Musings of a Perfectionist

So, Results Day. An emotional rollercoaster for me, not going to sugar coat it. The hardest part was trying to actually get through the amounts of paper so that I could see all my grades. While all my grades were good and I was happy with them, there was one that I wasn't that happy with. I had been predicted a much higher grade as well, which didn't help. But my teacher was very helpful and found out the grade boundary so I'm going to get it remarked as I was only two marks off. I guess that for anyone who is not completely happy or who needed a higher grade, just remember that there are other options. Before today, I'd get really annoyed when anyone said that, but it is true. There are things that I can do despite getting a lower grade (especially as it's something I wanted to study next year). But there were also good things! My friends were (mostly) happy with their own grades, and it's always lovely to get excited for them. :) The teachers who were th...

Hello everyone- I hope you had a better day than I did (school photos are not fun) (also some of this was written a few days ago, so I did not actually have school photos today). So, a few days ago now, I went to Bletchley Park with some people from school and it was pretty amazing. Perhaps some context is needed. Basically, six people from my year (including myself) won two sections of a science challenge, and our big prize was to go to Bletchley Park. Yay! (My sister also won, with two other people in her year) Yeah, so I went to Bletchley Park. We had a guided tour first of all, although we didn't actually see that much, and then we got to wander around a couple of the huts for a bit. Then we did a codebreaking session, which was pretty cool. I worked with one of my friends, and my sister worked with my other friend (afterwards we decided that she's far too good at codebreaking for her own good...). I worked out that I prefer a monoalphabetic cipher...