JC 2013/2014 Off-Topic Thread

Irishgirl1998 · 13-02-2014 12:04am

pianoperson wrote: »

Aww we got ours back today! And I'd say to not pay too much heed to what they say, if you're told to be a mathematician and you want to be a Home Ec teacher, be a Home Ec teacher! I dunno, maybe ye have a good one but from talking to my friends in loads of different schools none of them have good ones

Haha me a Maths teacher I told my teacher that I hate algebra and he knows I'm not good at it ... I'm in higher level as well . I think the guidance counsellors are good but I only ever talked to her in first year and she was suppose to be my teacher in a subject.

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 12:04am

smiles_1998 wrote: »

I thought mine were going grand...until I had the two maths papers today =-O and science tomorrow . I hope nice questions on Irish history come up on the paper- I have that tomorrow as well!

Maths is always awful don't worry too much about it! Science is ok! But it's my weakest subject so I was bound to do bad and I found history lovely

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 12:05am

Irishgirl1998 wrote: »

I have finished today . Irish paper 2 was hardest forget poetry quotes.

I loved Irish p2! Mind you I had a poetry answer learned off so that helped

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 12:07am

pianoperson wrote: »

My school don't have mocks so while other schools have them we've been getting career guidance about whether or not to do TY or if not what subjects for leaving etc....so I was at career guidance today and I told her that my fave subject was science and she immediately told me to do medicine. I told her at least 20 times (no exaggeration!) that I DONT WANT TO BE A DOCTOR. So then she asked me what other jobs there are in science and I just kinda like looked at her. I told her I would love to go into cancer research and she just looked at me and said "well, you know.....its usually boys who go into research....but medicine is great, lots of girls doing it, great science element..." Needless to say, I was absolutely RAGING! But it's made me even more determined to become a researcher and prove that girls can do it too!
Sorry, hadta get that off my chest :') Rant over.

That's disgraceful omg some people are so backwards! I do pretty well in school and people always tell me I should be a doctor/dentist, don't seem to realise that is definitely not what I'm into

pianoperson · 13-02-2014 12:13am

Xgracie wrote: »

That's disgraceful omg some people are so backwards! I do pretty well in school and people always tell me I should be a doctor/dentist, don't seem to realise that is definitely not what I'm into

I know, I'm the exact same! I don't know how people expect us to move forward while they're sticking with these narrow-minded views!! Do I you have any idea what you do want to be?

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 12:25am

pianoperson wrote: »

I know, I'm the exact same! I don't know how people expect us to move forward while they're sticking with these narrow-minded views!! Do I you have any idea what you do want to be?

Exactly! Not really! Pyschology maybe but idk

pianoperson · 13-02-2014 12:28am

Xgracie wrote: »

Exactly! Not really! Pyschology maybe but idk

Oh that's so cool! I wouldn't have the patience! It's so pressuring people asking you to pick what u wanna do for the rest of your life like I can't peel the back off a sticker coz leaving it in the same place forever is too big a commitment for me to handle!!! :')

Irishgirl1998 · 13-02-2014 12:33am

pianoperson wrote: »

Oh that's so cool! I wouldn't have the patience! It's so pressuring people asking you to pick what u wanna do for the rest of your life like I can't peel the back off a sticker coz leaving it in the same place forever is too big a commitment for me to handle!!! :')

It's scary the subjects we choose this year at the age of 14/15/16 are our future as an adult.

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 12:35am

pianoperson wrote: »

Oh that's so cool! I wouldn't have the patience! It's so pressuring people asking you to pick what u wanna do for the rest of your life like I can't peel the back off a sticker coz leaving it in the same place forever is too big a commitment for me to handle!!! :')

Hahahaha yeah it's mad!! Hopefully I'll have an idea by 6th year!

pianoperson · 13-02-2014 12:35am

Irishgirl1998 wrote: »

It's scary the subjects we choose this year at the age of 14/15/16 are our future as an adult.

Exactly the reason I'm doing TY, would have NO CLUE what to pick...

Probably won't have a clue next year either tbh :')

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 12:37am

Irishgirl1998 wrote: »

It's scary the subjects we choose this year at the age of 14/15/16 are our future as an adult.

I know what subjects I like & want to do (French home ec biology history) but have no idea how they'll effect college courses etc.

Irishgirl1998 · 13-02-2014 12:37am

pianoperson wrote: »

Exactly the reason I'm doing TY, would have NO CLUE what to pick...

