Well folks!!

I think I may have hit a little depression over the whole studying for the Leaving Cert thing. I’ve had a four day weekend and I have done sweet FA. I’ve caught up on series of 3 of Gilmore Girls and season 5 of criminal minds but asides from that…nada.

I have been trying to study, I swear! But every time I sit down to do some work….it just doesn’t happen! And to make it worse I keep taking needless days off from school. I’m getting increasingly frustrated with the seemingly never ending workload but I just cannot be bothered.  The amount of distractions is unreal. Phone calls, texting, the internet, the TV…it’s a bitch.

I need to stop procrastinating now though. The sooner I get the work done, the less stress I’ll have nearing the actual exams. I have to stock up on teabags, berocca and red bull and just force myself to concentrate. I’ve been through this hellish process before, I can do it again. I think!

Okay, feeling a bit more optimistic now. Hows everyone doing with the xmas exams/pre-mocks, or whatever you call them?? Hope you’re all doing good!

G’luck!

So sat down with the mammy this morning for a cup of tea and a truly enlightening conversation of my future. It was great how we laughed and joked about me hopefully getting into college this year and not having to spend the rest of my life repeating the LC. However, it suddenly dawned on me that I actually have no bloody clue what I want to do.

My mind was set on Law, then journalism, social work, commerce then back to journalism, back to social work…then commerce…you get the picture. I have been so incredibly influenced by the TV that I even decided I wanted to join the BAU in the FBI (my cousin was totally up for that as well!) or become Veronica Mars.

I AM SOOOOOOO CONFUSED! Journalism is forefront in my mind now…I think….or commerce in UCD. But I have to take up maths again to improve by a grade to get into Commerce…and the 450 points necessary might also hold some problems. I love business and economics and I love English, so both degrees hold a lot of appeal for me.

Is anyone else having a problem deciding what to do? I think I should make a pros and cons list for both courses and just do my CAO before some other type of job pops into my head and I decide that I maybe want to do that aswell. Frustrations!!!

On another note, we had our xmas tests last week. They weren’t too bad with the very little study I did. I was so excited for seeing the New Moon film on Friday.  But I didn’t get there!! Stupid floods closed the roads and made so much traffic that I couldn’t get into Galway to see it.

But I’m going in on Tuesday to see it, even if I have to get a boat or something. I CANNOT MISS IT AGAIN!

Catch ya laterz!

Ok, so this week actually hasn’t been too bad! I’ve gotten quite a bit of King Lear done and my poetry so…yayyy! I’ve also started revising biology which I REALLY have to work on. And I managed to attend school a whole 4 days this week which is actually impressive for me.

When I went back repeating, I thought that it wouldn’t actually be the same as being a current LC student there. I thought I didn’t have to go to classes and I could just study or go home whenever I wanted but….no. It turns out that I don’t actually have any additional freedom compared to last year which is a bit of a bummer as it means I’m forced to stay in school even if I have a triple free after lunch. I don’t really see the point of it ‘cuz technically I did graduate from the school in May.

Anyway, history is probably the most troublesome subject this year.  I went through the 2 years being a constant A student but then the actual exam came and all I got was a D3. Damn, my cockiness! New case studies, a new history project and a new american history section I think! I’ve decided on the rise of women in politics and society in Ireland so best get started on that!

On the plus side….New Moon is out soon….AND I’VE GOT A TICKET TO SEE IT ON THE FRIDAY!!! I never thought that I would end up being an obsessed twilight freak but it happened this summer!!

Slan!

Hey hey!!

It’s midterm!!! Wish I could be as excited about it as everyone else is but it’s not happening! I’ve spent the majority of my bank holiday weekend trying to figure out WTF I am oing to do for my history research topic (How cool am I??). But yeah, I still have no clue. Last year, I did the Magdalene Laundries..I got it done so fast and I was delighted with it. And then this year, I find out I can’t use it again! I have to say that that’s a pretty stupid rule. I’ve already done the project so why can’t I submit it again, it’s still MY work, no difference really.

