Just got back my first ever uni assignment results (group oral) and I got 8/10! The section I was in charge of got top marks and we did frigging awesome, I am so happy with the results lol.
Don't have anything else to say so hope everyone else is going well!
Cardamon
- Jun 20, 2024
- Joined Sep 13, 2023
POST 11 - 06/03/24
sigh. i am TIRED. like, i-just-did-two-all-nighters-with-a-lot-of-caffeine tired. i did not do two all nighters, and i’m off caffeine (don’t ask me that tomorrow morning), but i’m just really tired from school. i got home around 5:30pm after completing my general math sac after school, which wasn’t the only after school sac this week; i had psychology on monday. before i talk about school, my personal life is more exciting so you will hear about that first.
if you remember from my very first blog post (seems like a lifetime ago), i saw conan gray back in 2022. and he is coming back to australia!! bad thing is, i have some personal stuff going on right now so i can’t exactly ask my dad if it is ok to go, but i am bringing it up tomorrow again because tickets are on sale friday morning, and i am even considering taking the first two periods off to get them. it is so hard to outline why it is important and a need that i go. it is the opening night in the world, which australia never gets, so i would be getting all the live debuts from his new album (out april 5, you will be hearing about it more then for sure). it is also during the school holidays in winter, meaning i won’t miss any school (perk) and IT’S CONAN GRAY. he literally got me from the darkest of places in 2021/22 (the internet isn’t a good place to overshare, but you get his significance to me). so please wish me luck.
anyway… school (pulls disgusted faces).
it isn’t going bad. the general sac i did today went really well - if i don’t get above a 90 i think the school oval might have some burnt grass, metaphorically of course (not really). my psych sac was also alright, just some questions really stumped me. anything to do with the nervous system i’m just like, nope, i’m out. i think i talked about the spinal reflex for the somatic nervous system, but that isn’t going to severely drag me down i guess. i feel like i just need to get on top of the stress component that occurs before the sac. before all my sacs so far, i have had really crippling stomach pains, which is not good because i had to go hospital for that the night before my unit 1 exams last year. might take up meditation, it’ll definitely help me sleep. i have my english sac after school next tuesday, so thank goodness it is 39 degrees on saturday and sunday i’m just going to study (beats getting sizzled).EI is going alright. i’m slowly putting together my research, slightly altering my topic depending on what i’m finding. still sticking to the sport and motivators in female adolescence topic, because it is a huge gap in the literature and stuff that i can find only dates back to the 1980’s. i am also not demotivated like i was for my previous three topics… i literally completed all the weeks work in 2 days, which is amazing because i normally hand my work in 2 days late all the time. the sac for that is approaching, and i’m a little scared to be honest. i am not a good writer academically - we did this sort of practice thing last week and it took me an hour and a half to write up 700ish words, but there was a lot of contemplation and uncertainty and to be honest, i didn’t even know if it made sense. i just try sounding fancy and hope for the best, lets be honest here.
that is sort of it for now… i don’t really have much more to talk about. i’m probably 2 minutes away from crawling into bed and sleeping because i don’t even want to do homework tonight. i have three study periods tomorrow. on monday, i had five study periods, because 3 classes got cancelled due to teacher absences so i had literally one single that day. also, sort of regretting not doing ei through ches… i just feel like it is going to be really hard to perform well with vsv. watch this space i guess. hope everyone is well, and take care!! listen to rock music, be emo, live life T-T
hello everyone,
vce not good
m1lky, out
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).- Edited
POST 5 - 03/02/24
hI! i figured that since i woke up early for no good reason, and that i haven’t updated here for a while, that this is the perfect opportunity to do just that. i’m more of a morning person, but i don’t feel like doing work this morning.
not gonna lie, year 12 surprised me a tiny bit. the workload is a bit intense, and the homework is absurd, but i feel like that is the whole challenge of this year. it has also serves as a bit of a wake up call. i got an english response graded from my orientation last year and i got 44% - which i found quite shocking because i’ve gone from A’s to E’s. the teacher i had for orientation marks twice as hard as the vcaa examiners, so i’m not really stressed because the teacher i have this year is so sweet and is giving me extra help because she could tell i was devastated.
general maths and business management are just a breeze at this point, so i’m not stressing too hard. but my general teacher has already starting giving out practice exams for the first AOS and im actually quite confident if i get on top of my stupid mistakes, i have the possibility to get a 40+ for general. i refuse to get any lower than a 40+ for business management, because it’s incredibly easy.
psychology is also going well. i thought i did really bad on the nervous system functioning test i did during orientation, but i got a 72%, which i can deal with. i have a new teacher, and she is really really good. she’s the kind of teacher who tells us to watch edrolo videos before class, which i find really motivating because i can add to notes in class but i’m not fretting to jot every single word down.
