my year 12 vce journal!! (hope you enjoy the ride)
POST 12 - 10/03/24
oh. my. god. if you recall last entry, i talked about how conan gray was touring australia in july. and guess who got tickets!!?? i actually got them this morning, because my parents were really indecisive whether i should be allowed to go, and i have such a wonderful charm (when i want stuff from them) and they said i can get tickets!! they were back of the arena kind-of tickets, but they were almost sold out and i’m going so that’s the important thing. i really need to watch how much i have spent for concerts since 2022 — this is my third and i’ve spent $636 on tickets and around $600 on merchandise, which is a lot for someone who doesn’t even have a job (i got all the money from my parents lol). so the concert is in 4 months in the winter holidays and a few days before term 3 starts, and they are right after my practice exams which run during the holidays so i am really grateful he decided to tour during the break.
school has also been eh… i am super grateful for the long weekend. i have my english sac after school on tuesday, which i feel prepared for but i am manifesting some really good prompts. i know quotes, i know the analysis, i just need something worth while to put it to. i don’t really believe in studying for english, because it is solely up to what i get on the day. i just need to know what to write and how to write it, and once i have that, my ideas have flexibility to be used and linked to many themes.
i got my general sac back on friday. i did great, but not as good as i wanted. i got an 85% and i expected that to be honest. i know i made so many stupid errors, but it was after school and i was so tired so to get what i got i am content with it. funny story; the question asked to apply a transformation to the data, so i chose a log(y) transformation because i prefer to work with log(y) to be honest and it was suitable for the data. and then we had to predict a value of height using that equation. i transformed the wrong variable, meaning when i calculated the height, i got 19600cm tall. it is so funny looking back at it, because when i was doing that question and got that answer i was freaking out because i couldn’t figure out what i had done wrong. long story short, she was 160cm tall, so i was VERY close.
psychology and business management are fine. same with EI. school is just so boring right now… i cannot wait until the school holidays because i love easter so much.
hope everyone is staying cool this weekend if you are in victoria, because it is super hot. drink heaps!
POST 13 - 16/03/2024
hi! i don’t want to ramble on like i normally do, but no promises T_T. this week of school has been… interesting. we FINALLY finished ‘we have always lived in the castle’ on tuesday after school, because that was when the sac was. the prompts were really good — i chose ‘jackson presents a pessimistic view on relationships. discuss’ which was really easy to generate quotes and link it to. they have already been marked, but are being moderated on monday. they mark super harsh, like, way harsher than the vcaa examiners, so if i get a 70% i will be content because i know it would be a bit higher if it was an exam.
business management has been great. i’m actually ranked number 1 in my school, which is such an ego boost. it is sort of easy to be ranked one when the class averages are like 40% and 43%. i just don’t like how my teacher names me as the top scorer for every sac or assessed test we do… it is really embarrassing. like i am proud of my achievements, but a lot of this years class is the same as last years, and i was getting named top of the class every single test last year. it just makes me perceived as a nerd, which i’m not i just work hard T-T.
speaking of working hard, i’ve been working ahead in general and am a month and a half ahead of the class. myself and my friend have been working ahead together, and sort of making it a competition who can finish the course first. we also want to try doing over 80 practice exams for general math, which is the school record. it’s sort of fun to have an informal competition to work towards… it keeps me motivated and wanting to do general. i’m up to finance solver, which is so painful from last year so i hope i don’t flunk it like i did last year.
psychology and EI are the same. i have my EI sac on the last week of term, which will be interesting because i have NO idea what i am supposed to do. hopefully it gets explained next week because i am truly in the dark.
anywho, hope everyone has been taking care of themselves and SCHOOL HOLIDAYS ARE IN TWO WEEKS!!!
