Alive And Kicking

Before you think But the Saturday morning show was actually called 'Live and Kicking', it has nothing to do about that, nor has it to do with this song, by Nonpoint.



Obviously, that song is not to everyone's taste. But yeah, hi. =].

This post has to do with this little called examination results. I know it's late, but yeah, I'll carry on regardless. =].

On the day of resultness, which was yesterday (Thursday the nineteenth, fact fans), I woke up at roughly half five in the afternoon. Ha, fooled you, it was actually the morning. I will spare you the details which are pointless, like the fact I went downstairs and saw my mother watching tellie, 'cause she couldn't sleep for some reason.

When the clock struck six, I logged into Edexcel's results page. And a shroud of doubt filled me, like helium filling a balloon... Overall? I had a D in Music Technology.

Shite.

I needed at least a C to get into university.

So, I was worried at what the other two subjects - Chemistry and Physics - had in store. But, just in case the worst came, I looked at the available courses at Glamorgan University on the clearing pages.

And you know that balloon simile that I said before? Well, nothing has changed to that yet. But, I will say that I saw my course, Creative Technologies (Multimedea), appeared in the list of courses available through clearing.

What could this mean? Did I get in? Did I miss out and my place on the course up for clearing? Who knows...

Well. I do. Since, in a vain hope (I thought), I tried to log into the UCAS track section at about half six. And after two attempts, I got in. And guess what it said...

Congratulations! Your place at University of Glamorgan, Cardiff and Pontypridd (G14) to study Creative Technology (Multimedia) (HP63) has been confirmed.

And at that moment, the helium escaped from the balloon with great excitement (I am really crap at similes, aren't I?). I, with at least a D to my name, have gotten into university. I'm going to Glamorgan University, baby.

Though I know I was into university, I still wanted to know what I got in Chemistry and Physics. But alas, I had that letter that looks like a B but without the middle support. Yes. I had a D in both Chemistry and Physics.

I am, a D student.

Granted, I took (apparently) two of the hardest subjects you can take. And I took a subject that the school didn't even allow until two years ago (and apparently, D was the highest grade out of our Music Tech class, but I'm not sure if this is correct). But, as you hear your friends getting high grades, it does question your intelligence.

That said, I don't think I'm clever. I've been told I'm clever a handful of times. I honestly don't think I'm clever. Okay, I'm not thick, but I at least hoped for one C in my A level results. But at least I didn't relive the image I had when I was in year eight.

What was that image? It was me, aged eighteen, running from the Neuadd (this was before I knew of the new school) in tears because I failed miserably in my exams. Granted, the sky was grey and everyone was laughing at me in that image, and I was taller. But that image was not relived, like a freaky deja-vu moment. I walked out of school rather happily, to be fair.

But, I had three D's in my subjects, and as a D works out to be sixty UCAS points. So, three sixty's are 180. And even if I did get a pass in Key Skills, I'd still be under the needed points by at least fifty, and the fact that my course was in clearing, it got me thinking.

Did I get into that course, because hardly anybody tried for it?

To be fair, I have no idea what the answer to that question is. My parents keep telling me that the interview was the place where I sold it to Glamorgan, that I am actually not bad at knowing stuff. But I don't know. Damn, why can't I remember the right stuff for exams?...

Hang on, I don't have to worry about that now...

But yes. In three (or four, possibly) years, I will (hopefully) become a Bachelor of Science, with a degree in Creative Technologies (Multimedia). Who knows what will change in those three years. Maybe the course name will change to Creative Technologies (Production), or maybe the word in brackets will disappear totally.

But, all I know is, I'm going to study something that really interests me. Yeah, Chemistry, Physics and Music Technology, but stuff like web design and typography really interest me. Granted, people call me sad when I know the difference between Verdana and Trebuchet fonts. But who cares?

- Oh Nemo, you have a really small FIN there...