Taking action

*sigh*

I have to do it.  I have to launch a complaint against the computing teacher.

And I have to do it because nobody else will.  He showed us how to do 60% of the coursework on Wednesday, and now expects us to complete all 60% by tomorrow.   It’s a ridiculous amount.

He spends all his time explaining how we’re all going to fail at life and when we get to university, we’re all going to faaaail.

In addition, he spends a good portion of the lesson insulting us, taking any opportunity to turn the answers – that we are honestly trying to answer his badly worded questions with – back on us with some “you’re gay” subtext.  I find this insulting, and it’s not a good environment to learn in.

The point of this is, I honestly believe that with him, my grade in Computing will suffer.  I want an A in this, and with his rapidly rushed teaching style, where he spends half the lesson learning the subject HIMSELF, I don’t believe I’ll succeed.

*sigh*

I really don’t want to do this. He’s making me.

Oh the changes

Too much has happened in my life since I last updated.

So much, in fact, that to blog about all of the changes would be unfair on the tiny changes, as they would be completely overshadowed by the big ones. I’m a fair person, and the thought of being unfair to the tiny changes makes me hurt inside. This has been the reason that I’ve not blogged for a while.

There is really no cure to this, and much as I hate being cruel, blogging about the big changes is the only way this blog will get updated. *sigh* I just want to, at this time, say sorry to the small changes for doing this, and hope they understand the position I’m in and the actions I’ve taken. I love every single one of you, but for the good of my blogging future, I have to leave you out. This doesn’t mean we still can’t be friends.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH – 1313 HOURS – BOLTON SIXTH FORM COLLEGE

I am sat with Meet. He has convinced me to apply to Cambridge. Why not, after all, it’d be a laugh just to turn them down if they do accept me, not that I’m expecting them to. I pick up a seperate application for Cambridge. My UCAS application and Cambridge application need completing for next Friday.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH – 2146 HOURS – HOME BASE

I am at home, looking at Cambridge colleges. *sigh* Another decision to make. Have I mentioned that I’m exceedingly bad at making choices? If certain physical theories are to be believed, there will be many more Mindez’s, all of which choose different colleges to go to, some of them will receive more opportunities than the others, some of them will be generally happier than the others. I don’t want to be one of the unhappy Mindez’s. I realise at this point that I’ve started taking Cambridge as a serious option – if I get accepted maybe I will go there.. I dunno any more. I still want to go to Manchester, but still.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH – 2356 HOURS – HOME BASE

Still deciding on a college… Why is it so hard now? Just pick one, totally at random, if I don’t get in ah well, if I do get in HAH I’M NOT GOING ANYWAY. This is a silly decision.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND – 1302 HOURS – VIRGIN ACTIVE

I am at the gym. I’ve been toying with the idea of going to a gym to lose weight recently.. maybe it’ll happen. I’m, at this point, extremely scared. Too much change. I am shown around the gym and join. I am now a member of a gym. *sigh* Months of pain are ahead.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23RD – 1333 HOURS – VIRGIN ACTIVE

My first time at the gym to do exercise… And oh it’s horrible. 10 minutes on the bike, stretches, random torture-device-sounding-and-looking weight machines (“The Leg Press” – You can’t tell me that doesn’t sound like some kind of horrible medieval torture), things that make me hurt SO MUCH OH GOD I COULDN’T STAND UP FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES AFTER IT, then 10 minutes on the cross trainer after which I was sick and dizzy and had chest pains, and then there was supposed to be 10 minutes on treadmill. But my exercise was stopped by a fitness instructor. I went home and I was in PAIN. HORRIBLE MORTAL PAIN.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH – 1539 HOURS – BOLTON SIXTH FORM COLLEGE

I’m in Computing, at the end of it. The normal teacher isn’t in, some random cover teacher that doesn’t know anything about computing. We’re supposed to be getting on with project work, but.. well, we’ve not been told what to do next, and haven’t had feedback on our analysis so we can’t improve the analysis. Computing lessons are now my “work on website” lessons.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH – 15:56 HOURS – VIRGIN ACTIVE

Second time in the gym. My programme has been set for the next 4 weeks, 3 times a week of this:

