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Title: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on January 30, 2018, 04:40:05 pm
School starts tomorrow! Super nervous even though we have already done a term of year 12. Its only in the last couple of weeks that I realise Ive only got nine months of school left. Bring on the final year!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on January 30, 2018, 04:41:29 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on January 30, 2018, 04:40:05 pm
School starts tomorrow! Super nervous even though we have already done a term of year 12. Its only in the last couple of weeks that I realise Ive only got nine months of school left. Bring on the final year!

Hey, welcome! :D How did you find your first term of Year 12?

Crazy how the end of school creeps up so quickly. Do you have any thoughts about what you want to do after at the moment (such a typical question haha)?
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: beatroot on January 30, 2018, 05:04:05 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on January 30, 2018, 04:40:05 pm
School starts tomorrow! Super nervous even though we have already done a term of year 12. Its only in the last couple of weeks that I realise Ive only got nine months of school left. Bring on the final year!

Welcome to the forums and welcome to the HSC journey journal board ;) What subjects are you doing this year?
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on January 30, 2018, 06:32:50 pm
hi, caitlyn!

welcome to the forums :-) i hope AN will be a great place for you throughout your HSC (and maybe beyond!) what subjects are you doing this year?

all the best for this year :-)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Lumenoria on January 30, 2018, 07:00:39 pm
Hey girl,
Welcome to the forums, I'm keen as fuck to read more journal posts from you in the future! Finally another fellow year 12 student, honestly we need more to fuel my addiction for reading these hahah! This is seriously such a supportive community to be apart of, it's like Facebook... with slightly more intelligent people lol. I wish all the best for this year :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Opengangs on January 30, 2018, 08:03:51 pm
Hey hey!

Welcome to the community - keen to read more of your HSC life. We've got plenty of resources at your disposal so use them when you want, and don't be afraid to ask around! We're all here for ya! ;D

Good luck with the year to come!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 03, 2018, 04:26:20 pm
Hi everyone! Thank you for such nice messages!
I am currently doing six subjects which include:
After high school I plan on getting a job, hopefully a traineeship at an Architecture/Engineering firm *Fingers crossed* for a gap year. After that, I hope to go to University of Newcastle. It's pretty much my dream Uni. I want to work really hard to get the ATAR I want. To be honest I have no idea whats waiting for me at the end of this year. It's as if I am going to be wandering off into the unknown!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 03, 2018, 04:46:41 pm
I know I literally just posted about stuff 10 mins ago but I want to talk about my Visual art major. On Monday, we have to talk to the art staff about our concept and what we are doing. I have things to talk about but I'm not sure how to link the artwork to it especially since I'm doing two sculptures of different things. I have plenty of ideas but I have no idea how to pull it off.

I feel like I wasted term 1 of art and didn't do as much as I should have done. Though, I can say that most people in my class don't know their concept yet and have no idea what to do. I'm glad I've started but I worry I won't have enough time.

I also want to pull up my theory marks especially for exams. Anyone know how to do that? I guess knowing your artists and artworks but how can I go into more depth and learn more about conceptual framework, the frames etc.? We have half yearlies in the last two weeks of this term so I've got a good 9 weeks to learn things.

Oh and I really want to get a band 6 in art or ancient history (I got a 21.5/25 for my term 1 test. I was super happy but I still want to improve)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Yertle the Turtle on February 03, 2018, 04:50:42 pm
Welcome to the Class of 2018! It's great to see more Year 12s getting into this Journey Journal thing. Good luck for this year, I hope you find this year to be a good experience, fun and interesting. Remember to make the most of this community here on AN, its a great place to go through the years of schooling in. The subjects you are doing look interesting, and seem pretty similar to what I'm doing in VCE! Again, good luck for the coming year, keep stepping out into the unknown! :D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: beatroot on February 03, 2018, 08:55:52 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 03, 2018, 04:46:41 pm
I know I literally just posted about stuff 10 mins ago but I want to talk about my Visual art major. On Monday, we have to talk to the art staff about our concept and what we are doing. I have things to talk about but I'm not sure how to link the artwork to it especially since I'm doing two sculptures of different things. I have plenty of ideas but I have no idea how to pull it off.

I feel like I wasted term 1 of art and didn't do as much as I should have done. Though, I can say that most people in my class don't know their concept yet and have no idea what to do. I'm glad I've started but I worry I won't have enough time.

I also want to pull up my theory marks especially for exams. Anyone know how to do that? I guess knowing your artists and artworks but how can I go into more depth and learn more about conceptual framework, the frames etc.? We have half yearlies in the last two weeks of this term so I've got a good 9 weeks to learn things.

