Why hello there!

[Remus Lupin]

Hey there, you can call me Quetzal. I saw you were in need of a Remus Lupin, and he's one of favourite characters (if not just plain favourite) so I jumped at the chance.

Anyway, I'm an 18-year-old girl from and living in England. Yes, I have the accent, and no, I've never met the Queen. I would say I'm a fairly boring person. I don't have any wish to ever get a tattoo or smoke, and I don't drink much or go partying or clubbing or whatever. I don't even have a Tumblr. I don't feel the need to do any of the typical teenage things, which I suppose might lead some people to believe I'm a mature and sensible kid until they see that I'm actually just as much of an immature idiot as 'kids these days' are supposed to be. Seriously. I am the one who giggles in the corner of a classroom every time the varying penetration power of different forms of ionising radiation is mentioned.

I just thought you should know not to expect anything too exciting. Anyway... I, er, really like physics and maths. Maths is fun, physics is just the best thing. It's so great how everything we know could be wrong and like all of quantum theory is just so interesting and I love it. Seems odd to say 'when I grow up' at my age, but I hope to one day be a professional physicist, maybe a professor, possibly a theoretical physicist. I have been known to, on the rare occasions I do get drunk, rant about physics. This probably contributes to my boringness, and I'm aware that 'theoretical physicist' is not your typical ambition, but there you go. We'll see how it goes. Provided I haven't totally mucked up my exams, I should be going to study physics at university next year. I already got rejected from Cambridge (kinda messed up a question in my interview, and took maths in a year rather than too so didn't have any exam results to show since I hadn't taken any exams) so I don't know how far I can actually go.

As you may have guessed, I can't be concise in the slightest. Sorry if my posts end up disgustingly long. I can be sarcastic at times to, so if I seem like I'm being mean, it's probably just that. I don't like being mean to people.

Yeah, so if anyone wants to say hi or ask questions, please do. I don't want to be the lonely member who doesn't know anyone!

[Jaycie]

*raises hand* I'm also from England, have never met the queen, does not smoke, nor have tattoos, does not party, or have a tumblr... But I prefer English Language to Maths and Physics. I did both when I did a few months of IB when I first left school. I don't know how I coped. I had nooooooo friggin' clue what was going on most of the time XD

[Remus Lupin]

Yay, someone else! I haven't done English since GCSEs... I didn't mind the language bit, but I wasn't so keen on the literature bit. Found that boring. Don't get me wrong, I like to read, but I didn't really see much point to picking things apart quite so much and didn't find it very interesting. It was quite a relief when I got to A levels and just dropped everything I didn't like. The only essay-writing/humanities subject I took was History, which I swapped for Maths after a year. I still like history, though, the past is interesting.

[Jaycie]

Nah, I'm not a fan of literature. GCSE killed that for me. Our teacher made us read the book and write down pages and pages of quotes, who said them, and on what page, and his idea of revision was to just memorize them (like 20 A4 sides), even though he went a lost most of them anyway and blamed us. Hated it.
I did a year of AS History, but my A2 year pretty much fell apart for a number of reasons, so the only one I properly finished was English. Slightly dreading results day though XD

[Remus Lupin]

I think I had a pretty bad teacher too. Not as bad as yours, but she did take forever to mark anything. She told me to redo a piece of coursework too because I got a B, and I asked which one and she said 'oh, I'm not sure. Just redo this one and hopefully that'll be the right one'. It worked out all right in the end, but that was quite worrying. She was pretty boring too. We never had to memorise quotes and page numbers and everything. I think we were allowed to bring the text into the exam? I don't remember. I didn't memorise much and I did fine.

Yeah, results day... so you've just done an English A2 then? I've almost finished my exams, just one last maths one on Monday. They've mostly gone OK but the maths exams this year have been ridiculously hard and I know I've messed up questions in other papers. My uni doesn't want me to get too high grades, but all the same, it's not making me feel too good about results. AS History seems a lot nicer than A2, from what I've heard. AS was fun, even though one of my teachers was boring (and hated me because I was always behind on notes)

[Stephan]

Welcome to the community, Quetzal. You're certainly not alone; like you guys I'm also from England, have never met the Queen, never smoked, very rarely drink and don't party... not even sure if I've even been on Tumblr before. XD

One of my friends from college has applied for a theoretical physics course at uni. The whole concept just sounds so crazy, but it's gotta be so awesome to be on the brink of our understanding of the universe like that. Chemistry is my love though.

I've also just finished a maths A-Level alongside chemistry and biology. Is that FP2 that you have on Monday? I completely agree that someone seriously woke up on the wrong side of the bed when writing those maths exams this year. Hopefully I've done enough to secure my place to study chemistry though. History is really interesting I think, but I just don't like the way you have to approach it academically. 

That teacher sounds awful having that approach to your coursework. I'm so grateful all of mine kept meticulous track of what marks we'd got and where we could improve.

[Remus Lupin]

Hello

Nah, it's M2. Since I did AS and A2 Maths this year, I couldn't take Further Maths despite wanting to. I did Chemistry, Physics and Biology as well, so we have a lot of subject overlap! Two of my friends are hoping to take chemistry at uni in September, but I personally don't like chemistry much. I'm not very good at it, and I just get bored. Maybe if I'd tried harder I would be better xD The chemistry papers weren't too hard though (I gave up trying to understand and just memorised about 12 pages of organic and inorganic equations which came up) but they were really weird.

Maths... ew. Whoever put TWO parametric equation questions in C4 was clearly some spawn of hell. More so because they shoved a load of trig in there and made you solve differential equations with them (I may be bitter because I did it sort of right but only noticed one little sign change that messed everything up right as the exam finished). C3 made some of my friends cry, but I think it went better for me.

Idk if I'll be on the brink of our understanding of the universe. I've always imagined myself ending up one of the scientists who do things that have absolutely no clear point. I'd like to discover something purely so I can give it a cool name. Like... a force carrying particle called the yodon. I'm still gutted they didn't call gluons (transmit the nuclear strong force) yodons because then they could be like 'the force is strong with this one' and it would be wonderful.