FH

about me

hi! frequent lurker, first time making an account and posting! my (online) name is velvet, she/her, i'm currently in yr 10 and decided to start a journal to keep myself accountable and what-not! i know journals are normally a vce thing but i plan to start a seperate journal for yr 11 and 12. plus, it'd be fun to compare yr10 me vs senior me, i think.

i've been obsessed with reading journals (esp. @possible_to_return_passport and @FH's journals) n feel like having a little account of my life somewhere out there would also help my mental health.

i've always been a good student but i've been really struggling with my mental health since year 7. i also had a major falling out with a close friend last year n my grades took a dip because of it. i've been hoping to get back on track but my term one scores really weren't it up to my regular standard. i've seen how positive journals can be and i feel like having my own and people to talk to about school would be great as most of my friends are older than me (yr 11+) and are really busy rn
now that the more important stuff is out of the way, here are my classes and future plans!

classes

i'm currently taking..

legal 1 & 2: i absolutely love legal and my teacher, but the workload is crazy. tbh, i should've expected it, but its really been getting to me. HOWEVER i did score great on my last sac so i have high hopes
enhanced english: i really hate my class but my teacher's alright. i've always been excellent in english (at least 2-3 years above my peers according to my last report) but i have a bad habit of experimenting with structure ON MY TESTS because i basically just see it as a personal writing task (which its not). its a habit i really need to grow out of it.
math pre-methods: i hate my teacher but my score has been improving. mostly due to tutoring + some all nighters.
religion: i do really well and i love my teacher. i might do religions and societies at VCE level if i don't do VSV philosophy, but thats a maybe.
accounting (mandatory yr 10 elective): its alright. my teacher's amazing and he's so fun but the topic itself is really bland. its just excel 101.
japanese: love my teacher and love the subject. i'm definitely doing it at VCE level. i get alright grades, not the best, but its such a fun class that i don't mind.
english literature (yr 10, elective): haven't taken it yet. its been shifted to sem2 because our teacher left and they couldn't find a new one in time.
science: i also haven't taken it yet because its a sem2 class.

future plans

i..really don't know. i 100% know i want to study bachelor of the arts at melb with a philosophy + english major and screen and cultural studies minor. i love movies and i was considering film school, but i want something more stable, so i'm also considering a career in research or even law.

what i'm doing right now

holidays are in 2 days so im just swimming through school. we aren't doing much in any of my classes except legal and pre-methods (grr). obv i have a lot of holiday hw which is a bit annoying because my cousins are travelling from my country of origin to here over the term 1 holidays. its going to be so hard to get hw with them around but ill manage. probably.

expect updates at least weekly!

hiii i'm k, welcome to my VCE journal!! I've always been the kind of person to read VCE journals and I thought why not start my own. So whilst procrastinating for studying for my last yr 11 exam today (Art Creative Practice) I decided to write my first post

My subjects for year 12 next year will be:
English
Literature
Psychology
Art Creative Practice
Methods
And I've already completed Units 3 & 4 Biology this year as higher study in year 11

Tbh I'm feeling kinda sorta ready for year 12, as I feel like i've started to figure out how I study best and have supportive friends and teachers. But I still can't believe I'm almost in my last year of highschool!! 13 years of mandatory education are almost over! yay

So what are my plans for when I finish year 12? Well i currently don't really know what job I'd like to do when I finish school but i do know what i want to study. I'm hoping to study the Bachelor of Arts at UniMelb majoring in Psychology and studying a minor in Media and Communications. I've always been really interested in Psychology though I definitely don't want to be a psychologist, so I'll see where the degree takes me As for Media and Coms, the first job I ever knew I wanted to do was to be a writer and someday I'd love to write my own book, but in terms of jobs, journalism of some sort might be an option. Though being honest, I don't think I'll end up in a conventional work setting, e.g- an office job or something, but i'm trying not to worry too much about that

I am however a bit, ok maybe a lot, worried about one of my year 12 subjects: METHODS!!
I really don't want to do methods next year, and not bc i don't think i'm capable of doing it. i've got decent grades, and some above the class average, but i just really don't like maths. which I know is pretty common, but given that I need an 88 ATAR for my dream course, or rather a 90 given I'm hoping to receive the Hansen Scholarship, I can't afford to procrastinate on studying a subject i really don't like which could affect how much study I do for other subjects and then potentially my grades for the subjects I really want to do well in; Psychology, English, and Literature. And it could affect how much time I put into Art which is my folio subject and requires a lot of time and effort, which I learnt when this year's Unit 2 folio was due a couple weeks ago!! So i'm hoping I can drop to general/further maths, though I haven't done Units 1 & 2 of general. I'd appreciate any tips from those who have studied General 3 & 4, in particular those who also didn't do Units 1 & 2, or general info about whether it was particularly difficult! Some of my friends did General/Further Maths Units 3 & 4 as higher study this year in year 11 and said that Units 1 & 2 didn't really matter, but not sure if anyone else might have a different perspective on that.

Anyways, I'll post sometime in the next few days any updates about switching my maths subject and maybe what study scores I would like to aim for next year and why. Also I've got leadership camp next week so maybe an update on that

Also just wanted to give a shout out to @Rey_of_sunshine and @FH who's VCE journals I've followed this year, and are honestly an inspiration for my own VCE journal