So much for inwardly swearing not to neglect this thing! Hehehe I haven’t even been studying terribly much, (not as much as I planned to anyway), so I have no excuse.

Study groups are the awesomest invention ever. Study sessions over MSN are particularly useful, as they’re amusing (IM conversations involving 6 people generally are) and beneficial. A lot more engaging than just reading over notes a billion times, anyway.
Sneha was awesome and tested everyone (I.e. Niro, Kausthub, Durga, Aaron, Sean and me) on essentially everything we’ve learnt in Science over the past two years, or everything we’re supposed to have learnt, anyway. As you can imagine, it took many hours. Not least because we spent half the time repeating one another, arguing and chatting inanely. Kausthub then distilled the conversation into usable notes and emailed them around, he and Aaron offered up some History notes, Sneha gave us all Geo notes and I critiqued three people’s English essays. Which, (perhaps embarrassingly), I found fun. The cooperation, enjoyment and most of all the sense of camaraderie were all really lovely, and as Kausthub put it, why did we not have these convos before!

For those (very few) people who read this, would you classify Baulko a public school? I certainly wouldn’t call it private, but it’s not your typical comprehensive. I don’t know. I was having an argument with a friend’s Mum the other day (yes, I know, bit odd), over public schooling. She was basically putting public schools down, making all these defamatory assertions about the calibre of their populace etc. Yeah, sex, drugs and alcohol. To justify herself, she said that she realises not all public school kids indulge in that sort of behaviour, but she wouldn’t trust her kids not to get caught up by the peer pressure and whatnot. Because, she stated, 13 to 17 year olds aren’t mature or experienced enough to have good judgement. Which then led to an argument about age discrimination/prejudice, I still insist that maturity often has little to do with age. Those sorts of generalisations annoy me greatly, the blatant discrimination of today. Anyway...

*Returns from a major nosebleed* I think I’ll post this, now.