Year 12 preparing for AS levels

I guess that happens for lots of other groups of people too Eric? I'm thinking especially women and also mothers ... men, not so much?!

Sometimes on here the "answer" to a thread is actually there are a diversity of experiences and views here, let's agree to disagree?!

But yes, any large enough group of people, such as teenagers, and they won't all think and behave the same as each other

The angel wings sound great! My DD has just started a little knitting project ... knitting a snail for her DBro

She's away for a few days on a youth residential thing - hope she's enjoying that and won't be too stressed when she gets back and has only 6 days before she's back to school for the summer term. I'm hoping a proper break doing something different with friends will do her good. And gives me a chance to get on DS's case about some music practice before his audition next weekend.

Oh yes, adults have been moaning about teens since time began and making generalisations about them as if they were a homogenous bunch.

Yesterday we were listening to someone on the radio bewailing how all teens spend all their time in their rooms on games. We were on our way to watch DS play sport. Along with thousands of other parents up and down the country every single Sunday .

Similarly, I read in the Sunday paper how teens are no longer creative (too many exams apparently) as my DD spent hours spray painting a huge pair of angel wings onto her bedroom wall.

It has been deleted now to protect the privacy of the poster. Isn't there a famous Ancient Roman inscription moaning about young people?

TBF I work at a university and Ive never had any dealings with over involved parents.

Just young adults who are generally fine.

Me too Littlehams.

Very depressing reading SmallCarrot.

I'm imagining tumbleweed at the universities that have open days on exam days.

eric I'll be the invisible one - demands of work mean that DD will be going on her own to some of the open days! I'm telling myself that it means I am being a good parent (see thread about university and helicopter parents) by buying her a train ticket and letting her be independent!

smallcarrot I will be the one downing Mountain Dew to fuel desperate dashes between departments as my two want to study entirely different things .

Thanks getoff - I think she was certainly quite determined. My DM actually (sometimes we call her Granny - you know how it is - from DD and DS's POV), and I've worked out it would have been in the early fifties. She had a great time there I think, so really looking forward to visiting with her and DD for their Open Day. She got a place to read History but then they offered her a general degree in English & History & History of Art which suited her very well I think.
I quite fancy going back to Bristol as well, but I suppose we ought to think about which ones DD thinks are real contenders too!
I like the look of Sheffield (excellent encouraging website) - so have penciled in their Open Day in early September. And we're also visiting South Wales as they have a course DD thinks particularly interesting, and the campus looks very pleasant too I think.
All quite exciting to read of their plans - your DD seems to be on the case! Glad to hear she's going to be getting some lambing experience too. I have great memories of my morning of lambing with my vet student friend - they gave us a great breakfast in their farmhouse kitchen afterwards too

Eric if you are going on the open days as well then I think our paths will cross - DD is considering three of the same universities.

Juggling,your grandmother but have been an unusually clever girl to get into Royal Holloway.I had to google it as I'm not familiar with the name - it looks beautiful.What did your Grandmother study there?
Dd1 is really missing her cows this weekend - she's in mourning .Partially because it was exciting at the farm and she did lots of new things .But she's doing milking next week at another farm and lambing the following week.In between - lots of revision of course.
We've worked out that there's probably not much advantage in doing an internationally accredited course.Salaries in Australia are as equally poor as the UK ( half of doctors/lawyers).We live in very much of a rural area where there are many opportunities ( especially as a farm Vet).Having said that she was not keen on the rough and ready nature of farm surgery ( saw some surgery on Friday).

Getoff, I have PM'd you xx

Ono40 that's really kind of you. .

Getoff, I have emailed my friend to ask about the vet schools she went to see. She is very enthusiastic so her reply might be very long!

"did you have a life of drinks parties and pims and tennis parties?"

Haha! No, not really. That sounds more like my DM who went to Royal Holloway in the 40s/50s. DM and her friends were romantically involved with several officers from Sandhurst just up the road. I don't know if this association continues at RH today!

We are visiting RH for an Open Day with DGM though - I hope that will be fun and interesting for us all and it could be a contender I think? I'm quite proud of my DM for getting to Uni way back then. She was the only girl to go in her year - and it was a girls school!

Looking statue diary we're going to have to do open days in September/October.

Exeter are having there's during the AS exam cycle .

Bath's is actually on the same day as the maths exam .

Oxford, York, Nottingham and Warwick fall during DofE expedition.

We'll probably manage Bristol and Durham then the rest in the Autumn.

Ono40 that would be fantastic.DD has been saying she wants to apply to Rvc ( but the sheer cost of living in London plus several more children to pay for puts me off).Also apparently Edinburgh qualifys you to work anywhere apparently.Given that Dh comes from another continent and DD has joint citizenship ( and went to school overseas for several years)and might well want to work elsewhere,it might be an important factor.
Juggling did you have a life of drinks parties and pims and tennis parties?My sister went to Bristol and her student life was in direct contrast to my own.Liverpool was more down the pub with the odd trip to the Armadillo Tea Rooms and their squishy toilet seats ( and trips to the tea rooms on Penny Lane)

With dc1, we did all our open days in the Autumn Term of Yr13.
I say 'all' - we did 4. I took him to 2 and dh took him to 2.
It's worth seeing if they can jump in with a friend going to the same one - I took a couple of dc's mates on our visits - no skin off my nose, I was going anyway, but their parents were really appreciative (one was a Friday which I can do but can see that not all working parents would be able to do).

If you can, I think it makes sense to go and visit. They are going to live there for 3 or 4 yrs after all. Out of the 2 I took ds to, you could just see the difference in how much he liked the 2nd one (where he ended up) rather than the first, although that was not what he thought from looking on-line/ at the prospectus. I guess it's like looking round a house, you just get a "feel" for the right one for you.

Well DD and I have just spent some time looking at university courses online.

Progress!!!!

No revision going on at our house ( and we are away next week so it won't be happening then either).

DS1 did surprisingly well in his mocks and as I feared he is not taking the actual AS exams as seriously as I think he should ( next week is a sporting event).

Dh thinks ds1 pretends to be on Facebook and YouTube etc but is secretly revising. I remain to be convinced.

Last night DS has come down with the sickness bug that I had last week. Bad mummy send him off to his revision course regardless - to be fair, neither of us felt ill as such, just spontaneous and sudden vomiting.

Getoff my friend's DD is in her 3rd year at RVC in London - she chose it because it offers a qualification that is recognised worldwide apparently. She did loads of work experience (lambing, volunteering at Blue Cross, working at the vets on a Saturday) and said it was very useful for interviews because she could talk about what she'd seen in her work experience when they asked her what she'd do in various situations. She got offers from all her 4 choices. I can ask my friend about vet schools as I think she went to loads (not Glasgow).

No revision sessions at dd's school in the holidays bigTilly. It always makes me feel a bit anxious when I hear about other students going into school in the holiday.

dd3 has been doing some Physics today so I have been no help. Luckily younger ds has had a trip out so he won't be bored today.

dd3 has booked three Open Days for this summer. She is going to two with dd2. There are some open days in the Autumn term if you miss them so no need to panic. I think she has another two planned in the Autumn. She won't be going to any of the Open Days before exams.

Prompted by this thread I have started work!!!!

Well I've opened a file in Final Draft... So a start .

HSM, I think that's kind of my DD's thinking too. However, she is in the library AFAIK, so fingers crossed that she is doing something!