More A-Level Ponderings
Okay, so it’s only November of my last year of compulsory education but I’m 100% certain I’m going to Post-16 and then university… it just makes sense to me. Plus if I don’t gain some independence in the next, what 5, 6 years then I literally never will! It’s more about the experience than anything. That having been said I am not settling for going to the Uni of Teesside (no offence to it, okay it is actually offence but whatever) just because I want the uni ‘experience’ more than anything. Post-16 Open Evening for my school was last night, and I actually don’t know where else I would go… Macmillan is my first, and only, choice for Post-16, and that’s worrying. Everyone keeps saying to me “Why worry, of course you are going to be accepted no problem” but I think they need to see my point of being pessimistic and coming up with the worst case scenario about everything!
Anyway, back to my (sort of) point… at A Level I’m not struggling so much with what I want to take. I’m thinking English Literature, English Language, Spanish & Critical Thinking… however that leaves a spot open (CT isn’t counted as an option, more of an add-on to existing choices)… and the only thing from the Pool left that I won’t absolutely hate is Government and Politics. That being said, someone on my LJ f-list does Government and Politics (albeit at a public school (the ones you have to pay for, I know the ‘public’ bit of it has always confused me too) so you know, higher standards and what not) and the things she says she does in lessons just sound… well, a bit crap and work intensive, and yes I’ll say it, mind numbingly boring. I’m thinking I should just take a Science or Maths (I’m good at both at GCSE so it doesn’t really matter which as I won’t be continuing them at uni), drop it after first year, and then maybe do Government and Politics as an AS rather than full A Level. Argh, see I’m confusing myself just by talking about this. Maybe I should actually go and research this… imagine that, pfft.
Note: While I was writing this I was listening to the High School Musical 3 Soundtrack, now come on, you can’t say that isn’t the music choice of someone worthy of being offered a place to read English at Cambridge. *wink* (For anyone who doesn’t get the concept of sarcasm, go back and read that last comment and you will find, oh yes, sarcasm. Well done.)
