Update - New People + Help Me With My Next Post!

Hi everyone!

Since I've been sharing some of my posts in the relevant forums on TSR, I've been getting a massive influx of views on my 'Study Tips' posts. So, for anyone new around here, I wanted to say a few things.

Firstly, thanks so much for checking my blog out! I hope you find some of my tips and suggestions useful. I really want to be able to help people out so it's great to know that people are liking my A Level posts.

I have loads of advice to share, but sometimes it's hard for me to know what people want to hear. Even if you don't plan on going on this blog ever again, I'd really appreciate if you could vote in my poll at the side of the page, on what sounds like the most interesting post. It really helps motivate me to actually write something if I know people think it sounds like a good idea.

I try to be fairly active on TSR so, if you don't feel like sharing an idea in the comments under a post, you can always send it me there! This is my profile. It's also going to be where I do a lot of prep for my posts, so it could be worth a follow if you want to help me out with writing them.

At the moment I'm running a thread here, gathering questions about Year 12 to answer in a future post, so if you've got anything you want to know or wish you knew earlier then it'd be super helpful if you could comment it there.

I really appreciate all the support I'm getting for this blog. It's become such a fun side project and getting to see the numbers next to the little eye icon grow has felt so great. Please consider following, you won't be spammed by too many emails because I am pretty slow on posting and Year 13 is starting next week, so I'll be getting busier! But seriously, I hope you find something on my little site that helps you out.

Thanks! :) x

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Summer 2017 Update + My AS Results!

Hi, guys!

Just a quick update to let you all know what I'm up to, and what my AS Level results were! I went to collect them this morning, and I was thrilled to find out I got 3 As (in Biology, Chemistry and Maths). I even managed to get 100 UMS in one of my Maths modules! Looks like I won't be needing any resits to boost my Maths grade next year, and even though my Chemistry and Biology didn't exactly matter, it's nice to do well in them too. I really badly screwed up a few questions as well!

In other news, I've managed to develop a chest infection from my work experience in a hospital a few weeks ago, so I'm on antibiotics and resting up now. Would people like to see a 'What I've Learnt' post about my work experience shadowing the doctors? It's definitely been an eye opener into the world of medicine for me.

I'm working hard at a Histology course with The Open University, to have another thing to talk about on my personal statement. I've upgraded it to give myself some extra time, but there are tons of free courses in different fields if you check out the edX website. I'd really recommend you check them out if you're looking for ways to stand out to universities, although you should take the course duration and expected workload with a pinch of salt (my course is NOT 3 hours a week!).

My recommended reading is also ticking along slowly, I've got about 12 chapters left, but I'm getting there. I've also been treating myself to some reading I actually want to do - I've read 'Animal Farm' and am part way through '1984' now. '1984' is making me feel all kinds of weird and I'm enjoying how scary some of the more existential commentaries are.

The personal statement is as slow and difficult as ever, but I'm working on it. I'm avoiding looking at any online to try not to be influenced, but it's tough to write when you're not sure if you're doing well. And work is, well, work.

How is your holiday going? Have you been doing anything fun? Let me know if a post about medical work experience sounds interesting by voting on the poll I have running in the sidebar. Also, if you have any other post suggestions, let me know in the comments! I'm all ears.

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New Series Idea!

Hi!

The university application process has begun for me, and after tomorrow my transition to adulthood will have properly begun. I had already decided a while ago that after the exams all my 'grown-up learning' would kick off - figuring out stuff like budgeting, driving, getting a job and even just how to work a washing machine! It sounds really simple, but I can be surprisingly clueless about these kinds of things.

So I was thinking I might start a series about this learning curve. Would that be interesting? A sort of 'How To Adult' guide, where I write about what I learn as I go. It'd certainly act as a good source of information for me when I get stuck with things.

Let me know if this seems like something worth doing, I figure since I need teaching this stuff then others will too, but I don't know if it'd seem too obvious. Also, if you have any name ideas for the series if it does go ahead, drop me a comment!

See you! x

(P.S. I'm also on Bloglovin' now! Follow my blog with Bloglovin)

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Hi!

So, I've started a blog.

Not sure what I'll write about, or how good it'll be, but everything has to start somewhere, right? I figured since I can be a pretty boring person it would be a good way to make me seem more interesting. When I attended a Medlink exhibition last year they went on about starting a blog in order to impress employers and universities and, while I doubt this will be dedicated solely to writing about medical advances, it's a good way of demonstrating that my writing abilities didn't go completely out of the window when I dropped English Literature.

I'm probably going to post about random things that interest me, or things that have been helping me study. It would be nice to also write about things more focused on my ideal career, but until I reach the EPQ next year I'm not sure I'll have much to say. Next year I'll also be going through the university application process, so I will very likely document that. If I keep this up.

Even though I'll probably do an 'About Me' post at some point in the future, I might as well introduce myself a bit now:

• I'm not called Catherine (as the blog title says)
• I'm currently about to sit my AS exams, in Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics
• I'm very interested in the human body and in particular genetics; anything on the cellular/molecular level is really exciting to me (learning about transcription and translation of DNA was literally the best part of this school year for me, to think that at any moment your DNA could be unzipped and being copied is so cool!)
• I'm undiagnosed, but still 99% confident that I'm autistic, and I realised this at some point last year
• I'm a workaholic, but also a massive procrastinator, which can lead to some pretty nasty stressing! But I'm working on it
• I have two beautiful squishy guinea pigs who sound like car alarms
• I have a really bad phobia of spiders
• My current favourite song is 'She's My Collar' by Gorillaz

I'm not totally sure what this will become just yet, but I'm hopeful it'll be good. There's nothing here yet to support or subscribe to, so I won't ask for that (plus that's not the point - this is for myself more than anything), but hopefully there will be something worth coming back to here soon. 

Bye!

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