A level results day. Proud dad alert.

[Beebo]

Good luck to everyone picking up A level results today.

I’m a very proud dad today. Daughter got
A* maths
A* biology
A physics
B chemistry
State school education at its finest. The hours and hours of effort she put in paid off. And she worked so much harder than I ever did.

She’s off to Leeds for uni. Which is a long way from south London. She will have to learn to speak Yorkshire and get used to the cold.

 

[markemark]

Wow that's amazing. Well done her. Would have been tempting to have dropped one of the sciences but clearly stuck with it.

 

[figbat]

Good luck to everyone picking up A level results today.

I’m a very proud dad today. Daughter got
A* maths
A* biology
A physics
B chemistry
State school education at its finest. The hours and hours of effort she put in paid off. And she worked so much harder than I ever did.

She’s off to Leeds for uni. Which is a long way from south London. She will have to learn to speak Yorkshire and get used to the cold.

Wow, that’s a great set of results! What is she studying at Leeds?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Congratulations!

Need to buy her a new bike to celebrate!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Need to buy her a new bike

To move her stuff to Leeds

 

[roubaixtuesday]

To move her stuff to Leeds

What could possibly go wrong with such a plan?

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/give-me-some-dialogue-from-your-day.91901/page-385#post-7280372

 

[Beebo]

Wow, that’s a great set of results! What is she studying at Leeds?

Engineering!
Hopefully specialising in bio mechanical engineering.

 

[Sharky]

Proud grandad here.
Grandson got what he needed for a place at Exeter, but he's taking a gap year first.

 

[fossyant]

Well done all. Don't worry if any of the kids haven't done so well, most Uni's have dropped tariff points so you are likely to get in where you want.

 

[DCLane]

@Beebo - congratulations to all. No bike purchase needed as there's bike hire (and a useful workshop) here: https://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/...act/sustainable-travel/active-travel/bike-hub It's the same one my university uses.

 

[ColinJ]

Proud grandad here.
Grandson got whet he needed for a place at Exeter, but he's taking a gap year first.

I go to Exeter a lot these days since my sister moved to the area. I see lots of students walking, running, and cycling around and what strikes me very forcibly is how happy they look - they always seem to be laughing and smiling! I wish that I had gone to university somewhere lovely like that rather than spending 3 years of my life in built-up/edgy Manchester/Salford.

Congratulations to all those with good exam results. I can barely remember getting mine, but it was over half a century ago so I have a good excuse!

 

[Mike Ayling]

Good luck to everyone picking up A level results today.

I’m a very proud dad today. Daughter got
A* maths
A* biology
A physics
B chemistry
State school education at its finest. The hours and hours of effort she put in paid off. And she worked so much harder than I ever did.

She’s off to Leeds for uni. Which is a long way from south London. She will have to learn to speak Yorkshire and get used to the cold.

Well done Beebo's daughter

 

[T4tomo]

I mean exams are farking easy these days, they much harder back in our day

Spoiler: spoiler

yes i am being ironic

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I remember my "O'level results day

but my "A" level one was not much of an event for some reason

I remember looking at the list and noticing that I had got a D in maths and thinking that was about right

probably partly because all I needed was EEE to go where I wanted to (Nottingham) - and the other results were ABB (OK - the A was General Studies which only sort of counts)

I do wonder what would have happened if I had taken option B and gone to Edinburgh instead

 

[markemark]

I do wonder what would have happened if I had taken option B and gone to Edinburgh instead

Your life would have been an utter failure as all Nottingham Uni graduates can testify. 😉