I woke up this morning with the same apprehensive feeling that’s been dogging me for the past 2 weeks – oh noes, the results are coming , I’m scared I’m scared I’m scared I’m scared. Then through the fog of tiredness I had the most wonderful realisation ever: the wait is actually over, I have my [...]

I’ve been writing drafts of this post for days on end and keep meaning to post, but every time I come back to it my feelings have changed. One minute I’m calm, relaxed, and totally unfazed then the next minute I’m completely freaking out. It’s quite strange. Last night I discovered that I’d been thinking so much [...]

…with the sound of ME BEING FINISHED! And music, obviously. Well. That was something, wasn’t it? The past week was the longest 7 days ever to exist. I honestly felt that Music would never arrive, that I’d be trapped in this sort of “almost-finished-not-quite-there-yet” time warp thing forever. Evidently, I am not. Music has been [...]

  Depression session today. I had prepared Newgrange, Bronze age, three of the Ninja Turtles (Leonardo, Raphael and Michaelangelo) and I was relying on a nice packaging/graphic design question for the Appreciation. But no. Irish Section: I had to do the first question, which I was not happy about. For one thing, I hadn’t revised [...]

OK, I know I’m a bit late to the party in regard to Irish Paper 2 but I will say it went swimmingly. The poetry questions were quite nice, except for the fact that the Nil Aon Ni codarsnacht question and the Faoiseamh A Gheobhadsa codarsnacht question were practically one and the same – what [...]

Of one thing I am certain: I will not, from this day on, ever have to do Maths again (yes, I refuse to even add or subtract simple numbers. No more, I tell you!) Maths Paper 2, in contrast to Paper 1, was a dream. Unfortunately I had to give my paper in as I [...]

(Note: Ordinary level Maths being discussed here) Yes, pure gammy. I have done every single exam paper from 2009 back over and over again, yet somehow they manage to pull the most obscure weird little summies out of nowhere. Let me see: Q1: I have completely forgotton how to do scientific notation or whatever. I [...]

(I’m in the Irish times today, with my fairly not-epic list of songs to get me through the exams. You’re welcome to rip apart my music taste ) Amm…so, how do I approach this delicately. Paper 2 went well for me. I knew Yeats quite well, so I wasn’t stuck with the poets. Only [...]

Just to say first of all I can’t believe how fast it went, 2hrs 50 BAM over first exam finished!!! I went to get a bottle of water in the local shop and the cashier girl was all “Oh do you have your Junior Cert today?” I shit you not. I was raging… Went into [...]

 The two weeks since my last post naturally went by faster than lightning and now…now we have but 2 days left til showtime. It’s pretty scary, I must admit. I’m not stressing though. What it all comes down to in the end is that pink/blue piece of paper and the horrors/delights it reveals, and that [...]

We have 2 weeks to go. Now about 3 months ago that sentence would have drawn a horrified “Guh!” from my lips, but these days the thought of freedom almost overtakes my terror. Can you imagine it? A whole summer with absolutely NOTHING to do? I personally can’t remember a time when I had nothing [...]

(Note on title:  I’m aware that it sounds like it could have been thought up by mid-naughties emo band. hXc) To elabourate on the title, I did actually cry during the craftwork exam. I can’t believe I’m telling you this, but as it is a blog about the Leaving Cert and the craftwork exam comes [...]

I’m sorry for my big break in posting there, I was tremendously busy these past few weeks with orals and practicals and history projects and getting mildly obsessed with the new Doctor Who and…wait, where was I? Oh yes. Orals went well, I think. My year had heard some horror stories from the repeats – [...]

It’s the day of the French oral. I wait patiently in a small room, feeling confident. I am called into the examination chamber (I was going to just call it a room but chamber sounds nice and fancy) and, strangely, there are quite a few people in there. I am confused. I sit and the [...]

I love spring. I love the stretch in the evening, the buds on the trees, na h-uan ag damhsa sna pairceanna (or something like that…) but these days I just can’t get no joy. In winter, when it was dark and rainy and even snowy, it was easy to gather my bag and baggage together [...]

I had a lovely little blog prepared detailing the whole load of nothing I did over the midterm but then life kept getting in the way of completing it and getting it posted. I sorry. The life thing that got in the way was an experience that left me in a very confused state. There is [...]

I’m really sorry I haven’t posted in ages (though it was probably nice to have a break from my constant prattling on and on), mocks have sort of taken over my life. I wasn’t actually planning on that happening at all, but when I come home from a day’s thinking and remembering and writing, oh [...]

Today was a very important day. Today, we received a very special “legal document from the department, THE DEPARTMENT GIRLS” that listed out all our subjects and the levels at which we will be examined, and the point of it all is to check and make sure that everything is right as rain so we’re [...]

Grad dates. All I have heard about since the return to school is grad dates. “OMG did you hear Mary Kate asked JohnJoe over the Christmas!” “I’m gonna ask Eugene guys!” “Good for you Margaret!” etc etc. Yeah. Good for you, Margaret. How the hell am I supposed to concentrate on my mockadoodledoos (they’re a [...]