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  • Mar 8, 2024
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  • In my year 12 vce journal!! (hope you enjoy the ride)

    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

    • In my year 12 vce journal!! (hope you enjoy the ride)

      POST 10 - 01/03/24

      hi! i have no taylor swift inspired quote to start this little update, but my school IS doing something taylor swift inspired next week and i definitely want to talk about that later.

      i got my business sac back today. there are two business classes at my school, and the class average for the other class was (drum roll please) 46% which is super shocking. (EDIT: my class average was 44%)i got 79%, which i believe is the top in both classes. i am also very shocked because i dropped from high 90’s and 100’s to getting not even an 80%. i feel like it is the cross marking method, because my teacher is super nice with marking whereas the other is beyond harsh. that 50 study score is out of the picture now!! i got 92% for a practice test for general and 95% on a practice sac, so at least the 50 study score is possible still i guess.

      i also went to the city today to watch the vce top talks, which are 4 of the best EI oral presentations which was super fun. if any EI kids want to look at the notes i took down, i uploaded them here but they aren’t approved so they’re not up. i’m going to put this in the EI atarnotes discussion page because we are all in this together i guess.

      that’s sort of it with school. motivation has been sub zero, hence second post in a week, but my school is doing a friendship bracelet thing next week, and the winner gets the official taylor swift eras tour bag which i want so FREAKING bad. i have people trying to win it for me, and i want to go all strategic on it because i am competitive enough as it is, let alone when there is a taylor swift item of merch on the line.

      anywho hope anyone who reads this is going well, and stick in there… 242 days until the english exam (yay) (not really).

      • In my year 12 vce journal!! (hope you enjoy the ride)

        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!!

      • In my year 12 vce journal!! (hope you enjoy the ride)

        ap27 i loved the “somebodyyyy is getting fired” during hard times outro LMAO. but yeah paramore is so cool, and i’m surprised other high schoolers know them because my english teacher from last year went to see them, and she is like 27. but hey paramore is gonna age well.

        • In Discussion board for VCE Japanese!!!

          I made this discussion board for those who need help in the subject, VCE Japanese second language.

          [personal details}- I took VCE Japanese second language this year (2022) and have completed it with a raw study score of 47 so I can help! {edit: now I also do formal tutoring for VCE Japanese}
          I can also help for those who are taking VCE Japanese first language since I took it for unit 1 which I'm assuming not many people would be taking it.

          {I hope this discussion board would be helpful!} :