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My friends are stressed!

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(edited 14 years ago)

Reply 1

hollylily

I used to bake chocolate chip cookies and offered my friends some during lunch. They love my biscuits, and as I seldom bake, just receiving 'em from me often cheered 'em up.

Reply 2

im-no-superman

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Its exactly the same at my school...everyone is bursting into tears or having silly arguements...and its all girls so its really intense!

So we decided to have a break from it all. We are all going out for a meal tonight because we agreed that we all actually need to designate some time off from the stress of UCAS. Maybe you could all meet up properly for something out of school...though I dont know whether this may stress some of them out even more! Im really looking forward to an evening of no work at all!

Reply 3

67382

Tell them to get a grip...the UCAS process isn't that bad.

Reply 4

im-no-superman

4

Maybe after you've been there and done it...at the time when you've got loads of other essays in and everyone around you is stressing, especially at a competivite school, having teachers pressuring you over personal statements isnt wonderful! I can sympathise with what the OP is saying!

Reply 5

Oddball

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Teachers pressuring over personal statements? Hmm.

Surely it's down to the applicant to put pressure on themselves? That's what's happening at my school. No tears or stress. Except for the Oxbridge lot.

Reply 6

Cowards

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Alex_K

Tell them to get a grip...the UCAS process isn't that bad.

Exactly. I don't recall anybody I knew, or even at my college whinging and moaning and crying and shouting about it. I certainly didn't, and did just fine, getting all six of my offers for Psychology at good Unis (Sussex, Exeter, Nottingham, Sheffield, Swansea and *cough* Brighton *cough*). I didn't get in to them, but still, I got the offers!

The amount of topics about worrying about little things like line spacing and whatnot is astonishing to me, considering how stressful everyone seems to think it is and how it actually wasn't.

Reply 7

im-no-superman

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Yup..theres a lot in my year applying to Oxbridge or for Medicine.

Reply 8

SidVan

Tell them the UCAS process isn't really all that. You only have to be half-decent to get where you want. I've seen people who by rights should be selling Big Issue for a living been accepted to where they wanted without a sweat.

Reply 9

matt@internet

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im-no-superman

Maybe after you've been there and done it...at the time when you've got loads of other essays in and everyone around you is stressing, especially at a competivite school, having teachers pressuring you over personal statements isnt wonderful! I can sympathise with what the OP is saying!

I agree with Alex_K and I've been there. And I think he has too. Unless he's at bording school, from his location it look like he's at York uni and that's a hard uni to get into.

Reply 10

Henerz

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Alex_K

Tell them to get a grip...the UCAS process isn't that bad.

Absolutly. Naturally everyone is getting pretty stressed, particularly with UCAS' technical trouble and some universities/departments being really slow but just keep things in perspective.

Once your form is gone there isn't much you can do. And it is A-level year so theres plenty of other things to worry about!

My friends are stressed!

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