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Originally Posted by Fordim
You should have done what I did -- I registered as a History/Archaeology major and proceeded to take almost exclusively English credits. By the time I was entering my final quarter I had exactly three Ancient History credits, no Archaeology credits and about a dozen English credits. This happened because the History courses were boring and the English courses were fascinating.
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Sadly that's not how it works here as students specialise early. Upon entering sixth form the student chooses a few subjects, sits exams at the end of the year and then chooses the four they want to do for the final year A level exams- and in my time you could only choose to do the four subjects for the whole two years. It's not much better at University; you choose a subject, and stick with it, though some may do dual honours and you often take options from similar subjects in the faculty. Sadly, English & History weren't in the same faculty at my Uni or I'd have gladly broadened my options.... Though this
did lead me to do an Art History unit and learn from an Art student how to get the lids off beer bottles using only my bare hands and a wall, which has been useful.
Keeping on topic....
...... I send to Mordor the most important of all the great Christmas traditions, yes, checking that all the bulbs are working in your light sets! We sat this afternoon checking bulbs in a set of lights that wasn't working and what a surprise, it was the final bulb checked which was the broken one! Now that this task is accomplished I will soon have the second greatest Christmas tradition to look forwards to, and that is trying to get the things to stay fixed to the window frame when I put them up!
