Hey guys, it's been a while, hasn't it? I apologise for my absence, I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted (which was my 50 in '15 Update) but i've had a super busy, stressful and eventful month, which i'm going to try my best to explain here.
I don't want to go into detail, because it's quite personal (maybe one day!), but long story short, back at the end of January I went to the doctors, and i'm seeing her regularly, as well as taking medication. That all sounds okay, except, well, the medication is making me feel rubbish. (And my dose has just been increased, so that doesn't help things.) It means that I feel more tired, dizzy, sick etc, so in all honesty, keeping my blog up hasn't been top of my list!
As well as that, university has been keeping me occupied in all my spare time, and any free time I have, i've just been wanting to sleep! (And if i've not been sleeping, i've been at the gym, to prevent me from falling asleep!) Also, we were looking for flats, and I have an essay to write, and there is all sorts of factors contributing to why I have not been online.
However, i'm feeling much better now (except for a cold, nooo!) and after Tuesday, my workload will be majorly reduced, so i'm hoping to get back into the routine of posting that I was in at the start of 2015.
I also haven't been reading, and i'm trying to read 50 books this year, so i'm going to try and read a few more, and then there should be another post on my blog soon all about that!
Thank you for reading, sorry for being away, and sorry this was such a short post!!

Posts to look out for in the future:

• Makeup Revolution Haul

• 50 in '15 Update 2

• Birchbox Review

• Current Hair Routine

• My Necklace Collection

So, it’s exam time, once again, and this is the point in the year where everyone I know, including me, becomes a recluse for the five weeks we have off to study.

When I was in my younger years at school, I used to think that the “older ones” were so lucky, because they got so much time off school. I just thought it was like one big holiday to them, with a few simple tests in between. How wrong was I?!

I didn't think about the stress exams would cause, because school was a ten million times easier back then. I was worried about forgetting my homework, or my PE kit, or worrying because I hadn't revised for a class test. But they didn't determine your future. These exams do.

I’m from Scotland, therefore these exams are probably a lot different to most people reading this (if anyone is reading it!). In Scotland, when we are 14/15 we sit our Standard Grades, which I think are the equivalent to GCSE’s in England, although don't quote me on that! From the ages of 16/17 when we leave school, over 2 years we sit Int 2’s/Highers and in our last year at school, we can choose to do more Highers, or even Advanced Highers.
This year, I am doing five Higher subjects in Art and Design, Graphic Communication, French, Maths and English. The entry requirements for the various courses I am leaving open are all 2 A’s and 2 B’s, 3 A’s and a B, or thereabouts, so it's stressful.
Exams basically determine your future.
This is a stressful process. You revise the whole year for one exam in each subject, and no matter how hard I revise, I panic on the day.
“I don’t know anything!” 
“Do we need to know this?!” 
“I need to cram everything this morning!” 
And my favourite, according to everyone that knows me, “I’m going to fail!”
I know I must annoy people with my negative attitude to Exams, but I can’t help it. I’m just so nervous about mucking them up, that I go into panic mode, thus creating a panicked atmosphere around me. So, you don't want to be around me on these days!

So right now, I’m taking half an hour out to write this, before I go back to my revision in Art, as I have an exam on Wednesday.
So I can only give advice that I have been given myself, and I am trying to follow it.

“Don’t give up. Persevere and you will get there. The hard work will pay off. Just think, after this, you can relax, once they’re done, there’s nothing you can do except wait.”