Archive | May, 2008

The Final Straw

Pre Grad Mass The last few weeks of school included my art practical exam. I was anxious about this exam, I am not the most creative by nature but my doodles might just pass for the new abstract style. I am relatively pleased with my masterpieces work and with this exam completed I become apprehensive [...]

Summer has arrived & the exams have started!

May 2nd – Finishing date for assessment of LCA Task Work (Session 2 Year 1.) • Finishing date for the LCA Personal Reflection Task. 6th – Leaving Certificate Engineering Practical (10.00 – 1.00 & 2.00 – 5.00). • Start date for monitoring Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science and Agricultural Economics. 7th – Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme [...]

The Art of Craft

Art. 4 days to my leaving-certificate art exam. Today I took the day off school for a little preparation. I am here googling images for the theme of the poster, I like what I see and fear getting caught for plagiarism completely by accident. Anything that may compromise my exam scares the life out of [...]

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 [...]

This is a depressing post.

Thats my attitude. I guess I have up and down weeks now. Though, generally lacking enthusiasm. For awhile I thought I was on an up.. But no.. no.. failure comes to mind. And not only to mind because I’m thinking it, but other people are thinking it towards me also. And I’m starting to feel [...]

LCVP, Construction, Engineering and Art exams

If you’re not already in the middle of some of the those exams then you probably are in the coming days. LCVP – Written Construction – practical Engineering – practical Art – practical Although many of these seem very daunting at times, they’re actually not that bad. If you’re doing LCVP then it might be [...]