I, Beth
Anyone ever notice how the I, Rhiannon's usually make me realize I haven't posted in, well, forever and basically light a fire under my ass to get me moving. In my defence, I have had no time. And then when I have had time I have kept on forgetting. Because hell, this is me. I'm in the library, having just finished Chemistry homework due in in an hour and not actually being able to feel my feet. So, what's happened in the last, uh, two months since the last time I actually wrote anything...
UCASy stuff, as y'all could probably tell from Rhiannon's post - and can I just say here that I changed my password because LJ kindly informed me that it wasn't secure enough, but yet she still manages to figure it out - is over and done with. Finally. Also, I have a place at the Charles University First Faculty of Medicine in Prague, for which they're offering me EEE since I passed their entrance exam in July. I can't believe it took me this long to get round to saying that. I'm no longer applying to Nottingham, mostly because they want me to get two A's in Biology and Chemistry, and not only am I very much not gonna get an A in Chemistry even though he's predicted me one, I spent two hours arguing the toss with my Biology teacher because she wanted to predict me a C, so methinks no A. Even though I eventually talked her up to a B. I went to King's College London in September and that is now my first choice. Their standard offer is only ABB, which is still damned high but yet relatively low. It was a Medlinky type thing, where I got to look at dead bodies and look inside people's eyes. Although Rhiannon and possibly Lola are gonna be sick now, it is so cool to look inside another (live) person's eyes. I also managed to prove categorically that it's possible to get from London Bridge to Oxford Circus and back again in an hour, 'cause I went away for two nights and took no specs and no contact lenses, so I had to pay an impromptu visit to the Eye Clinic at Regent Street on the Saturday lunchtime. I'm also no longer applying to UCL because their intercalated BSc is compulsory and my degree would therefore last six years, but it's not like they go out of their way to make sure you know this in the prospectus, and the first I realized was when I typed the institution code and course code and it popped up 'University College London: Medicine (6 Years)'. I spent the whole afternoon trying to get through to them. So, because I really really want to go to somewhere in London, I spent the rest of the day looking for somewhere else in London to replace UCL with. I'm now applying to King's, St George's, Hull York, East Anglia... and Prague, but that doesn't really count that much. Cue outcry from the other person who posts on this journal.
Tiddly pom.
As I said, I'm in the library (on the whole one computer we have in there) and there is another person who wants to use it. I think she wants to do actual work. So I should let her. Also, I have cold feet which I cannot feel - I may already have said that at some point - and I should go eat lunch. But I am in fact alive.
UCASy stuff, as y'all could probably tell from Rhiannon's post - and can I just say here that I changed my password because LJ kindly informed me that it wasn't secure enough, but yet she still manages to figure it out - is over and done with. Finally. Also, I have a place at the Charles University First Faculty of Medicine in Prague, for which they're offering me EEE since I passed their entrance exam in July. I can't believe it took me this long to get round to saying that. I'm no longer applying to Nottingham, mostly because they want me to get two A's in Biology and Chemistry, and not only am I very much not gonna get an A in Chemistry even though he's predicted me one, I spent two hours arguing the toss with my Biology teacher because she wanted to predict me a C, so methinks no A. Even though I eventually talked her up to a B. I went to King's College London in September and that is now my first choice. Their standard offer is only ABB, which is still damned high but yet relatively low. It was a Medlinky type thing, where I got to look at dead bodies and look inside people's eyes. Although Rhiannon and possibly Lola are gonna be sick now, it is so cool to look inside another (live) person's eyes. I also managed to prove categorically that it's possible to get from London Bridge to Oxford Circus and back again in an hour, 'cause I went away for two nights and took no specs and no contact lenses, so I had to pay an impromptu visit to the Eye Clinic at Regent Street on the Saturday lunchtime. I'm also no longer applying to UCL because their intercalated BSc is compulsory and my degree would therefore last six years, but it's not like they go out of their way to make sure you know this in the prospectus, and the first I realized was when I typed the institution code and course code and it popped up 'University College London: Medicine (6 Years)'. I spent the whole afternoon trying to get through to them. So, because I really really want to go to somewhere in London, I spent the rest of the day looking for somewhere else in London to replace UCL with. I'm now applying to King's, St George's, Hull York, East Anglia... and Prague, but that doesn't really count that much. Cue outcry from the other person who posts on this journal.
Tiddly pom.
As I said, I'm in the library (on the whole one computer we have in there) and there is another person who wants to use it. I think she wants to do actual work. So I should let her. Also, I have cold feet which I cannot feel - I may already have said that at some point - and I should go eat lunch. But I am in fact alive.