- 5 minutes on the bike, warm up, level 4 resistance
- 15 reps of “chest press” (20kg), “lap pulldown” (25kg), “leg press” (30kg), “low row” (35kg)
- 5 minutes on the Cross-Trainer on the Fat Burn program
- 10 minutes on the treadmill at 5.5 mph

The things that caused me OH SO MUCH CHEST AND ABDOMINAL PAIN before has been taken out of the programme. Yay. So I go and do this 3 times a week for another 4 weeks, then my programme gets reviewed and.. made harder.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH – 0817 HOURS – HOME BASE

OH GOD THE PAIN ALL MY MUSCLES ARE ON FIRE AND I CAN’T MOVE AND CAN’T GET UP HELP ME IF I GET UP THERE IS SO MUCH PAIN WAH I DON’T WANT TO MISS SCHOOL I’VE NOT MISSED SCHOOL IN OVER A YEAR OH GOD IF I MISS SCHOOL I’M GOING TO BE SO FAR BEHIND AND ARGH THE PAIN IT’S JUST SO BURNING OH GOD OH GOD MY MNUSCLES ARE ON FIRE.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH – 1023 HOURS – HOME BASE

I manage to move. Ow. I have a random depressive burst of “I’m useless all my lessons are too hard oh there’s so much pressure on me now to get 4 As and I just can’t do it it’s all just so hard, I can’t get into Cambridge who’m I kidding there’s no point in applying it’s all so pointless I’m no good at ANYTHING.” I become an emokid for a couple of hours.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH – 15:02 HOURS – BOLTON SIXTH FORM COLLEGE

I get in school. Well, I get in school for 14:00, having been promised an appointment with a student manager at this time to go over my university application. But she left. What is it about me, am I a giant people-repellent? Cue short-lived emo depressive burst. At 15:02 I go to Maths. My maths teacher is also my form tutor, so I tell her I’m no longer applying for Cambridge, as a result of the emo depressive burst I had in the morning. I now have a lot longer to complete my application. Maths is sooo boring. I finish all the questions before anyone else gets to question 3. Then I just have to sit there. Maths is far too easy to be a subject. Was it really this easy when I did it last? I’ve finished C3 (There are only really 3 chapters in C3. I did two of them last year in further maths, and have just finished the ridiculously easy one that we’ve done in class. I’m a bit of a problem student in Maths, she’s never had to cope with someone of my pace with Maths before, clearly.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH – 0022 HOURS – HOME BASE

I decide to update my blog. First, I apologise to all the small changes that I’ve not had time to blog about. I’M SORRY SMALL CHANGES!

This concludes todays blog entry. Main aftereffects:

- I’ve joined a GYM
- I’m NOT applying for Cambridge.
- I’m working on a website, a virtual cards website where people explore a virtual world and play/collect cards online
- I’m useless at EVERYTHING in my life. Except Maths, which is far far too easy.
- Loup’s blog has MOVED to http://www.theriomorphous.co.uk/milk

Insomnia

Insomnia’s a funny old thing.  Sort of the anti-hyper.  Not wanting to particularly do anything, but not being able to sit and do nothing.

I want to sleep, but can’t lie still.

I want to work on my cards website, but I’m feeling that’s going nowhere, particularly with my aversion to CMSs and everyone telling me that without a CMS my site is DOOMED.

I want to blog, but I have nothing to blog about except the state of having nothing to blog about.

I want to eat, but I have nothing to eat.

I want to play Magic, but have nobody to play Magic with.

I want to do my homework, but… ah, whom I kidding, I don’t want to do my homework.

And yet my insomnia prevents me from doing all these things that I want to do, until it passes and I fall instantly unconcious.

Speaking of Magic, in fact, my losing streak is continuing.  I think it’s 8 weeks without a win now?  Still, I made a new deck.. again..  Hopefully better luck on Sunday.

I am now back at school.  I have two new teachers, and do not like either of them.

Does it say that I’m a boring person if I have absolutely nothing to blog about?  It’s been what,  11 days since the last update and I just have… nothing to say.  Nothing of any substance has happened in that time.  What is wrong with me?  Am I that boring of a person?  Loup can sum up 5 seconds of inactivity in a 50 page blog post, and I can’t even make 11 days last one?

I’ve been feeling extremely demotivated recently.  My cards site has stagnated into a stalemate from not having enough programming knowledge, I’m faling to retain any memory of schoolwork from one lesson to the next in every one of my subjects.. and I’m feeling strangely lovesick.

