The bane of my life is finally finished. That is right...the Leaving Cert has left the building. To say it was absolutely horrid would be a lie. Okay there were those moments in which I thought that I would never see the 16th of June, that I would never smile again and I thought I had become an insomniac. I had heard all those stories from my Leaving Cert predecessors:
1. Childbirth is like a sun holiday compared to the Leaving Cert.
2. It is by far the worst and most exhausting year of your life.
3.You will experience a "winning the lottery" euphoria at the end of your final exam.
Well in classic Leaving Cert style: Are the above true or false?
False, definitely false.
I can't speak for everyone but I enjoyed my last year at school. I spent the majority of it laughing and joking with all the girls I had grown up with. I was sleep deprived but that had less to do with the big LC and more to do with my new reality TV addiction (if I fail maths those Kardashians are to blame). And finally on Thursday when I finished Biology, I was too sleepy to be euphoric.
I am certainly not saying that it was like a trip to Disneyland. Those weeks of relentless work before it were laborious, the exams were very boring and I was getting cabin fever from being locked indoors like a prisoner. The most awful part of it all was how it seemed to drain all of fun out of previously exciting people. It was like Leaving Cert of the living dead. The rate of bant was at zero, I have had more fun doing the dishes.
I seem to have become weirdly lost without it. I have no direction in my life. I am still working on the timeline of my Leaving Cert. I wake up spontaneously at 8am and feel so lazy because I am doing nothing productive. What has happened to me? I went from the queen of procrastination to productivity overdrive. This metamorphosis should please me but I feel uneasy, I liked my old, lazy self.
I am looking forward to the best summer of my life. Nothing to concern me only where I am going to find my next outfit or when the next episode of Gilmore Girls is on. Then there is Galway, my brand new life as a college student. I absolutely can't wait and I hope it works out how i have been planning...qui vivre verra!
The urban myth about the Leaving Cert has been proved to be fictitious. It can be filed between carrots make you see in the dark and the Easter Bunny. To all the future LC's may the force be with you and always remember two weeks before is never too late!