It's awesome to read this, so jealous you got all the classes I wanted to do for Year 12, instead I'm stuck with leftovers -v-
School has been such a sporadic mess for me, although it kind of always has been. Both me and my family don't really care if I pass VCE, but reading your journey (struggles, goals and successes) will be fun! (I'm meant to be finishing my Art Folio right now but don't tell my teacher that)
I'm a HUGE Music and Drama nerd so it's also cool to see you adore music that much! Personally I was in the top 0.0001% for Post Malone and Plain White T's last year (I need help)
I'm curious, has your school always had SACs at after-school times? Ours are normally during normal class periods so It's a bit weird seeing that you have an English SAC after-school.
For reference if we have any conversation here;
Art Marking & Exhibiting - (not by choice, 100% gonna fail 
General Math - (Got high marks last year, missed a lot of days and got really low for my first SAC, not expecting much improvement but you never know! finding a CAS calculator is going to be hard though since mine from last year got stolen...)
Food Studies - (Love it, Hate the teacher. Probably gonna get low marks though since I hate annotating)
Visual Communications - (I ABSOLUTELY adore this class and the teacher, it's such a carefree environment and we are essentially allowed to do anything as long as we get the work done in time, hands down my favorite class I have ever been in and I'm praying for high marks.)
General English (While I love writing stories and normally get high marks in free writing, I'm struggling with the Film analysis work and I'm probably gonna fail that SAC, I just don't have the attention span to watch AND analyze a movie that I find so boring. ("High Ground" if your curious)
After writing all that I realized holy crap that's a lot, hopefully it didn't completely bombard you >.>
Overall it seems like we are polar opposites for Year 12, I'm taking it easy and not really caring too much about grades and scores while your putting in the effort and striving for an incredible result.
FH
I can 100% understand that if you don't have a good biology teacher (ig that goes for all subjects) then you're going to be like a confused and lost chicken. I wish you luck for your other subjects, Year 12 seems like a pain 
I can relate to being a book reader but unable to read because of school 
Also you listen to enhypen? whats your favourite enhypen song?
monolith my admiration for music is really crazy. i listen to music almost every waking second to the point i have hearing difficulties. and for the sac’s, the school council has voted on this years ago. we even have practice exams during the winter and spring holidays, so that is something.
your subjects seem so cool - art seems like a really laid back subject but i have ZERO artistic skills so i wouldn’t really know that. so many people are doing high ground for english, i am certain it would be more interesting than our novel we did (we have always lived in the castle).
and no, you didn’t bombard me. i enjoy reading others school life, because i really have nothing to do with my life T-T. also it must have taken a while to read everything here HOW DID YOU DO IT!!?!?
Yona biology was so painful in 2023, i am so relieved to drop it. and yes, year 12 is extremely painful… i’m surprise i haven’t burned out yet (i’m really close to it though).
and yessss i LOVE enhypen - they were my 4th most listened to artist last year. my favourite song is probably that feeling when or chaconne. what is your favourite?
FH
Pretty much same for music! At any point I can I have music playing, I think last year for my spotify wrapped I had ~ 300,000 minutes listened.
It's cool to hear that your school council actually does stuff, ours kind of just lays about and organizes maybe one small event/fundraiser a year. It's mostly run by administration but their are 2 designated spots for students.
For exams/SAC's, we have always done them in class time. Normally we study the topic in class for a few weeks, spend a week on practice sacs or revision then we do the SAC's during class periods.
Art SHOULD be fun and laid back, but my Art teacher makes everything boring and tiring. They are always grumpy for no reason and are honestly just an annoyance while trying to do work. It's painful to attempt to get work done during art class because I can't have any time to myself during it. I was hoping on dropping the class but it's far too late for that.
I believe we are studying a novel after High Ground, not too sure what novel though. Not really looking forward to it either way.
