Year 12 preparing for AS levels

[HSMMaCM]

Here we are everyone.

Experience for vet. Science.From a little girl she's wanted to be a Vet. and has always had an assortment of animals.I told her to think about Medicine too but she hated doing Voluntary work in the local hospital.She used to come back cross and irritable.Now I pick her up and she's happy - and smelly!
When she was younger she always used to play with the boys and I guess this is a continuation of it.
Does it help at interview if you've attended the open day?There aren't many vet. Schools and I really don't want her to go to London.I would prefer Liverpool ( as went there ) but apparently they want masses of experience.Bristol's a good option but it's very hard to get into.

I lived with three vet students when I was at Bristol getoff if that helps at all - and my DBro went to Liverpool (for something else) so I know that's a good student city too.
Sounds like she's getting all the right kinds of experience. Very best of luck to her!

BTM - DD also panicking about amount of revision for psychology and says she can't possibly learn everything for classics. I thinks it's so overwhelming it's actually putting her off trying to learn any of it. She's a perfectionist and if she can't do it right, she'd rather not do it at all.

Those vet hours are bloody good going. She must be very motivated.

I'm impressed.

HSM I can kinda understand that psychology.

The main project I'm working on has recently changed drastically, the workload increasing from one pilot script to 6 scripts ( half a season) and I've been seriously putting off the start as I'm fearful it won't get done well in the time allotted.

I mean I know I should just make a start but I feel that doing so will signal the beginning of so many problems.

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!

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

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

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.

Eric - well done, you've made a start. Now you need to allocate time every day to work uninterrupted. No playing around on your phone or chatting to your mates.

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 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.

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

Progress!!!!

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.

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)

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.

"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!

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!

Ono40 that's really kind of you. .

Getoff, I have PM'd you xx

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).

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.

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

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

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!

Very depressing reading SmallCarrot.

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