At 5:15pm yesterday, 1st July, the CAO change of mind option closed.
As I've mentioned before, I spent so much time playing around with my first 5 or so choices(courses that I was never gonna get, or indeed want, but were funny ones to say for conversations... had to remove business with chinese unfortunately cos the risk of getting enough points for it actually existed).
Between 5 and 5:15pm I must've changed it... 15 times?
Anyways along comes the CAO offers in late August and I discover I've got enough points for something along the lines of Knitting in the Aran Islands... my first choice apparently.
I look at all the verification forms and all to discover that I did infact apply for said course.
My mother nearly made me do the course for the child benefit... luckily I'm a stubborn prick and resisted. Instead I sat on my arse with a tight daily schedule.
10.30am: Dr Phil
11:15am: Jeremy Kyle
11:55am: The freakshow that is Shortland Street
12:25pm: Internet
1:25pm: Home and Away
1:55pm: Location Location Location
Rest of the Day: 75% Sleep, 20% Internet, 5% extremely absorbing daydream while on toilet
At this point, I have come to regard the year out as a priceless experience for an absolute ton of reasons, such as:
- I had nothing whatsoever prepared for college, and wasn't in any rush to do anything either... basically wouldn't have got any accommodation anyways.
- I wouldn't have bothered to getting a job, therefore no work experience up til about 21 years of age I reckon.
- I wouldn't have bothered to getting a job, therefore no made up anecdotes to tell people about how people are bastards much to the offense of people.
- Wouldn't have started this thing... which has to be benficial to me in some way?
So from 5pm til 5:15pm today I spent shuffling my CAO options around just to leave it as a sort of roulette wheel where I won't get to see the results til late August.
This is gonna be brilliant!
Also, if I sent an email to Joe Duffy about GAA fundraisers, d'you reckon he'd read it out on his show?
13 comments:
I spent months agonising over what course to apply for.
Then on the first day at college, I went into the wrong course by mistake, and didn't notice it for 9 weeks, so I stayed.
Me, I'm not so bright.
Oh, that entire time in my life is a blur. A complete blur. I don't even want to go back to think about it.
1st year in college is a load of bollocks anyway - it's more or less to get you settled into student life. Great craic tho.
what do you do in the first 9 weeks though? aren't most the classes even held in local pubs and stuff to weed away the wasters before the courses properly start?
I look towards it and see a blur!
Part of my extremely vague college plan involves me not getting settled... cos that's how I roll and all.
i made my CAO choices in the pub.
Looked at the courses and thought "what do i like?"
answer was playstation (at the time).
so logically what is close to playstation so i picked computer science.
unfortunately i'm still paying for my decision.
haha! I know several fellas that done that too.
I had made up my decision to not go for a job in the games industry at 10 when I read in magazine articles about how shite the jobs making videogames were.
You'll be bored to tears most likely.
what did you pick?
medbh: that's what I'm banking on... might actually do work too, plus this blog is set up to thrive on it.
rosie: something in Galway, that's pretty boring. The Galway bit is all that'll ever matter here I reckon. Choices 2 and 3 are also Galway.
It will all work out in the end, I chose my degree on a whim, decided I hated everything about the course in my fourth year and then embarked on a career of extreme boredom. If anyone ever tells you that a career in IT is a great idea, take them into an alley and shoot them.
Flicked through the prospectus and choose the nicest sounding name. My parents didn't think i'd get in with that attitude, or stay in when i got in.
what'd you do?
Software Engineering - it sounded nice back then.
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