Probably won't have a clue next year either tbh :')

Same I'm doing 4th year . Hopefully get in. Have to do an interview . Haha .

spurious · 13-02-2014 10:07am

Irishgirl1998 wrote: »

It's scary the subjects we choose this year at the age of 14/15/16 are our future as an adult.

Not at all. There are a million ways to do any college course you want.

Don't let people tell you there are not.

Irishgirl1998 · 13-02-2014 12:15pm

spurious wrote: »

Not at all. There are a million ways to do any college course you want.

Don't let people tell you there are not.

If I want to become a Home ec teacher there is only one college that I can go to and it's in Sligo .

CiCi123 · 13-02-2014 3:31pm

Finished the pres today!!! FRRREEEEDDDOOOMMM:) Hope everybody survived the storm! Spent last night in darkness, needless to say no revision was done for my last exam today!

Irishgirl1998 · 13-02-2014 3:39pm

CiCi123 wrote: »

Finished the pres today!!! FRRREEEEDDDOOOMMM:) Hope everybody survived the storm! Spent last night in darkness, needless to say no revision was done for my last exam today!

I finished yesterday

CiCi123 · 13-02-2014 3:43pm

Irishgirl1998 wrote: »

I finished yesterday

I thought I might get away without doing the last exam today because of the weather but that didnt happen! Oh well theyre all done now and we have a week off to actually relax:D

Irishgirl1998 · 13-02-2014 3:53pm

CiCi123 wrote: »

I thought I might get away without doing the last exam today because of the weather but that didnt happen! Oh well theyre all done now and we have a week off to actually relax:D

I have to study for Orals in Irish and French . But it's likely not going to happen. :P

spurious · 13-02-2014 4:18pm

Irishgirl1998 wrote: »

If I want to become a Home ec teacher there is only one college that I can go to and it's in Sligo .

In Ireland, yes, but many teachers train in the UK.
Your subject choices after JC do not determine what, if any, college you go to. You can go to college without a Junior or a Leaving. They don't tell you that at school.

Please check out the job situation before committing to teaching.

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 5:40pm

I still have 2 tomorrow and 4 after mid term

smiles_1998 · 13-02-2014 6:40pm

pianoperson wrote: »

Oh jaysus :') imagine if they told you in 6th year that you should actually be a dentist and the subjects you picked in TY were geography, business and religion! :') do you have mocks ATM?

Oh god if that happened I would just die...my last 2 mocks are tomorrow: French and CSPE. I had history and science today which both went okay :-) well I think they did...a lot of the time when I think a test went okay I end up doing amazingly bad in it :-/

CiCi123 · 13-02-2014 7:28pm

Would it be too early to start looking at college websites and courses now or is it no harm to see what you'd be interested in?:)

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 7:46pm

CiCi123 wrote: »

Would it be too early to start looking at college websites and courses now or is it no harm to see what you'd be interested in?:)

I love looking at them out of curiosity! Don't get yourself worried about points or anything though!

CiCi123 · 13-02-2014 8:10pm

Xgracie wrote: »

I love looking at them out of curiosity! Don't get yourself worried about points or anything though!

Thanks:) I havent a clue of what I want to do after school but in SPHE our teacher is telling us to be thinking about the FUTURE! So I might just have a look at a few college websites to see if anything catches my eye:P

pianoperson · 13-02-2014 8:16pm

CiCi123 wrote: »

Would it be too early to start looking at college websites and courses now or is it no harm to see what you'd be interested in?:)

I've started looking but it's more to give me a motivation to study as I like having a long term goal to work towards. It's helpful when applying for TY work experience also

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 8:22pm

Has anyone had religion yet? Will I get away with no studying?

pianoperson · 13-02-2014 8:29pm

Xgracie wrote: »

Has anyone had religion yet? Will I get away with no studying?

I don't have mocks but in the essay section always do the 4th option as it's always about science and religion or atheism so you can pretty much bullsh1t your way through it

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 8:32pm

pianoperson wrote: »

I don't have mocks but in the essay section always do the 4th option as it's always about science and religion or atheism so you can pretty much bullsh1t your way through it

Thank you! I'll have a flick through the exam papers tomorrow but I just really cba tonight lol

CiCi123 · 13-02-2014 8:36pm

Xgracie wrote: »

Has anyone had religion yet? Will I get away with no studying?

If I were you I would not try to get round the charter rules.<mod edit>

Xgracie · 13-02-2014 8:49pm

CiCi123 wrote: »

If I were you I would not try to get round the charter rules.<mod edit>

I wanted to know if it was tough not what was on it, relax and she hardly gave anything away?

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