Eve McKenna, Presentation Secondary School, Listowel, Co. Kerry.
I’m not quite sure what I expected when I came to the School of BEES, yet Monday morning still came as quite a shock. Firstly, we handed in our forms and received a folder with free pencils and pens. Of course nobody was expecting this and looked quite pleased as you do when you get freebies. Then came the task of making friends.
We stood in awkward huddles asking names and where their from, praying that you won’t be the only one who isn’t from Cork. Although I don’t mind talking with new people, I find it a task to keep my sense of humour in check as it has the tendency to come across as sarcasm and seriously offend people, so I’ve been told. By the time everyone has made “friends”, we are asked to take a seat and free juice and biscuits are handed around. Yet another thing we hadn’t quite expected.
you can’t know what you want to do unless you try.
Overall, I really enjoyed myself at the School of BEES and there wasn’t a dull moment but I have to say that two of the lectures really stood out to me. Plant Science and Bird Ringing. This of course came as quite a shock to me considering the study of plants and habitats was my least favourite part of science in school (quite a feat considering I cannot wrap my head around physics). Yet it wasn’t about the structure of the plant or about why a bird should live in this habitat over that one it was so much more (it also helped that the professors were very passionate about their chosen topic).
As a person who is very confused about which way to go in career choice, I feel that the school of BEES has helped me make my choice a lot simpler in some ways and a whole lot more complicated in other ways. Yet all I can say is you can’t know what you want to do unless you try.