Yes, I know I haven't submitted anything for over two weeks.

Exam season is once again upon us, and my college schedule's been shot to pieces since late May.  Normally, I fit dA time into free periods, but now every period is free, I haven't been able to fit it in anywhere.  Ironic, no?

This morning I had the most evil maths exam I've ever sat, and tomorrow I've got a chemistry exam.  Then I've got a weekend's break, before physics first thing on Monday morning, which also happens to be the last exam in the entire college.  This is so self-evidently the worst possible time the exam could have been scheduled in - both immediately after a weekend and the last thing in the schedule, meaning there's an entire near-pointless weekend preceding it - that one has to wonder if someone at AQA wasn't out to deliberately screw the subject hard.

Last Tuesday, the college was shutting up shop to its students, and setting up interview tables in the corridors ready to process the first applicants for next year.  Wandering around the place is like visiting a ghost town, or a condemned building.  Nobody believed me when I said that I hadn't even started sitting my exams yet, having by some miracle managed to pick the three latest subjects of all.  Most people have finished their last one!

I don't know what it is, but I seem to have some kind of knack for picking all the least popular courses in the prospectus.  The Further Maths AS level I took this year was so undersubscribed it wasn't even officially running - I had to sit in the corner of the regular A2 Maths classes, pretend I wasn't listening, and basically teach myself.  Of the three sciences, Physics is the emptiest by a country mile, while Biology (which I didn't take) had to be split into two classes.  Chemistry is my most crowded class, being somewhere in the middle of the other two sciences, but even that pales in comparison to something like Film Studies, which reportedly had 140 applicants.  (Don't worry, they didn't all have to sit in the same room - the course planners routinely oversubscribe everything in full knowledge of the phenomenal drop-out rate, which typically decimates most classes within the first month.  When I started AS Maths - which, as usual, was extremely sparse to begin with - there were over 20 students.  When I finished A2 Maths, there were 5.)

Anyway, I've almost finished, and then I'm looking at a nice long summer holiday, which, due to university timetables, doesn't end until October.  Of course, if I don't get those precious triple As, I might be looking at a nice long winter holiday as well.