Tag Archives: graduation

Feelings are for Girls

Ah the last week of school is finally here. If I ever see Messrs Sin, Cos or Tan (probably when my kids are doing Space Maths… on the Moon…in the non- Leaving Cert. Enda Kenny will abolish, according to Valerie’s last post..) I can bid them good day and tell them how I Pythagoras’d their [...]

The Final Countdown.

For thousands of Leaving Cert Students all across the country, school is officially finished. Forever. Copious amounts of alcohol have been consumed, shirts signed, teachers thanked, pranks eloquently executed. All that’s left now is the final hurdle- these damn Summer Exams. This is it. The Leaving Cert’s here. Well, almost. After six painful years of [...]

Generation N

Emerald drops the N-word

The Sound of Settling

The theme of the week seems to be the simple realisation that ultimately the leaving cert is just an exam. Of course it’s easy to see why many view the leaving cert as the be all and end all of life “It’s the most important exam/thing you will ever do in your life” cue ominous [...]

Back To The Start

I’m in the mood to blog and have no actual topic to blog on so let’s just see where this goes… Graduation. I graduate on Wednesday, meaning that tomorrow is my last day of school. Can I get an OH EM GEE? Most schools seem to have graduated already so I guess it’s not that [...]

A torrid affair

It’s just like something out of a a pink trashy novel with a picture of a woman looking wistfully out a window while a sterotypical man hunk stands behind her (the man is atypically topless and has super pecs) sporting a face that is reminiscent of a moose. You know moose face right? Like *Not [...]