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Second Day Chronicles✨
I felt like giving an update now that I've had at least one lesson in each of my A-Levels, and because I feel like the second day is really the 'true first day' since it's the first day you're going about your day as normal rather than having tours and random admin and everything else.
1. My chemistry class still only has 4 people, I think that's all we're getting. My maths and physics class each have about 10 people, which is such an immediate and massive improvement from my 35+ person classes in secondary school.
2. Today I got my first taste of the fabled GCSE to A-Level jump, and it was in physics. I actually haven't been struggling at all with maths and chemistry so far, despite having about 3 hours worth of lessons for each of them in the last two days. I think the reason I experienced the jump in physics was because my physics teacher decided to rip off the bandaid quickly and shove us straight into AS content that doesn't appear in GCSE at all rather than doing a bit of GCSE-related stuff first. The first thing we did was learn how to turn units into their base SI unit forms, which was definitely a jump, lol.
3. The physics teacher is actually super nice, as are all of my teachers. I really like all of them so far and I'm actually happy about being in school for the first time in about 7 years. I feel genuinely respected here, and I feel like I'm finally being treated as an actual human being with strengths and weaknesses.
4. Said physics teacher spent the first 30 minutes of our lesson advertising textbooks - if teaching ever doesn't work out she has a successful career in marketing ahead of her.
5. The amount of textbooks I have to carry around for maths is absolutely
brutal and my mother, who already hates me bringing the bare minimum because 'you're carrying a bag of rocks', is absolutely livid lmao. I have this massive brick of a book for Pure Mathematics Year 1 content alone, and throughout the rest of the week we're also going to get textbooks for the other units, which I don't imagine will be much smaller.
6. I finally got the laptop situation sorted out - I've been allocated one with a touch screen and it's working out really well so far in regards to calculations and diagrams alongside typing. They're also going to assign me one permanently that I'll be able to take home with me, but the IT department needs to adjust the permissions first so that won't be done until tomorrow.
7. We got photos taken for our student ID cards and I look like a convict, as usual.
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