Can Anyone Help Us?

As some of you may remember my despair, in regards to college tuition fees (if you don't click here) I am not alone in this matter, I've recently found out that their are 100's of other student whom are in the same situation as myself.

This is truly heart-breaking. All we are asking for is justice and equality. We are not asking the government for money.

Have a look at this blog, written by Gelai Acuna: How Could They Help Me?

I do feel her pain. We did it, we studied and we completed the leaving certificate and what now?

 What does the government expect of us? 

I do have expectations for myself. I expect myself to have a good LC, graduate w/ an honors bachelor and work my way to success in my prospective career choice. 

This lack of policies for us children of non-EU immigrants is a true barrier for our own goals and expectations. 

As children we were all told, we are equal, we have to dream high and work hard to achieve our dreams. I am working hard to achieve my goals, but how can I overcome this barrier? 

Can anyone help us? 

http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/0615/media-3318809.html

The Day Preceding The LC.

AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Laughing out loud, just kidding, I'm as chilled as an ice cube.

I always suspected that I'd be nervous on this day and going crazy; but so far so good. I'm extremely calm today which I'm finding kind of strange. Perhaps on some profound level I've just accepted that I've done what I could and if I get into a frantic state of panic, I won't be able to clearly remember the little that I do know. Having said that, who know maybe in an hour or so I'll have transformed into a crazy bitch blowing my wrath of fire into anyone who steps remotely close within my radius.

Be calm, look over some basic things today.

→ What are the key features of the languages of English?

→ What's the format of a letter/speech/talk?

→ Stick to your own style, don't try and learn how to write a personal essay or a report if you've never tried before.

→ Listen to some acoustic relaxing music. Avoid Hip Hop or stuff that will get you hyper. Being agitated and stressed is not the way to go into an exam.

→ Be in bed by 10.30 tonight. A refreshed mind goes along way.

→ Wake up early, have a look at your features of languages again. Eat a GOOD HEALTHY breakfast, even if you feel sick. There's nothing worst than vomiting just water so if you think you're going to vomit, eat something and make it a good one!

→ Make sure you reach your exam centre with plenty of time to spare. Prearrange a lift or take an earlier bus. You never know how traffic could be.

→ Lastly, if you think you're going to have a panic attack when you look at the paper, close it. Close your eyes and breath really deeply 3 times. This will refresh you mind and calm you down. Open the paper and try again. (: YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING! (:


GOOD LUCK LC CLASS OF 2012!


-Have a listen of this song. Enjoy your life and don't let exam stress over come you. Give yourself something to look forward to after the exam, like cheesy chips or an ice-cream!



    

I'M STUDYING - YAY

So I totally fixed the whole not studying problem. How? By simply sleeping more. I realised that if I got just enough sleep and gave up my FB time, I would become more effcient is terms of study.

And so far it's working great! I know I haven't updated here, in a while, but that's because, naturally there is a lot going on.

So I graduated. - FINALLY. Ceremony was beautiful! I got a few clips of it on camera if you guys want to see that, you can click right here!

A Word Of Advice:
If your still struggling to focus, make your self a picture/poster telling yourself what do you want to do after the summer? You need to give yourself something to look forward to, some kind of achievement or award for doing all your studies and passing ALL your exams. Not something like a holiday (because let's face it, you'll start daydreaming about how much fun that will be and next thing you know, 3 hours have passed by)

The exams a re extremely close now, but not close enough to give up and do nothing. There's still plenty of time! Start tomorrow if you haven't started yet. Send out a kindly written text to all friends and family members and BOY/GIRLFRIEND, explaining that your exams are soon, so please don't ask to hang out, to do anything or call to check on you unless they are bringing food, in which case the food can and should be left at your study/bedroom door.

Don't worry, they will understand, just ask them kindly to cooperate. As for the friends/boy/girlfriend they will survive 3 weeks without you and you will too. Do this for yourself! Try and get a grade your proud to say outloud. If you're not proud to you got 120 points, then do something about it!

1. Do exam paper questions.
2. Research online.
3. Don't learn it off. Understand it.
4. Ask smart/nerdy friends to explain it to you.
5. Set up study sessions w/ nerdy friends where you can ask questions. BUT NO CHATTING.
6. The more you practice the more confident you will feel. 
7. Trust yourself and your first instinct to be the correct answer.
8. Don't over think the question.
9. Doing a science subject? Learn your experiments +  draw your diagrams.
10. I know it's hard to start something your not sure off, but trust me once you start it, it gets easier to do it again.

