OK, so it was my birthday 3 days ago - glorious 17th October. I have done a little bit of research and have found that I share with, amongst more worthy people, Eminem (Marshall Mathers) - isn't that a thrill?

So 17, the legal age to start driving here in the United Kingdom. Now all of my friends in college seem to have this obsession with driving - I just joke that they have delusions of grandeur, as myself, I don't get what the big deal is. Heck, I haven't even sent off for my provisional driver's license as of yet. To be honest, I don't have enough time to learn to drive. I am doing five wonderful A levels - I really do love each of them. I do find it taking up a lot of my time but I am hoping it pays off in the end. No pain, no gain!

Nazism, now, I have always had an extreme interest in the workings of the Third Reich in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's - and now that I am studying it further for AS level history, I feel my interest borders on the obsession! I am even getting to the stage now that I wish to start collecting Nazi memoribilia. I spoke to another FT player Zbeckabee who is a Nazi numismatist. She has given me some handy links which I am considering purchasing some Reichspfennigs from. It has got to the stage where when a factual recall test was called, I decided not to revise for it to see how my natural knowledge on the subject fared against the revised knowledge of fellow students. I was the only one out of 100 students taking the subject to get 35/35. So, my question, when does an interest start to become an obsession? I am sitting here with a book called,"Nazism and German Society 1933-1945",  edited by David F. Crew - I do recommend the book to anyone else with this strange fascination! I think what highlights the interest is the fact that I really don't like the majority of history. ONLY Nazism. I was going to drop history as a subject when I was 14 - when you opt for subjects to study to GCSE level. Now, I am studying the subject to one level under degree. As an onlooker, would you find such an interest in something so horrific as slightly frightening? I am even contemplating doing a European history degree with a year in Germany!

Already, they are getting us thinking about university. We have only just started college, but, I guess it is best to start early! At the moment I have managed to whittle down the subjects to four possible degrees!

1) Medicine
2) Physics with Nuclear Physics
3) Biochemistry
4) European History with a Year Abroad

Has anybody specialised in these fields and how did you find such a degree course? Thanks!

Gosh, this has ended up being quite long...I will cut it there then,

Jonathan