For the last two years I've been doing English Literature, Film Studies, Psychology and Information/Communication Technology. All A Levels, obviously. Got my final exams coming up later this month.
Can't wait to get to university though. From what I understand, English degrees only have on average 6 hours contact time a week. I'm going to have so much free time :D Admittedly I will probably have reading to do, but it will also give me a lot of time to practice playing guitar and improve my rusty artistic skills.
Rowax: It's ok to admit your real age, no one cares.
I don't see how it's possible to start a year late and be 18. If you started a year late you'd be 20. And it's unlikely that you'd be studying literature as a chosen major your freshman year.
Of course I may be wrong. You may not be in 8th grade, as would be my guess.
Rowax is talking about sixth-form college, which like I said is the equivalent of the last two years of highschool. Since he's only in the first year, and is already 18, he has started a year late - since you do your first year when you're 16/17 and second when you're 17/18.
College means something different to university here in jolly old England ;)
Yeah? How did that go? Which texts were you doing? Streetcar and Much Ado?
I've purchased got some generic geek shirts from Thinkgeek. Their Obey Gravity, Esc, Han Shot First, and I Beat Tetris, to be spesific. I've got a few more on my list, but they're fairly pricey.
Coursework was "Dubliners" by James Joyce and "Train Spotting" by Irvine Welsh. Set texts for the exam (that I've yet to take) are "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" for poetry and "Measure for Measure" for the Shakespeare. Yuck. Not that I'm too worried, though. I could fail this exam and still pass with at least a C on the marks that I've already got (from AS and the A2 pre-release material exam) ;)
I bet "Dracula" and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" would have been interested. Definetly more interesting than the crap we had to do at AS level - "The Color Purple", bleugh.
