Jana words Education

How’s school?

How are things at school/How are you doing at school? (как дела в школе)

Some bits are good

Partially, something is fine, whereas other things may not (что-то получается, что-то нет)

what year are you in?

what year of studies are you at? (на каком ты курсе)

take a year off

a year of rest from studies, usually taken for travelling, obtaining new skills, combating burnout (взять год “отпуска“)

What course are you doing?

What subject are you mastering? (Что ты изучаешь)

do a degree

study and complete a course of higher education at a university or college to earn an academic qualification (получать степень)

have your finals

have your final exams in order to graduate (сдавать выпускные экзамены)

apply

to request something usually officially especially in writing or by sending in a form (подать)

up to a point

to some extent / to a certain extent / somewhat (в какой-то степени)

It made me hungry for success

sth pushed me to work hard to win (сделало меня голодным до успеха)

you can’t beat sth

if you can’t beat sth, you can’t deny some fact that is the best and can’t be compared to any other (несомненно)