This is the end of this blog post.  Hopefully next time.. something will actually happen in my life.

Self study, whee.

There has been a CLASH!

Between Maths and Computing.  So it seems that I’m going to have to learn Maths on my own.  Well, stats anyway.  I’ll be doing Pure Maths with the Maths-with-mechanics class for 2 lessons a week, and in the lesson that they’d be doing Mechanics I’ll be self-learning Stats.  That’s going to be…

…

…fun? *groans*

IN OTHER NEWS!  Big Brother finished, to my immense chagrin.  (Ooh, get me with the long words which I’ve probably used wrong).  Brian won, as I knew he would.  Ziggy came higher than I expected (Note the difference between ‘hoped’ and ‘expected’) though, coming 4th.

Jonte, Carole, Ziggy, Liam, Samanda, Brian.

Now I have absolutely nothing to watch, and must be driven mad by grandma watching nature shows on full volume while falling asleep and snoring loudly.   Urgh.

Bring on BB9!

IN OTHER NEWS!  I may be joining a gym.  More information on that as and when it arrives.

IN OTHER NEWS, there is no other news. (Paradox!)

-Mindez

The Plan

I am decided.

1) Drop Electronics.  Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Computing for A2s.

2) Go to university, Manchester University.  Computer Science with a year of Industrial Experience [4 years].

3) Create games, or dominate world.  Decide on that later.

I have decided, this is my plan for life, the universe, and everything.

I feel like me again.  Strange that I’ve changed absolutely nothing about my original plan, and yet have put a lot of effort into doing this nothing.

-Mindez

Who am I, where am I going, do I still want to travel the path I chose?

 

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

- Robert Frost

I feel strange.

I feel like I’ve lost my identity, that I’m not the same person that I was a week ago.

I was so prepared for an AABB that I was certain that it would be what I got, and that the path that I would tread to the future would be the path that I chose for myself long ago, to go to university, to do Computing in some capacity, to finish university, move to America, work at games development, and be generally happy.

But now I’m not so sure. I’ve gotten 4 As, and one of them is 100% in a subject, which is quite ridiculous. In fact, the subject that I thought I wanted to do, I got the lowest A in of the 4, barely scraping. And now I’ve just gotten to thinking, do I really want to be pursuing this path, which I barely scrape in? Computing doesn’t seem as good as it did a week ago, as fulfilling, as good a life plan as something else.

Getting these 4 As, it’s like I’m walking down my focused path and I come to a star junction of thousands of different paths. I’ve already talked on this blog about how HORRIBLE I find choices – if I go down one road, would another road have turned out to have better opportunities, and a better life? I feel like hundreds of doors have opened around me, but I’m too scared to even look in one of them for fear of missing the treasures that lay beyond the other doors.

It’s all happening too fast. One day, I find out where I am in life, how broad my horizons are. Two weeks later, I have to make an important choice about my subjects next year, about what I’m preparing the rest of my life for. And then one week after that, I have to choose a university, choose a course. Which is essentially deciding… MY LIFE.

There was a time when I would just have said Computing without thinking about it. But now I just don’t know, at all. Computing just doesn’t seem GOOD any more, now that I know what I -COULD- do, given my results.

I’m lost and I can’t find the path that I prepared for myself.

Feeling decidedly meh.

Predictions: How accurate?

Well, I now have my results.  And since I know that everyone that visits this blog already knows them, I may as well just come out and say them, no suspense or drumroll.

Physics – A
Computing – A
Electronics – A
Further Maths – A

*sigh* This, I think, pretty much says I’m going to get an offer from any university I want [except, for other reasons, Oxford and Cambridge].

[Regarding the 'X' and the 'No Result' for Further Maths, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS.  There's been some administrative error or something, and is being sorted out.  DON'T PANIC. It's definitely an A with 265/300 UMS anyway]]

So, in light of these results, it’s time to look back at my predictions and how accurate or not they were.

Physics!  An A in physics wasn’t that big of a shock,  given that it was the only subject that I revised for.  And revise I did, quite hard on this blog.  Missed 5 marks on Electrons and Photons, and 11 marks on Wave Properties.  But that was probably due to the practical coursework.  I hated that coursework.  I predicted “85-90″ on Electrons and Photons, how right I was.  The wave properties prediction was for the exam only, and I don’t know how I did in the exam [since the score is the exam + coursework/practical added together].  Overall, I predicted myself an A, and managed it.  Woo.

