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2011 CAO/Leaving Cert discussion thread

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    #272
    Insect Overlord
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    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    Frost, Yeats, Kavanagh

    They were on it 4 years ago too. So were Elliot, Bishop, Plath, Montague and Donne. Good times!
    Your Text Here wrote: »
    Snap. They were great. Even Elizabeth Bishop :P

    Jesus IO, we're old >.<

    I hated Bishop! Her poems were so boring! And my teacher kept trying to insist the imagery was really deep and meaningful. >_< Oh well. I don't feel old, and that's all that matters! :p


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    #273
    Namlub
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    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    Black Lace Fan is grand.. way too personal though! :P
    It's just the fact that it doesn't really fit in with the themes of the other poems we do, so it's always an effort trying to figure out how to include it and stuff.
    And yeah jumpy, I always think Child of Our Time tries too hard to be heart-wrenching or something...


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    #274
    Seren_
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    I hated Bishop! Her poems were so boring! And my teacher kept trying to insist the imagery was really deep and meaningful. >_< Oh well. I don't feel old, and that's all that matters!
    Ah now, you can't bate The Fish surely? :pac: :pac:


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    #275
    Insect Overlord
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    Your Text Here wrote: »
    Ah now, you can't bate The Fish surely? :pac: :pac:

    I've written better poems that that myself! :p


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    #276
    unknown13
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    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    Black Lace Fan is grand.. way too personal though! :P
    Namlub wrote: »
    It's just the fact that it doesn't really fit in with the themes of the other poems we do, so it's always an effort trying to figure out how to include it and stuff.
    And yeah jumpy, I always think Child of Our Time tries too hard to be heart-wrenching or something...

    And the memories are now strolling back.


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    #277
    almostnever
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    Your Text Here wrote: »
    Ah now, you can't bate The Fish surely? :pac: :pac:

    Pffft, Filling Station was so much better! :pac:

    I always thought it was funny how much I preferred English poetry to Irish poetry. The only dán on the course I liked was Oíche Nollaig na mBan (which admittedly was amazing!) but I liked most if not all of the English poems I did on some level!


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    #278
    Grindylow
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    Namlub wrote: »
    It's just the fact that it doesn't really fit in with the themes of the other poems we do, so it's always an effort trying to figure out how to include it and stuff.
    And yeah jumpy, I always think Child of Our Time tries too hard to be heart-wrenching or something...

    I learned a few lines from it..

    "They stayed in Paris for the summer.
    She was always early. He was late.

    The lace was overcast.

    And no way to know what happened then
    none at all"

    >_>

    I liked Child Of Our Time, but my favourite poem of hers would be "Outside History" :)


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    #279
    Slow Show
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    Namlub wrote: »

    Not sure which ones we're actually doing yet, I wish Daddy was on the course.

    +100000, (even though I'm an LC 2013er but whatevs, same thing) I think it's my favourite poem ever, the last verses <3. I've actually listened to her doing a reading of it on YouTube so many times. And I want Ariel on it too. :(


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    #280
    Namlub
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    Slow Show wrote: »
    +100000, (even though I'm an LC 2013er but whatevs, same thing) I think it's my favourite poem ever, the last verses <3. I've actually listened to her doing a reading of it on YouTube so many times. And I want Ariel on it too. :(
    Hah me too, I love her voice ^_^


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    #281
    SarahBeep!
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    almostnever wrote: »
    I did Macbeth in '09
    As did I! We watched the Roman Polanski version of the film and at the end when
    Macbeth is beheaded
    because of all the tension and what not my friend and I just burst out laughing!!! I think it was because
    you could hear his head bounce...
    Our teacher was not impressed.
    Your Text Here wrote: »
    Snap. They were great. Even Elizabeth Bishop :P

    I got a whole 7 pages out of her for my essay. YEEEEEEAHHHHHH!

    Rich was my favourite though, nothing like a bit of Living in Sin!


    Why were all the female poets on the LC course depessed, lesbian, or depressed lesbians! Talk about pigeonholing female poets!


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    #282
    Grindylow
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    Or women who stick their heads in ovens..


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    #283
    bythewoods
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    Is anyone doing HL Irish here? I have a really lovely 100%-esque essay on an cúlú for the takin'


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    #284
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    Derek Mahon is the business lads.


