Hey, my name is Elizabeth and I’m doing my Leaving Cert in Muckross Park College in Dublin. After going through many career choices (a shepherd when I was three to a vegetarian restaurant when I was six to an acrobat when I was fifteen) I’ve finally decided medical research is my calling, so I’m hoping to do medicine in Trinity next year. This blog will be my take on the leaving cert as I try to get enough crazily high points to hopefully nab one of those oh so hard-to-get places in medicine. It will be a constant battle between my wish to study something interesting in college and my will to stay in bed and do nothing. It’ll be a tough year and sacrifices will have to be made (my precious 9 hours of sleep are under severe threat lately) but I’m hoping it’ll be worth it in August.
I’ve always been terribly impatient, call it a character flaw if you will. Luckily, to put off pacing around the house anticipating results I had an amazing holiday of 10 days with 10 friends in Barcelona, coming back just 5 days before results, ensuring that my nails remained unbitten and my hair not torn out. [...]
I’ve been a very bold blogger. I told myself to write about my last three exams before jetting off to France, but unfortunately holiday preparations pushed blogging into the Bac (see what I did there? Ooh La La!) seat. My final three exams, Chemistry, German and Music were thankfully straightforward and uneventful. Chemistry was a [...]
You and I used to get on so well. When I would panic over German or Music you’d look at me calmly and say “don’t worry, there’s always me, I’ll be there for you”. You were the one exam I looked forward to and felt no fear about sitting. And through it all you offered [...]
Irish Paper two went more or less the same way as English Paper two. I thought I was wonderfully prepared, but when I saw that An Bhean Óg question I almost had a heart attack. Cíoptha?! What the hell did Cíoptha mean?! I later found out it meant “torment”, which filled me with cíoptha as [...]
That’s it. No more maths. Not Now, not ever. Although, in a cruel twist of irony, the fact that I put in a bit of work for my last ever maths exam at the expense of other subjects could end up with me doing science instead of medicine, in which case there’d be lots of [...]
I seem to be the only person not overjoyed by English Paper 2. Despite both Theme & Issue AND Cultural Context coming up for the Comparative, despite the Macbeth essay being incredibly vague and open-ended and despite three of the four poets on the leaked paper coming up, I still managed to mess it up. [...]
…and that’s exactly why I don’t really mind what grade I get in maths as long as I pass. I was wrecked last night and decided to indulge in an early night, on my way to bed I passed by the living room where Big Brother was on, and that pretty much ruined all my [...]
A few hours after I wrote my meltdown post last night I switched off my laptop, took a few deep breaths and thought about what I could do to maximise my English grade on Saturday. After the initial panicky thoughts of “oh God, that was my dream paper!” I realised that the contingency paper doesn’t [...]
I just found out that English Paper 2 is cancelled tomorrow because of a leak in Louth. English paper 2. My dream paper with Longley, Bishop, Walcott, Cultural Context and Deception and Banquo for Macbeth. The specific paper I’ve been studying towards for the past few months. I feel like most of my work has [...]
I think I expected nerves to set in at some point. For days I’ve had that weird “now or never” feeling, that how I perform over these next two and a half weeks will affect what I do with my life for the next 4 years at least. The funny thing is, I might have [...]
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