Rey's VCE journey into year 12

That's alright and I think Friday but honestly not 100% certain, he said it'd be a single later in the week so it'd make the most sense?

That'd be awesome and your school does 6 periods? Can I ask how many periods you get for each class and how long a period is?

We have 5 periods, each one is 58 minutes and we have 2 periods in the morning, 2 before lunch and 1 after lunch. Our school gives us 4 periods per subject (a double and 2 singles) and one period a week is for our homeroom type class

Just had my Melbourne Uni HES program orientation day and it was pretty good, we got pizza and tea from chatime for lunch, everyone was really nice and I made a few friends. We got some general study tips, explored their biggest library and went on a tour (apparently Melbourne uni was the reason for labour day and they also had like the entire front of an old fancy building donated to them which was interesting). The cohort was pretty massive and we all got a free hoodie and badge. We played human bingo (this is my like fourth game of human bingo for stuff this year).
I got there all by myself (may not be an achievement to anyone else but public transport is very scary and I am regional so had to catch the train in so like it was time consuming and I'd never done it by myself before).
Found out we'll get revision lectures, exam preparation workshop and even a graduation ceremony which means I'll have multiple graduation ceremonies (so fancy wow)
I also saw two cosplayers in Melbourne and a tonne of swifties were out (especially in the afternoon), not related just cool cause like they all looked pretty cool.
I hope everyones weekend is going well!

Back at school for 2 days now and I've pretty much gotten myself where I should be, just need to finish a small task about the characters in We Have Always Lived in the Castle plus a homework task (though I have a week for that), a few psych notes I didn't quite finish and some multichoice questions. My business SAC has been pushed back to next week, my psych SAC is also next week and English and hospitality aren't for a little while.
Last hospitality lesson we got to do a tea tasting which was fun, plus I did some notes at the same time to do catch up and tommorow we start making mocktails. I got my official dux certificate for my year 12 subject today which is cool though I hated getting it in front of people at the assembly.
We're up to gut microbiota in psychology and I love it because of food last year, I miss taking the subject but I'm still enjoying the ones I'm currently doing.
Oh and I got the official (not called a study design but I'm going to call it that anyway) for my university course and I love knowing when all the assessments are due for the entire year, although there is apparently a group project oral presentation which I'm not looking forwarrd to.
I think that's about it so yeah, sorry it's kind of a jumble of thoughts but we haven't really done that much lol. Hope everyone's going well and goodluck to people as SAC's start coming through!

Had double business and double hospitality today, we made mocktails which was fun and pretty tasty.
In business Management we had a practice SAC which was 20 marks, I got 19/20 and I'm a little annoyed at myself (yeah I know it's not a bad grade) because my mistake was not a content error but a command word error. I was meant to evaluate but I answered it more like a justify so it's a fixable mistake but just something I already knew so a little dissapointed in myself but I'm still pretty happy with the rest of my marks so I must've done better at the content than I thought I would.
I also did the modules on consent and academic integrity for Melbourne Uni which was long, but the academic integrity was kind of interesting (mainly the stuff on collusion and AI in learning).
Don't have much else to say so to anyone who reads this, hope you're doing well

I've done all the notes from the textbook for psychology now (yay!) which puts me ahead of my class so I'm also doing edrolo notes. We've gotten the short case study our SAC next week will be based on and also been given a practice SAC I havent looked at yet (I plan on doing it under exam conditions over the weekend).
In English I've started transferring all the information for the We Have Always Lived in the Castle insight text guide into notes as revision and I think I'm on track for the class work.
Hospitality is still easy, I'm where I should be with course work although I do need to start making coffee's soon to get enough done throughout the year (the thought makes me kind of anxious because I'm not great at pracs and teachers drink them and I don't want to mess up, also I struggle to fully understand the difference between a lot of coffee's because to be honest as a non-coffee drinker they're all just kind of milk and coffee but I'll learn).
Business Management is going alright still, fairly confident on my content and the SAC is next Wednesday, I think I might ask for another practice SAC when I have it today just as extra revision, or I may see if I can find one online for free, we'll see I geuss.
CHES starts next week on Tuesday for me (terrifyig and exciting) with tutorials starting the week after, but I am excited and I'm hoping that the content helps out in my 3/4 psych too. CHES has also released their school council applications and I'm considering applying, I haven't done much to do with leadership but I think it'd be a really cool opportunity, plus obviously it looks good on a resume. Also their meetings are run digitally meaning as a regional student I could still join which is awesome because a lot of CHES while being state wide is a lot more accessible for metropolitan students.
I think that's kind of it for what's been happening at school, I haven't hit the year 12 exhaustion yet but haven't even started all my classes so I geuss we'll see how I go.
I hope everyone who reads this is going well and remember to try and take care of yourself and don't let the pressure overwhelm you (easier said than done, I know).

FH We were originally going to get to see it the day before and have a day to write a 1 sided page of notes to take in with us but the other psych class got it early so so do we. And yeah I'm feeling very lucky we get prep time before the SAC.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is an interesting book I geuss, cannot wait to be done with it. I don't like most of the characters (my favourites are Julian, Jim Clarke and Mrs Wright) but it's just not a book I would ever read for fun, like the writing isn't horrible or anything it's just most of the characters aren't very likeable but at least it's fairly easy to analyse. I find the whole Merricat taking down the patriachy perspective probably wrong, in my opinion she didn't care about these major societal structures, she just took down any individual that opposed her or challenged her own power because she wanted control. Also in my opinion I prefer Charles to Merricat because yeah he's a sexist douche who manipulates Constance and wants money but Merricat was a murderous, manipulative character who was literally willing to set their house on fire to get what she wanted, the worst thing about Charles was the way he treated Julian (because he did not have to be so cruel and dissmissive) but like Merricat was literally the one who poisoned him and caused the deterioation of his mental and physical health yet she seemed to completely forget that half the time.
Sorry if that's long and ranty lol, how are you finding it?

FH I can't say I hate the book but it's not one I'd ever read for fun if that makes sense but honestly I probably will do it for the exam because our other text is a film (High Ground) and I think I'll enjoy that less than We Have Always Lived in the Castle. What other book are you studying?
It is really interesting how differently each school schedules everything. Thanks and goodluck with your psych sac (even if it isn't for a little while lol) and I'm glad your business SAC went well, and thankyou for the questions you shared earlier, they were helpful for revision

FH We're doing High Ground (yet to watch) and I'm glad the questions were useful

FH lol, yeah we get a movie. Doesn't look like one I'll particularly enjoy but I geuss it's cool we have it as an option for people who prefer films. It's apparently about racism against Indigenous Australians, which I get is an important topic for us to know about but I feel like every year we just over-analyse racism and sexism in history for English texts.
Can't exactly give many comparisons to our schools but let's just say mine's a pretty standard public school, with pretty avergae grades, but the more the merrier lol.

I got the rubric for my psych prac SAC today and I got 75%, I know it's not that bad but I'm dissapointed in myself, especially because some of the marks were due to poor structuring of responses which normally I can do.
I'm working on a scholarship application right now and it's so hard to do the personal essay's, especially the one on how I have made a positive difference in a person/peoples lives because I don't do much outside of school. Slowly working my way through the essays though, just kind of stuck on what to write for that, so I don't know if I have great chances of getting it but it's worth applying.
Don't have much to say, just thought I'd update with a little rant while procrastinating, oh and I have my first university lecture tommorow and I'm both excited and terrified because what if university is too different and I can't do well? I know it's probably just my anxieties/unhealthy need for academic validation but it's still there I geuss.
Anyways, schools still going pretty good at the moment (no year 12 burnout yet, thank god) but we'll see how i go now that my fifth subject is finally starting this week.
I hope everyone is looking after themselves because I know school feels like it's everything but apparently it's not worth sacrificing our health for lol.
Happy Monday everyone!