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About TheSownRose

Name

Rose Bush

Where I study

Anglia Ruskin University

Orientation

(Insert witty compass joke)

Star Sign

Gemini

About me

Lived out my childhood years largely in north-east London, then made it out without stab wounds when my family fled to the countryside, and have been here ever since. It's not great ... but it beats Walthamstow.

Since then, I've lost my Cockney accent to acquire a horribly posh one, become accustomed to fountain pens and Barbour coats, and look like (as my friend kindly phrased it) 'some sort of posh Scottish hippy'. Also developed a worrying level of interest in Star Trek, Big Country and eyes...

Academic Info

First went to a primary school that left me hallucinating due to dehydration, then a later incident that rendered me half-deaf. Moved to a primary school where self-defense was somehow worse than violent bullying. When I went to secondary school, they were more concerned that appropriate standards of uniform were kept than much else at all. And for some reason, I stayed there for two optional years!

I now go to Anglia Ruskin and study optometry (it's a long story how I got into that, considering I have the A-levels and applied for maths originally; if you're interested, PM me. Similarly, if you don't know what optometry is, PM me.) Now a second year, and not too long to go before I'm fully qualified to test your eyes...

Specifics for the interested

Yes, I'm very proud...

KS2 SATs: 5/5/5;
KS3: 7/7/7.

Getting warmer?

GCSEs:

A*: English literature;
A: English language, science (double), maths, statistics, food technology, history;
B: Business studies, ICT (short/half), French;
C: Pottery.

There yet..?

A-levels:

A: History, maths;
B: further maths.

Interests

Star Trek, Big Country (and other Gaelic/Celtic folk-rock bands ... but Big Country are the best ), fuchsia growing, reading, fishing, cheese-making, learning the violin, writing (particularly my novel)...

Remember, boys and girls...

... taking uni advice from TSR is often like this:

Imagine you wanted to play football over the park with a few friends. Instead of taking the route most people would - getting a ball and heading over there to give it a kick around, have some fun and fully achieve your aim of enjoying the afternoon - you decide to take the academic route. You get books about professional football out from the library and trail through websites, taking the advice from the top footballers in the world.

By the time you head out to the park (which is long after you first thought of it,) you're loaded up with a strategy that doesn't fit how any of you play and lots of useless facts about being the best at football ... but somehow, it's just not as fun and not what you wanted at all.