It's been a while! I'll start with the positives and end with a good old rant in an attempt to expel my frustration (not in that way, in an annoyed sense)
Anyway, The Killers concert was brilliant! I'm now the proud owner of a TK t-shirt which set me back £25, but hey ho. It's worth it in the long run! The show itself was brilliant, the lighting and everything looked so cool and the guys were on great form, I've no idea how they managed to sing so well for such a long time with only a two-minute break! I took my sister's iPod to get some photos (as mine is so old it doesn't have a camera) but of course it decided to run out of memory after I'd taken one video. Grr.
The concert was on a Thursday night and I got home at about half eleven, which wasn't too bad, but I went into school the next day and then got sent home 15 minutes later due to a power cut- back to sleep for me! I found out that the power had come back on about 20 minutes after we'd been sent home, just in time for the first lesson of the day. Awkward! So, yeah, all in all it was a good couple of days!
And now for my scheduled rant: I'm so indecisive about my A level choices and which sixth form/college to pick, it feels like there's a problem with everything I choose. My aim is to do a degree in History after college, but I'm not sure what A Levels to choose. Ideally, I want to do English Lit, History, Economics and either Geography or Politics. The best sixth form in the area doesn't offer Economics or Politics. The best college in the area is far away from my house and I'm unlikely to be offered a place anyway as my Maths and Science grades are too low. The sixth form nearest to my house belongs to the seventh best school in the country and offers the subjects I want, but everything I've heard about it is negative- the teachers make life hard for students who haven't attended the school previously and the other students are already in the friendship groups as they've been there for five years. Plus, as it's amongst the best schools, the students are so bright that sun shines out of their arses and I would look like a prize idiot compared to them. There's another sixth form not that far away but it has quite a bad reputation, not to mention Ofsted report. See my problem?
I know I'm not going to get into Oxbridge, but I'd like a decent degree from a decent university. It's panicked me a bit that most people on forums and the like take Maths and Science A Levels then progress to a History degree. I'm absolutely shit at everything related to those two subjects, I've had to work my arse off to even get B's, why are they so necessary? I feel like I'm classified as a bad student because I can only do Humanities and Arts-based subjects.
As if researching non-stop about all this on the internet isn't time-consuming enough (believe me, it is), I've recently found out that there's a week in December where I have a History mock, a Geography mock and a French speaking test on three consecutive days. Plus an English mock next week and a Physics mock at some point. The grades I achieve in these exams are my predicted grades- they're what I can expect to get for my final grade and what I give college/sixth forms when I apply. Bloody brilliant.
Eden x
