Quick update on Class of 2021 kid.
Great first semester. Grades high enough for Dean’s List. (which is only for GPA for the entire year, so her goal is to do as well second semester and make it official for the year). Being on a whole different grading scale and having ~70 percent of each module grade based on the final was a little anxiety producing at first but this has reassured her that she can do it. Some friends did not fare so well, one stopped going to some of his classes because he didn’t think they were that hard, and so he has to resit an exam or two. In that regards, parental advice is the same world wide- go to the lectures, keep up, review notes, and so on!
She did get tickets to the Christmas Ball and had a great time but that’s the only formal event she went to in the fall aside from formal hall dinners, which are about once a month. She went up to Edinburgh a couple of times for shopping and clubbing, but in general has found that the social scene in St. Andrews itself is sufficient for her needs. She’s a bit of a homebody, likes to workout, cook at home and study, with just some partying thrown in.