I was actually procrastinating my overdue art folio work by scrolling through ATAR Notes which ended up bringing me to your thread, so now I'm here I guess.
monolith yeah it is great and all that my school council does stuff, but that means i lose a lot of personal time due to after school sacs and school holiday exams. but at least we don’t get bombarded with holiday homework. i feel like we do these kinds of things outside of class time is to have more class time to study and perfect the content, which doesn’t really show in my school since so many class averages are below 50%. looks good for my scores at least LMAO.
and i completely get the scrolling through this forum. i have two study periods monday morning and i just did my bound reference, and now i can’t be bothered!! it is either here or reddit, because my school hasn’t blocked reddit yet. hope i don’t jinx it T_T
FH
I replied but I guess it didn't go through before.
We don't really get much holiday work unless we are behind in class. I'm thankful for that ;-;
During study I normally just chill with friends in the library while watching a show or reading, very rarely if I have to get some due work done then I'll do it.
If your school ever blocks a website you like, check out getting a VPN that supports IKEV2, bypasses everything at my school.
While writing this I'm sitting in the art room trying to think of ways to authenticate my work. My art teacher gave me false info at the start of the year making me assume I can use someone else's work as a base (I'm doing photo editing). I submitted my work after an extension was given and I was praying that was all I needed to do.
I was away for the entirety of last week (In Melbourne for a concert and the day we (me & my mom) left we got a call from the teacher while we were driving, they proceeded to say that all my work can't be authenticated which I didn't find very fair (I understand now that I wasn't allowed to use someone else's work as a base, but at the time the teacher didn't tell me). Basically I had until the end of the week to submit a entirely new photo work (reminder I was in Melbourne until the end of the week) I decided f*** it, I'll submit it on Monday and they can deal with it. (Our teacher only marks work inside our folio books, so I couldn't just send him the normal work on a document) So today, Monday comes around and I get told they can't authenticate that it's my work since I didn't do it in class... HOW AM I MEANT TO PROVE IT'S MINE WHILE IM IN MELBOURNE AND NOT IN CLASS??? (they knew I was away for the week fyi).
I should mention that the backdrop original image was something I made on my computer using blender & studio.
Basically, they refused to let me show them any evidence, they refused to let me show them all the evidence I had:
- the files of the backdrop build
- Reverse image search around 10 different engines of the original base image with no results
- DMs with the person I had made it for (I made it during the timeframe of the project so it is a viable work)
- The group in which I posted the final build to, which by the way is owned by me and the group logs showcase that I uploaded and changed every single asset to do with it
- exactly 27 different copies of the build, all different variations since I MADE IT and have all the versions from beginning to end
- the PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT that I used to make the final image
overall it's a mess and I'm probably gonna fail VCE Art and not get an ATAR because of them.
God this is a lot and I apologize for that but I just wanted to vent to literally anyone
Anyway how's your day going
monolith oh wow i wish that we had relax holiday homework like you — during the holidays for psychology we had to read around 40 pages of the textbook and answer 10 lots of questions. and that is also crazy, we have so much work to always do during our study periods because our teachers assign work having in mind we get time during the school day for study periods.
with the blocking of websites, it is sort of good stuff gets blocked because i am least distraction. and the school has blocked every vpn… like EVERY vpn. we have to sign in every morning using this internet security thing where it tracks our user and links it with our search history.
art sounds so disgusting, i am so glad i’m not talented in that department. you do five subjects, so i wouldn’t worry if you do bad in art — just let it become your 5th subject so it won’t matter that much. and don’t worry about the venting, i completely get it too.
my day has been alright; i actually did work in psychology for once because parent teacher interviews are next week and need to prove i don’t slack off. currently going over a practice test for business as i type this, but i got full marks so i am not really sweating the feedback. how has your day been besides your art teacher situation?
PS: what concert did you see last week?
FH
My day started off plain but I guess it's going well now, communicated with my year level coordinator about art so that should be fine. Just breezed through the last two periods of the day and I'm currently studying for my English SAC I have tomorrow.
I saw P!NK, I went to one of her shows when I was 6 with my family so it's quite the rush to go see it again and have the flow of old memories.