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    #285
    Pigwidgeon
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    I just wanted to say good luck to everyone who's starting exams on weds. You'll all be fine :)


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    #286
    QueenOfLeon
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    Just going through the LC timetable as my brother is doing it. Lads...ye have English paper 2 on the Thursday afternoon?! Ye have it easy! :pac:


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    #287
    Aoibheann
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    Yeah, back in my day we had an entire DAY worth of English exams. You kids don't know how lucky you are! :P

    We also walked to school through the fields, in the snow, for 10 miles each way... barefoot. >_>


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    #288
    KnifeWRENCH
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    ^ Oh God yeah, English Papers I and II in the same day....my poor arm has never gone through that much in such a short space of time.* ALL THE WRITING EVER.

    *insert typical randylonghorn joke here. :pac:


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    #289
    QueenOfLeon
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    AND they changed maths on the Friday to the afternoon as well. All those sleep ins I could have had...


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    #290
    Aoibheann
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    Wait, what? Maths wasn't on the Friday in my day.. I did Maths and Irish - both paper I - on the Thursday, and Irish paper II on the Friday morning!


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    #291
    randylonghorn
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    Aoibheann wrote: »
    We also walked to school through the fields, in the snow, for 10 miles each way... barefoot. >_>
    Ah, yeah, but ... Cavan, like!! >_>
    KnifeWRENCH wrote: »
    *insert typical randylonghorn joke here. :pac:
    Well-trained are you, young padawan! :p


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    #292
    Aoibheann
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    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Ah, yeah, but ... Cavan, like!! >_>

    I actually did walk to school, incidentally. It just happened to be more like a mile.. And I did have shoes. But still! It happened! :P Then we moved, meaning I had to move schools and I lived approximately 2 minutes from my new one.. Yet was somehow always running late, while I was never late to my old one.. >_<


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    #293
    unknown13
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    English paper 2 and Geography last year wasn't nice but I have had worse.

    Doing 5 hours straight of exams for my LC mocks was probably the worst.


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    #294
    SarahBeep!
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    unknown13 wrote: »
    Doing 5 hours straight of exams for my LC mocks was probably the worst.

    Defo have to agree with you there.
    I'd say it was coz we weren't able to leave the feckin exam hall!

    Yes, I'm finished. Oh, so I've to sit here and do nothing for an hour when I could be studying??? Ok Sir, nice call!! :pac:


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    #295
    unknown13
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    In my case it was a pure fúck up of the timetable. The teacher in charge of the mocks didn't give enough time for the student (me) who had extra time in his exam and it was a long exam (Business), so when Business was finished I was straight into another exam.


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    #296
    SarahBeep!
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    unknown13 wrote: »
    In my case it was a pure fúck up of the timetable. The teacher in charge of the mocks didn't give enough time for the student (me) who had extra time in his exam and it was a long exam (Business), so when Business was finished I was straight into another exam.

    Typical! I had an extra subject and sure they couldn't have cared less about that like!


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    #297
    unknown13
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    SarahBeep! wrote: »
    Typical! I had an extra subject and sure they couldn't have cared less about that like!

    I know the exact feeling. I tried to dispute and I got a whole load of búllshít from the school.


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    #298
    SarahBeep!
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    unknown13 wrote: »
    I know the exact feeling. I tried to dispute and I got a whole load of búllshít from the school.


    Yeah, the principal didn't really support me taking up chemistry. Grrrr. I actually regret not REALLY pushing my mam to let me move schools when I was in 3rd year. I think that if I'd have gone to a different school and had the chance to take them at LC level I wouldn't be in Science Ed, I'd be doing woodwork and tech graphics Ed tbh.


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    #299
    unknown13
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    SarahBeep! wrote: »
    Yeah, the principal didn't really support me taking up chemistry. Grrrr. I actually regret not REALLY pushing my mam to let me move schools when I was in 3rd year. I think that if I'd have gone to a different school and had the chance to take them at LC level I wouldn't be in Science Ed, I'd be doing woodwork and tech graphics Ed tbh.

    It is a hard one to say because I have done practical subjects and they are pretty different and are based around an artefact being presented to an examiner. You might not have liked them and ended up doing Science teaching in Limerick.

    I was told by a poster on boards after I accepted my place in UCD that: "Everything happens for a reason".


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    #300
    soccymonster
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    I'm gonna fail.


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    #301
    QueenOfLeon
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    soccymonster wrote: »
    I'm gonna fail.

    Naaa, you're not :)


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