Hello everyone~
As you can see in the little description box on the left, my name is Nadia, and the reason why I started this blog is, well, because I really felt like it...
There comes a point in life where we have to grow up and leave home. There's always going to be that small part of you that doesn't want to grow up, where you don't want to have to worry about taxes and adult things like that. Where you'd much rather worry about the present you, making sure your hair is looking good, being with your friends and just being young and free. But, sadly, a nasty thing called exams enter your lives and that's just one of the many steps we have to take to grown up. Without exams, we wouldn't be able to carry on our education if we wished to, we also wouldn't be able to carry on and pursue with something that we love.
Sure, sure, exams are horrible and should never exist, but if you try hard enough, you will pass them and then there will be a point in your life where you won't have to worry about them ever, ever again~
After GCSE's come A-Levels, and after A-Levels come university, and university is the final step to growing up, education wise. It's a scary thing, i'm not going to lie! Everything kicks in as soon as you come back in to do your A-Levels. Teachers WILL be pressuring you to get your UCAS sorted and to apply to uni's, it's their job, and of course we all hate it when teachers get in your face and annoy the living day lights out of you, but once again, it's their job. Believe it or not, they were once 17/18 at one point in their lives and would have had to apply to uni's without the help of UCAS. Once you've sent off your UCAS details and informed universities that you want to attend them, a huge weight is lifted off of your shoulders and then the waiting game begins.
In my opinion, the waiting game was the hardest. I applied at the end of October and I didn't hear from a uni until March time, only to be told they didn't want me. Did I have a back up plan? Not really, because I was determined to get into this certain uni. I wanted to, very, very badly. Was I disappointed? Yes, but I wasn't suprised. After some panicking, I was pointed in the direction of a Art Foundation course. Originally, I thought "NOOOOOO! I WANT TO BE A PHOTOGRAPHER RIGHT NOW.", but when I sat down and thought long and hard, I realised doing a foundation course would benefit me immensely! I would have a years experience under my belt in all kinds of arty areas, giving me the upper-hand.
I guess my advice for that would be always, always, always have a backup plan, or backup uni.
I know some of you who would have gotten you AS-Level results will feel like the worst student and feel ashamed and so on, but do not worry~ AS-Level is a huge shock to the system, it's totally different from GCSE's. I know when I got my AS-Level results in 2011, I wanted to just teleport back to GCSE's where I knew it would be easy and I could pass. I only failed one subject, but I didn't do great on the others, and this worried me because I didn't want to end my education, I wanted to carry on, I wanted to get my A-Levels. So, going back into school to have the talk was horrible. For some it'll be easy, you either stay or you go. Thankfully, I was allowed back in to do Art, Drama and Welsh Bacc. My A-Level results were the best i've had.
I know i've typed quite a lot here, I just got so carried away typing~!
So, my blog will be my life in uni - what I do in class, what I do out of class, how I feel, my tips and advice, and some other things that I can throw in~ I'll also talk about what it's like living down South.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this rather long introduction!
Nadia~ x
You'll have an amazing time!
ReplyDeleteYou are so right - the hardest part is now behind you. I started my A levels in 1987 and they were a total shock to the system. I failed my first year spectacularly, and made the difficult choice to drop back a year and change all three subjects and start over. It was the best thing I did, yet even this did not go smoothly as I was one grade down in my final results, and I spent the whole morning in the office while a tutor tried to get me into my uni of choice through Clearing (can't remember if it was called UCAS then but it was something similar!!). I got on a slightly different course, headed off to Manchester Uni and after a month or so transferred onto my preferred course. I still didn't learn how to revise properly until my third year, but I came out with a 2:1 BA (Hons), went and got my PGCE, and gave myself choices for later in life.
ReplyDeleteSometimes your planned route through the adventure book of life doesn't work, but it's quite possible to choose a different path and have even more adventures than you first thought were possible :-)
You learn so much more than academia at uni - savour every moment! xxx
I always planned on doing an art Foundation course cause I had no idea what I actually wanted to do, but it was just as well I did cause for pretty much all Graphic Design Courses you need a Foundation Degree, and they don't really care about your A Levels (fortunately cause I just kinda gave up on one of mine :x)
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad I did it thought cause I probably would have just continued doing Fine Art all the way through uni, because that's all I ever did at school. Though I soon realised I absolutely despised Fine Art :3
Only of on my friends went on to specialise in what they thought they would when they first started. So you might end up doing something totally different to what you planned :3