So life kind of caught up with me for a while there, so much mess, literally and figuratively. Summer term of Imperial Chemistry is generally pretty insane, labs, lab reports and exams, then add in crutches for an undiagnosed foot injury and a massive terror over the above mentioned exams because I'd already failed 3 exams this year and it all made for a bit ridiculous.
Turned out that my exam fear was completely correctly placed and I failed those exams too, so my summer holiday was pretty revision filled (see later posts Latitude and A Lancashire Wedding for the best work breaks a girl could ask for).
So I was retaking 6 exams...i.e. every exam based chemistry module of 2nd year, quite a task I hear you say? Well I thought so too, so realising that I pretty much didn't have a hope of passing all of them with a month to revise and 6 exams within 5 days, I prioritised. I focused on the June set of exams, figuring that it would be far nicer to do retakes in January than have to wait till June 2013! And it worked...that never happe9ns to me! I passed exactly half of my retakes, all the ones that I would have had to retake in June 2013. I also give part of the success credit to the wonderful Mr. and Mrs. Ness (see A Lancashire Wedding) staying and looking after me for the week).
So this year's going to be a little different. The way Imperial work retakes is that you take the entire year out, do the exams with the year below you and restart in next October. So I've declared myself year 2.5, am still living in London, staying on CU committee, in Wind Band etc etc...all the student stuff without the labs and lectures, sounds like a good deal to me! Though of course there's some revision thrown in there too!
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