After two or three years of hard work, Irish Leaving Cert students will be receiving their exam results this morning and no doubt going through mood swings.
For those of us who have gone through the rigmarole, the walk to your school can either feel like the walk to your own death sentence, or perhaps the victory lap as you prepare yourself to ask all your friends what they got so you can make sure they didn’t do better than you.
Either way, the technology at hand to almost all teenagers these says makes the process of calculating your total points that bit easier whereas before, for the less mathematically capable out there, you sat there anxiously at your kitchen table trying to find your final figure.
“Wait, you mean I have to disregard my lowest scoring?” “Damn, if only I did higher Irish!” Social media, too, has played a large part in teenagers’ reaction to their big day, none more so than these particular examples who feel the need to tweet about it.
*get 20 points in my leaving cert but the first accumulator of the season comes through* me: pic.twitter.com/wl397CEaNZ
— Billy McCann (@billy_mccann) August 10, 2014
When people make comments regarding the results. #Leavingcert pic.twitter.com/COxMEulaJ3
— Laura Byron (@Lauraaaaaaaaawr) August 10, 2014
i will be hamlet when i open my leaving cert results pic.twitter.com/yl7qmtD8mk
— lorna (@lornakinch) August 10, 2014
Leaving cert results memory – couldn’t work the payphone to tell father the good news, principal said then I was destined for academic life
— Ladyfuckwit (@Ladyfuckwit) August 13, 2014
Time for the annual photo of some girls from Loreto College Stephens Green with their leaving cert results on the front of an irish paper
— Kevin Horan (@kevhoran) August 13, 2014
While town and cities tonight will be full of either teenagers celebrating or consoling, one nostalgic Twitter user remembers his rather unique way of celebrating his results.
the night of my Leaving Cert results I rapped P Diddy’s Godzilla theme “Come With Me” with a metal band at a house party.
— ruairí (@rubot) August 13, 2014
Others weren’t so celebratory…
When I got my leaving cert results I drank until I blacked out in an empty dugout in Kells GAA pitch. I woke up and thought I was blind
— Darragh (@DarraghMc) August 13, 2014
Actor and Boyle, Co Roscommon, native Chris O’Dowd has even taken the time to comment on the results.
Dear bad Leaving Cert result getters.. At this hard time, remember that @daraobriain, @MiriamOCal & @MichealDH_ didn’t go to college either.
— chris o’dowd (@BigBoyler) August 13, 2014
Only to follow it up with:
sorry, i meant Disneyland, none of them have been to Disneyland. Stupid feckin auto-correct.
— chris o’dowd (@BigBoyler) August 13, 2014
For those of you with older relatives, this old tradition might be rather memorable, but just remember God is very specific when it comes to offering prayers …
#LeavingCert students waiting for results, I have lit a candle for you. Alas it’s a cinnamon Yankee candle that God doesn’t listen to. #SOZ
— Aisling Bea (@WeeMissBea) August 13, 2014
And for those of you who may not have not gotten what they wanted, here’s some reassurance that things can still work out!
Know someone disappointed with Leaving Cert today? I made a total dogs dinner of mine. Yours sincerely, Vox Hib BA, MA, PhD Candidate.
— Vox Hiberionacum (@VoxHiberionacum) August 13, 2014
Exam results image via Shutterstock