Next, Computing.  First thing I notice is that my project mark has been bumped up [Computing teacher marked them the first time, then some are sent off to external examiners, and if they mark them higher then all the projects he marked get their scored bumped up].  So, according to my old prediction, I needed “about 70 UMS” to get an A.   I -just- scraped an A here.  But it’s still an A!   “Chance of an A: 35%” I should become a gambling man.

Electronics!  Clearly, again, my coursework’s been bumped up.. and… Ok, can’t hold it in any longer.  100% for EVERY Electronics exam AND the coursework?!  WHAT?  I am number 1 on the “Electronics AS students” leaderboard this year, with 300 UMS out of 300?  There must have been some administrative error here, because my predictions for this were TERRIBLE.  I came out of the exam having looked at the questions I’d answered and telling myself that I would never get an A for those.  And I go and get 100%?!   And, here’s the worst part, I’m thinking of DROPPING IT?! Urgh, this is a terrible dilemma.  I can’t, surely, drop a subject that I get 100% on EVERYTHING on, can I?!  And yet, I don’t want to do another project.  This years one took so much out of me.  I don’t know what to do any more, I was so sure that dropping Electronics was the right thing to do and that I wouldn’t have had an A for it..

Finally, though, Further Maths.  Got 90 UMS in Decision [which was around about my prediction of 68/72, give or take], and 80 UMS in Further Pure [Which, again, is around about my prediction of 60/72].  265 UMS total gives me an A, even though they’ve not added up my marks for whatever reason which will be sorted out.

Overall, then, some surprises, some close calls, some quite expected results.  Not a very wide mix of results, but certainly a wise mix of reactions among subjects.

My final prediction was A, A, B, B, B, E, U.

But I really have A, A, A, A, B, E, U.

This year has been perfect.

I now, though, have a dilemma on my hands.   I have an interview on 30th August, by which time I must have decided which subjects I’m going to do next year.   There are 5 cards on the table, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Electronics, and Computing.  Which one, though, do I discard, to join Business Studies and ICT in the ‘AS only’ pile?

-Mindez, straight A student

Two Days To Fail

In two days, on Thursday 16th of August, I will receive my EXAM RESULTS.  I have already posted my predictions on here before, but here’s a recap:-

Physics    Forces And Motion    100%    90/90
Wave Properties / Practical        /90
Electrons And Photons                /90

Forces And Motion was done in January, for which I scored 90 of 90 marks on (Due to, probably, some calculation error on the part of the examiners).  I did Wave Properties and Electrons And Photons on 8th of June, after the mass-revision that was seen on this blog.  I think the mass revision helped SO MUCH.  They were just *SO* easy, even though I didn’t understand most of it before the mass revision.  I think Electrons And Photons is potentially 85-90/90, and Wave Properties… Probably about 82-87/90.  I think there’s a 99% chance of my having acquired an A in Physics.

Computing    Coursework      102/120
Introductory          / 90
Systems Dev          / 90

These exams were much less prepared for.  Having acquired an A in the coursework, with a UMS of about 102, I needed a further UMS of at least 140 to get an A.  Which meant about 70 UMS in each exam.  90 UMS in the Systems Dev paper, though, is easy to get (I think it’s about 60/90 for an A on that paper, which is really low).  Still, I feel that I’ve not done so well on the two exams.  Chance of an A is low, I rate it at about 35%.  Most probably a B for Computing.

Electronics    Coursework         70/72
Basic Elec                 /90
Signal Process           /90

These exams were also rather unfulfilling.  Having such a high mark in the coursework (Again, I suspect, an error on the examiners part), gave me a very good basis for the other two exams.  But despite the high expectations, and the 95%s that I acquired consistantly on the mocks, I feel again that I didn’t perform in this.  I estimated my marks, from adding up the marks on the exams that I know I got, to be around about 75 and 70 respectively.  Greatly underperformed, and I think another B.  64% chance of an A, but I think in my pessimistic view that I’m going to take this as a B.