and then there is extended investigation…
EI is just a living hell right now. my topic has hit a dead end and my teachers are trying their best to not discourage me because i was literally freaking out during our meeting on thursday. i just need to read a bunch more literature (not so fun) to see gaps. i still want to work with insomnia, but test something that isn’t known about the issue because at the end of the day, that’s what EI is about.i feel that’s my biggest problem with every subject. i worry over the littlest of things and it turns out fine, but i don’t want to get so ahead of the curve that the curve becomes a sphere. because at the end of the day, i don’t want to be overly cocky and optimistic about year 12, because it is year 12 T-T.
anywho, next week we are going on study camp, which seems super lame, but i shouldn’t really judge because it has yet to happen. we are doing sport (ew), dancing (i lack skills), respectful relationships (i’m gonna be single forever tf) and we are going to watch a movie at hoyts, which lets be honest, i’m thrilled about. i looked at the times and i literally have my money on us watching mean girls, which would be hilarious.
i’ve also been obsessed with ted (that foul-mouthed teddy bear). there was a new series that came out and not gonna lie it was really good, and i thought it was going to flop. one thing i think you probably are getting from this post is that i am extremely judgemental, and i am, about everything other than humans. because i wouldn’t want anyone judging me, but i doubt a weed-smoking teddy bear from a tv show would care.
that’s all i guess, i gotta get myself motivated because i don’t have time during the week to do work because of camp. if anyone has ideas about stuff to research for EI, please please pleaseeeee help me out.
i’ll try keeping these updates weekly if i have time throughout the year.
until next time!!
Entry #19
This one is going to be short, but I got an offer from the University of Melbourne! So there's that.
Have a great Year 12, Class of '24
Cardamon My school (remaining unsaid cause privacy) just kinda keep letting me accel subjects. They initially offered 1/2 Bio and History as a regular pathway, however, they later added Methods and Chemistry later! It’s not something regularly ever done so I had to go straight up to the administration to get anything like this done!
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POST 1 - 19/12/2023
hi! my name is dani, and to be honest, i never thought of starting a vce journal. i’ve read countless amounts on atar notes, and i was like ‘eh that could never be me.’ but i really wanted to capture my vce journey, because i know it is going to be an extraordinarily bumpy road that i’m not sure i’m quite ready to ride. i’m in year 12, the class of 2024, and i wanted to just document the ups and downs of the year (maybe more downs that ups but that’s ok).
my subjects
well i’m doing five subjects next year; four at my in-person school and one through virtual school victoria. at my in-person school, i’m studying english (compulsory, although i would have enjoyed doing english language), general maths, business management, and psychology. through virtual school victoria, i’m studying extended investigation (explanation below).english — i love english. i don’t care what people say about hating english and wanting to die when they go to english class, i absolutely enjoy english (despite my friends correlation between me loving english and being white
). when i finish high school, i want to study media + communications and creative writing at unimelb. kind of ironic how english is my lowest performing subject (mid 70’s to low 80’s on a good day), but i don’t like analysing books, and why the author chose medea to be a child-killer (yes our school chose medea for year 11 it was incredibly boring). i enjoy the creative component of english, which is why i am SUPER grateful for the new english study design where we get to craft our own creative responses, because i always do super well on those in my english sac’s. enough about english…general math — i was planning on dropping general in year 12, because it was too easy, but then i realised “why drop it because it’s easy… it is just an opportunity to get a decent study score.” (for background information, i was going to drop this to continue with geography but not enough people from 1/2 wanted to do it so it got cancelled. then i had to chose between biology and general, and i really really despise biology [a story in itself, i might write about it later] so i chose general). i did well this year, i heard the 3/4 course is almost a copy and paste of units 1/2, so that will be interesting.
business management — HELP i will never understand how people tend to do so bad in this subject. i never dropped below a 90 on my sac’s (except the one time i realised that my teacher marked me an extra mark that when removed, it would’ve been an 87, so i didn’t tell her because what’s loyalty T-T). i feel that business is the kind of subject that where you put the effort in, you get the reward, and i do all the notes and the textbook questions assigned but i never really went out of my way to study, and still managed 90’s-100’s. definitely will change that approach next year because i’ll get lazy if i don’t. but i DO have the same teacher next year as i did this year, which is thrilling because she is great, but changed her teaching style during orientation where peoples tests grades dropped for the worse because it sucked (thank god i’m an independent learner ESPECIALLY for business).
psychology — psych has always been the stand out science for me. i feel like studying why people do what they do and how the mind works entails so many fascinating connections to what i already know, and to branch off that is just something i enjoy. i did great this year in psychology with my decent 75 year old teacher, and then she went on leave and i got an even better teacher who was by far more engaging than her.
extended investigation — as mentioned, i’m doing this through vsv, and took a LOT of convincing for my school to let me do it (gotta love having a kick-ass mum). i’m really excited, because not only isn’t there an exam, i get to look into stuff i really enjoy and it’s mostly self paced meaning i can do it in my own time… AND IT SCALES DECENTLY TOO!! basically EI as it is abbreviated is a subject where you write a thesis on a topic you have researched for the whole year, and then present it as an oral presentation to a panel of VCAA assessors. helps build critical thinking, but i want to improve my writing skills.
