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Friday Aug 21, 2009
Some A Grade experiences
Posted by me on behalf of Seyi Soleye:
It can't believe I'm almost half way through my two week work experience placement here at TheSite. It only feels like five minutes ago when I waddled into the YouthNet offices, nervous about what was to come. Miraculously I've been entrusted with the task of updating the poll every day and I've been introduced to the technical ins-and-outs of the back end of TheSite. Computer tech isn't exactly my forte, so if the website suddenly dies for some reason over the next week, you know who to blame! Since I have journalistic interests (you don't say?), spending some time in the morning doing press watch hasn't exactly seemed like work. Funnily enough, the work part of work experience hasn't reared its head!
Of course, during press watch I would have been blind if I didn't notice that many of this week's headlines have concerned A-Level results. Having managed to suppress most of my apprehension this week, I ventured to college to get my AS grades, with pointless erratic fears whirring in my head. Why? Goodness knows. I couldn't change anything. The mind's a funny thing.
I continued up into the building and passed a girl crying into her mum's shoulders. Were those tears of joy or tears of misery? Please be tears of joy I kept on thinking, fishing for a scrap of an illogical reason to feel more confident. Once grades were in hand I still wasn't totally sure of my overall grades. I had to add up the unit marks to see what grade my overall score came out as. I simply couldn't trust my overheated mind so I whipped out my phone to use the calculator facility. After double checking, then triple checking, then quad...checking a fourth time, just to make sure I wasn't getting delusional I finally realised that the result was actually AAA. Maybe not so much need for pointless panic after all!
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