Starting Off In College | Expectations & Realities

    If you're a regular viewer to my Youtube videos, which I will link down below you will know I started college for the first time on Wednesday 5th of September at a completely different college in compassion to my usual friendship group. For those who are wondering, I have kept contact with 2 people so far from that group out of the total of 6 roughly. I however feel going to a different college gives you the kick to meet new friends or revisit old friendships to those who attended the same High School as yourself.

    The subjects I finally chose for the 2 year course are English Literature, English Language, Sociology and at the moment Maths GCSE. With exam grade boundaries increasing dramatically I just fell short of passing my Maths exam so I will be resitting that in my first year of college at GCSE level. Once that is sorted, and I have hopefully gained those extra few marks I shall be taking up either Media or Film Studies (I think Film more) as an AS course which is half of an A-Level.

    Looking at my general demographic of blog readers, I've noticed just over half of those from The United States of Amercia, the education system over there is alien to me in the UK so the sum up college for those outside the UK; you attend college at the age of 16/17 till 18. You can resit your first year in certain colleges so whereas mostly students are in that age bracket, a few students may be 18/19.

    Again going into a completely new environment I was unable to determine what aspects might occur regarding transport systems, teacher to student interaction and how subjects would be taught. One of the subjects, Sociology is a new subject to me but again this is due to my high school not having the course as an option but it slowly is becoming more popular through more and more high schools across the UK.

    During the first day of college you meet with your PT (personal tutor) and do a series of team building activities with a variety of students in your year group, being all in the same boat so to speak everyone is relatively quiet to start off with. This is completely natural so if you follow this pattern or find it strange you have the opportunity to break the ice. The day went pretty smoothly and made initial friendships with both boys and girls.

    Starting mid week, I have only attended 3 days of college 2 of them official educational days which consisted of all my subjects. Every single teacher I have is a wonder, answering questions and making sure you understand what course you throwing yourself into. I know this has been a relatively long post but I hope you can understand that even though you maybe anxious as to occurrences, if you just relax everything will go fine. 

    I hope everybody that has started either high school, college, university or going into their final years of all them forms of education the best of luck as you need to take these years all seriously to ensure for a financially safe future. Later on into the year, I will so a 4 month assessment of each subject to give you a more in depth knowledge of said subjects at AS level. 

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UPDATE | #6

    Its very peculiar how I'm going to say that I've only got 3 exams left, in reality its only two subjects as my Maths exam is split into Calculator and Non-Calculator. My leavers do is on the 29th of this month which is also my nans birthday. It feels strange that after a month everything will be done and I'll never have to return ever.


    I'm planning, (not mentioned this to my parents) to maybe have a congratulatory meal after they've all finished, only a small get together with my parents and grandparents. Hopefully everything will have gone smoothly and I wouldn't of failed everything haha. I bought another leavers dress for the party itself, I've opted for a more traditional dress that is royal blue. I'll do a post about it a few days prior to the occasion to keep it a surprise from my friends who read my blog.


    I've got a 'Gogo Phillip' haul to write about, its only a few of their latest products and I've also go to write about my experience at 'Blink-182' which is happening this Friday. This Saturday I shall be visiting Manchester with a few friends to see what wonderful things I can buy, on that day I will be applying for a debit card as well so I'm able to make a Paypal account. This will help me with my decision of creating an 'Etsy Store' and 'Ebay Account, I might do both. But I will be doing an Ebay Account before the 'Etsy Store', I will be having clothes and jewellery that I've picked up along the lines on sale for reasonable prices.


    Hope everyone luck if they have a Maths exam and/or History this week, thankfully I've not got History but Geography two weeks after those. I will be keeping you all posted and try and make some posts, at least 3 per week. Good luck again.


    Fagan x