Multiple Choice

I got an email today from City Law school, inviting me to a BVC open day 2 days before the accept/reject emails are sent out.

This has thrown me slightly, as I can't figure out whether this is:

(a) a good thing, because surely it would be cruel of them to invite me to an open day unless they were planning on accepting me;

(b) a bad thing because as my second choice, they will have only gotten my application if BPP have decided to reject me (is this the way it works or have I made this up?);

(c) a test. If I don't apply to go, will they reject me. (Common sense tells me that this is not how it works, but all the same, I have a suspicious mind).

(d) none of the above. I should stop speculating and let life unfold as it pleases.

I has also set my mind spinning about whether or not I want to go to CLS. Aside from the fact that it is only one initial different from CLG (positive) their part time course is no where near as appealing as the part time course at BPP. They have week night sessions rather than weekends, and the whole reason I decided I would be able to do the part time thing was because of the weekend sessions, and yet I decided to put CLS as 2nd and College of Law 3rd.

I know why I did this, it was based on all the good things the Barristers in the pub had to say about CLS, and the lack of anything positive that I've heard about CoL. This could well be because the Barristers that drink in the pub all went to CLS, and are therefore biased, and I've only met LPC-ers from CoL, so who knows whether that was a good reason to base my choice on or not.

What I am absolutely clear on now though, is that it's BPP that I want. This goes against my initial instincts completely... I thought I would absolutely hate going to another institution that feels as corporate as LSE (which the Open Evening they had proved to me that it does), but they really do offer the best deal for part timers. Even if it is the most expensive, it just seems to offer the most flexibility and support for part timers like myself. Oddly, I also found the corporate feel quite comforting. I may have hated my university for most of the time I was there, but I know I managed to do well (enough) there, and it made me feel more comfortable! Plus the Law Zombies all went off to do the LPC. Surely they wont have infiltrated the BVC, and of those that do, surely they wont be part timers like myself?

So, fingers crossed, on the 2nd March I'll get the offer I'm after. But maybe I should register for that open day...

Special K

My cousin, Special K, has been offered a place at university!!!

She will be the second person ever from our family to go to uni, and I am sooo proud of her. A few months ago she was completely disenchanted by the whole thing and decided not to bother applying. She told me that it wasn't for her, that it would be too hard and basically came up with a load of excuses to disguise the fact that she didn't feel that she was good enough. Which is ridiculous when you consider the fact that her name is Special K. That is exactly what I told her at the time, and turns out, she actually listened to me!

I am hoping that when she does go to university, she begins to realise just how cool she is. Sometimes I think she doesn't give herself enough credit, she lets other people think that they are somehow better than she is. But they really really aren't. I hope that when she goes to university she meets people that recognise how brilliant she is, and encourage her to shine.

I'm so happy that she's decided to push herself and get a degree. But I'll be making sure she has someone to talk to in case she encounters the law zombies. Presumably she wont have too much trouble with that though, because she'll be studying Media and Religious Studies... But you never know.

This post is probably a bit mushy and sentimental, but she is the only person I've told about this blog, so y'know, gotta show her love and all that.