My Future On One UMS Mark
Ah, alas, I never thought I would be making this here blog entry but at least my mind has calmed down since earlier when the bad news swamped me. So, I was meaning to blog last week after the dreaded results but things got in the way. Thursday morning I got up after a nearly sleepless night and turned UCAS on immediately, I sat there heart racing waiting for the page to load, and when it did it said... clearing. Your UCAS status is in clearing. I felt like shit. I went down and told my mum and she tried to reassure me that things would probably be ok and that I'd just need to call Edinburgh and they'd probably make some exceptions for me if I'd done ok in some of my subjects. So me, my mum and my dad ended up in college and I was shaking with nerves. I got the sheet with my results and the three Bs Edinburgh wanted was actually an A*, a B, and a C (one mark off a B). I couldn't help breathing a sigh of relief, I was sure Edinburgh would have taken BBC so I felt certain they'd overlook the one mark. So I rang them up as Mr Daly instructed me to. And they wouldn't bloody budge. I tried to drill home the point that I'd got an A* which more than cancelled out the one stupid bloody mark off a B that I was... but no, they were massively over-booked for the course. So then Mr Daly told me to get to the exams office and ask for a priority remark in hopes that I could pick up that one extra mark I needed, if I did they would have to accept me onto the course.
This was all last Thursday and I've been waiting until today (well, yesterday now) to hear from them. And then it happened. Mr Hall rang me at about 3 O'clock and said it was bad news, the mark had stayed exactly the same and I couldn't go to University this year because of it. He was very apologetic, especially over the whole history issue that was the problem this year and he has invited me in on Wednesday to sort out my options for this upcoming year. At first I was really upset, crying my eyes out to be honest. But in the end, I just had to pick myself back up and look at the positives; I've listed in my head the things I can do to make this year better. I'm going to go back and resit History and also complete my A2 Theology, I'll pick up two AS subjects as well, hopefully Politics and either Law or English Language. I can use this year to save up some money and put myself in a better position for university the year after, I can finally learn to drive, I can do the work placement I had planned for last year but couldn't do due to the election. I can work on things to make myself even more interesting and appealing to universities. I feel strangely content now. I really do. This is an opportunity, not a hurdle.
And now to be completely and wonderfully off-topic, I'm going to post a fashion wishlist. Yes, you heard me right. Ms I-don't-give-a-damn-about-fashion now has a fashion wishlist, not quite sure what's wrong with me.
