Thanks!
I'd love to have a gap year (pretty much for the same reasons, it'd be ideal to volunteer for a charity abroad or something, to combine them both) but I might do it after university.
Well everyone in the year will be doing applied so I wouldn't get any help, and my teacher (providing I get the same teacher I had this year) is amazing and would teach it much better than I'd teach myself medical.
Plus physics is my extra subject anyway, so to then self teach a module might be hard work - I'll only have 5 frees a week next year, and some might be taken up with helping out in year 7 classes or driving lessons etc.
Aw, well that just makes your results even more impressive.
I found it easier to keep up with my friends in year 12 (I kind of moved friendship group, don't know if that affected it) with frees etc. But I know what you mean, and in the run up to exams it can be really hard to keep in touch. My best friend is applying for medicine and works seriously hard (even by TSR standards
) and I haven't spoken to her (apart from for a minute on results day) for months. She's been so busy with UKCAT prep and work experience and prereading for school that she hasn't even got time to text or anything. :/ But it's been kind of similar all year, because we're not in any of the same classes, so it's been hard to catch up.