FH
good to know that you realised biology was not for you too late for me to back down but I'm in a toxic relationship with biology. Like I like it, but I dislike it at the same time, probably because its content heavy too.
BURNING OUT SUCKSS, I myself fall into that trap and it does take a while to get out of it. YOU CAN DO ITTTT I BELIEVE 
AND YES HELLO FELLOW ENGENE. CHACONNE IS ALSO MY FAV>> not much people like chaconne as their fav, so thats surprising to hear. I like fate too even though its not really a song (i wish they would make a full version already)
TFW is amazing too.
Anyone else having to do assignments over their holiday? My teachers literally put a MEME IN THAT SAYS "oh the holidays? You've got plently of time to do your assignments 
"
Like are you joking me =_=...
omg right? Like come on give us a bReAk... and you know what? We have to hand in our drafts on the 2nd last week of the term and their like "Oh yeah, I'm gonna look over it on the weekends. Not the HOLIDAYS". LIKE ARE YOU FR RN?! why do we have to do work over the holidays and you just get to sit back and ReLAx.
Leeshi i completely agree. for example, next week my business class is missing out of all of the classes due to a gazzilion interruptions so we have a lot of holiday homework, but my teacher told us she will mark our tests during the holidays because she doesn’t find it fair how she gives us homework but she gets an easy way out - which i found super nice because she doesn’t have to do that T-T.
sometimes i can’t wait to graduate omg.
POST 14 - 23/03/2024
UPDATEEEEEEE!! i hate school so much right now. it is way too busy i’m finding that i never have time for myself anymore. and i am also procrastinating A LOT more than usual. anywho, i got some sac scores back this week and all is going well! i got a 75 for my english sac, which puts me in the top 8-ish percent for my cohort, so i can live with that i guess. and i got an 83 for my psychology sac, which is like 30% above the class average so go me i guess!?
i have a general math sac next tuesday AFTER SCHOOL (free me), but time series is super straight forward so i’m not panicking too much. what i am panicking about is this stupid EI sac i have next week. i have to write an 800 justification or something (to be honest i’m really lost right now), and i got a grilling from the mean teacher about how my topic made no sense to him, BUT IT MADE SENSE TO THE OTHER TEACHER WHO HAS BEEN GUIDING ME FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS. i don’t like the mean one if you couldn’t tell, but now i want to do well to shove it in his face and remove his implied doubts about me.
i’m missing out of all my business classes next week (yay), but my teacher has given so much holiday homework (not yay). like, literally finish the rest of AOS2 notes for holiday homework, watch edrolo, complete a solid 35 practice exam questions and revise for a sac next term. /sigh/. my other subjects are dull as per usual, i can’t wait for the holidays and do stuff at my own pace.
my school has a ‘soccer challenge’ next week, which is an annual thing where the two senior year levels battle it out in a game of… you guessed it, soccer. it was alright last year, but i’m not a cheerleader nor a soccer player so i have to sit there for 2 hours watching a bunch of try hards attempt to win a tiny trophy that you can buy at a party supply store. AND there are parent teacher interviews next week. my reports were fine so i don’t really care what teachers have to say about me - i know i do the work if they have a problem with me looking at my screen all the time tell the school to block snake io. oh, and my school internet network thingy blocks abc news, but not snake io. where is the common sense!? (please don’t block snake io i thrive off that game at school).
anywho if i don’t update here before easter and you celebrate, happy easter!!!
FH Congrats on your English and psych scores, you did awesome! Geeze your school gives you way more holiday homework than mine and schools always block the dumbest things but really ABC news? That's just dumb.
Happy Easter to you too (if you celebrate it, if not just enjoy your holidays)
FH
Wew, holidays came up fast, only roughly 120 more days of high school left. Dropped Art, praying I can find a mid-year course to get those final 2 3/4 subject credits. Not really sure how I'm doing in classes since we haven't been given any of our SACs back but I'm sure that I'm passing them.