Oh and I really want to get a band 6 in art or ancient history (I got a 21.5/25 for my term 1 test. I was super happy but I still want to improve)


Yay finally another Visual Arts student on AN woop woop ;D ;)!

What concept do you plan on doing for your major? I can help you with linking your concept with your medium if you want :)

It's completely fine if you felt that you've done nothing during term 1. In my term 1, all I had done was my BOW proposal and a painting that didn't even end up in my final submission. I didn't even do anything during the summer holidays. I know girls from my school who finished their BOW the night before the due date but even managed to grab a Band 6. I'm not saying you should do this (it's not a good habit), but it's always best to start early. At this point on, it's just all about getting on with your BOW. Term two is pretty much the term where you should be doing most of your BOW because the term with the least amount of work compared with other terms.

As for theory, the key to nailing section 1 is putting yourself under time pressure. When writing your analysis for section 1, you don't have time to have second doubts. Your interpretation should flow smoothly from one sentence to another. But also you need to differentiate the frames, conceptual framework and practice questions in order to get top marks. Once you have deduced which question is what, this definitely makes it easier for you to analyse each work. Whilst for section 2, the key to getting top marks is KNOWING YOUR FACTS! Know what time period your work is from. Why the artist did that in the first place? What historical/cultural influences impacted their artwork? There needs to be a running theme between your 3/4/5/6 chosen artists. I did the same artists for my half yearlies, trials and my HSC (Picasso, Duchamp, ORLAN and Hirst). The common factor that brought them together was that they appropriated a found object in their work and developed its purpose throughout the years. What artists do you plan on doing?

I believe it's worth giving the VA Resource Thread a quick read! ;D

Good luck!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 03, 2018, 09:58:21 pm
Quote from: beatroot on February 03, 2018, 08:55:52 pm
Yay finally another Visual Arts student on AN woop woop ;D ;)!

What concept do you plan on doing for your major? I can help you with linking your concept with your medium if you want :)

It's completely fine if you felt that you've done nothing during term 1. In my term 1, all I had done was my BOW proposal and a painting that didn't even end up in my final submission. I didn't even do anything during the summer holidays. I know girls from my school who finished their BOW the night before the due date but even managed to grab a Band 6. I'm not saying you should do this (it's not a good habit), but it's always best to start early. At this point on, it's just all about getting on with your BOW. Term two is pretty much the term where you should be doing most of your BOW because the term with the least amount of work compared with other terms.

As for theory, the key to nailing section 1 is putting yourself under time pressure. When writing your analysis for section 1, you don't have time to have second doubts. Your interpretation should flow smoothly from one sentence to another. But also you need to differentiate the frames, conceptual framework and practice questions in order to get top marks. Once you have deduced which question is what, this definitely makes it easier for you to analyse each work. Whilst for section 2, the key to getting top marks is KNOWING YOUR FACTS! Know what time period your work is from. Why the artist did that in the first place? What historical/cultural influences impacted their artwork? There needs to be a running theme between your 3/4/5/6 chosen artists. I did the same artists for my half yearlies, trials and my HSC (Picasso, Duchamp, ORLAN and Hirst). The common factor that brought them together was that they appropriated a found object in their work and developed its purpose throughout the years. What artists do you plan on doing?

I believe it's worth giving the VA Resource Thread a quick read! ;D

Good luck!

Oh wow! Thank you so much! This will really help. I hope I get some good marks this year!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 03, 2018, 10:24:28 pm
I just read beatroot's Visual art major work story and it was so inspiring. I will definitely be referring back to it when I am stressed and need motivation to do my major. I am definitely motivated to go do my other school work too. It had certainly put a smile on my face  ;D
Thank you so much!
@beatroot I will definitely be going to see your artwork at Orange Regional Gallery!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 05, 2018, 05:44:15 pm
So I had my major artwork proposal this afternoon and it went amazingly! The teachers loved  what I'd done so far and think that it really could develop into sometime really good. I think I will take on their advice and try to make it seem really good! I wonder what mark they're going to give me...  :) I have a double study tomorrow and am going to go to the art room to work on my major where my friends wont distract me.

I also had English, Engineering, Ancient and Math today. I was soooo not in it for sixth period math, I didn't know I would be so tired today. Whats going on? It seems that when I get through a day I am always so tired and go to bed early but am still tired. My mum thinks its because I'm low in iron (I haven't been eating much meat lately. Too expensive!).

