Secondly, look at this paragraph: I could do something other than medicine but I'm not good enough - only almost. It feels so much like medicine is all I'm good for, and I won't even be a particularly good doctor.
No, seriously, look at that paragraph. I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you do know objectively that it's absolute rubbish, don't you? I completely, totally understand that it feels like the only choice is Doctor or Failure, but it's absolutely not true.
You're in the first year of A levels. You have so much time. You don't have to make a UCAS decision until September, and that's if you're super hyper organised (which, admittedly, you probably have to be if you want to do medicine!) - and even then it's nine months away. In the meantime, you're going to have talks from your teachers, visits to universities, visits from people at universities, careers evenings - seriously, in terms of how much you know about possible careers, possible university choices, subjects and systems, you are about to start one of the biggest learning curves you've been on since you were a toddler! I know this because it was my job for a year.
Six months can be a long time. Talk to careers staff, talk to your teachers (they know you nearly as well as your parents, but have much less invested in Iona The Doctor!), get university prospectuses and look at the medicine sections, the journalism sections, the chemistry sections, the politics sections, whatever you fancy. Look at things like psychology or even business subjects that aren't typical A level subjects, so they accept people with A levels in other subects (and adore people with mixed science and arts or social science subjects.) I know you mentioned in an earlier post that your mother worries that any area other than medicine is still influenced by racism: I really have my doubts about that, but if it's something that worries you then get in touch with the Asian or Indian or Hindu student societies at Liverpool or Manchester universities and have a chat with students who are studying there now.
And never, ever forget that what the vast majority of us do these days is go to university to a general arts or science degree and then specialise afterwards, when we have a much clearer idea of what we want. Degree in chemistry followed by a one year postgrad course in journalism? Fabulous: journalism's desperate for people with a scientific background instead of an arts background. Degree followed by civil service exam? Degree followed by one year law conversion course?
Don't fret. Revising sucks, but it's all you have to worry about for now. The other stuff will come in time, and It Will All Be OK.
s(Sorry about the huge posts: this kind of thing was my job for a year after i graduated and whilst I hated the job itself, I'm still kind of enthusiastic about the actual information itself!)
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Secondly, look at this paragraph:
I could do something other than medicine but I'm not good enough - only almost. It feels so much like medicine is all I'm good for, and I won't even be a particularly good doctor.
No, seriously, look at that paragraph. I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you do know objectively that it's absolute rubbish, don't you? I completely, totally understand that it feels like the only choice is Doctor or Failure, but it's absolutely not true.
You're in the first year of A levels. You have so much time. You don't have to make a UCAS decision until September, and that's if you're super hyper organised (which, admittedly, you probably have to be if you want to do medicine!) - and even then it's nine months away. In the meantime, you're going to have talks from your teachers, visits to universities, visits from people at universities, careers evenings - seriously, in terms of how much you know about possible careers, possible university choices, subjects and systems, you are about to start one of the biggest learning curves you've been on since you were a toddler! I know this because it was my job for a year.
Six months can be a long time. Talk to careers staff, talk to your teachers (they know you nearly as well as your parents, but have much less invested in Iona The Doctor!), get university prospectuses and look at the medicine sections, the journalism sections, the chemistry sections, the politics sections, whatever you fancy. Look at things like psychology or even business subjects that aren't typical A level subjects, so they accept people with A levels in other subects (and adore people with mixed science and arts or social science subjects.) I know you mentioned in an earlier post that your mother worries that any area other than medicine is still influenced by racism: I really have my doubts about that, but if it's something that worries you then get in touch with the Asian or Indian or Hindu student societies at Liverpool or Manchester universities and have a chat with students who are studying there now.
And never, ever forget that what the vast majority of us do these days is go to university to a general arts or science degree and then specialise afterwards, when we have a much clearer idea of what we want. Degree in chemistry followed by a one year postgrad course in journalism? Fabulous: journalism's desperate for people with a scientific background instead of an arts background. Degree followed by civil service exam? Degree followed by one year law conversion course?
Don't fret. Revising sucks, but it's all you have to worry about for now. The other stuff will come in time, and It Will All Be OK.
s(Sorry about the huge posts: this kind of thing was my job for a year after i graduated and whilst I hated the job itself, I'm still kind of enthusiastic about the actual information itself!)