Hello! My name is Luna, and I am a year 12 student studying VCE. I had a VCE journal that I started towards the end of 2022, which recounted the last couple of months of my year 11 journey, but I decided we needed to start afresh as I’m sure there are plenty of things coming up this year that I would like to keep a memento of.

This year I will be doing English language, chemistry, general maths (finally dropped psych!), maths methods, and Japanese second language. I finished biology last year with a raw 39.

My goals for this year are simple, and definitely less ambitious than last years:

I’m aiming for an 80 ATAR. I’d like to do a bachelor of nursing at Monash which requires a 77, and the same course from other unis requires much lower. Hence, an 80 will give me the freedom of having options. 🙂
I’d like all of my study scores to be in the 30s… which means I need to work on methods a lot… (crying rn)
I want to have fun and work on my mental health. It’s year 12, there are going to be so much fun and exciting stuff happening, I don’t want to be studying 25/8 or let my mental illnesses prevent me from doing the things I love.

This is honestly a scary year, I can’t believe I’m nearly done with highschool but I am also excited to get into the next chapter of my life. To the class of ‘23, good luck and have fun!

Holiday Recap
Gonna be honest, I‘ve taken the holidays really chill. I finished school in late November so I got a bit of my holiday homework done before I got bored and decided to chill out for most of December. In January I procrastinated my holiday homework, but I’m going interstate really soon so I’m on a countdown now and hope to get at least 95% of my holiday homework done before I leave. (We’ll find out…)

Do I regret my decisions? Always! But it’s too late now! <3

Week 1 Over
I don’t plan on doing weekly updates since nothing much comes up per week anyways, but since it’s the first week of school I reckon that’s enough of an event.

First week wasn’t that bad, actually. Quite uneventful but really chill. God bless free periods ❤️

General: since I switched to General halfway through the holidays, I hadn’t done any of the work so I was really behind. Fortunately, I’ve been able to catch up enough that I should be on track by next week. I’m really enjoying General actually, it’s been so long since I’ve done maths that I understand pretty easily and have fun doing. Such a change of pace compared to methods, and it’s a very welcome one.

Methods: I don’t hate methods, but it’s not my favourite. I’m not necessarily behind, but every chapter is just a bore and I’m finding that I’m not putting as much effort into it as I should. I am expecting it to be in my bottom 2, but I also don’t want to slack off and not put my best into it because I know I’ll regret it. Also, I was one of the top students in methods last year and my ego would hurt badly if I get knocked down. 💀 Please, god of motivation, help me. 🙏

Chemistry: I love chemistry. It’s my favourite subject and I will happily do chapter questions any day. This week has been fun for chem, I have a wonderful teacher and I’m so excited for the upcoming year because she loves chem as much as I do and it’s nice to have someone with the same passion. I’m trying to get a few chapters ahead now, since I found that I don’t like writing up my notes as the teacher explains the content. I much prefer using class time as a way to revise.

Japanese: I also enjoy Japanese a lot, but it is a roller coaster of emotions. I think that people are expecting me to do well in Japanese, which is nice that they believe in me, but I’m not really aiming for top marks. I study Japanese because I love Japanese culture and history and media. Unfortunately I can’t really talk about how much I love anime in a VCAA exam. :/

English language: I have a new teacher and he’s also wonderful. I was scared he wouldn’t be but he clearly knows the content well. I forgot to mention it in my introduction, but I am trying for a high-ish score in English language. For no reason other than my old teacher believed that I could do well, and I just wanna show her that I can. I very much enjoy englang. I’ve always been decent at English but it was never a subject I ever thought was, or could be, ‘fun’. Englang proved me wrong.

Well, some basic goals I wanna get done:

work on methods, even if I get questions wrong and want to give up, I refuse to be defeated by some stupid numbers
catch up on general, I don’t think I’ll have trouble with this one but you never know
get ahead in chem

Well, I hope everyone’s had a wonderful week/couple of days at school. Good luck in 2023!