INVERELL High School HSC students who had not yet left for the next chapter in life, or a holiday spot, gathered at the school on Wednesday morning for the annual farewell morning tea. As usual, some are taking time off before embarking upon more adult decisions; others are jumping into uni with both feet and a grin.
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Anzhelika Yarhchuk is full-steam ahead and hopes to study psychology at the University of New England. She is very clear about her direction and said she has great interest in the human mind.
“Become a successful professional, write a book, maybe a few, and maybe have a doctorate degree,” she said.
Ben Saunders is also weighing up a professional life. He’s waiting on his scores to see if they will get him into engineering, finance or medicine. He said if given the mark, medicine would likely be his first choice.
“Because I think I’d be interested in it, I think I’ll enjoy it,” he said.
Ben Horneman is taking a gap year to shore up uni funds, and then thinking about industrial arts teaching at Newcastle University.
“I like industrial arts classes, and I’m good at them. I loved it at school, and I reckon I’d like to teach it,” he said.
Sometimes I question what I want to do but then I’m like, ‘No, I’ve wanted to do it since I was four, so I’m gonna do it!
- Sam File
Sam File is also heading to higher education, at either Newcastle of Brisbane and she wants to pursue her long-held dream to become a primary school teacher.
“Sometimes I question what I want to do but then I’m like, ‘No, I’ve wanted to do it since I was four, so I’m gonna do it!” she laughed.
Lachlan Fowke is putting his feet in educational waters straight away, but as a tutor at Perrott Hill School, a country boarding school near Crewkerne in England.
After playing the teacher for his gap year, he will again be a student and has been accepted to the University of Wollongong for mechatronic engineering.
“I wanted to go into robotic prosthetics or just robotics in general,” he said.
With a grin, Tilly Witherden said she plans to be a nanny for a year to save some money for university and gain some life experience during a gap year. Then, she hopes to study in journalism at Sydney University. Tilly said it is people that interest her most.
“I’d love to do something about where you get to work on stories, news, yeah, I’m not sure yet. I think it will take me where it’s meant to.”