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It’s been a while; I may have slightly dropped out halfway through the year to study for a non-ATAR university course -v-

By EI, do you mean Extended Investigation? What’s the deal with your EI assignment being on that day? From what I’m hearing, it sounds like a poorly scheduled last-minute rush by whoever the planner or teacher is.

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Ohh alright. We just call them all periods instead of blocks.

Your school must be preeeeety big to have 50 kids in a single study block. My study average is about 7-9

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2 Study Blocks? As in 4 periods in the week or...?

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That's so dumb. If we have to do our SACs late then you do them in a designated office, what kind of school would just sit them out in the library? If anything, give the SAC kids the no talking study room and make all the studiers work in the main library.

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Sounds rough. I have never had the balls to submit blank work, I always just say "I forgot to submit it" and do it after they question me about it. I wish we had creative writing now in English, but we are still stuck on the culture and heritage of Australia crap, so boring and mundane. I absolutely love creative writing. Off topic, but I was creatively drained for like 2 years, I had a very plain imagination, however, once I watched the latest Puss In Boots movie for the first time, it all instantly came rushing back to me. I got top marks on the long form story SAC we did last year.

I'm still going with the flow. Discovered a way to get into my Uni Course without needing an ATAR, so I'm even more relaxed about VCE then ever.
I was away sick from school for basically the entirety of last week. It was pretty fun, I could finally catch up on some missed sleep and finish some passion projects I had set aside. Honestly I would kill to catch covid right now.

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I'm planning on doing a 3 year course for International Studies without a gap year, basically setting myself up for failure but I'll be fine.

Just gotta pass VCE normally first XD

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That's what a lot of us think, It's constantly on my mind but since I really want to go to uni, finishing Year 12 this year is the easiest way.

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Only around 20 weeks left though, then we will be (sorta) free.

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Same here
Gonna sit in the lounge room and ban myself from anything until I get this mess all done :v

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The work is decently easy but just requires a lot of time to complete.

There are conventions for everyone! A lot of conventions (Especially ones revolving around pop culture) are giant "exhibition" halls filled with store stands. There are also Panels and special activities but most of the time people spend there are often walking around the exhibition stands chatting with others.

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Wew, holidays came up fast, only roughly 120 more days of high school left. Dropped Art, praying I can find a mid-year course to get those final 2 3/4 subject credits. Not really sure how I'm doing in classes since we haven't been given any of our SACs back but I'm sure that I'm passing them.

Instead of soccer we have a senior house comp. for Dodgeball throughout the week, not the greatest but better than soccer imo.

Enjoy your holidays man, take a well deserved break.

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Thanks! P!NK shows are fully choreographed and timed perfectly, she flies around yea but I mostly just love the loudness of it all and the crowds.

Got a surprise math SAC tomorrow so hoping I can pass that easily -3-

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My day started off plain but I guess it's going well now, communicated with my year level coordinator about art so that should be fine. Just breezed through the last two periods of the day and I'm currently studying for my English SAC I have tomorrow.

I saw P!NK, I went to one of her shows when I was ₆ with my family so it's quite the rush to go see it again and have the flow of old memories.

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I replied but I guess it didn't go through before.

We don't really get much holiday work unless we are behind in class. I'm thankful for that ;-;
During study I normally just chill with friends in the library while watching a show or reading, very rarely if I have to get some due work done then I'll do it.
If your school ever blocks a website you like, check out getting a VPN that supports IKEV2, bypasses everything at my school.

