"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." Come one, come all! I am DeepInTheMeadow and this is my GYG thread for the academic year of 2017-2018, as I begin my journey through sixth form and one day, to university!
Some of you may know me from my previous GCSE thread, found here if you enjoy reading out-of-date blog posts:
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4646044. In that thread, I chronicled my progress from March/April of GCSE time, right up until results day. I loved posting in that thread so much, it kept me motivated and organised and really helped me process my thoughts and emotions, so I've decided to do another one!!! Yay me!
This year (starting Thursday 7th September), I will be studying
Economics, Spanish, Maths and Further Maths (I'll let you know which exam boards when I find out!) at a separate sixth form college with over 2000 students. I'm moving from my school to this sixth form, which will be a big change but I'm ready for it. I've had some bad experiences at my school and I'm ready to move on and have a new beginning for sixth form! (not to mention, my school is just terrible anyway! 28% pass rate for GCSE Maths anyone?)
Anyway, I'm terrified and excited about it at the same time!
The way it'll work with Further Maths and Maths, is I'll take Maths A level in a year (so in June 2018) and then Further Maths the year after. I would like A or A* for Maths, so I'll see how that goes. In terms of targets for other subjects, I don't want to put too much (negative) pressure on myself, so I'm not going to try and get 4 A*s or anything, but I'd like to get at least
all As and some A*s?I know that taking four A levels is tough as well, and I also don't believe that the education is very accurate in testing knowledge, intelligence and understanding. I want to be an intelligent, well read person, who takes every opportunity to grow, but exam results don't determine that.
I have already taken one A level in Year 10: Russian, in which I achieved an
A*.While I would be happy with you thinking I'm some crazy genius, that is only halfway true?
(that sounds super arrogant, sorry!) since I became fluent in Russian having spent the first twelve years of my life abroad in an ex-soviet country. My parents are both English, but inside I feel like I'm a multicultural mix (look up TCKs if you're interested!), and wouldn't really say that I understand/relate to British culture. Luckily, the city I live in is really international, so I feel right at home
GCSE results: three 9s
(Maths/English Language/Literature), six A*s (Spanish, Geography, R.S, Chem/Bio/Physics) and one A in P.E (before you say it, I'm really proud of the A! P.E was very difficult practically, and so I'm over the moon with that mark!) These results were a real shock, I did work hard for them but was mega stressed and completely surprised to do so well. Funny story: I opened my envelope very carefully and slowly, only the first mark I saw on the page was
D. I freaked out and tore the envelope open, only to find out that it was my distinction mark for the English spoken assessment!
Basically, I'm an idiot
Just a quick note: I talk
a lot so it's reasonable to assume that my blog posts will be looooong, so sorry about that!! You really don't have to read til the end each time, I'll try and add some pictures and
cool colours to keep it looking nice.
In terms of tagging people, I don't know much about how to do it, but I've tagged in a few people. I don't quite know how it works with tagging people in every post, but let me know if you'd like that and I'll just copy/paste the usernames or something. So yeah, also let me know if I'd tagged you and you would rather not be tagged in the future! (I promise I'll only cry for a bit!)
Tagging (not sure if I'm doing this right!):
@CoffeeGeek ,
@CoffeeAndPolitics ,
@_gcx ,
@urgurlbecca ,
@Sonechka ,
@Lemur14 ,
@Batgirl98 Personal bit (you have been warned!)
Hobbies/extracurricular: