My son is at that stage where he really has to start taking his school studies a lot more seriously than he has in the past. The time flies so fast; one moment they are choosing their subjects with one or two ideas as to what they want to do after they leave school, the next they are hit with the realisation that the results of those subjects can make quite a difference to their plans.
My son wants to go to university and study astronomical science and he is learning fast that astronomers do not just sit gazing at the stars through a telescope – well, they might in some respects but to get to that stage they have to put in a hell of a lot of other work first including the dreaded mathematics and various areas of science such as physics and chemistry. He does love doing those subjects at school but oh the pressure there is on him to excel all the time in them so that his grades are up to scratch. I have been watching him worry about these things that make up the life of a university student; study, lectures, more study, exams and of course the inevitable student loans that they all seem to need.
My job in all of this is to make sure there are the funds for him to do whatever he eventually decides to do and that I never have to say we cannot afford it – how many parents hate having to utter those words…? I have told him to not focus so much on one path in life with regards to his future – it pays to stand at the crossroads of several and have the opportunity to make a choice. How many people wish with hindsight that they had had such a luxury…?
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The British Government has proven once again what a cowardly. gutless administration it is and how far it will stoop to grovelling to keeping the Americans happy. 
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