caramel's year 12 journal

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Good evening, fellow passenger (lol).

Thank you so much for linking your resource!!! But omg is there actually biofuels in bio? We're learning about it in chem, and we have to compare and contrast between bioethanol/biodiesel/biogas with the fossil fuels.

Last year was probably the most confusing and overwhelming time of my life. Methods was abhorrent, and I would not like to experience high school maths again. The teacher just showed us an example question, and left ourselves to our own devices. (Edit: and then I got sick every other month)

I haven't really put any time towards Art yet, but I really need to practise writing for the exam!! I'm actually concentrating on photography (black and white film) for the AOS (and maybe the rest of the year), so I've researched three photographers (Man Ray, Sally Mann, and Liu Zheng)

Thank you! JLPT is a reading and listening test, and it has five different levels; N1 is the hardest. It's said to be around near-native level, but I don't know if I've felt any improvement in my day-to-day Japanesing

Today was DREADFUL. First, my closest friends won't be going to Camp; second, my Chromebook charger caught fire and almost burnt down the house. It's the heatwave, I swear.

Good luck to you, too. Rooting for you!

School started again today and I got my Year 12 badge!! I cried a little on the train home bc I (kind of) still didn’t fully process that high school is going to be over.

Stressed because my friend studied all the Chem content over the holidays and I feel behind even though I’m still about two exercises ahead . When I got home, I started to get frustrated over Chem.

(Edit)
Progress:

• Edrolo Biology readings, 5A and 5B
• Heinemann Chemistry 3.1 (until Question 5)
• Art written report (about 136/500 words)
• Japanese Unit 3 Week 1 submission (only essay task left)

I'm recovering from a cold that I think was passed on at school. I don't have a fever, but I do have a tension headache. As usual with all my colds/flus, I produced quite a lot of mucus, which, I think, irritates my throat and causes me to cough more.

This morning, I (informally) scheduled an appointment with the Careers Counsellor, and let me tell you one thing: I wish I had them Years 10 & 11!! But it's probably because I have the Methods prereq down, and that makes my degree choices easier . Recently, I've been considering a Bachelor of Laws degree. I didn't have this option when I was in the US, but now I do, so now I'm thinking about whether I should do a double degree or just Law by itself.

Japanese is going pretty well so far. Last week, I had my first oral lesson with my teacher (I'm doing Japanese by correspondence), and if everything goes well this year, I'd say my goal is to get a Study Score of 50 >94% across the year.

At this point, I have finished writing the report on my chosen artist. I have gone way over the word count, so I'll need to edit it, print it out and paste it into my visual diary tomorrow.

I have my Chem tutoring tomorrow at 7p. After school, I'll need to revise on whatever my tutor is covering, which I have PROCRASTINATED put on the back burner because of my cold

I'm planning to join the public speaking meetup tomorrow lunch, too.

I did my bio readings & all the questions, but apparently I was also supposed to watch the videos )))

Alright, I'll come back tomorrow night to update <3

The biggest stuff-up I did on the prev. bio sac was not understanding that the experiment that the Bio teachers put in was an anabolic reaction, not a catabolic reaction, but I recall only losing one mark on the 'draw the diagram' question. Also, not being able to comment on uncertainty (a two-marker I left blank)

Uncertainty should mean that there is a gap in the knowledge is a lack of the exact knowledge of the value of a measured quantity. So, something that is quantitative should have little uncertainty.