Did you go out to celebrate when you got your Leaving Cert results?

JillyQ · 13-08-2014 10:00PM

Mariasofia wrote: »

I remember thumbing to Dublin with my sis years ago. A big muscly truckie pulls up "hop in girls " ..... we did and so did my ma who was hiding behind a wall :-D
.......... we got dumped in Fermoy!!

I remember myself & a friend getting picked up by a farmer who had calf in the back of the car.

thrashmetalfan · 24-09-2014 05:37PM

i remember failing the leaving cert first time round. I found some of the subjects quite tough especially maths which I got NG as a result. I remember that day cycling into the local village to buy some things in the local supermarket when a mini bus passed me by with a good few of my class mates all dressed to go out. obviously they did not invite me along with them and I spent results day sitting at home watching tv.

24-09-2014 05:54PM

thrashmetalfan wrote: »

i remember failing the leaving cert first time round. I found some of the subjects quite tough especially maths which I got NG as a result. I remember that day cycling into the local village to buy some things in the local supermarket when a mini bus passed me by with a good few of my class mates all dressed to go out. obviously they did not invite me along with them and I spent results day sitting at home watching tv.

I have to ask did you pass maths the second time, I have never come across anyone getting NG in a state exam. Hope it all worked out for you.

TheBeardedLady · 24-09-2014 05:59PM

I was 19 getting my LC results (started school when I was 5 and a half and did transition year) so went to the pub and got drunk. Was happy with results because I'd passed without doing a tap (not something I'm proud tbh). Got with my friend's cousin, woke up on the beach the following morning with said cousin, brushed myself down and went to work in the Motorola factory in Swords for 7.30am. Slept most of the day with my head propped up on a coat on top of the sanitary bin in the jacks.

15 years ago. Jaysus.

myshirt · 24-09-2014 06:01PM

One thing that pisses me off is celebrating mediocrity. You should not celebrate mediocrity.

I fell just short of 600, so celebrated that. But I didn't celebrate my degree nor go to graduation, as I fell below a 1.1.

I remember my mother was really annoyed; I was her only child that went to college and she wanted to see me graduate.

Yogosan · 24-09-2014 06:03PM

I was drunk when I collected the envelope, because the Leving Cert was THAT important to me.

FloatingVoter · 24-09-2014 06:06PM

I was drunk studying for it.
I was drunk doing it.
I am still drunk.
It was 1992. A good year as I don't recall.

McChubbin · 24-09-2014 06:20PM

Got my results in 2005. Got about 400 points which was respectable enough. Celebrated with the family by having a quiet meal in the Star in Swords followed by a few cheeky Bacardi Breezers at home before rolling into bed drunk and sugar-high around 10pm.
Good times. Sure, I was only 17 at the time and pretty much devoid of any friends who would willingly hang out with me after school so I couldn't really do much "get utterly ****faced"-type celebrating.

Oh well.

looking_around · 24-09-2014 06:53PM

No.

I didn't do as well I should have(would have, without stress and a break down.) and I didn't see the point of celebrating subpar(to me) results.

indigo twist · 24-09-2014 06:58PM

myshirt wrote: »

One thing that pisses me off is celebrating mediocrity. You should not celebrate mediocrity.

I fell just short of 600, so celebrated that. But I didn't celebrate my degree nor go to graduation, as I fell below a 1.1.

Did you not feel that falling short of the magical 600 was kinda mediocre ...

xLisaBx · 24-09-2014 07:01PM

looking_around wrote: »

No.

I didn't do as well I should have(would have, without stress and a break down.) and I didn't see the point of celebrating subpar(to me) results.

Reminds me of me!

RobertKK · 24-09-2014 07:14PM

No, but I was just 17 and did as expected which was fairly good, it was not something that would get me excited that I would feel I needed to celebrate.
Just a relief to have achieved to what I had expected.

