The one thing that annoyed me about the internship (apart from the fact that her history with paid content for the uni may have helped her get it) is the way she phrased how she found out about it. "My seminar leaders sent it to me because they thought I'd be interested" - her seminar leaders probably sent a mass email about it to everyone in her department, why she have to make everything so ego-centric? I bet that she wasn't emailed specifically.
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It depends sometimes there’s internal applicants before hand, seeing as she has worked with them before, I think she is likely to have found that first rather than the mass email, probably from the careers service more than anywhere else
Either it was a mass email, or if it was directed specifically to her I'm guessing the fact that she has promoted the university before might have had a part in it.
One thing that really annoys me about Ruby's book is that she still advertises it to young children. It's like she knows that anyone older would laugh at it so it somehow makes it OK that the book is crappy, because it's only aimed at kids. Young children deserve well written books! When I was 9 I was reading Jacqueline Wilson and Lemony Snicket, who are both amazing.
eh, it’s possible. Some kids are creative
Source: some girls may or may not have done similar to me with makeup at around 10, I didn’t write a book about it though
Literally came here to say this. I work in a uni and I almost guarantee that it was a mass email lol.
My university did something that sounded similar - I don't know if this is what Ruby is doing, but the ones my friends did basically involved them acting as assistants to lecturers on their research projects. It sounds like she could be going through sources, maybe handwritten, and typing them up possibly?
hi guys,
this has nothing to do with ruby, but its to do with uni and a lot of you here seem to know about the marking scheme etc. (for the record I go to a university in the UK). if i could have some advice on this it would be great.
so i submitted an essay for an assignment and it said my Turnitin percentage is 43% , I still havent had my grade back but a few others on my course have. i'm just really stressed because when i clicked on it it said some stuff were from a paper submitted to the university before.
my only issue is that it's a paper where we had to cite a lot of texts etc so i dont know if its just because a lot of people wrote on the same issue.
my friend mentioned plagiarism and im just wondering what this means? and is there a reason why my lecturer still has not given me back my feedback or is it because of the Turnitin percentage?
Sorry for asking here but I do not know anyone who knows stuff about this and i thought maybe one of you here would know about this.
thank u!!
this has nothing to do with ruby, but its to do with uni and a lot of you here seem to know about the marking scheme etc. (for the record I go to a university in the UK). if i could have some advice on this it would be great.
so i submitted an essay for an assignment and it said my Turnitin percentage is 43% , I still havent had my grade back but a few others on my course have. i'm just really stressed because when i clicked on it it said some stuff were from a paper submitted to the university before.
my only issue is that it's a paper where we had to cite a lot of texts etc so i dont know if its just because a lot of people wrote on the same issue.
my friend mentioned plagiarism and im just wondering what this means? and is there a reason why my lecturer still has not given me back my feedback or is it because of the Turnitin percentage?
Sorry for asking here but I do not know anyone who knows stuff about this and i thought maybe one of you here would know about this.
thank u!!
Hey, you won't automatically fail because of the turnitin score - your lecturer or marker will check through it to see if they think you actually plagarised (stole other peoples words) or if it's a reference thing.
People usually hit around 10-20% at my uni because of references and a few bits here and there, but if you have longer quotes that would explain the abnormaly high score. It also tends to flag slightly strange stuff, it once caught one of my sentences as something from a paper on owls from the 80s which is nowhere near my area of study!
You've only plagarised if you've copied something or just changed a few words to pass it off as your own. Turnitin should show you exactly where it thinks you've copied unless your lecturer turned that function off so you could go through yourself and see?
Yeah, I can see where it says I have copied stuff from. Most of it is beginning of sentences and also the references.
Thank you so much!
43% is pretty high tbh but it could be from having a lot of exact quotes in your essay. As long as they're referenced it doesn't matter. And if you've been told to attach a mark sheet or something similar to it then that brings your percentage up a lot.
Agree with this -- I used to have to put cover sheets on some of my work and I'd get 40% plagiarism scores, but most of it was the cover sheet!
like what other people said it's probably the longer quotes and it's probably registering that other people from the university have used those quotes before! it also probably wouldn't hurt to email your prof and say your score was high and you're not sure why, just as a heads up
So I have some thoughts on the whole idea she gets some sort of special treatment because she gets paid by the uni for some videos...#sponsored
All essays are marked anonymously so that rules that out. Also, I seriously doubt the uni would compromise their academic credibility to give some influencer a 72 instead of a 64 (for example).
Also worth noting the academic and marketing departments at uni are completely separate. It’s hardly as if someone from marketing sends an email asking a lecturer to bump up Roobeeee’s grade because she “represents” the uni!
It seems people are implying she couldn’t get that grade because she comes across as a little dense (lollll) in other areas of her life. For me, essays have a clear mark scheme so like how she got straight As at school or whatever she’s clearly studied them to the nth degree. If she uses her lecturers office hours, has nothing much going on in her life and spends 15 hours a day going over and over her work, I don’t find it that surprising she’d do well.
