"Pupil 3234894 at the HRSFC Factory"
A review of Hills Road Sixth Form College by C - Wednesday 27th of August 2003
A very clever and observant teacher at secondary school looked at me in horror when I told him that I was going to HRSFC. "It's an A level factory, you'll hate it!" he gasped. Silly him. I shook my head in dismay. What did he know? Some fifty or sixty people from my school would be starting there in September, we would have heard something if it was that bad.
Ok, true, you left HR with grades that made Oxbridge admissions tutors eyes boggle. But they came at a price. The workload and pressure that four A-levels entailed, coupled with all the exra-curricular activity hoops one needed to jump through for UCAS statements ground me down to the rocks and left me severely depressed. It was only in retrospect however that I realised all of this, and regretted my choice of sixth form. At the time, I told myself that I loved it.
I realised that sixth form shouldn't have been like that when I spoke to friends at university. They loved every minute of their colleges or schools, and I was left feeling cheated out of two years of my life.
It was not all gloom though, I can't hasten to add that enough. I met some fantastic people, I was brilliantly prepared for life at university. I just find it sad that there are so many memories that I want to forget at a time when I should have been hoarding them like sweets.
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