year 10 next year, but looking to do EI in year 11, let me know how it goes everyone!! 
my year 12 vce journal!! (hope you enjoy the ride)
g4rl1cg1rl oh wow, that is intriguing (i hate anything to do with history lmao). iād definitely love to talk throughout next year with our ideas, and am also glad that we found each other, because EI seems so difficult iām not sure if iāll make it out alive 
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a tip that iāve gotten from my teachers is just to confine your topic down so it is achievable in eight months, so i hope that helps get the ball rolling and confidence boosted!!
It's unfortunate that your school school doesn't have enough people for a 3/4 Geography class since that was probably my favorite subject in Year 12.
ThunderDragon i agree, i really enjoyed geography - especially going out on field trips. but iām also enjoying EI so i guess itās a win-win!
FH Just completed EI this year. It is a great subject, but the critical thinking test is horrid 
stevendort not what i wanted to hear T-T. what was your EI topic?
FH I did a ethical paradigmatic analysis of xenotransplantation through the perspective of some philosophers and medical codes. EI is the best subject that the VCAA offer, in my opinion. It is extremely rewarding and fun (if you are doing something you like of course) and it will immensely help you through university. Just as a tip, since you will inevitably face this issue towards the end of the year; you will be pulling your hair out about keeping under that small word count (trust me it sounds big, but it is crazy small). You just have to be extremely honest about yourself during the editing process and cut ANYTHING that does not relate to the question. It hurts to do as you've put so much effort into your paper, but you have to do it (I legit cut my paper down from 72 pages to 36).
stevendort ahh now you have made me worry (itās ok i work better stressed). when in doubt iāll just maybe throw everything into a table since they donāt go to the word count LMAO.
so glad iāve met some EI peeps now i can get some extra help 
for any of the EI peeps who want to talk about EI, i made this to do so! might help future students down the road.
https://discussion.atarnotes.com/d/8717-extended-investigation-questions-for-past-and-current-students
FH No, don't worry. Every student in the state goes through the same cycle. You'll do well if you are really passionate about your project.
POST 2 - 22/12/2023
hi, again! i have wayyyy too much time on my hands because i literally updated here 3 days ago, buuutttt iāve been productive in saying that so hereās update numero due (i almost failed italian both semesters in year 9 but ānumero dueā sounded more fancy than ānumber twoā)
i have done a fair amount of my holiday homework this week. almost finished my psychology homework, which is just research methods and skills which is extremely repetitive but it has to get done - i just have one lot of textbook questions to go. i technically didnāt have any homework for general maths, but when i went to buy some spare exercise books for my orientation classes in early november, i bought 10mm grid books for math instead of 5mm, so iāve been in the process of, and actually completed, transferring all the work over to the 5mm books my friend bought for me because i am too lazy to leave the house! and then there is english. i went to the textbook store to buy my textbooks yesterday and they didnāt have either of the books we are studying (for reference, they are āwe have always lived in the castleā by shirley jackson and āoedipus the kingā my sophocles). they should be in within 10 working days EXCLUDING christmas and boxing day and new yearās day.
and then there is EI. to be honest, EI is just going to get its own paragraph at this point in time because it is so interesting and i do not regret choosing it (yet). i think i mentioned in my previous post that my topic i have found a huge gap in the literature for is sleep myths, so like misconceptions about sleep and how they might influence or impact teenagers. my teachers (thereās two of them) both seem to really enjoy the idea and see good potential, but i do need to define a lot of stuff because, as my teachers have put it to me, what is a āgood nights sleepā and how is that scientifically defined. might go into the state library after the new year to do some work because i get distracted too easily at home. i also signed up to go watch top talks, which is (for non EI kids) the top EI oral presentations being presented to people at the state library, which is good for me because iāve only seen final products in terms of the written report, not the oral presentation. for my topic however, the teachers want me (as it is mentioned in some of the literature i have read) to complete a delphi method style approach to identifying sleep misconceptions. a delphi method is basically getting scientific experts who specialise in the topic on research to identify (with support of scientific evidence of course) whether it is a myth or not. THEY WANT ME TO CONTACT EXPERTS. they said students have done so successfully but i am wayyyy too introverted to ever do something like that. self esteem levels - low!!
a mini-life update. i have never watched stranger things before, but i made the choice to start watching it. i was always like āiām never going to conform to what people have to say about television shows, I WILL BE THE JUDGE OF WHAT IS AND ISNāT GOOD.ā confessionā¦ it is super good. the moment iām done writing this, iām going to finish off season 1 (i have 3 episodes left.) i also applied at a nandoās store for work, because i absolutely love nandoās, but iām not expecting to land the job to be honest.
anywho, christmas is three days out, so wishing everyone a very merry christmas, and due to the lack of excitement in my life, i will definitely be posting another update before the new year. bye for now!
g4rl1cg1rl with top talks, it's during a school day I DONT KNOW WHAT EXCUSE IMMA USE WITH MY SCHOOL SO I CAN GO T-T
14 days later
POST 3 - 05/01/24
hi, again! i havenāt put anything here in a week or so, and iām really bored, so i figured to put up something here just to waste some time.
iāve tried getting ahead in some subjects the last few days when i havenāt been out, which is boring as hell because iām trying to bide some time until my book store orders my set texts for english (we have always lived in the castle for unit 3 and oedipus the king for unit 4). i started my general bound reference, which can be super tedious because i hate making mistakes and i get distracted super easily, so iām always making mistakes. also been working on some psychology revision notes for the first half of AOS1 which we covered in orientation.
extended investigation has been a total bloodbath. i have done absolutely nothing. zero. iām really lacking motivation, which is bad because you need it for this subject. i got an email from my teacher with some other homework (i havenāt really read it properly) but it is like 10 questions + article reading so i guess it isnāt too much considering school starts in 25 days.
i finished stranger things a week or so ago, and iām really surprised i havenāt watched it earlier because it was super good. currently half way through all of us are dead, which i also regret not watching earlier. also got bored and ranked every taylor swift song here.
i might go on hiatus until school resumes, so thanks for reading!!
9 days later
one of the chosen texts for my literature class this year is medea and it genuinely looks so boring!!
OMG i was at opening night of paramore too! can't belive the pyros malfunctioned
i don't know that many high schoolers who like paramore cus its usually millenialsso its good to know you like them too!