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"Am I going down?"

Some may remember a tale I told about a barn.

This barn, after a bit of idiocy from my close friend neal. Got burnt to the ground. In brief, my friend was working in a barn. Stacking a selection of broken chip and pin machines. It was a cold day in January and so he decided to start a fire to keep warm. Using my lighter my friend recklessly started a fire on a stack of boxes and then later, upon request, in a bin, away from danger. As the situation wore on my friend moved the bin nearer to him, which I questioned, the fire flicked from the metal bin and hit a stack of boxes. To cut a long story short, the barn burnt to the ground.

1 month later he is arrested, he tells his arresting officer that it was I that started the fire. So I was arrested. I told the truth, as stated above. 4 months down the line we are both charged with Arson.

I appear in court next week.

I am, as some will known, a Cambridge university student, with a small desire to be a teacher. This offense could see my dreams dashed and my prospects ruined. I have no idea what the minimum sentence is (be it imprisonment or community service), nor do I know EXACTLY what I did wrong.

At the moment my "close friend" still insists it was I that was responsible for the fire.

Help???

It depends on how well you perform in all subjects really.

My mate got 5 A's last year and was the school Dux.

He applied for medicine and only needed a C's in Higher Biology (Crash), Adv Chemistry and Maths.

(Those were the only subject he took).

He'll get 3 A's anyway, but he still only needs C's.

See when you apply to uni, and you need a certain higher to get it (Chem for medicine for example), if you're taking it for Advanced Higher and your teachers say usually you're a bit of a genius, will they just make it a conditional A in that subject?

hypothetically speaking

The SQA make the Maths exams stupidly difficult every year, but then you realsie they're not actually that difficult once you've finished it.

Info Systems is basically Computing Studies without all the malarky about robots and crap.

We called it Higher Computer Games though because we just played loads of different games against each other over teh school network.

I didn't bother appeaaling for it because I took Advanced Higher this year.

I've still got to design and make a website for my last NAB though, I haven't started it yet, but my teacher said I "passed" to teh SQA.

down wrote:
> If we're all feeling sorry for ourselves here:
>
> I couldn't be bothered revising for Chemistry, so I didn't.
>
> I don't think I got an A, when I really needed it
>
> :(


Ahh, now that is your fault. If it's any consolation I got dragged out clubbing the night before one of my Further Maths exams, then we all decided to walk the six miles home at 2am. I didn't get in until 5am and overslept until 11am, when the exam was a 9am start. It's the reason why I only have three instead of four A-level passes :0]

Well, although SQA thought they'd be really funny about maths this year, I've got a comfortable appeal, 95%+ in the prelim so s'all good.

Chemistry I couldn't really be bothered in the prelim either, and just, just, just scraped an A.

Apart from those two, I think I got As in everything.

What the hell is info systems?

Dringo wrote:
> Now that is helpful. I won't forget this advice. And if it helps, I
> owe you a drink.

Over candlelight?

[S]sorry

down wrote:
> If we're all feeling sorry for ourselves here:
>
> I couldn't be bothered revising for Chemistry, so I didn't.
>
> I don't think I got an A, when I really needed it
>
> :(


Hey, I haven't even looked as AS biology yet, and I have all my exams in the next week leaving me 3 days to revise a year of stuff.

Rumpadodosnitzle wrote:
> If there was no fire stopping devices as you said, Im sure you will be
> let off. Community Service, small fine, that sort of thing...
>
> Just let off though. Unfortunatly we don't live in America. Where YOU
> would be able to sue them for millions.
>
> Seriously - Make sure you tell them that. Make sure you say it was an
> accident, and you told him to stop, but he worked there, not you, so
> you let him do it his way, and explain it was not a very nice
> experiance and it was really a near death one...One that you did not
> enjoy at all!
>
> Explain, if it was intentional - you would not have started it with
> you inside, and you would not have called police, And you friend most
> deffinetly wouldnt do it on his shift at his work place would he! You
> would do it far away, and not get caught...
>
> Also explain WHY you lit it aswell. It was Winter, cold, and THEY
> offered no way of keeping warm and forced you to light a small fire.
> Ok, by the end of your small fire, you must have been incredibily
> warm, sweating and burnt as you burnt down an entire building! Some
> way to keep warm! But it was an accient...Neal lied, but even he says
> it was an accident.

Now that is helpful. I won't forget this advice. And if it helps, I owe you a drink.

down wrote:
> If we're all feeling sorry for ourselves here:
>
> I couldn't be bothered revising for Chemistry, so I didn't.
>
> I don't think I got an A, when I really needed it
>
> :(

You'll be fine.
I thought I'd get a C in Chemistry last year, but I got an A.
I thought I get a C in Physics too, but I got an A.
I also thought I'd get a C in English, but I got an A.

On the other hand, I thought I'd get an A in Info Systems, but I got a C.

Maths was the only one I got right.

I got an A band 1.

:-)

So yeah, no matter what you think you get in your exams, you'll probably be wrong.

blemmerfisch! wrote:
> And by simply saying what you said, he'd have just ignored it

Probably.

It sounded like a stupid joke to me anyway.

If you'd made your post about why it was selfish, fair enough, but your first post was a bit OTT.

Whatever though, i don't care about other people, so it doesn't matter to me.