Hopes and dreams for a new year

Me first:

I'm starting uni in a couple of weeks, and I'm very excited about it. My huge fear, though, is that I won't be able to keep up with how clever everyone else is - I haven't ever got used to being around (and I suppose judging myself against) people as clever as I'm expecting to find now. I'm not so worried any more about the whole business of making friends - everyone will likely be in the same boat on that.

Hopes and dreams, I guess, would involve finding it easy to relate to certain crucial people (tutor, Director of Studies, lecturers and so forth), and to get into a few good clubs and socs. And that leads me on to resolutions - gonna try and be a bit braver in approaching people for that sort of thing, and also I want to see myself being really open-minded. At the moment the socs I'd be thinking of might be Drama (doing lighting), hill walking, maybe a choir. But I want to see if anything new hits me, so I hope I'll feel up to trying all sorts of things (but not rugby).

Mr S

Good topic

Ok so what is happeing at the moment is this is quite an important year for me as i will be making all my choices about uni and what i want to do in life and such like. I am now back at school in year 13, all the new 12s started this year so have been making some new friends and things. i have dropped Business as i really didnt enjoy it one bit, and am just trying to keep up with all my coursework deadlines and work. I suppose what i am worried about this year is not getting into the Uni that i want or failing my exams, also money, i seem to have spent way to much this summer so i am now trying to work more but also fit in school work which can be hard work but in the long run it will be worth it. To be honest i havn't got any other worries that i have at the moment, give it half a year nearer my exams and im sure i will be able to think of plenty!

Hopes and dreams...hmm tough one, of course getting into university but that is i suppose an obvious choice, so i have taken some time to think about this and came up with something more interesting. My hopes for this year is to help someone, or a group of people, for example charity, something that people will remember me by when i leave 6th form, i have been known to help friends through tough times, however i would love to help on a much larger scale. Another hope i suppose for me is to take every day as it comes, i usually think way far ahead, but im just going to take life as it comes.

I would love to also learn more about the world, i generally learn a lot from discussing issues, however there is so much that i don't know about and would love to learn, how things work, and how people think, i am so interested in how people think and there views on things in life. That gives me an interesting idea *writes it down on a peice of paper*...

Angua - Shattered after a long day at work

i'm also in my final year now, though i don't think i have really realized that yet...
my hopes are quite simple: i'm of course hoping to get good grades and that i get into a good uni. and that i survive this year, which at the moment seems a bit unlikely . also, i'll be sitting my cambridge certificate of advanced english this march and i really hope that i get an A, because if i don't i would die of shame and never dare utter (or write) a word of english again (and the 181€ i have to pay for that stoopid sheet of paper would feel like a waste).
fears: that i make the wrong choices where uni and my future life are concerened. in fact, the future in general scares me...
expectations: i expect this year to be really stressful, at least until i finished the written exams early april.
resolutions: to work a tad harder, because atm my grades just below what i need to get into uni without having to hope that there are not as many people with the right grades as they take students.
(sorry if none of this makes sense...)

Just seeing you write that made me think - have you ever considered coming to uni over here? We'd love to see you I haven't really thought this through, I have no idea whether it would be even vaguely possible, specially in terms of money, but it's a fun idea

MS

that depends on what you mean by "here". if here is england in general, then yes, that has been (and to a certain extend still is) my dream for many years. english uni fees are about four times as much as ours though and your degree is not worth more than ours, so the contras outweight the pros by far . what i am doing, however, (well, planning to, anyway) is doing a sort of international program, which means that i spend the first two years of bachelor here in germany and the last year in a country of my choice (aka england (or maybe scotland)) and get both degrees .
if you mean cambridge... i visited their website (just for fun) and found out that, in order to be admitted, i would need an average of 1.3 in my abitur (1 being the best and 6 the worst). for years and years my average has been 2.3, so no chance

Ah well, I suppose I cant have everyone...

that makes it sound as if it was your job to convince people to study in england/cambridge (still dunno which one you meant).
or.....

well, i have started my final year at uni...my time table is...EPIC.

I have 2 hours on tuesday...and...1 hour on friday....and...oh yeah thats it

well, technically i have 2 hours of german on thursday as well, but thats not part of my course.

Having a great time as always!

well, things are changing in the local pearwood family.
mr. p. has a new job which he starts in november and which takes him to the other end of the country some 400 miles from where we live for the next years. he will stay there during the week and come home for the weekend for at least one year, coz moving the whole family would make no sense at all, both kids being in their final year at school.
i hope this situation doesn't affect them too much for they need all their strength for their exams.
so this coming year is only a start for the real big changes, of the kids having to decide how to proceed after school and maybe even us all moving temporarily.
somehow i don't really know if i am looking forward to all this......but anyway i trust our family to manage it!

that's about how much free time i have... 2h on monday, 2 on wednesday and 2 on friday and i come home at 5 every day...

It's a hard life, so they say. Im not sure "they" are. The wizards probably.

hmm mine now might be that it were back to the beginning of the new year so i could start it properly instead of generally ignoring it, not accepting my uni offers and staying locked up indoors doing nothing