The end is near.

The end is near. No, not global warming… well that too, but I’m talking about the leaving cert.

Arriving late for school, desperately pushing your mind to its limits in an effort to come up with yet another unique excuse for being late. Trying to exit the school a class before lunch to have an extra half hour for lunch. Challenging the school system, the teachers and their stubborn ways. Participating in a race with 300 other students to reach the canteen and indulge in those breakfast rolls prepared with Ireland’s finest goods? Or not.

Those are some of the things that I will probably miss. That excitement and buzz that seemed to grow within the school on a daily basis. Walking mindlessly in a trance from class to class.. Actually, that was one of the downsides. It really is hard to talk positively about school for so long.

Next stop, grad mass. The night where we get drag our teachers out on the town and get drunk look back on those beutiful moments of school with our parents and teachers, as we embrace ourselves for the rest of our lives.
So from now until the 4th of July, do as Barry said – ” Hit the books. Hit them hard. It’ll be worth it”

7 thoughts on “The end is near.”

  1. OHMYGOSH.

    Where have you been all year?!

    I read a bit of your thingy in the Irish Times, and then came on to find you.

    I feel exactly the same as all of you, I just wish I had discovered you sooner! I thought I was the only one not completely and amazingly prepared like everyone else seems to be.

    Your article about ‘HIT ME’ and when you were going to get motivated made me sooo relieved! Was that you who wrote that?

    Anyway, this is a brilliant website and I feel soooo much better — im not alone!

  2. Haha.. Yeah that was me that wrote that piece.

    I’m glad you like the website. And that you know you’re in the same boat!

  3. just dropping by to say that ye’re site is fair good. ye stuck by it etc etc and fair play!! what are ye doing with it after the leaving? life in college maybe?

  4. Thanks KK!
    We hope to keep it going, they’re are a few roads we could go down with it but that we are planning over the summer!

  5. Hey KK, Thanks indeed. Yeah we have a lot of ideas for expansion. All of which will go into development this summer. Plans may be revealed once the leaving cert is over and we post our final experience blog post =]

  6. Thats good…. nice to hear that ye will stick by it, it was a really good idea! Good luck with it, Ill definetly be hearing about it I’d say since it’s probably the most advanced thing to come out of Nenagh since… well, ever! (“,)

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