Feed me.
I am STARVING. Maybe literally, do you want to risk it?
The vast majority of Leaving Cert Students will agree with me- 6th year is hungry work. All that revising, learning, solving and so on- it must be fuelled with food. Lots of food. A constant flow of food, if you will. It can be healthy, yeah, as long as it’s food. Delicious food.
I woke up this morning, at 11am, and decided that I’d do a bit of study. Y’know, just haul out some of that work that’s been piling up and converting it into my Cerebrum. However, I couldn’t have breakfast, so I couldn’t concentrate on ridiculous, unnecessary stuff relating to Geography.
So, I went for a walk. Got kind of hungry, decided to turn back after 20 minutes.
Now I’m here, planked in front of the PC, still pretty hungry.
Trócaire 24 Hour Fast- I hate you.
I still have another 7 hours to go, WHINGEEEE.
This is what I get for being charitable- crankiness.
There’ll be no study done for the remainder of the day, and that’s final. But it’s okay, because I’m, eh, finished my mocks.
That’s right all! Jennie is finally finished her mocks. As of Tuesday. I haven’t gone into school since; instead I paid a visit to friends in College and pretended that I hadn’t made a mess of my Leaving Cert the first time around! That took an awful lot of alcohol, but the fact that I was on strong antibiotics helped.
So the mocks then- how were they? Well, as I mentioned in my last post, they could really have been better.
I’m incredibly flawed by complacency, something I intend to enlarge upon in a future post, so I didn’t study enough for loads of my subjects.
I haven’t got any of my results back yet, but I’m hoping I got an A1 in Irish, and after that I don’t really care that much. Geography was beautifully easy, but Chemistry was a horrible, mean, disgusting abomination of an exam. French would have been gorgeous if I’d studied for it, and the same with Biology. I didn’t even bring home my Biology book- I left it in my locker leading up to the mocks, so there was no cramming. Not even the night before. I got an A1 in it last year and 97% in my Christmas exam. I wonder how much I can possibly drop by!
Half the country seems to have cheated in the oul’ mocks, it’s not exactly a difficult feat. There are various (well, at least 2 anyway) websites where people have put up the questions that are on the papers for others to print off in a rather sly manner. Because different schools have their mocks at different times, this works out impeccably well.
You cannot imagine the temptation I had to cheat, unless of course you too are a Leaving Cert student! Everyone seemed to have the entire papers printed off before their exams, with the answers memorised and A1s gleaming in their eyes.
I decided against cheating, because, well, it defeats the whole purpose of the mocks. Sure, I like the beautiful sensation that comes with getting an A1 as much as the next person, but I’d like to think that I actually deserved the grades I got.
Geography, for example- I’m quite confident I got an A1 on that paper. It was absolutely delicious, as far as exams go, and that’s without cheating. Had I cheated, I’d have had to credit that grade to my deceptive ways. Nah, it’s not worth it. Cheating is wrong, amoral and wicked. I’m a good student, me.
I expect to have my results back in the next days and weeks. I don’t really care as much as I should, my orals are fast approaching (2-3 weeks? Agh!) and I’d much rather show a bit of concern for them.
I planned on studying for them today, but quite frankly, I’m too hungry.
I’m off to try inhale food fumes. Until next time!
you spelled immoral wrong
amoral: having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong.
Doesn’t work, no?
I’m always mixing the two up…
Also: I still mix up fate/ faith. *shakes head*
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