why i despise biology
biology this year was such a roller coaster, because i had the worst teacher imaginable. like if he had to teach to survive, he’d be a pile of ashes right now. i did incredibly bad in his class, because i had no idea what i was doing 95% of the time, and he has this mindset where he thought he was always right, despite marking our unit 1 exams wrong and screwing up multiple other marking on sac’s. BUT HE LEFT AFTER SEMESTER 1, and i got a biology teacher who has a PhD in something (finished on an A, which is like 25% more than what i finished on with the bad teacher)goals
i guess i should also talk about my goals for the year. study score wise, i am hoping to achieve:- english — 30-35
- general — nothing below a 40
- business management — nothing below a 45
- psychology — 35-40
- extended investigation — 35-40
after school, i am DEFINITELY taking a gap year because school is exhausting me, before i study media + communications and creative writing at unimelb (need an 88 atar i think that it’s achievable).
a little bit more about me…
i love to talk, if you couldn’t tell by this massive first post. i don’t know, i’ve always just been so opinionated and love to talk about almost anything.- i love music, it is literally what keeps my heart beating healthy. i listen to varying genres, but i listen to conan gray (top 0.001% of listeners this year with him being over 1/3 of my overall streams), taylor swift (who i didn’t get tickets to because of bots and fake fans), enhypen, paramore, sabrina carpenter, gracie abrams, newjeans, mcr, etc etc
- concerts are something else i really enjoy, despite being to only two. i saw conan gray in 2022 which was MAGNIFICENT and then paramore (opening night) in november 2023. my goal is to definitely go to more concerts after year 12, because live music >>
- i also love reading, and have literally bought 55 books in 18 months. i was banned from buying books for my birthday (my parents still bought me 2 lol) and for christmas (i’m getting 6 haha). i just love living vicariously through other people in made up worlds… maybe it’s a bad coping habit but oh well.
i’m always up for music and book suggestions, as i am always running low on either, and there is only so many times i can listen to taylor swifts catalogue of music over and over. apologies for the lengthy introduction but i love to talk and that will never change. bye for now!
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i completely gave up on this, (and VCE too ngl)
but i know people enjoy seeing other’s results so
)VCE RESULTS 2023
Chemistry - 35 (scaled 39)
English language - 33 (scaled 35)
Japanese - 33 (scaled 41)
General maths - 40 (scaled 38)
Methods - 29 (scaled 33)
Biology - 39 (scaled 40)ATAR: 92.80 (!!!! WTF!!!!)
to those who read my year 11 journal and knew that my goal this entire time was to get a 90 and be the 6th person good enough,, i did it <3
Idk what I was doing with this poem, but it was 1am when I wrote it and I feel that this represents my journey through schooling in general. Especially now that I have graduated, I feel like I should share this somewhere, here seems like a good spot. I don't know who needs to hear this message from my rough attempt at a poem, but here it is.
A Message to the 'Smart Kid'
Hello youthful spirit, it has been some time
So much has changed since you first awoke
The promise of intellect and pure happiness was still fresh
There was still hope
People had hope
Because you were the ‘smart kid’In its promise this gift bestowed a chance for opportunity
It gave others pride
It gave ourselves pride
But underlying it all were the questionsWhat if I wasn’t the best?
What if I failed?
Why aren’t I on top, I’m the smart one aren’t I?You were fearful, and you were frightened
You had this growing sense of dread
That all you were was going to be lost
The moment you receive that paper with a 0You had just wanted to be successful
You had wanted to be seen as successful
Instead you were about to be seen as lazy, incompetent, and dumb
Why did you get these grades?
Why did you slip up?
This isn’t like you, you should try harder next timeIt isn’t about the 500 times you scored well on an assessment
It isn’t about the times you came first place in some competition
It isn’t about the times you received awards or recognition
No for us it is always about the one time we failedThe one time we weren’t perfect
The one time we failed those around us
The one time that brought us down and fractured our façade
We would brand ourselves as fools
We didn’t deserve to call ourself smart
We would internalise our questions, and risk not understanding
Because thats not what smart kids doSmart kids have the answers
Smart kids don't have to try
School is easy for the smart kids
Smart kids have a bright future
Smart kids don't waste their potentialBut as I said, times have past
We have grown
We have learned
We’ve had the good days and the bad
We’ve had the scores which weren’t perfect all the time
And we are still healingWe now understand
We don’t always have to be perfect
We don’t always have to be the best
We don't always have to be on top
We can be satisfied that we tried
We can know that our best is good enough
And we can be someone, without the ‘smart kid’ labelEntry #17 - 9/11/2023
Well, damn. That's it, I've finished my exams. It's been a few months since my last update but here I am, no longer worrying about a thing. And about how I'm doing now? Great, today was my physics exam and I found it easy, I think I probably aced it
, alongside Specialist Maths and Maths Methods, I've done well in all of these subjects, I think I went pretty well in Chemistry. In all journeys, you reach the end of the road, and today, I have done exactly that. Despite the amount of time I have been left with, I'll have to learn to manage because I have plans, but in a month, I'll leave an update regarding my ATAR result and course entry, other than that, I will be away...Have an awesome day, especially Class of '23
