TY Help?

earwax_man

Since TY in our school in the same as having your brain melted and doing nothing, I was wondering whether I should do a foreign exchange to Germany for the year? I'm fluent in German, and they have a good educational system, so I was thinking of doing it for a year. My parents might leave me go with a bit of sweet talking them :rolleyes:

Shoesa

Well it's a good idea definitely, however would it be beneficial to you in any real way? Is it just a trip in disguise? Going abroad is really useful for gaining contacts and new experiences, but if you're just in school there anyway, won't it almost be the same thing?

I really thought that TY would be a waste of my time too, but I was very glad I did it in the end because I made friends and learnt a lot of non-academic related education. School is useless for the real world, so is college, so it might be worthwhile doing the mind-numbing TY and finding a job pushing trollies after school. It's also a year to chance learning a new skill. My friend only started learning guitar in TY, teaching himself, now he's in 3rd year music in UCC.

Having said that, my best friend skipped TY, took on a job, got into college a year ahead of his friends and is on placement in Microsoft.

Make a list of all the REAL reasons you want to go abroad and see what merit they have. I'd say go for it though.

_Bella_

I'd say go for it! You can go to a boarding school in Germany. A few people in my year are doing this at the moment.

cypharius

earwax_man wrote: »

Since TY in our school in the same as having your brain melted and doing nothing, I was wondering whether I should do a foreign exchange to Germany for the year? I'm fluent in German, and they have a good educational system, so I was thinking of doing it for a year. My parents might leave me go with a bit of sweet talking them :rolleyes:

Go for it, I see taking TY as possibly the biggest mistake I have ever made regarding school(And this is coming from somebody who was on the mitch for about 2/5ths of 3rd year).

coldwood92

earwax_man wrote: »

Since TY in our school in the same as having your brain melted and doing nothing, I was wondering whether I should do a foreign exchange to Germany for the year? I'm fluent in German, and they have a good educational system, so I was thinking of doing it for a year. My parents might leave me go with a bit of sweet talking them :rolleyes:

Go for it

thetonynator

yeah you should do it . . .

aoife_bennett

I see taking TY as possibly the biggest mistake I have ever made regarding school.

i could not agree more

earwax_man

aoife_bennett wrote: »

i could not agree more

I continued on to 5th year. So glad I did. All of my friends did TY, they just bring in psps and go at them the whole day. It's actually sad the amount they do. A mixture of guidance, PE, and various half-assed subjects. To anyone who is thinking of doing TY: DON'T!

shootie

earwax_man wrote: »

I continued on to 5th year. So glad I did. All of my friends did TY, they just bring in psps and go at them the whole day. It's actually sad the amount they do. A mixture of guidance, PE, and various half-assed subjects. To anyone who is thinking of doing TY: DON'T!

A bit harsh on TY it really depends on how your school does TY. Im lucky my school has a great transition year program, people I did not even talk to from 1st-3rd year I now get along with really well with from doing the modules, and ive only done the first week! Still so much to do!