In English we were doing past HSC questions in times (5 minutes, 7.5 minutes and 15 minutes) for short answer. The first part of the paper were fine but once we got to the 3 marker questions, the questions got really broad and I found it hard to answer them. I feel like I am so much better at doing essays and creative writing. Short answer boggles my mind. Plus this was period one right after role call so I don't really know what I was feeling. Tired? Yes.

As always Ancient is always interesting. My teacher is really interesting and I look forward to going to it every day. I find I am more of a oral learner and my ancient teacher does a lot of talking and I just absorb it. Only for this subject though...? For engineering our teacher talks a lot too and it's much harder to get the content. Maybe it's because I am genuinely interested in Ancient and only a little for engineering. See I'm even putting Ancient in capitals and engineering not.   ;D

All in all, today was not only tiring but pretty hard. I went to school at 8am to get my art stuff in the class and stayed till 4pm for my interview meaning I had to get picked up. It sucks not having my P's in year 12 but hopefully in the May/June/July period I will get them! I'm only turning 17 this month and I got my L's in May (Whoops!). I live in a country town so theirs only certain buses and certain times I can catch them. No trains here... (Although that would be really useful)

I don't know why but I felt like I did too much schoolwork on the weekend which tired me out or something. I feel like I should balance my time better but I dunno how. Help! :-\

I should really go do my math homework now... Okay! Bye!  :P
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on February 05, 2018, 05:45:50 pm
Yessss awesome on the artwork proposal! Would absolutely love updates on this as it develops. ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Opengangs on February 05, 2018, 05:50:42 pm
Aw, you should definitely be eating more. Saves you in the long run, especially with exam periods coming :)

Oh, I've always found the short answers to be the easiest part of the paper. Is it because you can't synthesise on the spot? Also, I feel as if broad questions are actually easier to write to, because there's so much you can actually dive into - I always struggle with creative writing (hehe, I'm more of an analyst than a creator, I guess :P)

Looking forward to your artwork though aye
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 06, 2018, 08:06:49 pm
So today I had a total of three periods of Art because I had it period 1 and a double study which I chose to do my art. So far all is going well! I'm doing a very tedious piece of my sculpture at the moment and I'm hoping it goes well.

I also had maths today but I kept yawning. The topic we are doing is so boring and so annoying! It's the physics part of the course and we are almost finished the HSC course. Tomorrow I want to do some revision for the stuff we did today which was quite hard.

English we were doing creative writing! It went well!

And sixth period engineering was interesting. We watched some videos about bicycles for the personal and public transport. We learnt about the history of the bicycle which was quite interesting as we saw how it developed over time. I never thought the history of a bicycle could be so complicated.

Plus I'm really tired still even though I went to bed early yesterday. Maybe I should eat more breaky and pack more food for lunch? I ended up going to the canteen to buy a drink and some hot food. Maybe I should be eating more healthily? I would kill for a weekend right now even though we just came back from a 6 week school holiday.

Sorry for being so boring but today was normal and tiring.  :-\ I hope tomorrow is better. We have school photos during period 3 (English) and I'm so not ready for the last school photos I will ever have!

Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 13, 2018, 02:13:51 pm
Okay good news everyone! You know that art interview I did? Yeah so I got 19/20 which put me the top of the class! I was so happy when I found out during my double art today. I really hope to maintain this position this year so I will have to improve my theory marks. Wish me luck!

And I was so relieved to see that today I didn't have english or math. I'm going to the library this afternoon after an appointment with flightcentre about the graduation trip we are going to go on at the end of the year. Sadly my friends couldnt come to it so I'm going all by my lonesome but anyway.

I hope everyone had a great day today!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: kauac on February 13, 2018, 08:43:53 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 13, 2018, 02:13:51 pm
Okay good news everyone! You know that art interview I did? Yeah so I got 19/20 which put me the top of the class! I was so happy when I found out during my double art today. I really hope to maintain this position this year so I will have to improve my theory marks. Wish me luck!

And I was so relieved to see that today I didn't have english or math. I'm going to the library this afternoon after an appointment with flightcentre about the graduation trip we are going to go on at the end of the year. Sadly my friends couldnt come to it so I'm going all by my lonesome but anyway.

I hope everyone had a great day today!

That's awesome Caitlyn! What a great way to start the year off!