Further Maths    Mechanics        95/100
Further Pure         /72
Decision                /72

Ah maths, my specialist subject.  Particularly Decision.  Having got 95% on the M1 test in January, I saw myself as on pretty good footing for the other two exams.  Surely a few missed marks couldn’t particularly knock me off target for an A.  But then the Further Pure paper came along.  It wasn’t particularly hard, per se, but it certainly was annoying.  The last question was worth 9 marks, and was on a topic that we had neglected to cover in class, and when it came to revision, we were told to ignore the similar question because they never come up.  Plus a couple more marks knocked off, I think I got about 60/72 on Further Pure.  The D1 exam was relatively easy, particularly in comparison with other mocks we’d done.  The main thing that takes the most time and hatred for me is linear programming, so the fact that the one linear programming question came up on section A and so took almost no time at all pleased me very much.  I think I’ve gotten very good on this; adding up all the marks I’m pretty sure I’ve got got me within about 68/72, and examiners like to be lenient.  All in all, I think a 98% chance of an A on Further Maths.

So the final prediction is about A, A, B, B, B.

*sighage* Just expressing my lack of looking forward to Thursday.

Last night, Earth’s orbit passed through the tail of a comet, and lights were visible in the sky, dust breaking up in the atmosphere.  While I stood outside [with my laptop] for 2 hours from 1 am to 3 am, it was far too cloudy to see anything.  I didn’t even see Mars, which was also supposed to be visible.  Dang clouds.

-Mindez

String Theory

Missed… the… last… train… home…
Birds… pass… by… to… tell me that I’m not alone.
Well I’m pushing myself, to finish this part
I can handle a lot but one thing I’m missing
Is in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes.

Have… you… seen… this… film…
It… re… minds… me… of walking through the avenues.
Well I’m washing my hands, of attachments, yeah.
I’ll land on the ground, but one thing I’m missing
Is in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes.

In your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes , in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes, in your eyes.

Eyes by Rogue Waves.

So, anyway. 4.5 lessons remaining until the big end of school Magic partay. Maths, Electronics, (Tutorial doesn’t count, Guitar doesn’t count), Further Maths, Further Maths, Computing.

How much work do I expect we’ll be doing? Eh, a minimum. Specially when my Further Maths homework for tomorrow is “Think up at least 10 general knowledge questions for a quiz”. Quite a change from differential equations, then. And I’ve been told to bring my poker chips in on Friday for Further Maths then for our last ever lesson with Ms Cox, so.

As for Maths tomorrow, it’ll be spent doing coursework. I just have 2 marks of the 16 total to get now, can I get those in an hour and a half? Ah, what’s it matter. Electronics… I doubt we’ll be doing anything much. Perhaps just working on our serial transmitter/receivers, or the frequency shift key. Or maybe watching a video like we did in Physics today.

Oh, speaking of which, String Theory is an extremely fascinating subject. The idea that the universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings so that the whole world is bound together in harmonics is very interesting. And the ramifications if this is true; the parallel worlds in which every single possibility is played out, like somewhere out there there’s a Mindez that’s like Ace Rimmer. That would amuse me. And if every possibility is played out, shouldn’t there be at least one reality that has discovered trans-dimensional travel? Perhaps, then, the strings that are the key to this mystery can never be discovered, and never utilised to manipulate the worlds, but they are there, the one universal constant that keeps everything together, keeps it all moving..

Of course, I don’t understand the concept. I’ve watched a 1 hour Americanised TV program about it that had Physicists talking to dogs and walking through walls. So I don’t claim any expertise. I’m just musing about the concept as I understand it. And the way that it’s so.. science fiction, and yet so real.

Well, back to working on Physics… Key Skills has to be finished by tomorrow.

…And today.

…And yesterday, to think of it.

And last week…

-Mindez

IT BE HUG TIEM NAO????

Anyway. Few things to talk about. Huh, what does ‘few’ mean? ‘few’ is very relative. Is few small or large? In it’s normal context it isn’t really, but in this context, where I normally have hardly anything to talk about, does it mean a lot? Or does it mean that I should have more things to talk about normally and this post should be one of the few that I have only a few things to talk about. Huh. Or maybe it means that this blog is one of the few that normally has very few things to talk about, except this post which is one of the few that has a few things. Or maybe I’m just confusing myself. Ah well, looks like it’ll be one of those few blog posts where nothing makes sense… Pfft, what am I talking about, ‘few’?