I suppose though, that would be making things too simple! I’ve got a good bit of study planned for this week. My main focus is history and Biology. I am so determined to get them from D3s to B2s. Oh, and of course King Lear….I really don’t get that play. Nothing happens in it. The daughters are bitches, Lear is a senile old git, Edmund is a socio path and Kent is most likely gay…where’s the plot Shakespeare?

Is anyone else watching The Apprentice?? My mother got me into it and it’s actually quite good. That Bill Cullen guy is class, he makes everyone feel like crap. Well, that’s the craic people. Not a lot I know but what can you do!

Happy Halloween!

Positive thinking and motivation was my new approach to the Leaving Cert and the whole study thing. Unfortunately, it seems to have taken a back seat in the grand scheme of things. I’ve finally decided what course I REALLY REALLY want to get this year and I was being all motivated with my trusty flashcards and my strict study plan (even though I swore I wouldn’t attempt one this year!) and then in a quick glimpse of my brother on YouTube…it was gone.

I closed my economics and settled down to watch pointless videos on YouTube. I told myself that it would only be for half an hour but….that suddenly turned into two hours that just flew by. After that, I was too tired.
Even now, I’m writing this ‘cuz I could just not be bothered to attempt my English essay on poverty!
Though I have to say, my major problem this year has to be French. I hate it! I’ve never really listened in class enough to hate it but this year I went to about five classes and stayed awake and I realized I hate it with a passion. I can read it fine and speak it but listening to it and writing it is a complete bitch. Why do they have to talk so fast on the stupid aurals? We’re not that bloody fluent in it!

I really feel like I’ve regressed in it. I’m still learning the passé compose yoke and which ones are irregular.
The French really have to complicate things. How many bloody tenses do they have to have? And why can’t all verbs be regular????

It’s beyond me. Well, that concludes my little rant for this week!
Au revoir!

Hi all!

This week is my first week back at school. It’s my second time to go into LC year and I have to say, it’s not been the most impressive start. Last year, I watched the whole year disappear in a haze of study time tables, history project research and procrastination. The study time table thing was a great idea I thought…at first. The only problem was I spent most of my time making up the bloody thing that actually implementing it.

I think that’s the reason I have ended up in the same place I was last year…though this year definitely has more of a melancholyfeel to it. Most of my usual people to talk to and hang around with have moved onto pastures new while I’m still at home making study timetables. So, for the LC 2010, I decided that I am going to study my ass off and not waste a minute of it. So far, I have done nada except look up the internet for ‘notes’ aka bebo and facebook (I love to depress myself further by looking at people freshers’ pics and college nights out!).

Study time tables and extra classes and revision courses are really making the parents think that I am now a dedicated student as opposed to last year. HA! Little do they know!
The great thing about being a repeat is that no one actually cares where you are. I don’t want to go to French…I don’t! It’s a sweet bitch alright.

I have decided to take up the english course again…not a smart move according to many people. “You do know it’s a new course, don’t ya?” That is all I hear whenever anyone asks what subjects I’m doing.
Yes, I’m aware and no, I’m not really worried. That was until I realised I have no motivation. All I want to do is sleep! I’m hoping that in a few weeks time, I’ll get into the swing of things again and become the biggest geek ever! ‘Tisn’t looking promising however!

The aim is for this year to bring my points from 335 up to 450! I’m still optimistic I’m taking up economics, though I don’t know what exactly that entails, I’m just thinking it’s like business but it’s another honour subject! I still don’t think I’m taking the whole year as seriously as I should even though I now know what it’s like to not get into college, a PLC or barely get back to school due to high numbers already repeating. I searched for a job but since I have no experience or qualifications..no one was too enthusiastic to hire me.

I must go now to attempt to analyse Eavan Boland’s poetry…who I’ve only recently discovered isn’t actually a man like I thought (as I said I haven’t had a very good start…)

Adios!

Sophie