i havent started the process as i wont be in cork to collect it for another week, but does this have any negative impact on my registration or can i get the id at any date before the school year starts?
so its literally been my dream to get into ucc this september, took another route this year as i couldnt get my course after my LC and i finally received it today in round 0. im still in shock and i feel so blessed but now im a bit nervous about actually starting college and meeting new people, i already have a friend who’ll be doing the same course and i know quite a lot of people around campus but ive often had troubled friendships and im really hoping to make a good and genuine set of friends this time. im wondering if anyone has any tips for this in first year? im already planning to join some societies, however im a bit reluctant as to doing freshers week and such events as im not big on the drinking and clubbing scene
what are ye hoping for x
i got my first ever period when i was 11, and it was bad to the point my mum was calling the hospital because my lips and face were turning white, i fainted and got the most atrocious stomach pain (lit thought i would die). now im almost 20, and every month i still get the exact same pain, and while i got more used to it im still on the verge of fainting every time and have to go home from college or any outing. i also cant find relief in anything but a specific painkiller, i cant stand hot water bottles for example and i lose all my appetite, and i have to crouch instead of sitting or lying down as that’s the only position that helps. my period is the worst physical pain ive ever endured, and so i was tested for endometriosis as i have very similar symptoms— however, doctors say my scans show nothing of the sort and everything looks normal. it’s been so long since things are like this and i can’t find any answers, so im wondering if anyone has or knows someone who has a similar experience? these aren’t just cramps, they basically disable me from doing anything for at least 2-4 hours on the first day of my cycle.
(im also not on birth control or any medicine)
when i was 10, a friend from school/son of my mum’s close friend confessed to me (we’ll call him tyler, 11). however, my best friend at the time (we’ll call her leah) had had a massive crush on him for as long as i knew them both, so i had never really thought of him that way— i even assumed he liked her back, as they were often having play dates and sleepovers etc. i was really surprised partly because this was the first time a boy told me he liked me, but also because i hadn’t expected it from him, so i only said "oh" and walked away— which ive always regretted as it must have taken him courage to admit to my face.
when i was 11 and he 12, i was going through a rough patch and i honestly became kind of a dick at school sometimes. i remember even bringing up what happened again to him and teasing him about it, to which he pretended he had never said that to me (i assume because i hurt him or he was embarrassed from the way things turned out). our relationship then ended quite bitterly as there was a lot of drama between him, leah, a second girl that liked him and me, and he rightfully distanced himself as he was fed up with the three of us. i then happened to move away and didn’t see him for the rest of middle school/high school.
fast forward to now, as a university student, i saw him again with his family and i left the meet-up completely rattled and flustered by his presence, my heart thumping in my chest, goosebumps and basically ya the whole deal. it came off as a real shock how grown he is now and i was quite literally almost seeing him move in slow motion. i think based on my reaction i can say i fell for him, but its so strange to explain because i knew him so well as kids and now he’s this completely different guy with eyes that pierce through me in a way i didn’t notice or feel before.
the only thing is, we haven’t spoken a word to each other, and i feel so confused because he’s either avoiding any interaction with me or staring me down intensely from the other side of the room. i can tell he remembers what happened when we were younger so i don’t know how to approach him, and i still feel bad for it all and for how i handled his feelings— but at the same time, i was 10 and immature and didn’t have the same awareness of things as i do today. it also feels hard to talk to this grown up version of him because i don’t know what to say and i can feel my face burn up when near him, but if no one makes a move the situation will never change.
the next opportunity i get to see him, i’m just not sure what i’m meant to do, or if it’s even okay that when i didn’t have feelings for him at 10 i suddenly feel all kinds of shit seeing him now…
im really hoping to get into this course this year as a qqi/plc applicant, and i have friends currently in the arts and business courses that told me there are a lotttt of their classmates that got into ucc with their plcs. however, i have no idea how many people make up the applied psych course and how many qqi places it holds. ive done research about this but every source says different things. im wondering if any students could tell me what they know?
when applying to universities after doing a plc, do universities look at your full grades (e.g 90% on a module, 92% on another etc) or do they only look at whether you got a distinction (80%+), higher merit, merit, pass etc? i know the maximum points you can have (390) is from adding up distinctions, so does that mean if you get all distinctions it doesnt matter which grades you actually got?
im looking to do psychology as a cao student after summer but i cant decide on an order for my choices— ive been to galway briefly before, however, ive never been to limerick and im wondering how people would compare the social life scene/societies/education/overall campus in UL with galway? are there any pros and cons?
if anyone has any insight based on social life, societies, education, campus etc that would be really helpful as im struggling to decide which to put first on my cao x