The Biggest Year of our Lives

The oldest students in the school, who have just started their final school year ("2º de Bachillerato"), have been reflecting on this exciting and challenging time of their lives. They have been thinking specifically about their hopes and fears of what promises to be a very tough but, hopefully, equally rewarding time of their lives. Please spare a thought for these pupils and wish them all the best to help them get through this difficult year. Read on to get an idea of what is going through their minds at the moment!

Estela

Starting school is harder to do when the year you are about to start is 2º bach. Nobody talks about this year in a good way. So many hopes and fears, but the biggest hope for this whole school year is to be happy, and not stressing out, because that's my biggest worry.

Talking about my future, I haven't planned anything yet. There are so many degrees I don't know about and I want to be sure about what to study for the next five years. I would love to be a lawyer and I also love business, like my father, so I may study a double degree in business and law, perhaps in English.

There is something I am sure I want to do, and it is to go out of Spain one year and study abroad. I think that's something that everyone should take. 

In conclusion, I think that in the next year there are so many big and important decisions mthat we, eighteen-year-old teenagers, have to take, and that we have to be careful, as some decisions can lead to our happiness and others to our future sadness!

Ángeles

One of the biggest aims I have for this year is to be able to have a high enough grade at the end of the course, thus having a wider range of options to choose from when selecting a degree.

My biggest fear is not being able capable of combining studying with going out with friends and family, as well as not keeping up to date with school work. What is more, another problem would be not knowing what the final exam for getting into university is going to be be like, as it is far harder to prepare for something that has never taken place.

I don't really know what I want to study in the future, but it would definitely be something related to maths and physics, which are my favourite subjects.

Another of my future ideas is to study in the Polytechnic University, and I would be grateful if I got to study one of the degree years in another country, like the United States. This way I would not only have the Spanish perspective of my degree, but also from another important part of the world.

Finally, it would be a great opportunity to study in Germany, but also a real challenge, as I consider German really hard to understand, thus it would take me more than a couple of months to get used to this language, never being able to speak perfectly.

Jorge

Second bach seems to be the hardest school year, as I've heard from lots of friends that have gone through this situation before me.

To be honest I'm not really worried about this year, even though I know that I will need to study a lot and be very well organised in order to finish my year with good grades and achieve my future plans.

My main concern is to be accepted in the university I want to get into, so I'd say that's my biggest challenge this year. Another problem which I find difficult to deal with are the exams held every three months, because they require a great deal of studying and preparation.

Furthermore, this year is very important for the reason that we are doing our leaving certificate and a lot of our future will rely on it.