Exams are over.
No more college.
Now what do I do?
Grow up?
Fuck that.
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Exam-time.
I remember telling myself a week ago that I would really revise for this media exam. Now my exam is tomorrow and I don’t think i’ve revised at all. Is it just me or does everyone do that? Plan well in advance, so that they don’t have to worry about it and then spend the day before the exam telling themselves that they’re going to fail.
Then there is the unnecessary panic that results from not revising in time. Some sort of chemical in our brain manages to persuade us that we don’t know anything about the subject, and are doomed to fail. When, really we’ve been studying the question for the entire duration of the course and wouldn’t be able to fail if we tried.
I was determined to wake up at 9am today so that I had the entire day to revise. I didn’t wake up till 12, though and I still haven’t started the revision. I tell myself that the exam isn’t till 2pm on Monday but I really shouldn’t be kidding myself like that. Then the excuses such as “I need to get something to eat first” Or “I should really tidy my room” seem to follow and prevent me from starting the revision.
I dread the day of the exam but also what happens after it. I have nothing to do once the exams are over. I don’t have enough wage to be able to do anything, as I only work one day a week and the prospect of sitting at home watching film after film for four months is enough to drive one to charity work.
They say that money isn’t the key to happiness but I think it helps quite a lot, actually.
Unrealistic Moments.
My life seems to be consisted of these unrealistic moments. Over the course of my existence they seem to find every imaginable way of shocking me. You always expect one thing and recieve another.
I had expected to get about 77 out of 100 for my Classic Civilisation exam. I had also expected to get about 40 out of 90 for my Media exam.
However life seems to be quite cruel yet kind at the same time and I actually got 77 out of 90 for media and 59 out of 100 for Classical civilisation.
These grades aren’t the final grade. They are one of three exams that are put towards the final grade so I am able to be quite pleased with my Media result. Classics, however I will just have to retake and hope for the best.
It’s funny how your subject strengths turn into your weaknesses and when you think you’re terrible at a particular lesson you find that you’re quite successful in it.
Oh cruel fate. Unfortunately this does not help me. I need Classics and Media to get into uni
Exams and Selfish Genes.
I believe that it was on the day of my Classical exam that I had this thought. It may have been some time before then, i’m not sure.
Firstly, my classics exam. The panic is tradition isn’t it? They change the rules every year just to confuse you, because they like to see students piling up outside the exam room muttering something about who the biggest sinner is, medea, or Jason under their breath.
There is then the period in which you have to sit within the exam room while the invidulator reads the rules out to you off of a sheet of paper. You wait patiently, even though you have heard them for what seems like a thousand times.
There is a satisfying point halfway through the exam though I find. It’s when a student gets up and leaves the exam room halfway through, obviously because they didn’t revise hard enough. It makes me feel better that I stayed for the whole duration, even though I could have just as easily failed, also.
I was in the exam room, panicking. And I started to think about emo things. I knew that it would happen. As soon as you need to actually concentrate on something you start to think about all of the bad things going on in your life. I got through the exam ok though.
Then on the way home I was deep in thought over these various things. It was pretty dark and cold and I couldn’t wait to get home. I was just walking past the chip shop and I looked in the window, wishing I had enough cash to buy some. I carried on walking and saw a man at the bin next to the shop. He was a homeless man and he had just pulled some chips out of the bin and started to eat them.
And I think I have room to complain? How selfish of me.
Dinner Time
I made tea again this time and i’ve decided to document it again. And i’ve put it on here.
This time around I made some Lemon chicken with salad and potato salad.
I’ll write how I did the potato salad first.
Obviously get some potatoes. And peel them in some water.
Then you want to cook the potatos. Put them in a pan and cover with cold water. Put them over the heat. When they start to boil over turn the heat down. Keep prodding them with your fork so that you know when they are done. When they feel soft they are ready. Also make sure the heat isn’t too high or boils over. It usually takes about 15 mins until they are ready.
When you take them out you need to put the water in the saucepan into a seive so that you can get to the potatoes haha.
Then just place them in a bowl so that you can make your chicken. Once you have made your chicken add some mayo to the bowl of potato’s and put some herb in as well if you would like to.
Then you want to make your chicken.
Cut your chicken up into little cubes (Defrost it first, obviously. Remember to get it out the night before.)
Then put some oil into a frying pan and then add the chicken to it. Put some Lemon and salt and pepper in with it and then keep stiring it every now and then so that it doesn’t stick to the pan. It should take about five mins to cook and you’ll know it’s ready because it goes a sort of browny colour.
And then put the meal all together and there you go. Put the chicken onto the plate. Add some salad from a bag of salad. And I also added some italian dressing on top of the salad. Put your potato salad in as well and you’ve got a nice meal.
Decisions, Decisions.
I’ve been accepted to two of the three uni’s that I applied to so far.
Well, a conditional offer anyway, but i’m hoping i’ll get in.
One is to take Media arts at Plymouth Uni which I don’t really want to do but i’m hoping that I get into my first choice uni, which is to study media at Portsmouth uni. And i’ll be with some people I know as well, such as Mark and Fimmeh if she goes. Mikefro is already there as well so it’ll be good.
