English paper two is over, and I am so happy about it.
Now that my least favourite subject is done and dusted, I can focus on the ones I really do enjoy. There are so many essays in English, a broad course where you have to learn off all these quotes and contexts, and where you don’t know what poet will come up.
I was glad Emily Dickinson appeared, however, as she was the poet I was most prepared for. I also answered the question on Othello and his status an outsider. I said the racism and discrimination he faced, day in, day out, ultimately caused the tragedy.
English is, by far, my most stressful exam and my hand – my hand! – is so sore from all the writing.
John McManus: Trump’s trade wars can push the UK closer to Europe
Kathy Sheridan: The public may not care who gets to speak in the Dáil, but they do care about being taken for fools
Celebrity Bear Hunt review: from Una Healy’s ‘nightmares’ to Bear Grylls’s apex predator, this is unhinged cruel comedy at its finest
Limerick’s Tom Morrissey returns from the Inca trail to take the high road to Croke Park
That said, the element of extra choice on the paper meant that I finished it early. I used the extra time to go over the paper, making sure there were no obvious mistakes – and then I got out.
I have five exams left to go: Irish, maths, economics, physics and applied maths.
There were not enough students interested in applied maths for the school to offer it, so I studied it by myself.
I did have a computer science teacher who was able to give me a book and some resources, but I’ve done most of it alone. Self-directed learning has been a challenge because you can’t ask the teacher if you have a problem.
Earlier this morning I sat down to do my engineering exam. I really liked a lot of the questions, particularly one that looked at artificial intelligence. As someone who spends a lot of time doing computer programming, I can see this being an area I might work in one day.
