The Bedside Drama, A Petite Tragedy
Hangovers. The better the night the worse they get. Listen up kids, the only way to prevent a hangover is to drink a lot of juice/water before you collapse. Caffeine and painkillers in the morning will help that “revenge of the vodka” feeling, but you’ll still feel irritable, achy and regretting text messages you made the night before. On the plus side, that mix of Mountain Dew, Coconut Rum and Apple Vodka tasted lovely. Or maybe that was because you managed to paralyse your taste buds with a concoction so vile. And in that dazed phase, you remember recieving a phone call from a past hook-up* with a bottle of vodka in hand, hoping you hadn’t said something dangerously innappropriate. Oh wait, you did. Well, that’s his fault for calling you just when you had forgotten about him, like he had some sort of “Everything’s okay in ____’s life, better call her!” radar…
Anyway, party’s over. First exam is in, three weeks? Oh my shit. The only one I’m confident in getting a much-needed A grade in is Economics. Everything else, Ds across the board! (Probably). So naturally, I’m taking a break from blogging. Twitter’s kinda taken over. It’s disappointing, I like to blog but it’s hard to really take time out when I have deadlines whooshing by. I’ll be back in mid-June when my exams are over. I’ll come back with a bang, I promise 
28/4/09 
0 Tags: alcohol, school, socialising
Old School Hollywood
Guess who got her results! I did three exams in January which made up 50% of my final AS Grade for Economics & Politics, and 33.3% for Maths (the rest completed in May/June ‘09).
Results were as follows:
AQA Economics: Markets and Market Failure (88/100) (A)
OCR Politics: Contemporary Politics of the UK (85/100) (A)
Edexcel Mathematics: Core 1 (80/100) (A)
THREE As!!! ZOMG. The A boundaries were 80/100 for all three so I was sat quite comfortably in Economics and Politics…and not so comfortably in Maths. To be fair I was expecting a B because I got half way through several questions and then gave up (hooray for method marks!) I’m going to retake Maths in June to hopefully get more of a solid A so it won’t matter when I (envitably) mess up the much harder Core 2 and Statistics 1 modules in May/June! Economics and Politics results were such a relief though, retaking would’ve meant I’d have to learn four months of teaching again, on top of the four months of teaching for the second modules!
So London School of Economics is getting slightly closer. I’ve still go to somehow get at least a B in Critical Thinking (the most dire subject know to man) and hopefully get an A in English Literature, both through the art of blagging. Anyway, posts on this site are slightly few and far between at the moment due to the amount of studying I need to do. Things will pick up when I get more a social life, trust me. More social outings, two trips to London and a visit to Thomas Hardy’s house in Dorset in the coming weeks!
14/3/09 6 Tags: school, university
Skip School, Start Fights
Well my week off school is now over, spent earning some dough in my lovely job, drinking cocktails in the town centre and finishing off with an ace party at my best friend’s pad.
Now I’m back at college realising exams are three months away. That’s something like ninety days. And twenty-odd lessons of each subject left. Time really does fly. I’m trying to balance it all with a little research into universities. I’m dead set on going on LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) to study International Relations. I’m so drawn to it as ut’s one of the most international universities in the world (on average only 25% of the students are UK students) and being well-travelled and mixed-race, I know I’d love to be there.
But oh yeah the 2007 statistics for the course were 1,400 applications which were narrowed down 46 students. My jaw literally dropped straight to the floor. I don’t know how many offers they made, but those are God awful chances. So I probably should be hard studying instead of doing this blog post, but what fun would that be?
I downloaded the recent release of Schoolhouse which is a course assignment/homework manager for Mac. It has a nice clean interface, easy-to-use and it’s sure to help me keep on top of my piles of homework for my AS Levels. Downside is it’s pretty buggy, but definitely an improvement from 2.1 when it didn’t actually work on Leopard OSX! My feature request would be to have some kind of periodical caffeine/nicotine injection to keep the slacking student motivated.
24/2/09 2 Tags: alcohol, school, socialising, university