Lol, everyone's planning their schoolies trips, I'm here like, "yeah, I think I will go somewhere, if I save up enough money haha"! Good on you for booking it though - it gives you something to look forward to for the rest of the year.  ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: jamonwindeyer on February 13, 2018, 09:04:22 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 13, 2018, 02:13:51 pm
Okay good news everyone! You know that art interview I did? Yeah so I got 19/20 which put me the top of the class! I was so happy when I found out during my double art today. I really hope to maintain this position this year so I will have to improve my theory marks. Wish me luck!

Incredible!! Congratulations Caitlyn - I bet you'll keep it up! :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: beatroot on February 13, 2018, 09:09:32 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 13, 2018, 02:13:51 pm
Okay good news everyone! You know that art interview I did? Yeah so I got 19/20 which put me the top of the class! I was so happy when I found out during my double art today. I really hope to maintain this position this year so I will have to improve my theory marks. Wish me luck!


Congrats on getting a fabulous mark for your visual arts assessment!! Keep up the good work ;)
Good luck on the rest of your visual arts journey :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: owidjaja on February 13, 2018, 10:29:50 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 13, 2018, 02:13:51 pm
Okay good news everyone! You know that art interview I did? Yeah so I got 19/20 which put me the top of the class! I was so happy when I found out during my double art today. I really hope to maintain this position this year so I will have to improve my theory marks. Wish me luck!

And I was so relieved to see that today I didn't have english or math. I'm going to the library this afternoon after an appointment with flightcentre about the graduation trip we are going to go on at the end of the year. Sadly my friends couldnt come to it so I'm going all by my lonesome but anyway.

I hope everyone had a great day today!
Omg yass! Great job on your interview :)

Ooh did you just mention graduation trip? Where are you planning to go?

Spoiler
Also random question: do you have a studygram account?
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Lumenoria on February 14, 2018, 04:39:30 pm
Omg congratulations on your amazing mark, that's absolutely phenomenal!!

And omg that trip sounds so exciting, are you travelling on your own? I'm thinking of doing the same thing because my friends are unsure as to whether they're or out of my South East Asia trip HAHHAA
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 14, 2018, 09:22:11 pm
Quote from: kauac on February 13, 2018, 08:43:53 pm
That's awesome Caitlyn! What a great way to start the year off!

Lol, everyone's planning their schoolies trips, I'm here like, "yeah, I think I will go somewhere, if I save up enough money haha"! Good on you for booking it though - it gives you something to look forward to for the rest of the year.  ;D

Thank you so much! I really hope it'll be fun!

Quote from: jamonwindeyer on February 13, 2018, 09:04:22 pm
Incredible!! Congratulations Caitlyn - I bet you'll keep it up! :)

I certainly hope I will keep it up! It's a personal goal of mine to get a Band 6 in either Art or ancient but any other subjects fine with me haha.

Quote from: beatroot on February 13, 2018, 09:09:32 pm
Congrats on getting a fabulous mark for your visual arts assessment!! Keep up the good work ;)
Good luck on the rest of your visual arts journey :)

Thank you!!! Some people are still really unsure how to start but I just started with what I'm good at. I hope that these last 6 months will go semi smoothly (I know things will pop up unexpectedly).

Quote from: owidjaja on February 13, 2018, 10:29:50 pm
Omg yass! Great job on your interview :)

Ooh did you just mention graduation trip? Where are you planning to go?

Spoiler
Also random question: do you have a studygram account?

I did mention a grad trip! We are planning on taking a cruise to New Zealand with my friends. We have to take one of my friends parents but they said they'd leave us alone to have fun. And yes I do have a studygram account, posting has been hard lately I want to make quality posts but these two first weeks have been tough. I'll get through it  ;)

Quote from: Lumenoria on February 14, 2018, 04:39:30 pm
Omg congratulations on your amazing mark, that's absolutely phenomenal!!

And omg that trip sounds so exciting, are you travelling on your own? I'm thinking of doing the same thing because my friends are unsure as to whether they're or out of my South East Asia trip HAHHAA

Oh wow! South East Asia sounds exciting! We had exactly the same problem when we started talking about it but four of us have confirmed that we are going. Sadly two of our friends couldn't come due to things on in December and problems with money but we hope to do something fun where money won't be an issue.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 18, 2018, 04:31:33 pm
This week has been absolute hell.

Okay. I'll start with the after school holiday... Not only have I been working my ass off to get costs and where we are going sorted out but I have also been dealing with all my friends changing plans. So right, on Friday we had almost everything sorted. There were four of us going and we were all "Yeah we are set and everyone agrees to the New Caledonia cruise instead!" so I legit thought everything was going to be fine.