While writing this I'm sitting in the art room trying to think of ways to authenticate my work. My art teacher gave me false info at the start of the year making me assume I can use someone else's work as a base (I'm doing photo editing). I submitted my work after an extension was given and I was praying that was all I needed to do.
I was away for the entirety of last week (In Melbourne for a concert and the day we (me & my mom) left we got a call from the teacher while we were driving, they proceeded to say that all my work can't be authenticated which I didn't find very fair (I understand now that I wasn't allowed to use someone else's work as a base, but at the time the teacher didn't tell me). Basically I had until the end of the week to submit a entirely new photo work (reminder I was in Melbourne until the end of the week) I decided f*** it, I'll submit it on Monday and they can deal with it. (Our teacher only marks work inside our folio books, so I couldn't just send him the normal work on a document) So today, Monday comes around and I get told they can't authenticate that it's my work since I didn't do it in class... HOW AM I MEANT TO PROVE IT'S MINE WHILE IM IN MELBOURNE AND NOT IN CLASS??? (they knew I was away for the week fyi).
I should mention that the backdrop original image was something I made on my computer using blender & studio.
Basically, they refused to let me show them any evidence, they refused to let me show them all the evidence I had:

• the files of the backdrop build
• Reverse image search around 10 different engines of the original base image with no results
• DMs with the person I had made it for (I made it during the timeframe of the project so it is a viable work)
• The group in which I posted the final build to, which by the way is owned by me and the group logs showcase that I uploaded and changed every single asset to do with it
• exactly 27 different copies of the build, all different variations since I MADE IT and have all the versions from beginning to end
• the PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT that I used to make the final image

overall it's a mess and I'm probably gonna fail VCE Art and not get an ATAR because of them.

God this is a lot and I apologize for that but I just wanted to vent to literally anyone
Anyway how's your day going

FH
Pretty much same for music! At any point I can I have music playing, I think last year for my spotify wrapped I had ~ 300,000 minutes listened.
It's cool to hear that your school council actually does stuff, ours kind of just lays about and organizes maybe one small event/fundraiser a year. It's mostly run by administration but their are 2 designated spots for students.

For exams/SAC's, we have always done them in class time. Normally we study the topic in class for a few weeks, spend a week on practice sacs or revision then we do the SAC's during class periods.

Art SHOULD be fun and laid back, but my Art teacher makes everything boring and tiring. They are always grumpy for no reason and are honestly just an annoyance while trying to do work. It's painful to attempt to get work done during art class because I can't have any time to myself during it. I was hoping on dropping the class but it's far too late for that.
I believe we are studying a novel after High Ground, not too sure what novel though. Not really looking forward to it either way.

I was actually procrastinating my overdue art folio work by scrolling through ATAR Notes which ended up bringing me to your thread, so now I'm here I guess.

It's awesome to read this, so jealous you got all the classes I wanted to do for Year 12, instead I'm stuck with leftovers -v-
School has been such a sporadic mess for me, although it kind of always has been. Both me and my family don't really care if I pass VCE, but reading your journey (struggles, goals and successes) will be fun! (I'm meant to be finishing my Art Folio right now but don't tell my teacher that)
I'm a HUGE Music and Drama nerd so it's also cool to see you adore music that much! Personally I was in the top 0.0001% for Post Malone and Plain White T's last year (I need help)

I'm curious, has your school always had SACs at after-school times? Ours are normally during normal class periods so It's a bit weird seeing that you have an English SAC after-school.

For reference if we have any conversation here;
Art Marking & Exhibiting - (not by choice, 100% gonna fail
General Math - (Got high marks last year, missed a lot of days and got really low for my first SAC, not expecting much improvement but you never know! finding a CAS calculator is going to be hard though since mine from last year got stolen...)
Food Studies - (Love it, Hate the teacher. Probably gonna get low marks though since I hate annotating)
Visual Communications - (I ABSOLUTELY adore this class and the teacher, it's such a carefree environment and we are essentially allowed to do anything as long as we get the work done in time, hands down my favorite class I have ever been in and I'm praying for high marks.)
General English (While I love writing stories and normally get high marks in free writing, I'm struggling with the Film analysis work and I'm probably gonna fail that SAC, I just don't have the attention span to watch AND analyze a movie that I find so boring. ("High Ground" if your curious)

After writing all that I realized holy crap that's a lot, hopefully it didn't completely bombard you >.>
Overall it seems like we are polar opposites for Year 12, I'm taking it easy and not really caring too much about grades and scores while your putting in the effort and striving for an incredible result.

I don't think I know how to count to 7