• Question: how was school life

    Asked by anon-188877 on 8 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: James Sullivan

      James Sullivan answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Good. I enjoyed the subjects I was interested in and struggled with the ones I wasn’t interested in (same as most people).
      I went to Colaiste Chriost Ri in Cork – a wonderful school.

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      Ciara O'Donovan answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I never really got on well in primary school but really enjoyed my school years once I got to secondary school. I think I enjoyed the choice over the subjects I was participating in. As I moved towards the end of my time in school, especially I think in my last year, I started to get a little impatient and wanted to just go to college and start doing something else. But looking back I wish I had cherished my time in school a little more. I had great friends and getting to spend the day with them everyday was definitely something I took for granted. Although overall I really enjoyed my school years that’s not to say I didn’t struggle. I put a lot of pressure on myself which cause a lot of unnecessary stress.

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      Chloe Huseyin answered on 22 Jan 2019:

      I have mixed memories of my school life, I loved learning new things and I really enjoyed performing experiments in my science classes. However, I was also bullied quite badly in school which really affected me at the time. Iā€™m sorry I never spoke out about it so that my school life could have been better.

    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I really liked my school, they really were the best days. I had dedicated teachers and a school ethos that was with hard work, you can reach the starts.

Comments

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    Abbie commented on :

    I loved school. I loved the subjects I did and also enjoyed school life. I particularly loved primary (so much fun!) but also liked secondary. I was sure I was set for a career in English Lit (or something related to that) but changed to psychology at uni. Still love some of the books I studied though. I was lucky in that we had great teachers (mostly) and also good friends. Both hel0p along with encouragement to do well and develop as a young person.

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    Verity commented on :

    I loved learning new things (I still do) but I didn’t much like going to school as I didn’t fit in with the ‘popular’ groups (which were actually just bullies, which I learnt as I got older!). I LOVED university though, so it was all worth it to get there and I have had a couple of really interesting jobs because of it (I was a forensic DNA analyst, then I lived in the Middle East as a database developer now I’m a bioinformatician). So if don’t always enjoy school, don’t worry, you can still have a really exciting and fulfilling career if you know what you want and work hard.