Then, I get home on Friday afternoon and find a text from one of my friends in our holiday group chat and BAM "Oh guys I can't go because I'm going on too many other trips this year and it'll cost too much". At this point I'm thinking like 'what did you just say?'. I mean she could have told us before we started organising this? Then I'm thinking of all the different costings that'll have to change to have one less person and then another friend comes in, BAM "I don't really want to go if you're not going (Friends name)". At this point I was super super pissed and upset. I'd spent hours trying to get what we wanted and to get it cheap as well.

Then the second friend I'd talked about up there was like "Why don't we just do something cheaper like $200 per person or something." At this point I kept my mouth shut and closed the group chat in rage. They did not acknowledge the hard work I'd put into it and no one even apologised. Now the whole trip is off. The whole point of the trip is to spend money and have fun right? I felt it would be easier if my best friend, my parents and I went somewhere ourselves instead of having to work EVERYTHING out again. If everyone wanted the smaller trip then I wouldn't be organising it. Not again.

Sorry for sounding like a cow but to tell you the truth this always happens. It's like a flood. One drop of water falls and the rest just follow on afterwards leaving the few drop left. I was glad that this happened on a friday but boy was I in a bad mood for the remainder of the night.

This isn't all that happened in the past week... One of my other friends (Not going on the trip) purposely pushes people away for no reason and now she's done it to one of the girls who joined our group starting in year 11 last year. They were all happy and bestest of friends and everything changed. The friend that this happened to had no idea what she had done. I feel sorry for her, she had finally found someone in our group to really connect to and this happens. Why does there have to be so much drama in year 12? Why can't it be a smooth sailing ship?

I mean, I love my friends but come on.

Other than that, it has been a highly uneventful week relating to school and not wanting to go to English. We finally started Richard 3 which is OK and in maths we have almost finished the HSC content for the course. Art major is coming along well!

Sorry for the huge rant guys... this week has been tough and sometimes it just gets too much. You know?

Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 19, 2018, 05:18:19 pm
Hiii! After my huge rant yesterday I am back to talk about school.

Today I submitted three ancient history HSC questions to my teacher but I forgot to do the homework he assigned us over the weekend. Whoops!
I also forgot to email myself my engineering assessment that I started yesterday because I didn't realise we were doing it in class... whoops again.
We started doing revision in math and we did Locus again which I don't really remember doing in the first place. Luckily I think its quite easy!
We listened to Richard 3 in english today. I had to share with one of my friends who sat next to me today because she forgot hers but at the moment the play is quite interesting! It's a lot like Othello (We did it in year 11) where the evil character is so manipulative especially with Anne.
I had art today and it started raining! Thats a good thing! We havent had rain in a while. It started getting windy and the desk I have claimed for my hsc major is right next to the window. It was nice and refreshing after the morning was so awful and hot.

Hope everyone had a great day!  :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: kauac on February 19, 2018, 05:42:58 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 19, 2018, 05:18:19 pm
We listened to Richard 3 in english today. I had to share with one of my friends who sat next to me today because she forgot hers but at the moment the play is quite interesting! It's a lot like Othello (We did it in year 11) where the evil character is so manipulative especially with Anne.

Ooooh. I'm doing Richard 3 as well (and I also did Othello in year 11 haha!). We are just starting the mod, so I'm hoping it won't be too dry... But I did enjoy Othello, and from what you said, it sounds pretty cool, so finger's crossed!  ;)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 21, 2018, 08:18:56 pm
I honestly feel like I've been hit in the face with a brick.

We are graduating in November. We are almost done. 13 years of schooling coming down to the ATAR. I might be happy, I might be sad. Who knows. I hope I'm happy but I feel like that I haven't done enough so far.

I was in SOR1 today and our teacher asked us to do this HSC question. SOR1U is pretty much the subject I care the least about... but anyway. I realised I have to work for this, this counts toward my mark. If I don't like it, I will just have to keep studying. Last year I did hardly anything! I still got good marks and a good rank (To my teachers disappointment) but I didn't work hard enough. It was fourth period when I had an attitude change. Well, my teacher made me change my attitude because we weren't doing what we were supposed to. I know, I'm so bad! I realised that everything he was saying was right. I was there to get a good mark and a good ATAR, this did count and it mattered. It wasn't some subject to brush off like we all did in year 7, 8, 9 and 10. This really mattered and I wasn't working.

