Tamar Joshua Rowe

Eee! I finally got my offer from St. Andrews! AAB, in any three subjects. ^_^

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I've got until May 3 to finally decide (on my insurance choice (Hull or York) - I'm going to a Warwick open day, but StA is top top top).

... Doesn't this read like one of those sport-star manga? The hero starts something (here, Physics), and begins to climb in relation to his peers. When he gets really quite good, another level of difficulty is introduced (first top-set single-science GCSE) then another (narrowing the group down to 19 AS students) then another (narrowing down to 8 A2 students).

Then, when the hero is starting to get a bit cocky, tournaments are introduced (Uni Applications). The hero whitewashes at the first few (Hull, York, Nottingham) and gets even cockier, then tackles something difficult and survives (Warwick) aims too high and burns (Cambridge), and then gets their confidence back just in time for the final thing, which isn't as high as the one they failed at, but is has better but less spoken qualities (StA).

Of course, the hero tends to eventually beat the one-that-he-burned-at, but I'll wait until postgrad to attempt Cambridge again. ^^;

Anyroad, I'd best get to work on my last three modules - Chemistry: Chains, Rings and Spectroscopy, Mechanics 2, and Mathematics: Further Pure 1.

And with dropping down from A FMaths to AS FMaths, I'm confident that I can get an A in single Maths. So that an Chem need to be the best, and I just need to keep up in Physics.

I'm going up tomorrow!!! I'll go 22 hours between leaving the laptop (and prospectus information) and starting interview. And I have three interviews. And a written test. OMGWTF???

I hate being panicked. I'm not used to the feeling.

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I'll be sure to tell y'all about it when I return! ^_^



(this is the interview for Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, btw)

I've been invited for interview by Nottingham University - 22Nov. I applied for Physics with a Euro-Language. ^_^


ETA:

Just discovered the New Scientist website. Much less USA-centric than the mag - and there's a podcast, too! *listens to Blair interview*

My Apply was in time - I got an email from the college just now, with another form to fill out. Ah well, I've got until the 15th of November - no, let's say that the deadline is the 10th of November so that I don't end up making back-to-back trips to the PO during lessons again - so it shan't be a rush-job like the CAF was.

Turns out that no-one else applied to Cambridge, but there were 3 people who applied to Oxford - Emma Brown for English Lit, Ollie K for Physics, Kuda for Law. And Mia applied for Medicine, so that's 5 of us that have completed and sent in our applications, and we get to laugh at the rest of the poor sods in our year. XD


In other news, I've become strangely addicted to Limewire (program), while the rest of the 6th Form has become strangely addicted to Linewire (game). Heck, I'm addicted to it, and I've never played it. O_o

Done the first draft of my Personal Statement - it's here if anyone wants to crit me and tell me what it says about me. Too formal? Not formal enough? Tangents at 90 degrees?

So now I only have my courses, past employment and fee code to input onto the system. And as our Pure Maths teacher is on teacher training tomorrow, I have most of that day free.

*sigh of relief* You know, it takes me until Monday afternoon to recover from the brutal assault of Wed-Thurs-Fri? I don't get a single break during those days - it's just numercies from 0830 to 1700.



In other news - the laptop harddrive is permanently buggered. Data = lost. I've got some of my notes hard-copied, and I've re-written the Jesse/Redhead one with a completely different tone (the other one was better, but easy come, easy go) but the 2000 word third chapter of Xiaolin Past? *mimes plane falling out of the sky*

And I know I didn't send it to Silvarbelle (fairly sure, and anyway she isn't online), I've asked Akiko, and I can't remember whether I asked Aldrius or not.

So it's slowly being re-written. I'm not taking any stress for it, though - I've got enough on my plate. It's just that if I don't restart now then I never will, and it'll go the way of Herbal Tea (ZOMG my writing was so bad back then I can't bear to look at the MS!). So it's continuing.

The best bits were notebooked anyway, so it'll be all right. If I can find them.