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13 Transition Year experiences you'll know all too well

That mini company hustle.

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TRANSITION YEAR. As much your school liked to spin it as a year of personal, social, and educational development, everybody knew the truth – TY was an irresistible opportunity to do very little for a whole year. Ah. The memories.

1. Your teachers giving you the ‘why Transition Year is important’ speech

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As the whole class silently wills them to skip to the part where they can start doing whatever they want.

2. Spending ages dreaming up a cool mini company product, but ending up with something like this

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Nevertheless, you bullied your family into buying six.

3. Certain members of the class taking the mini company hierarchy completely to heart

“Excuse me I am in charge of marketing so MY decision for the poster in the hall is FINAL!!”

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4. The regional trade fairs being the equivalent of the Olympics

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(Even if the main draw of being there was to mingle with the opposite sex.)

5. Spending most of your work experience weeks in front of one of these

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6. And being dead jealous of anyone with connections in high places

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Jammy old Sandra swanning off to RTÉ for one of her weeks. Just who does she think she is?

7. Coveting this bit of swag

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Aww yiss.

8. Treating your regular classes with respect and absolutely NOT spending them walking around on mysterious ‘errands’

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9. The general feeling of disgust when a teacher dared give the class something to do

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10. Having to dress like this for the school musical

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The luck of being a tall-ish gal in an all-girls school, eh? (Boys’ schools were inexplicably spared this fate.)

11. Being marched over to the local nursing home once a week to get you ‘involved in the community’

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12. Having a ‘TY Graduation’ for reasons you weren’t quite aware of

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But… we’re coming back to school next year?

13. And needing to completely reset your brain upon entering Fifth Year

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Does anybody have a pen? Anyone? Also, what is Maths?

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