What the hell am I doing? I thought to myself. I want to do well. I want to get a good ATAR. What am I doing? Nothing. Why? Just because I hate the subject. IT COUNTS YOU IDIOT. WORK. I literally wanted to scream it at myself. Luckily it was lunch next period. Then Engineering where I couldn't concentrate because I was thinking about what I had really done in year 11 and term 1 of year 12. Yes, I had worked in the subjects I liked and wanted to get good marks in such as English, Ancient, Engineering, Math and Art (Pretty much every subject) but RE? Really? No. I want to turn this around.

This afternoon I spent 1hr 30 on an essay we have to write in SOR (Thankfully not an assessment) but I needed to work to stop worrying. I'm that type of person that gets something on their mind and it stays there until you satisfy its hunger (Is that a good analogy?). If I don't do enough study sometimes, I can't sleep (Especially in holidays) and if I still worry the night before the test I haven't studied enough.

I remember the one time in year 10 maths I got 100%. I was in the top class then (Still am in the top 2U class) and I remember going in feeling satisfied with whatever study I had done. Yes it was year 10 but math was one of my best subjects. Another time I went in feeling satisfied and got close to 100%.

 Then I hilariously think back to year 11 beginners French where I totally fluked the yearly exam cause I didn't study very much (I dropped it for year 12) and got close to 95%. I hated french so much I wanted to fail but didn't? It's weird but I got 12/12 for a HSC question my teacher put in it. I came 4th in French (Out of 12 people). I really like learning languages but I was just annoyed by French. Maybe it was the teacher? Idk.

So in conclusion! I actually need to get my head in the game and start getting really serious with some of my subjects (Maybe it doesn't help with who I sit next to?) otherwise I will bring myself down and my mark. I want to get a good ATAR and I want to get into UoN and I WILL!

*Whispers* Get your arse into gear Caitlyn. You can do it *Whispers*
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 21, 2018, 08:34:02 pm
OH. And tomorrow is my birthday 😊 so hopefully something happy to be about tomorrow! Sadly not turning 18 but Ill get my Ps soon! (soon as a month or two)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Poet on February 21, 2018, 08:42:12 pm
Heya Caitlynk_22,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to see you're doing well and hitting yourself in the face with metaphorical bricks (that IS a good thing..?). And hey, who cares if you're turning 18 or not? It's still a huge milestone in your life, and we wish you the very best from over here in Victoria. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on February 21, 2018, 08:54:19 pm
happy birthday for tomorrow!!! i hope you have an awesome day. :-)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: owidjaja on February 21, 2018, 09:00:32 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 21, 2018, 08:34:02 pm
OH. And tomorrow is my birthday 😊 so hopefully something happy to be about tomorrow! Sadly not turning 18 but Ill get my Ps soon! (soon as a month or two)
Happy birthday for tomorrow! Good luck in getting your P's too :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 22, 2018, 09:43:33 pm
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! I had a great day!

Tomorrow is the swimming carnival but I really don't want to go... We have to do a seniors parade where we dress up in a theme of our house colours. Mine being red and blue. We always win the parade but other houses keep saying its just because we lose this swimming carnival and the people in last place always win the parade. BUT we have won three years in a row, one of those times we did not come last in the whole swimming carnival. Great right? Hopefully the new intake of year 7s will be good swimmers... Maybe... After all we are the largest house of unsporty people.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Poet on February 22, 2018, 09:46:02 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on February 22, 2018, 09:43:33 pm
Hopefully the new intake of year 7s will be good swimmers... Maybe... After all we are the largest house of unsporty people.

Feeling you. My house is similar. :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Yertle the Turtle on February 23, 2018, 07:04:17 am
At my school no one really cares about houses, but the winner tends to go in cycles, with a new house winning for 5 years or so, before a new one takes over. It's been nearly 8 years since my house won, but I'll never see them win... :'( Unless we win this year... (not happening)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on February 23, 2018, 10:35:45 am
Happy belated birthday, friend!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 24, 2018, 05:41:28 pm
So I think our house didn't come last for once! Which is great! The parade went well as well but when we walked in the juniors weren't 'pulling their weight' as in they weren't screaming for our house. (House spirit is very big at my school and especially in my house). I swear all us seniors were ten times louder then them and theres less of us. I guess we put more into it because it's our last year? I dunno but it was kinda disappointing you know.

Another thing was that all the Year 12s got to do the school war cry. It's exclusive to the year 12s at the swimming carnival and oh my gosh it felt so good to do it. It makes me realise that that was my last ever swimming carnival, last ever parade and last time I'll be chanting for my house as hard as I did. But it felt good. To be honest I was kinda glad it was my last swimming carnival. I never really got into it as much as other people but this year was fun.