Instead of soccer we have a senior house comp. for Dodgeball throughout the week, not the greatest but better than soccer imo.
Enjoy your holidays man, take a well deserved break.
Rey_of_sunshine I KNOW blocking abc was so unnecessary, but it worked the next day so i guess someone must have complained. and happy easter is you celebrate, i only celebrate for the chocolate lets be honest T-T.
monolith NO WAY i would actually go try for dodgeball… i would accidentally hurt someone i don’t like. key word: accidentally. because i’m not a mean person. i am, but only to the people who have done wrong by me T-T. you should be fine though with your art stuff, you do 4 subjects and VCAA only requires you to do four, and you sound smart so i’m sure you will pass them all with flying colours.
FH Yeah, I used to do some of the religious holiday stuff (not willingly, it was a catholic primary school) but we just celebrate for chocolate too. Glad your school unblocked the abc because that's just ridiculous
- Edited
POST 15 - 11/04/2024
oh hi! i haven’t done an update in a while because i’ve been super demotivated to write one up, but i am super bored right now and actually cannot wait until school returns next monday because my patience at home, not doing much, is making me crazy. like, the weather has been so bad to do stuff - i’ve only gone out twice in 15 days (partly because i’m lazy. i went out the first saturday of the holidays to the tenpin bowling centre where i scored a wonderful score of 148, which is decent because i cannot play sport at all. and then i went into the city last friday to purchase a physical cd copy of an album because i absolutely love albums in their physical form.
a little update with school: i am SMOKING general math right now. i got a 91 on my sac for time series- i lost 3 marks for not connecting the smooth median, writing the wrong number when i rounded despite me calculating it correct, and i can’t remember the third error. it was after school and i was dying to go home, and to be honest i didn’t even check through my answers. also finished my EI sac, which i was super proud of so i hope i get a score that reflects my effort. i spent probably 10 hours writing and refining that sac, which is more time that i would put for another subject, but i want to prove to my teachers i am capable of doing this subject because i feel as if they doubt me.
english sac second week back to school, alongside a business sac. haven’t put effort into either those subjects these holidays- i’ve been waiting for the “oh shit school starts again tomorrow” fear when i will actually do stuff. the only subject i’ve been trying for right now is general- i’ve done 3 chapters in 5 days and am almost done the whole course content.
anywho hope y’all are having more entertaining holidays than i do- these are the only holidays i get off because my school does mock exams during the winter and spring holidays. BUT next holidays i’m going to my conan gray concert!!!! so so excited and i can’t wait to yap about that when it comes T-T.
stay safe all :3
- Edited
FH
These have been the busiest holidays for me EVER.
I only have these last 2 days to get all my holiday work done so I'm trying to crunch it all. A bit stuck with some of it but I'm sure I'll do fine (praying).
The concert sounds exciting! I'm currently getting ready for a few conventions later down the year. Right now I'm trying to get everything sorted for Comic Con.
I should probably binge a bit of General Math's work before I go back on Monday to be more prepared since I barely passed the latest SAC (45% and still got the highest in my friend group ;-; ) (Damn you circuits)
Any who, looking forwards to going back to school. Getting so bored sitting around doing the same thing every day.
FH
The work is decently easy but just requires a lot of time to complete.
There are conventions for everyone! A lot of conventions (Especially ones revolving around pop culture) are giant "exhibition" halls filled with store stands. There are also Panels and special activities but most of the time people spend there are often walking around the exhibition stands chatting with others.
monolith OH NAH the store stands sounds like my worst nightmare- last time i went to something like that i ended up eating pizza and donuts with my friend on the floor T-T. i’ll just walk down the aisle at concerts where all i do is ask for merch and cry in my seat during the saddest, most gut wrenching songs.
POST 16 - 15/04/2024
i am done with school and its only been an hour T-T. 11 weeks of term 2 is going to be hell.