The Current Year 12 Thread Mark I (2017-2018)

It's so rare to find others who really like maths and languages/literature! Have you looked into linguistics at all? I was considering physics as well at first, and I'm probably still going to miss it a bit (at least I have mechanics though). I'm also doing AQA French - do you know which texts you'll be studying? We're doing No et Moi and Un sac de billes for prose.

Hello All!

- Introduce yourself
I'm Nathan - I'm a Student, Award Winning Charity Fundraiser, Regional Swimmer, Swimming Teacher, Former Website Administrator & Social Media Manager. For my full intro, see my website - www.nathanshoesmith.gq
- What are your hobbies/interests?
Interested in News, Tech & Politics. Rest covered above.

- What grades did you get for your GCSEs?
AAABBBC556 (before remarks)
- What subjects are you planning to take? (Include the exam board if you know it)

Business Studies - AQA
Politics - Edexcel
Computer Science - Pearson
History - AQA
(1 to be dropped at AS)

To fill the timetable up; Higher Sports Leader Award, Academic Coaching + Study Periods

- If you're thinking of going to university, where will you apply to and what course will you do?
Business Management - not sure where

- What's your ideal future occupation?
Ask me another time.


Anything TSR Related, I'm active on this site most days - just drop me a PM.
All other enquiries, get in touch through my website - link at top of post.

Here's to a great year!

All the best,
Nathan

I considered linguistics for a bit but honestly family pressure is too much to take an art at university :/ I love love love languages though I love French and would love to learn another language in future. And I love books too I just don't know if I can honestly be bothered to read old english set texts when I usually stick to books I enjoy

For French A Level tbh I've been so busy with NCS I've barely looked into the course at all. I've mostly been doing the odd bit of vocab

Bloody hell, calm down mate.
How tf can you be an award winning charity fundraiser? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of charity work?
BTW sick website

Hi,

Thanks.

The website should explain that capacity, but as a result of my work, I've been awarded multiple awards and nominated for various others. It doesn't defeat the purpose, no, as I don't do it to get awards. I do it simply to make a difference and help others. The website, and much of it's content is written by charities and is simply to make people aware of what I do, as the work has received media attention on multiple occasions.

Hope that clarifies. Any questions, just shout.

All the best,
Nathan

You know your sig isn't meant to be your actual signature. You're just making it easy for people to id fraud you. And then you got your full name and email as if this site is linkedin. I hope you don't use the same password for everything.

Hi,

Thanks.

The website should explain that capacity, but as a result of my work, I've been awarded multiple awards and nominated for various others. It doesn't defeat the purpose, no, as I don't do it to get awards. I do it simply to make a difference and help others. The website, and much of it's content is written by charities and is simply to make people aware of what I do, as the work has received media attention on multiple occasions.

Hope that clarifies. Any questions, just shout.

All the best,
Nathan

@the_nshoesmith Really nice to see that you're heavily involved in charity work, that will really strengthen your extra curricular activities and boost your CA/UCAS application. Personally, I just finished NCS back a few weeks ago and I'm hoping undergo training to become one of their ambassadors.

Linguistics isn't always an art, though I'm studying linguistics with the intention of going into something artificial intelligence-related in the future, and areas such as computational linguistics are going to become hugely important as technology becomes more customised and linguistic. Already, linguistics is the field that has made Siri, Alexa and Google Translate possible, and there is a great deal of overlap between computer science and linguistics in areas related to logic, machine translation, information theory and of course natural language processing. There are also fields like neurolinguistics which is related to cognition, speech and language therapy and understanding medical conditions like aphasia, algebraic linguistics which involves mathematically modelling language and linguistic reasoning (my favee ) and statistical linguistics, which is statistical analysis applied to linguistic data. Linguistics is a little-known field which sounds like it should resemble studying a language, so it gets lumped together with the arts more often than it should, when in fact what I like about it is that it is equally a science and an art.