‘All you can do is hug and cry, laugh at yourselves, and cry some more’

The final instalment in the exam diary of Jess MacSweeney, a Leaving Cert student from Cork

‘All you can do is hug and cry, laugh at yourselves, and cry some more’

Yesterday morning, if you’d asked me how I was I probably would have been incapable of answering with anything but a series of head-shakes and mumbles.

Results Day, for an 18-year-old, is one of the most important experiences of life so far. But, it also makes an absolute eejit of the best of us. The majority of you know the feeling I’m on about, right?

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