The Clubhouse Podcast #118 | Topics Thread
Added 2021-08-18 08:42:37 +0000 UTCHey, all you sweet vintage lads!
I’ll be back this Sunday for another Clubhouse, this time with my son and the next generation of 4 Pillars content creators, Joe the Founded Scarab! Be sure to leave your topics and advice threads in this post ASAP.
I hope you all stay safe and make informed decisions. See you Sunday - Tyler
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hi lads I hope you're both doing well so I have a very another heavy topic of sorts today (I am sorry in advance) This is about my upcoming last year of high school where I take my two university exams at the end of June. So basically in high school we have 4 years and these 4 years are separated by 9th and 10th grade where you learn more general topics, then in 11th grade you select the classes you want to take in the uni exam. You can either choose literature/maths or maths/sciences. Me being a huge science nerd I selected science but I did NOT know how much work it would turn out to be.. Basically, in the first uni exam you're responsible for all the curriculum of 9th and 10th grade and in the second uni exam the next day, you're responsible for all of 11th and 12th grade. The sheer amount of topics you're responsible for and the amount of questions you have to solve to learn everything... it is genuinely so much. I have nine months of non-stop studying, classes, extra classes and private classes ahead of me. I also want to go to med school and to get in any med school you have to score at LEAST top 20k out of 2 million people entering the exam. I have never been a bad student, I've always done good in every exam I've ever taken (for example I had a 96.7 average out of 100 this year) I have been dealing with immense amounts of self doubt, anxiety, this everlasting sense of having no control and I can feel myself crumbling slowly under all the expectations people have of me. My family members are all very successful and very accomplished and both of my sisters have done very well for themselves (my elder sister is in med school and my other sister is in law school) I feel like as the youngest I have an insane standard to live up to and this thought of not being as successful as them is my biggest fear, ever. Another thing I've struggled with all my life is that I've felt all my worth comes from how well I do in school. I feel like I don't deserve anything if I don't do well in this one exam or the other and it's very difficult to live with honestly I have started revising every day, averaging about 5-6 hours per day and 2 hours of private classes on top of that. I am right now very motivated to study but I can lose my focus quite a bit often because of these struggles and I really need to find a way to get rid of them. I really, really, really want to get into med school but all this self doubt and incapacitating fear of failure makes it very hard for me to just focus on my studies and work towards my dreams. I realise that there may be not adequate advice for this but I would really appreciate anything. thank u gamers ily
Bella
2021-08-20 05:21:00 +0000 UTCHey guys, I hope you're both doing great! This topic is something that happened to me a few months ago since nothing particularly interesting has happened to me, and I'm one of the newest patrons so I wanted my first topic to be a good one. A few months ago I finished school in the UK and I wanted to do something different for my last day of school. For whatever reason I decided this something would be drinking alcohol in the school, and underage drinking at that. This was a terrible idea and likely one of the riskiest things I'd ever done. Now I'm sure you're probably wondering why this was such a bad idea since as we all know, nothing bad comes from drinking alcohol and it's a perfectly safe liquid to indulge in. Well you see, I had never been drunk before. Sure I'd been tipsy a couple times before but I had never gotten properly pissed. Which meant that I had no way of predicting what would happen if I got drunk AND I would be doing this in an environment with very few people I could trust since most of your school friends aren't actually your friends. I decided the alcohol I would be drinking would be vodka since it looked like water. I failed to take into account the fact that vodka, is strong as fuck and one of the worst things I could drink as once again I had never gotten drunk before which meant I had no way of knowing how fast I would get hammered. The school day starts and I immediately began having second thoughts. I brushed them off and decided to do it anyways because like a complete moron I told people about my plan so I felt I needed to follow through with it to prove I wasn't afraid despite the fact that I would most likely never meet any of those people again. I was fine for the first two hours, I wasn't really experiencing much aside from a mild headache but then in the third lesson everything started to go wrong. A friend walked over to talked to me and I fell out of my chair, then we headed outside the classroom and over to the school field where I discovered I could no longer walk straight. I don't remember much after this point aside from being the complete opposite of myself. In school I was your typical nerdy shy kid who tended not to draw much attention to himself but when I'm drunk I make it my mission to make a lot of noise. No one was spared from drunk Ollie. I was told by someone afterwards that I started texting random girls at some point. Now I'm not sure how much truth there is to that but I do recall texting a girl from Northampton, and yes, she was fit so it would seem that drunk me is a bit of a player. By that point I'd drank all of the vodka and was totally wasted but by some miracle I didn't get caught. And that's it, that's the story. I'm sure Tyler has probably yelled at me several times, calling me a dumbass and he'd be right of course. Anyways, keep up the incredible work with these podcasts, I've thoroughly enjoyed every single one I've listened to so far. - Ollie D
- Ollie The Superior Ollie
2021-08-19 14:12:02 +0000 UTC
