One week and three days til midterm, seventeen weeks til the Leaving Cert. Fantastic. In an effort to make school even more miserable and soul – less, my school has recently come up with a few vindictive new rules. Some refer to the uniform, and I found it absolutely hilarious in assembly last week when …
Discuss the leaving cert in the forum Three weeks til midterm…four weeks til pre’s…eight weeks til the orals…twenty something til the leaving. The countdowns continue. Countdowns are all I have these days, cause I’m getting oh so sick of school! Usually my tolerance is much lower but I have finally snapped. I’ve had enough. I’m …
Biochemistry. What an awful concept. Back in transition year when I was picking my subjects, I attended four or five sample chemistry classes, sat there absolutely dumbfounded, and promptly chose biology. I don’t want to be a doctor, or a dentist, or any other profession that requires this convoluted subject…so why would I willingly force …
I hate to sound so Chandleresque but could it BE any colder? My friends and I have taken to wearing layers upon layers of clothes under our school uniforms (including double layers of socks under tights) and still spend the day with shoulders hunched, clutching our jackets. It was minus five degrees at one point, …
Even though I am determined to do well in the leaving, I am unbelievably apathetic about the whole studying issue, and so I’m not one of those enviable, dedicated students who spent the Christmas break studying. That being said, the time has come when even I’m admitting that it’s time to get ‘back’ to studying. …