Tommy Collison

Christmas exams have started in full swing today and I like to think I’ve hit the ground running. Today was Science, CSPE and English, and I was pleased with how they went. I had study periods before each of them and I did my best to revise a little of everything in the time that I had.

Whenever I get exam papers all I do is glance through the questions and see what I can definitely answer and what I don’t know, because I find it really comforting knowing that I have a reasonably good idea of what the answers are as I plough through it. I rarely if ever go along with some teachers’ suggestion of ‘do what you find easy first’ because I can be a bit scatter-brained in that if I pick and choose what I answer as I go through a test, I’ll invariably not see a second part of some question or something. Instead I’ll look over the test and proceed to plough through it, ignoring anything I don’t know until the end.

I’m looking forward to being finished; to Christmas; to New Year’s Eve; to John and Patrick being home; to not having school; to the Young Scientist and to eating chocolate again.

And to be honest, all of that isn’t too far away!

Tomorrow holds Maths and Irish, with people doing Religion in between. I have an exemption from it so I’ll probably head home and study. After that, it’s the weekend, which I’ll split between studying, drumming and finally getting round to buying and wrapping Christmas presents. I always leave stuff like this to the last moment; which is silly. As I always tell myself: I’ll do it in November next year.

Yeah right, T

Then on Monday I have to soldier through History, Geography and Spanish. Once they’re done and dusted, it’s Christmas break and it will be mega.

On the far side of New Year, the Young Scientist beckons! It runs from the 12th to the 16th of January – be there or be an isosceles tetrahedron! :)