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Hey everyone!

With just under a week left until school, I thought that I might start my VCE journal! It's so crazy that I'm already in year 10! Time flies fast! So anyway, I will be doing year 10 French, VCE psych units 1&2, and all your other regular subjects (humanities English etc.)

• Arielle
  P.s. It would be great to have some study buddies for psych!

hi guys!!
i know there a tonne of these journals on this site...so I'm gonna be super cliche and do the exact same thing!
i always imagined that i would be writing one of these journals since they looked fun, but now that I'm actually doing it, its feels a little scary. like year 12...dam :p internal scream

anyways

this year I'm taking five subjects; mainstream English, chemistry, methods, specialist and further
and in 2022 i took biology early
i feel like im weird for taking so many maths...and im right but its the one thing im decent at so we're gonna roll with it
uhhh so last year biology, i was obvs hoping for an amazing ss but i figured i wouldn't get it after the first two sacs, but i wasn't disappointed either since it was like testing out year 12 and ill never need bio in my life anyways.

goals for this year
okay im gonna be honest, i suck as a student. im not organised in the slightest, i procrastinate soooooo much and i get distracted very easily. i put off work to the last minute and then i give up trying to do it in the end since its probably too late anyways. SO this year, we're gonna be organised, do our work on time, try to stay up to if not ahead of class and ACTUALLY GODAM TRY. its honestly a surprise i did as decent as i did in year 11 considering my preparations for sacs and test.
also i don't wanna cut out my entire social life just for one year so im gonna stay social, hopefully stay fit, fix my diet and sleeping habits too coz that's all terrible
BASICALLY i wanna do the best i possibly can!
ofc i have all of my ss and atar/uni goals but im gonna reveal all that at the end of the year dramatic
ill update this journal at the end of each week along with my progress too.
weekly goal:
-please for the love of god start your english draft
-finish another chemistry exercise
-finish off chap 1 for spesh
-do a little bit of extra study for methods and further

okay ill check back in a week
GOOD LUCK TO ALL YR 12s <3
-metoo

IAmWhateverYouSayIam Subjects: Bio 3/4 ( rip study score) bottom for sure (I did it in 2022), Methods, Spesh. English Language, Chemistry and Psychology lol.
I don't study but I should study hence why I made this.
My update for now is:
I started doing the textbook stuff but I procrastinated so I didn't finish as much as I wanted to.
My motivation goes up and down like one of those sine graphs that come in my dreams with the amount of math I'm doing lol

Basically this is supposed to keep me accountable because if people pay attention to me I end up doing work.
Last year I did a 3/4 study score was rough now I need to take stuff more seriously lmao.
Yeah so this will be like a daily thing just writing about what I study and my thoughts as they come.

Hey y'all!

beep boop here. For those of you that followed my high school journal, hi again! For those that don't, I'm apart class of '22 and will be studying at rmit doing bachelor of applied science specialising in medical imaging.

I've been working at a take out and started volunteering at vinnies. I like my workplace environment and I even say hi to my work neighbours. Honestly, doing a customer service job has made me more sociable. I like having genuine conversations with customers and you learn a thing or two along the way. I struck up a conversation with a lady on the train the other week.

I enrolled in my course during xmas week. And lemme tell you, that was a nightmare. The site kept crashing and going back and forth. It took me at least 2 hrs to get everything done. I hope everyone else's enrolment process wasn't as bad as mine.

I applied for a student id card this week and been signing up for loyalty programs that have uni discount programs lmaooooo.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!
beep boop

RESULTS DAY OMGGG

So, I thought I’d get less than 85 or something cos lol I was scared for externals haha. However, my ATAR was 91.75!!!!! THATS CRAZYYYYYY I thought I didn’t do that good lol.

Hours of studying, tears, prayers and sweat payed offf.

I did the best in Physics and Chemistry for my externals, I got 44/50 and 45/50 respectively. And here I thought I flunked Physics haha.

-jinx_58

Heyo beep boopers,

I GOT MY BRACES REMOVED!!!!! Now I'm just wearing retainers hehe.

Anyways, results come out in less than a week. Scared shitless tbh. Apparently offers come out early this yr. I just wanna get into my course lmaooo.

Have a good week gois,
beep boop

Yeah I did a 3/4 subject in yr11 which I did pretty bad in compared to yr12. However this was due to a lack of interest, effort, study ethic, etc. In yr12, I made sure I did many practice exams as thats probably the best thing you can do in my opinion. I can't talk fully as I have not yet received my yr12 results but i'm very positive they all beat my yr11 one.
In terms of advice, do a bunch of practice exams towards the end, since it's ur only 3/4 you could manage to do even 30. I didn't do legal so I don't know much about it. Some subject like chem may require 20-30 exams to do well while English may require less than 10. You can relax throughout the year, but i'd reccomend paying attention in class and start looking at prac exams as early as possible (maybe in june). I did maybe 1 or 2 prac exams for my 3/4 which is why I bombed it, but that's ok ig. lmk if that was helpful.