Also for English poetry here is useful website that contains a huge glossary of poetic terms you may need to reference to. Poetic Glossary

Have a look through that list and learn off at least 5 poetic terms that you can use in your poetry questions. Go for the short simple terms that you do find in the poetry that you've studied, eg: Alliteration, Pun, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia & Rhapsody.

 I'll try and post some tips on french tomorrow! Bye for now, be safe and be studying. (:

I CAN'T STUDY!

Lately I've been finding it increasingly difficult to study and focus.

This video sort of explains it all. Thanks for watching guys! (:

 

Top World Influential News

So for preparation on English paper one, I've been researching top world influential news of 2010-2012.
 English paper one is accordingly suppose to be a general reflection of current event in the world. Since the paper is made up sometime around November, my guesses is that it will reflect an influential news report of 2010. But just to be sure I'm of course researching news events of 2011!

Why am I bothering doing this? Let's say that one of the texts is about the 'Eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull' and the part B of that text is to write some sort of diary entry explaining how you felt surviving your first earthquake. Before I researched it, I knew very little of earthquakes so that is a definite question that I couldn't have possibly rambled on about.

Get my drift? I don't want to have to skip out on a lovely question because I didn't posses sufficient information to back me up. Basically you can't talk about something you don't understand. Well you can try, but you'll probably look stupid. LOL

Here are some ideas of what to do little research about:

• Extreme Weather
• Economy
• Politics/Corrupt Politics
• Morality vs Science
• Scientific Break Through
• Obama/Queen's visit to Ireland
• Top influential news
  

Here are some links that may be helpful:

• www.google.com
• top 10 influential news stories of 2010-2011
• 2011 A Year In Review
• www.ScienceDaily.com

Hope this helps! :)

And The Result is...

At first when my teacher place the exam in front of me I was like...

There was too numbers, one on top of the other. I wasn't sure which one was my over all percentage and since  hence wasn't sure if I passed or not! 

"Did I pass?" I asked my teacher? 

Then I was like...

Thank God, It was the second number! I passed! I was so happy that I almost cried. But my friends talked some sense into me! LOL

The 6 in 306 was so tight to the 0 that I thought Maybe I got 30% in the shock of it all! I got 51%. I'm really really happy with that! I've gone up 3 grades! And only 4% away from a C! 

I'm really really happy! This brings my overall Pre score to 410! Only need another 40 points to get my desired course! (:

Looks like those maths grinds are paying off! 

On a separate note...

My new youtube channel has now reached 15 subscribers and just over 1,000 views! I think that is something to be excited for!

Thank you to all who have supported this new channel. And in case you wanna check out what this is all about, you can visit it here : http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperAgathaSantos?ob=0&feature=results_main

The Indecisive Moment

Sitting here alone at my desk, thinking over and over again about a million and one things.

Simultaneously trying to decide on what to do for my exams, what if I failed my maths pre-exam, what if I miraculously wake motivated and refreshed on the morning of each exam and succeed and obtain over 400 points? What If I get biomedical engineering and get bored half way through September? What if its nothing that I thought it would be? What if the course is nothing but maths and few graph?

Boy oh boy! That is A LOT of  'what if's'.

At this point tonight, I cannot stop worrying and thinking about tomorrow. Remember a while back when I mentioned doing my second math pre and I was all happy, thinking perhaps, just maybe, I actually did well for once? (Find that post here)Yesterday we received a little feedback from the exams. According to our maths teacher, paper one was "atrocious". Now if your memory and my memory serves us well, I believe I thought that I did better in paper one than paper two. 

Now what the heck does that mean in relation to my exam ?

So far two of my classmates have been told that they failed. I don't want to be the third.

I've spoken to my mom about this and she said that all I need to do, is when I receive the exam, sit down with my teacher and see my good points and weak points and figure out what I need to focus on. But can that actually be done successfully, baring in mind that tomorrow is the tenth, exactly 30 days before maths paper two.

Can I dedicate more time to maths? I'm already doing 10 hours of maths class every week plus study. Although this week I've been seriously slacking on study. 

I don't know. All I know is my brainwaves are far too active for this time of night. I would love to get some sleep in and relax since I spent the entire day in Kilarney, doing the biology field trip. I feel like my entire universe is pending the maths result tomorrow. Oh and did I mention that I have an economics pre this friday? Oh the stress. I think I might convert this negative energy into some kick-ass studying energy. Start studying now - now that will get me right to sleep!

During the biology field trip, I stopped for a quick pose with my favorite net.

Pass or fail, I might just cry when given the result.

Pass or fail, I won't give up.