I got so sun burnt yesterday and I literally was sitting under a shelter... I mean how does that happen?? No one else in my group got as sunburnt as me but then again I am probably the palest person in my group. Hehe. My friend also stepped on a bee and got stung and so did so many other people there too. So glad it wasn't me...

After the carnival I stayed back with my friends and swam. The pool lets us stay without having to pay which is so good! I mean technically we already pay for it in our fees but anyway.

How was everyone's friday? Good?

Right now, I am (was) working on my religion assessment due on the 14th of March. I hadn't touched it in a while because we only just finished the content needed for the assessment a couple of days ago. Then English is due on the 15th, Art on the 19th and Engineering on the 23rd. My only four assessments before exams which start on the 5th of April.

I'm going on an Engineering excursion to Sydney soon. It was gonna be last year but our teacher decided we were going to be too busy since it was the end of the year. I am so excited! There's only 7 of us in the class, 3 of us being girls and we all get along really well. So its gonna be great!

What I'm nervous about is missing two days of school the week before English is due because our English teacher says that's when we are going to be looking at Al Pacino's Looking for Richard. I feel even sorrier (Is that a word?) for my friend whose missing four days of that week for our excursion and a defence force thingy magig.

At the moment I should be doing some school work but its really hot and I can hardly speak. My mum gave me her silly cold and I'm dying! I took it easy today but tomorrow I'm going to have to put my head down and do some work. Maybe some more on religion, some engineering and maths. Maybe some art?

ANYWAY! Thank you everyone for your kind comments :) I will see you all sooon!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on February 25, 2018, 04:43:21 pm
So these past few weeks and months I've been asking what my friends are wanting to do after school. I know two of my friends are looking to join the ADF and do their degrees through there but they aren't taking a gap year. And some people say they'll get sick of studying and won't want to go to Uni after a gap year.

I on the other hand want to go to uni straight away but I don't want to have a HUGE burden when I do go through uni. I was thinking of doing a traineeship at an engineering/architecture/surveying place that specially hires school leavers for their gap year. I hope to apply there if I decide to take a gap year. I was also thinking of doing a Cert 3 at TAFE during that year just to keep studying.

My brother decided to take a gap year and defered his offer at University of Newcastle which was a Secondary Engineering/DnT teaching course. He ended up working for my parents are their business for the gap year and ultimately decided that he wasn't going to go that direction. Now he's applying for IT at CSU in my home town. IT is what my parents business is based on so I'd assume he'd want to take over after my dad. I never got into the IT thing. Ever since I was young I stayed very far away from it.

I'm worried about changing my mind or not liking the field of work I choose. I think I just want to leave my town and get out into the real world. It all seems so scary! I'll be doing things for the last time and that's really strange. We have this day at my school where it celebrates our school and how it came about really. Us Year 12s get to do a dance off, boys vs girls. Girls won last year and I hope we win this year too (I hope we start up the girls winning streak again)! I think everyones schooling career at my school builds up to the boys vs girls dance.

To say I'm worried about the future is such an understatement. On one hand I just want to get this over and done with but on the other, I don't want it to end.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on March 01, 2018, 08:33:25 pm
Today is Thursday of week 5, almost half way to Half-yearlies. We are starting to do revision for the half yearlies in math and I'm getting pretty pumped. I know I know, It's math but for some reason I'm pretty good with most of the topics we have revised so far. It's good! I had a double today which I came out of feeling extremely satisfied with the work I'd done.

I also had English and we finished Richard 3 which was good as well. I didn't like Richard 3 but the amount of deaths in the play made me laugh. Richard 3's death is very abrupt though... it was weird. "A horse, a horse, a kingdom for my horse!" Richard's famous last words.

Oh! And in Ancient History we finally started Athenian Society in the time of Pericles (Or greek society idk which) which is so far really interesting! I think Ancient is that one subject I always look forward to going to because it's interesting and our class engages with the discussion going on. Our teacher is extremely enthusiastic!

We got our second assessment for art today. We have to hand in a case study and do an in class essay. Kill me now. The case study is fine, I've done plenty of them since the start of year 11 but the essay? Not very much sadly. I must practice writing one. How does one actually write an art essay?

This morning was like panicky because I remembered I had an Orthodontist appointment on the 15th at 2:15pm and guess what, period 5 is when my english assessment is! That only finishes at 2:15pm! I had to ring up to change it but they're all booked out till MAY. I can't last that long as my Invisilign (A different type of braces not metal) is going to wear down significantly. My ortho already thought waiting till March was a stretch. Ugh ugh ugh.

