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 [...]
Dear Barack Hussein Obama, You rock my world. Lots of love, Jennie xx Lots of people* like to groom my ego from time to time, telling me my writing skills are simply immense. Unfortunately, English teachers don’t tend to think so. I mean, yeah, my grammar’s usually pretty immaculate and I know a great deal [...]
Few things in this planet are as tedious as washing contact lenses after coming home from school. Having to learn 5 Bildergeschichten is one. Following a particularly slow learner driver when you’re already a week late for school, is another. And so, in order to distract myself from all that German, and also to adhere [...]
A wake up call about how hard the life of a Junior Doctor really is and a rant at how awfully NCHDs are treated.
Last night, it actually snowed. Not the seldom pathetic little snow flake that melts even before it reaches the ground, but the other, seldom-er kind. So that five minutes of heaven’s dandruff, incalculable sighs of delight and wonder, and a serious case of verbal diarrhea later, the cars, the houses – even the cats outside, [...]
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 [...]
Open Evening at Griffith College Dublin Griffith College cordially invites you to our Open Evening this Wednesday, the 21st of January, from 5.30 – 8 PM. For Law, Business, Accountancy, Journalism and Media, Photography, Interior Design, Fashion Design, Computing Science, Digital Media, MBA, Corporate Training and much more, look no further than Griffith College. February [...]
”Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.” ~Charles R. Magel In Chemistry today, we [...]
Well, the Christmas holidays have come and gone. And we’re creeping ever closer to the big day. So far I have gotten away with doing minimal work. I have made changes to my courses, just before filling my CAO. When my career guidance teacher asked me had I my list ready today, I was very [...]
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.” George E. Allen Twice this week-end, I bumped into people I knew in school last year who have gone on to college. Twice, I heard ”I can’t believe you went back” and [...]
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