(Note on title: I’m aware that it sounds like it could have been thought up by mid-naughties emo band. hXc) To elabourate on the title, I did actually cry during the craftwork exam. I can’t believe I’m telling you this, but as it is a blog about the Leaving Cert and the craftwork exam comes [...]
It’s the day of the French oral. I wait patiently in a small room, feeling confident. I am called into the examination chamber (I was going to just call it a room but chamber sounds nice and fancy) and, strangely, there are quite a few people in there. I am confused. I sit and the [...]
Firstly, I want to wish everyone here a happy new year and a happy new decade. For many of you, this is the year you sit your leaving cert. For me it’s not. I’m in 5th year So, don’t expect me to use the words stress or pressure in any of my posts What I’ll [...]
Just as the title would suggest, I’m a filthy college drop out. I started in UCD last week and, 3 days in, decided to withdraw from my course. Which was the 6 Year Medicine degree. I handed back my student card and decided I’d never set foot in the place again. UCD and I are [...]
Today, June 22nd, is a day almost every Medicine hopeful had marked off in their calendars as The Most Important Day Ever. I say almost every Med-Head, because I rang a friend of mine this morning, about 3 hours after I’d looked at my own results, to see how he’d fared, and he didn’t even [...]
Would anyone like to know what I hate most about the Leaving Cert? Its complete disregard for my preferred sleeping pattern- that’s what! It’s a Saturday morning and I woke up at 7am. 7am!! That should be illegal- it’s wrong, deplorable, repulsive and distressing. I’m so used to being viciously awoken at 7am (Actually, 6.45 [...]
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