Megan Glynn is doing her best to balance study with sleep, meals and family time
For me, this has meant studying as much as I can, but also avoiding burnout. So, I try to get to bed by 10pm or 10.30pm. I make sure I have time for a walk. I have proper meals away from the desk. I wanted to be sure that I spent time with my family, because otherwise there’s a risk of being too much in my own head.On day one, I went in to school a little early so that I could meet up with my friends and speak about what we were expecting.
Ah, those Hamlet questions: quite difficult. In particular, the second of the two questions; it asked us about aspects of the play that made it “a surprisingly hopeful and positive drama”. Our other option wasn’t great either: we were required to write about Hamlet’s relationship with his mother, but she is a minor character in the play.
Then, before I knew it, we were into the maths papers. Maths paper one was okay, particularly as there was a lot of financial maths. And maths paper two was quite nice, despite my worries about trigonometry.
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