Exams

[Loopyloz]

I just got my uni exam results, and I passed them all. Am now extremely relieved and don't have to keep the resit fortnight free. *phew*
All I have to do now is work harder next year, especially organic chemistry :-s (lets just say that was a scraped pass) and go out and celebrate this year. I think thats a good idea.

[Sian]

*congratulations* :D

[Tasha]

Welldone thats well good !!!! :D

[Loopyloz]

Thankies very much :D. I hope everyone else has done well in their exams too, although I think most of you don't get the results til august isnt it?

Ooooh, anyways, I'm all excited, am going Alton Towers tomorrow with my sister and some people from uni. I can't wait, last time I went Nemesis was the main attraction, and that was some years ago now, lol.

[Tasha]

Wow lucky i so want to go to Alton Towers !! They have air and a new ride called spin whizzer or something like that report back loopy tell us what its like and whether its worth going !! Hope its a sunny day 2moz Luv Tasha xxx

[pink_heffalump]

how can you be tlkin about results already!!! lol im doin my ASs and i havent even finished all the exams yet! the Alevels have barely started!! eek I have my last 3 on monday though, all physics!!!! :eek: so SO glad im dropping it afterwards, i woudl die if i had to carry on!!

[Tasha]

How was Alton Towers Loopy ?? Lv Tasha xxx

[Loopyloz]

Oooh, fantastic. We went on Air twice (now that is amazing! Really does feel like you're flying) Nemises, and Oblivion. Lot of other things too, like the Black Hole and Hex (I got rather disorientated on that). I got completely drenched on the Ripsaw, (more drenched than I was after the log flume or the rapids actually) it was a really sunny day so I think the people operating the ride decided to be mean and soak everyone, hehe. The haunted house was good too, they've put laser guns in the carriages so you can shoot the ghosts, I got a good score, oh yes, I'm a ghostbuster, lol.
All in all, a really good day and we had the weather for it too. And the queues for the big rides like Air and Nemises were quite short, although we couldn't get onto the Spinball Whizzer because we left it too late. The queue was about 90 mins long and the park was closing in 1/2 hr, so we left that and went to have something to eat.

Pink_heffalump: good luck with your exams, I never liked physics myself, I was more of a chemistry and biology kind of girl, lol. Well after this you should put your feet up and do some serious relaxing

[Dave]

Bit of a late " Congratulations " But well done ! :D

Talking of exams although not nearly as important as Uni exams i just passed my HP Systems Managerment exam yesterday ( 16/06/04 ) with 96%...... So im pleased.....

[Elliot]

Hey peeps. I just finished my exams 2. Last AS exam was on Monday!!! YAY!!!

[Dave]

Well done Elliot, how well do you think you have done ?

[Anita]

My daughter's got her Acro SCC practical exam next week - she's been panicking about what she's going to have to teach (he colleague got some real nasties!). She got the papers yesterday and was really pleased as she knows she can teach them all because they're things she's either done herself or has been helping do in the gym anyway, so she's a lot more confident than she was (just hope she passed the written, but they won't tell her until after the practical ....).

[Elliot]

Dave, Lets just say that I don't think I will be doing Physics next year!!!LOL!!!

[Tasha]

Sounds gd loopy i want 2 go now !!! Tink i mite have to jus go now Lv Tasha xxx

[Elliot]

Yeah. Alton Towers is really gr8!!!

[Tasha]

We are going off topic lol its soo funni how u start a thread tlkin bout 1 thing den ur mind wanders ! Lv Tasha xxxx :D

[DJC]

Only 3 exams left, finishing next Friday :D

[Dave]

So your exam went that good eh Elliott ;)

What exams you got left DJC ?
I have one more exam left another HP one, this time its HP Proliant : Windows 2000 intergration and performance - should pass it with easy ( Touch wood )

[Sian]

I'm officially on holiday now :D finished my exams on weds! *wave of relief*

[DJC]

Physics, Chemistry Extension (Higher), Physics Extension (Higher). Then that's it! :D Good luck to everyone else who still has exams to do.

[Elliot]

When does every1 finish for the summer? It is my last day 2day!!!! YAY!!!

[Dave]

Wish i could finish for the summer !

