High grades are disappointing, you should only be happy with the highest. Academia is the defining point of your life and there is nothing else. If you aren't keeping up with me, you're doing something wrong.
It's absolutely sickening. These sanctimonious lectures she gives will never mean anything until she acknowledges her major part in cultivating that mindset and stops doing it. But she never has and never will.
Ruby puts on her melodramatic acting voice to say that the "really important and valuable thing about ADDYOOKAYSHUN is learning new things and broadening out horizons. Y'know, the things that Ruby worked harder on avoiding than she ever did on any essay. She learned nothing from university. She's coming out of it the same lazy, incompetent, barely-literate, toxic dumbass she went in.
If there's anything to take away from Ruby's experience, it's that. She devoted all her waking hours to busywork and the pretence of studying. She wasted four years of her life pretending to be smart, while copying other people's work. She didn't socialise. She never got to know anyone different from herself. She didn't expand her knowledge. She didn't read. She didn't immerse herself in extracurriculars and broaden her work experience. She didn't learn to be independent. It was four years of wasted time to come out with a degree that she didn't earn, that won't open any new doors for her, and that she's still not happy with. It's not a signifier of her intelligence. It's just an eternal reminder that Blakeney carried her ass.
If you have an expanse of free time, no money worries, an intelligent best friend willing to do all the required reading and critical reading for you and are quite happy wasting years of your life not learning anything for yourself, then you, too, can get an easy First. And I hope it eats away at Ruby that she didn't earn those grades. I hope it really stings that Exeter hands out Firsts to 40% of their students (likely even more this year) and she's no big fish in a small pond. I hope she knows that all the students who got 2:2s and 2:1s likely have much more reason to be proud than she does, because they actually worked for it and likely got a much more well-rounded experience of socialising, actually learning things, becoming more independent and expanding their horizons.
If you worked hard, be proud of the results you got, regardless of the grade. You're a bleeping rockstar.
If you scammed the system and shortcutted your way through, congrats on not getting caught, but the only person you cheated was yourself.
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NGL I'm bitter but unsurprised (if a little confused) with Rubber Duck's grades. I don't understand how she got a 74 in her dissertation, when at least the rest of her essays were gamed to tick all the boxes on the mark sheet.
I only hope that the First is enough to give Ruby a false sense of accomplishment and fuels her ego enough for her to share her dissertation/her essays publicly.
I'd LOVE that, even if only to use them as a practice exercise in how to deal with sanctimonious students that think they're god's gift and how to mark essays.
Also omg guys it's my year anniversary of joining Tattle JUST for this thread dedicated to the most hardworking, iconic, legendary person on YouTube.
Fred the fly.
Don't apologize. It's normal to feel bad when you have to suffer so much and you see someone who has no problem in the world.. and who complains....
Just be proud of yourself for everything you did! Congrats!
From her Instagram daily vlog, Ruby posing looking at/reaching for the high shelves to looks like a small child again.
Congrats Ruby, you got a First! Give yourself a smug pat on the back.
Now go back to sitting in your bedroom and deluding yourself you're going to be the next JK Rowling. All it takes is the right publisher to realize and praise her for her true talents! As she said, she would've gotten a higher mark if only she had a different marker. Solution? Submit your work to 100 people, just see where it sticks!
This whole DEPACLE reminds me of Holly Gabrielle, who graduated TOP of her class in Cambridge. Now look at her. It's a shame- because she COULD do great things in her field but doesn't. Ruby, on the other hand, WANTS to but CAN'T for the life of her.
This may sound harsh, but I don't think her mark is impressive at all. For all the hours and hours she spends on studying and only studying, the LEAST she could get is a First. It'll be so embarrassing if she didn't.
Now go back to sitting in your bedroom and deluding yourself you're going to be the next JK Rowling. All it takes is the right publisher to realize and praise her for her true talents! As she said, she would've gotten a higher mark if only she had a different marker. Solution? Submit your work to 100 people, just see where it sticks!
This whole DEPACLE reminds me of Holly Gabrielle, who graduated TOP of her class in Cambridge. Now look at her. It's a shame- because she COULD do great things in her field but doesn't. Ruby, on the other hand, WANTS to but CAN'T for the life of her.
This may sound harsh, but I don't think her mark is impressive at all. For all the hours and hours she spends on studying and only studying, the LEAST she could get is a First. It'll be so embarrassing if she didn't.
Oh Fred the Fly. How us tattlers love you.
I have no words that Ruby thinks your grade number matters. Yes, maybe the actual classification but not the actual number.
She literally is SO sheltered. Even jade has a better grasp of reality. She knows you need confidence, people skills, creativity and life experience to do well in jobs. duck ruby. Honestly, this is the most insulting and pathetic thing she’s ever said. Try and walk into a top corporation flapping your essay paper but have no communication skills, articulate conversation or friendly chat to mix with everyone and see how well you do.
She literally is SO sheltered. Even jade has a better grasp of reality. She knows you need confidence, people skills, creativity and life experience to do well in jobs. duck ruby. Honestly, this is the most insulting and pathetic thing she’s ever said. Try and walk into a top corporation flapping your essay paper but have no communication skills, articulate conversation or friendly chat to mix with everyone and see how well you do.
Ah yes, the cookery section... she must be planning more of those "desirable vegan cooking creations"
I haven't watched Ruby in the longest time but wtf is this video? Being that wound up about a 74 is so unhealthy.
The only time it matters is when you're pursuing academia and your offer says something like 'need a 65 in the dissertation component'. Is she pursuing academia? I don't even know anymore. Anything 70+ is fine though. I'm sure Ruby would be shocked to know I have a PhD with a ..low 2.1 in my bachelor's, and my friend on my PhD cohort (who is now a successful lecturer) only got a merit in her master's dissertation (and it was a low one - something like 62%)
The banging noise in the background when she's discussing her dissertation feedback is sending me. I'm just imagining it's the sound of her violently kicking the wall in frustration that she only got 74.
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