HeLlO!
After a very long speech night and long day spent in the city, one thing on my mind was jealousy. I didn't get any rewards! So, to all that didn't get any, didn't get the amount you wanted, and had wasted many hours listening to others' achievements- i would like to congratulate us all for surviving.

Not just for barely passing subjects, but also barely passing each day. On behalf of everyone who never told you, well done- well done for getting up each day, well done for managing to do that task or chore chewing away at you mind for days, well done for doing simple daily self hygiene, well done for eating, well done for keeping yourself safe, and well done for getting through anything else no one realises is a big battle in your life and day. I think everyone gets caught up on what individuals can do that other people's limits don't allow for them to accomplish, and we don't appreciate every little task that can seem like a mountain to others. Really, this whole spiel is for me and my self esteem hehe
With someone with mental health issues and autism, I've had the perspective of not being able to do things a normal human being could do (like brushing my teeth everyday), but other things that no one could never experience.

This is a bit personal ig, don't know if its appropriate for this website ! It's just nice to put my words on a screen for people to read without interruption (but i do not mind any comments!) Thank you for reading !

Heyo!
I just finished my official last day of year 10! All I can say is that I am not longer chained to the subject of maths, coz I'm not doing any in VCE (thankfully). Also, the school has suggested that I do VCE over 4 years:
2022 (now): one 1/2 subject
2023: "year 11"
2024: four 3/4 subjects
2025: two 3/4 subjects
This does mean that I might not graduate in the same year as my friends, unless I miraculously am able to achieve 96+ with just four subjects. As I am planning now, I hope to do 2 english subjects, but my schedule might mean that I will be doing englang 3/4 without 1/2. Is that a good idea? Or should I instead do one of my other subjects without 1/2 (only options: physics, literature). My best option is englang, i think.

UPDATE TIME, HI EVERYONE !! (i think i've had a bit too much sugar)

JAPANESE
This week I did the first half of my Year 12 transition, there's around five sessions (three this week, two next week) and it was pretty tough. We got straight into learning how to take the exams themselves, like how to do the reading sections and the listening sections, etc. What I really need to practice is my intonation, it's my weakest point , my vocabulary has been doing pretty good, however! We're getting a new textbook for next year, which should be interesting. I now have to finish a practice exam as hw which is going to be a mammoth effort. But I suppose it'll all be worth it.

KAFKA ON THE SHORE
In my last update, I mentioned that I really wanted to start this book. Well, I finished reading it around two days ago, it took me six days to read this 500 paged beast. Let me tell you, this is one of the best books I've ever read. Kafka's writing style is quite unique and the plot lines are surreal. At points I was shocked, it would go from simple daily life to existential within the same page. I'll be buying quite a lot of books within the next couple of months I think, I have a lot on my to-read list!

I still haven't heard about vice-captain, and I'm still extremely excited for history. School is ending very soon (like less than a month soon) which I am very happy about, believe me. Year 11 transition is going to be an interesting time!

<3

GUYS, I FOUND A JOB!!!!!!!

After almost a week of endless spamming of job websites. I finally found one!!!!! I start tmr, honestly a bit nervous because I've never had one before. A lot ask for experience, but theres not much coming from me, when I've never worked. A bit afraid for karens, but yk just smile and nod. I'll be working a couple days a week and I've made plans with my friends as well.

I'll update you guys, to tell you how it goes.

See you,
beep boop

Hello!

Hihi, my name is Anna, I'm 23 years old this year. I feel old. I have spent a lot of my precious time on University studying for Bachelor of Science/Arts after school finished in 2018. Now I am on the verge of dropping out again, the only thing I have: a lot of debt from my failed units.

I am tired of pretending, when I am clearly not fine. This will serve as a record of my life. Although I am questioning every second of my life. I have a 7-year history depression, anxiety and PTSD.

I am not hoping to be better, just less bad...

Hello!
I've been very undecisive about subject selection- I probably spend more time fixating on it than studying lol. Even though exams are this friday, I've been more focused on social activity and job searching. I finally wrote a pinned post for my tumblr, and downloaded a penpal app (to help me make friends around the globe, especially from Japan). I already have a job, but I want to move on, so I've applied to multiple places and applied for volunteering to help build up my resume.

English and Science are my strengths, but I find them boring sometimes I love humanities subjects and want to pursue them in tertiary study, but I'm pretty average at it. I feel conflicted to do what I'm good at or what I like. If I could in the future, I'd be a professional musician in an ensemble, but there are "better" things to do with my life. When I feel this way, I remember "The Midnight Library", by Matt Haig, and that all possible ways my life could turn out do happen in my mind, and I'm content with that.

I hope for the best for people who have more exams up, and congratulations on surviving the year!

I'm only hoping to pass