Open day

I went to an open day at Warwick University yesterday - although it was an open day for people who've already received UCAS offers from Warwick, rather than an open day designed to convince you to apply there. The whole day was, predictably, fairly tiring, with a total of five hours in the car. And it was bloody cold walking round the campus! A long way to walk, too, since it's the biggest campus university in the UK.

I've now had offers from five out of my six university choices, which I'm pleased about. The one that's still forthcoming (hopefully!) is from Royal Holloway, which was the only university to ask for an interview (informal). I'm applying for Physics with Computer Science and had an interview with both departments, which went well, although the physics tutor asked me to sketch the graph of y = xe^-x. Think you could? My maths teachers were struggling with it, which at least makes me feel better :) For those Not In The Know, my A-levels are Physics, Maths and Further Maths (oh, interesting green colour on your face there), and I have an A/S level in French from last year.

And (on a related topic) sooo much holiday homework! I know that it's the Upper Sixth form and we have to do lots of work - I do do lots of work, but at school rather than at home. This is possible because of the copious number of free periods[1] that I have in my week, for the following reasons: a) the further maths course only takes up one and a half blocks of lessons although it is two A-levels. b) I'm doing three A-levels instead of four, so that removes another block of lessons. c) I took French last year, so I don't have to go to catch-up lessons for General Studies (which requires you to take a modern language paper). Result: I have eighteen, count 'em, eighteen free perstudy periods per week. This means that I've now got into the habit of doing all my work at school and just collapsing when I get home. I'm not used to doing work at home, dammit! And now I have to do:

• the final and complete Plan (note capital P) for my physics coursework project
• collect all the data for my statistics S3 project
• two statistics papers, one for each module we're sitting in the summer
• a P4 pure (further maths) paper
• stacks and stacks of P5 and P6 pure further maths questions.

And I'm sure there's more to come.

[1] - "It's not a free period, it's a study period!" Movie quote - points for identification (and maybe a cookie :)