The difference is, the rest of us would party/socialise/have part time jobs/even travel during term and she does none of this.
It’s important to remember that the whole getting good grades is her BRAND. She gets paid indirectly for getting these grades— her YouTube videos and her online persona. If I was getting a full time salary to get 1sts at uni I’d make sure I got them too
So yeh, I personally don’t see it being down to special treatment!
All essays are marked anonymously so that rules that out. Also, I seriously doubt the uni would compromise their academic credibility to give some influencer a 72 instead of a 64 (for example).
Also worth noting the academic and marketing departments at uni are completely separate. It’s hardly as if someone from marketing sends an email asking a lecturer to bump up Roobeeee’s grade because she “represents” the uni!
It seems people are implying she couldn’t get that grade because she comes across as a little dense (lollll) in other areas of her life. For me, essays have a clear mark scheme so like how she got straight As at school or whatever she’s clearly studied them to the nth degree. If she uses her lecturers office hours, has nothing much going on in her life and spends 15 hours a day going over and over her work, I don’t find it that surprising she’d do well.
The difference is, the rest of us would party/socialise/have part time jobs/even travel during term and she does none of this.
It’s important to remember that the whole getting good grades is her BRAND. She gets paid indirectly for getting these grades— her YouTube videos and her online persona. If I was getting a full time salary to get 1sts at uni I’d make sure I got them too
So yeh, I personally don’t see it being down to special treatment!
Ngl I'm kinda jealous of all the nice places Ruby has to walk around where she lives. Like I try to walk every day in lockdown but its not exactly the same when you live in a bit of a shithole area
I don't think anyone's implying that. Obviously anyone who's familiar with the UK uni system knows marking is anonymous for the most part. But they literally are damaging their academic integrity paying her to advertise the uni. I find the fact that she got offered two internships a bit sus, like it's highly possible her advertising for the uni has something to do with it, but I have zero doubt that she gets the grades she does with anything but hard work.So I have some thoughts on the whole idea she gets some sort of special treatment because she gets paid by the uni for some videos...#sponsored
All essays are marked anonymously so that rules that out. Also, I seriously doubt the uni would compromise their academic credibility to give some influencer a 72 instead of a 64 (for example).
Also worth noting the academic and marketing departments at uni are completely separate. It’s hardly as if someone from marketing sends an email asking a lecturer to bump up Roobeeee’s grade because she “represents” the uni!
It seems people are implying she couldn’t get that grade because she comes across as a little dense (lollll) in other areas of her life. For me, essays have a clear mark scheme so like how she got straight As at school or whatever she’s clearly studied them to the nth degree. If she uses her lecturers office hours, has nothing much going on in her life and spends 15 hours a day going over and over her work, I don’t find it that surprising she’d do well.
The difference is, the rest of us would party/socialise/have part time jobs/even travel during term and she does none of this.
It’s important to remember that the whole getting good grades is her BRAND. She gets paid indirectly for getting these grades— her YouTube videos and her online persona. If I was getting a full time salary to get 1sts at uni I’d make sure I got them too
So yeh, I personally don’t see it being down to special treatment!
Hey guys, I came across this tiktok and I immediately thought of Ruby's sister...
it's weird to imagine Ruby on a study abroad term. i don't know if this is a common experience but when i did mine in France there was a lot more emphasize on the travelling and partying experience than the studying part. i found the classes to have a lot less work than i was used to and most of the international students i met (especially those on erasmus) definitely saw it as a semester to party. it was tons of fun for me but i don't see ruby vibing with that environment
I've never actually studied abroad myself (not for a prolonged period of time like a semester anyway) but I know a lot of foreign students on Erasmus at my uni and I agree that the socializing and "experience" part in general is emphasized over studying. Which makes sense, I mean, if you wanted to only study and focus on that there wouldn't really be a reason to go abroad? Like, I can study at home too, if I'm doing a semester abroad it's because I want to experience the country I'm staying in and socializing with people.
The different amount of work that you noticed might also be due to how university works. Idk about France but in my country for example we usually have zero compulsory work during the semester because everything depends on your final exam and that is the only grade you get. Of course people usually try to stay on top of the lectures during the semester too because then it's easier to study during the exam session but that's it.
Tbf I think Ruby knows how to sell herself and is obv v enthusiastic about whatever she’s studying so I’m not surprised that she’d do well in an interview.
@joonielovers Just to echo what others have said, the delay could be that they need to check your references. So they might be checking the bits turnitin flagged and then also doing a general check of others that you’ve used to see if there’s a pattern. If they do find something you need to work on, they will probably have a meeting with you to show you where you’ve gone wrong. Let us know how you get on
@joonielovers Just to echo what others have said, the delay could be that they need to check your references. So they might be checking the bits turnitin flagged and then also doing a general check of others that you’ve used to see if there’s a pattern. If they do find something you need to work on, they will probably have a meeting with you to show you where you’ve gone wrong. Let us know how you get on
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