Thats the one thing i miss about school/college etc time off when u work time off never happens ! :(

[Elliot]

Yeah. But the bad thing is that now I am off college - I have to work full time!!!! Still, the money is good!!!LOL!!

[Dave]

Thats the only decent thing bout working the money ! the downfall is the tax man !

[Sian]

Yeah, exams are over so i have to get a job... i've applied for one!! its a start lol. but they arent taking on anyone until the end of term, so i have time to relax before then :p

[Dave]

Realxation i've forgotten what that is......:(

[DJC]

When does every1 finish for the summer? It is my last day 2day!!!! YAY!!!Friday 25th June for me :) Then back to Sixth Form in the second week of September I think. About 10 weeks off for me :D

[Anita]

At the moment I daren't book any time off 'cos I'm behind in my work. Until I get up-to-date I can't reasonably consider it as I get no cover.

We are supposed to have a five day turnaround on the typing - how the hell am I supposed to manage that if I'm on holiday for two weeks? You then come back from holiday to one heck of a backlog which will take months to claw back. Take my advice peeps - DON'T WORK FOR THE NHS.

So when you're sunning yourselves with your feet up think of us workers who have not had long holidays because they've been working for .....:eek: 33 years in August! Roll on retirement - only another 16 years to go .......

[Dave]

Thats the NHS for you Anita they are totally usless, Except of course for yourself and your co-workers ;)

33 years working ????? Jesus that a long time, i'vew only been working 4 years.......

[Anita]

Yeah, I know - I'd have got less for murder ;) .

I realised how long it had been last year when I was contacted by an old school friend through Friends Reunited and we met up for the first time since we were 16: it had been 32 years :eek: . She hadn't changed much (a few wrinkles and grey hairs) and it was like the 32 year gap hadn't really happened: we're hoping to go to Wales to stay with her and her hubby for a long weekend some time: when I can get my work up-to-date. And speaking of work, that's what I should be doing now ...........:o

[Elliot]

Hehe. I get loads of time off while every1 else is in work. Mind you, I have to work on weekends and deal with loads of really annoying customers.

[Gingerheid]

We are supposed to have a five day turnaround on the typing - how the hell am I supposed to manage that if I'm on holiday for two weeks?

Roll on retirement - only another 16 years to go .......

The simple solution would be to give up trying :) , but the trouble is you're always in some kind of job where you don't want to give up because there's people needing whatever your doing done :(

Never mind. Look on the bright side. Eh, ehm, the, ehm, NHS Pension scheme is a good one :D

[Anita]

The only reason I joined the NHS and stay there is the pension scheme! Definitely not staff perks - there are none. You even have to pay for a parking permit (if you're given permission to have one) and park in a real rubbish car park (they call it temporary: I reckon it's more like a quarry).

Join the NHS and you can look forward to long working hours, really bad working conditions (secretaries and office staff at least) and equipment, poor pay, over work, stress, many managers who are where they are because they were rubbish in their jobs so were promoted to enable them to get workers who could do the job. Managers who are inept, rude and/or bully.

Perhaps I should add some bad things to say about working where I do ......:rolleyes:

[Sian]

I was thinking of looking into physiotherapy... but for the time being, i am waiting to get a job in my local sports centre. thrilling!!

[Gingerheid]

I started as a casual in the Civil Service through a job agency. I couldn't get any work at all where I come from, so I went to Edinburgh to look and it just happened to be the first job I found.

Shortly after that I found myself sitting answering the phone to oldish people with no pension who were desperate to do something about it. I also saw lots of cases pass through my hands on their way to the (very over-worked) mis-selling team, where people had been encouraged to leave a public sector scheme.

As I was sitting there with no pension whatsoever, the whole thing rather affected me and I became rather desperate to get myself into a permanent job with a good pension! That's how I ended up in the Civil Service, and I must say I intend to stay in it as long as possible. Ie - if it still exists in 42 years time, ...

Sian - I was actually so impressed by the wonders the physiotherapist was able to work that I would have loved to become one and was seriously thinking about trying to get into it. It's an amazing thing to be able to do for people.

But since I've now just got myself into a job with about the same starting salary, giving it up to spend years running up debt trying chase something else is a bit out the question now :(

[Dave]

Ahhhhh Exam to do this friday better get my butt into gear and study along with everything else i have to do....:eek: