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Has anyone ever dropped a course then started a new one in the next school year?
I'm really pissed off with IB, and it's way too much pressure and I can't do it. I'm really pissed off today because my Extended Essay has just gone tits up because my supervisor isn't my supervisor anymore because my fucking Psychology teacher fucked up. And she's spouting a load of crap about how I didn't give her my written proposal (I did. About 3 weeks ago). And that I have had six weeks to talk to Morag (the person that was meant to be my supervisor), which is also untrue. She didn't tell me that Morag was going to be my supervisor til the Thursday just gone. The official IBO deadline for the EE form is tomorrow. And I have to sort out another supervisor before 5:30 tomorrow. I'm not able to keep up with work, and it's all getting on top of me. I've done no CAS, and I have no ideas of how to get more.
I've been thinking about dropping it for ages and this has just made my mind up. I'm gonna be talking about it with my mum tonight.
My plan is as follows:
I'll drop out now, I still have a valid paid-for bus pass until summer, so I can get a weekday job in Colchester somewhere, so that I can pay my mum back the £450 that she would have wasted on said bus pass. I'll start doing A-Levels in September and go to University a year later than planned. I'm most worried about my mum and Stephen Baines (IB Coordinator) talking me out of it, but I'm determined.
My question is, has anyone done anything like this before? And what was it like? How did you go about it? Was it easy to get back into the college a year after your GCSE's when everyone else has just done theirs?
Thanking you kindly, and I realise that most of you won't know what IB, Extended Essay or CAS are. I apologise!
Franki
I'm really pissed off with IB, and it's way too much pressure and I can't do it. I'm really pissed off today because my Extended Essay has just gone tits up because my supervisor isn't my supervisor anymore because my fucking Psychology teacher fucked up. And she's spouting a load of crap about how I didn't give her my written proposal (I did. About 3 weeks ago). And that I have had six weeks to talk to Morag (the person that was meant to be my supervisor), which is also untrue. She didn't tell me that Morag was going to be my supervisor til the Thursday just gone. The official IBO deadline for the EE form is tomorrow. And I have to sort out another supervisor before 5:30 tomorrow. I'm not able to keep up with work, and it's all getting on top of me. I've done no CAS, and I have no ideas of how to get more.
I've been thinking about dropping it for ages and this has just made my mind up. I'm gonna be talking about it with my mum tonight.
My plan is as follows:
I'll drop out now, I still have a valid paid-for bus pass until summer, so I can get a weekday job in Colchester somewhere, so that I can pay my mum back the £450 that she would have wasted on said bus pass. I'll start doing A-Levels in September and go to University a year later than planned. I'm most worried about my mum and Stephen Baines (IB Coordinator) talking me out of it, but I'm determined.
My question is, has anyone done anything like this before? And what was it like? How did you go about it? Was it easy to get back into the college a year after your GCSE's when everyone else has just done theirs?
Thanking you kindly, and I realise that most of you won't know what IB, Extended Essay or CAS are. I apologise!
Franki
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I know people that dropped IB from my year but that was like...October time. So it was different. Gawd...I doubt it's even gonna have the slightest chance now anyway, my mother won't listen to a word I say
Why not try and stick it out for the rest of the year and if you are adamant that it isn't what you want, go for A Levels etc in September.
Plus, if I don't drop out now, it means that 1) I'd have to find someone to do the website after not having done it for hardly ever, 2) ditto magazine, 3) I wouldn't be able to earn enough money to pay my mum back for the bus pass.
Just stick with it as your probably going through a rough stage. Education suxz so you got to do the shity bits so that you can do the fun bits, or have a chance to do the fun bits.
Talking of dropping out, I dropped Maths at degree level and am now going Exploration Geology and its one of the best decissions ive ever made.
Bopz