I got my results, went home and helped out on the farm, and that was enough for me.

kowloon · 24-09-2014 07:15PM

indigo twist wrote: »

Did you not feel that falling short of the magical 600 was kinda mediocre ...

I only got 599 points so I restricted my celebration to half a twix and a single can of Budweiser after dinner before retiring to bed early.

rannerap · 24-09-2014 07:25PM

Mine was 8 years ago! I just went out to Eddie rockets with a few friends for some food and then home

indigo twist · 24-09-2014 07:31PM

kowloon wrote: »

I only got 599 points so I restricted my celebration to half a twix and a single can of Budweiser after dinner before retiring to bed early.

Good on you. Proper form!

myshirt · 24-09-2014 07:51PM

indigo twist wrote: »

Did you not feel that falling short of the magical 600 was kinda mediocre ...

No.

What I got was there or thereabouts the best I could have done, so I was happy with that.

With college I pissed it against the wall academically; too much drink, women and fighting.

Hit me with a lesser degree than should have got, so I wouldn't celebrate that. That's mediocrity.

My view is if a man can get 600, he should be getting 600. If he can get 300, then he should be getting 300. As long as he is trying his best. There are a lot of kids there that are doing sh!t, and going out celebrating it.

FatherTed · 24-09-2014 08:55PM

25 years ago now. I was working in my summer job but I do remember going out to the Kings Head in Galway that evening. No such thing as any big parties or big celebration holidays back then as nobody had any money for that sort of stuff.

Griever931 · 25-09-2014 01:04AM

No I don't think I went out but I did get Chinese food.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 25-09-2014 02:01AM

Yeah we went out and I couldn't get served because I was 17 and they were strict as ****. Then I went out the following year and got a bottle thrown at me.

FloatingVoter · 25-09-2014 02:03AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Yeah we went out and I couldn't get served because I was 17 and they were strict as ****. Then I went out the following year and got a bottle thrown at me.

City living vs. country living. The pubs in dear old putrid Newcastle West would be open until 4 in the morning for the inter cert results. No getting pissed in school uniform was the general rule. As for the leaving cert, most of us were running tabs at that point.

COYVB · 25-09-2014 02:05AM

Was 14 years ago now. We went out in skerries I think

Grayditch · 25-09-2014 02:07AM

I hired a beautiful black prostitute for the afternoon.

We're married and have three kids.

Bargain.

Timistry · 25-09-2014 08:12AM

A big group of my classmates arrived in cars, Guns n roses blaring and trays of jelly shots at the ready. Some were still drunk from the night before ha!

We went to the pub straight afterwards and had a few pints with the teachers. They were pretty cool like that

I headed home then, dossed around for a while, ate the dinner and went to the pub for round 2. An epic nite of pintin ensued.

TheBeardedLady · 25-09-2014 12:17PM

myshirt wrote: »

One thing that pisses me off is celebrating mediocrity. You should not celebrate mediocrity.

Haha! Jaysus! Any excuse to have fun and enjoy life is how I see it. We'll be dead long enough.

ToddyDoody · 25-09-2014 08:50PM

Went out for a swim after the disappointing first ones, got a Chinese take away for the better second lot. Yippee.

Joe Don Dante · 25-08-2018 05:06AM

yes

pleas advice · 25-08-2018 05:28AM

Jesus, that would be a good few years ago now. I can't remember that night at all...

seriously, I can't remember

hairyslug · 25-08-2018 05:31AM

21 years ago, got absolutely ****faced, by the end of it when the taxi dropped me off, I had to crawl from the car to the house, fell asleep in the bathroom.

thebull85 · 25-08-2018 05:39AM

15 years ago, The Ambassador in Dublin of all places. Absolute E festival it was.

Badly Drunk Boy · 25-08-2018 07:57AM

I did the Leaving twice. Both times, my mother collected my results because I had a summer job (that I couldn't leave.) I think I missed out...just the whole experience.

Did you go out to celebrate when you got your Leaving Cert results?

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