ANYWAY. FEW THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. Huh, what does ‘few’ mea—…NO. RECURSION IS NOT ALLOWED. *slaps this paragraph* We forget this paragraph ever happened. If it looks like I’m trying to make this blog post longer just for the sake of it being longer, you’d be wrong. I’m actually trying to drag this post out in order to avoid doing work, which is massively important work that needs to be in for today; Physics, Key Skills. Ah, I do hope my Physics teacher doesn’t read this, incidentally.

So, what’ve I got to talk about? I thought I’d start with Magic, progress through School/University, and finish around TV and stuff, maybe.

Huh, what does ‘few’ mea—…NO. RECURSION IS NOT ALLOWED. *slaps this paragraph*

Right. I have come to the conclusion that I have stored my Magic cards away for too long. It is time… to get my Magic cards out, learn to play again, and get out there, get a proper hobby. Writing my personal statement made me want a hobby. And since I’m going to Manchester university I may as well start a hobby that’s within 10 minutes of the university and such. So I am now, again, a Magic The Gathering player. I have been re-taught all the rules and strategy by a great teacher, and I’m going along to the draft on Friday. First look, 10th Edition draft. I’ve never drafted before, even last time I played, so yay for new experiences. I’ve also preordered a box of 10th Edition from the shop so I’ll have plenty of legal cards for when all the cards I currently own are dropped from Standard in Octoberish. Hopefully the drafts this weekend aren’t going to be single elimination so I actually have a chance of having more than one game.

So I am now, again, a Magic The Gathering player.

Now, you might at this point be thinking “Huh, how is Mindez going to make a smooth transition from one topic of conversation to another without suddenly changing the subject?!?”. I doubt that is what you’re thinking, but hey, I guess it’s possible. And if you are, I just did it, so hahahah, I’m now onto the subject of school and stuff.

Firstly, in terms of university, I’ve already said that if I get an offer from both Manchester and Imperial then I’m going to go with the Manchester. That’s not changed. I still need another 3 universities to apply to, though. My computing teacher has told me to do some research, to find out where the big companies recruit graduates from, and which courses they would recommend. And I found a website owned by EA Games that gives a few examples of graduates that they have recruited, one was from Manchester and has a BSc in Computer Science with an industrial placement. That’s pretty much what I’m going for.

All I can think of is the massive Electronics coursework that’s coming up that I have to do. And that’s not a good thing.

Regarding the whole ‘5 subjects’ thing, I’m certain now that I’m going to be dropping Electronics. It’s been fun, but yeah. All I can think of is the massive Electronics coursework that’s coming up that I have to do. And that’s not a good thing. I’ll be fine with the Further Maths and Computing courseworks. Having Electronics free will give me a free period last thing on Tuesdays, first thing on Mondays, and middle lesson on Thursdays. First thing on monday’s a good thing to have off for obvious reasons, last thing on Tuesday’s a good thing to have off because then I don’t have to stay until 4:30, and middle thing on Thursday… eh, it’s a free period.

Perhaps I’ll skip the questionnaire and observation and just do the DFDs; that’s all he’ll be looking for, anyway.

Computing coursework is going very badly. I’ve only managed to get done 25 pages, up to the questionnaire part. I need to finish the questionnaire, and the observation, and all my Data Flow Diagrams by… uh… tomorrow. Hah. I doubt I’ll get that done. Perhaps I’ll skip the questionnaire and observation and just do the DFDs; that’s all he’ll be looking for, anyway. I’ve done more than pretty much anyone in the class. This is going to be a GOOD coursework. A VERY GOOD one.

Let’s just say I don’t see the POINT in doing Key Skills, it’s a waste of time when going to higher universities.

Maths coursework, on the other hand, is going pretty well. I’m surprised that this has only taken 4 weeks, when all my normal coursework’s taken the best part of a year to get done. Still, just the last bit to go on that. And Physics Key Skills… I’m not even going to go there. Let’s just say I don’t see the POINT in doing Key Skills, it’s a waste of time when going to higher universities. Higher universities don’t care about UCAS points, and even if they did I hardly think that I’m not going to get enough. Key Skills is only work 20 UCAS points, anyway. That’s an E at AS level; that’s my Business Studies grade.

Meh. Still.

I think I’ll end the blog post there. I can’t be bothered talking any more. Back to Physics I guess…

Groan.

-Mindez