Okay so some of you probably don't know what invisilgn is. It's like a retainer/plate thingy magig that you have to wear for 22 hours a day and you can take it out when you eat. It's pretty much invisible and you can eat whatever you want at any time! It doesn't hurt at all and is a bit cheaper than normal braces sometimes depending on how bad your teeth are. Apparently, my teeth were the worst that my ortho had used invisilgn with. They worked amazingly and now I have straight teeth which is AMAZING! For so many years I had crowding and crooked teeth. Now I can smile with confidence.

As of late I haven't been wearing it to school due to the last one wearing down and so it lasts longer. My friends didn't even notice I haven't been wearing it! I would recomend it for anyone and everyone. It is so effective and actually works.

Since my case was so bad, I have had four years worth of ortho appointments (Get this, included in the initial cost) but it certainly hasn't been a waste of time. I look back at pictures from my year 10 formal and to now. So much has changed! I am glad I researched it myself and found it. i'd probably still have bad teeth if they didn't exist.

Kicking the english staff for placing the assessment on that date though...

Lately I have been addicted to Supernatural. I think I've almost watched the first season in just under five days. Oh gosh it's so good! This cannot be healthy for my studying habits... you might have to keep Stan away from me... mwuahahhahaha. I'm in a weird mood, can't you tell?
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on March 14, 2018, 07:33:58 pm
Ok! It's been a while since I last posted. Lets get started.

Highlights of last week:
-School Disco
-Engineering Studies Excursion

Okay, so on Wednesday we went to the disco. The theme was superheroes and villains. We went as the powerpuff girls, there was seven of us so two of each powerpuff girl and we had a professor. It was pretty fun! The music was meh but the thing that made it really fun was my friends. It wouldn't have been as fun without them. We all went to my friends house to get ready and we had pizza for dinner. We had a hardcore debate about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. What do you think?

Another thing I did that week was the Engineering Studies Excursion to Sydney. We had to be at school by 6:30am so that means a 5:30am get up time (Takes 20 minutes for me to get to school without traffic). There's seven of us in our class and the excursion was probably one of the best excursions I have ever been on.

So of course it took around 3 hours to get to Port Kembla where the steel works are, we went to the beach at Austinmere for a swim before lunch and that was great. It was a pain getting changed back into my school uniform and we had to put pants on. Then we went to the Port Kembla steel works and saw some real cool stuff. We went into the continuous casting shed where two of the machines were on, it was so hot! We stood above it and I swear I got sunburnt (It felt like it!). After that most of the steel making parts were not on or being worked on so instead we went inside Port Kembla (The actual port) where they keep rows and rows of cars ready to go to customers. It was really really cool!

After Port Kembla, it was like 3:30pm and we had to leave to go Sydney. It felt like it took ages to get there but it was okay, we all chatted and had our own fun. We had to park in Parramatta but we couldn't find parking for our small bus as the spot that our teacher used last year had changed. We ended up parking at some motel for a cheap price of $15 for overnight. We parked the bus and walked to the train station and hopped on a train to Central.

Once at Central we went to where we were staying. A young hostel. I was pleasantly surprised about how nice it was, everyone there was really nice even the staff! After that we went out for dinner in China town, a short walk from the hostel, it was a great meal! Afterwards we walked to Darling Harbour where we climbed the spiderweb and slid down that huge slide. We went to the water where it was so beautiful! At this point it was like 9:30pm and someone in our class suggested laser tag! We went and did it and our team lost... it was 4 v 3 completely unfair. Even though one of the other girls did kick her toe and have blood everywhere.

After that it was almost 11pm, we sat and ate icecream for a while watching the harbour. It was a really good night, by then we were really tired so we went back to the hostel, had showers and got ready for bed. I swear we laid in bed and talked for an hour, I think it was 1am when we finally went to sleep. To be honest, we didn't want the night to end.

The next day we had breakfast and went out to Milsons Point via train to walk the bridge. SO MANY STAIRS. It was beautiful, I've never walked the bridge before. We went to Pylon lookout where we found there used to be a catery there? Weird right? After that we went to Circular Key where we had some ice cream and took a train to get to the Powerhouse museum (Train then tram) where we only spent an hour? We wanted to spend longer there but that didn't happen cause we had to catch the ferry back to Parramatta. I had nuggets and chips for lunch. YUM.

I think we all fell asleep on the ferry, some dude took our seat and we ended up sitting on a really comfortable floor. People were giving us weird looks hahaha. It wasn't very eventful that day but I think once we got home everyone was glad to get off that bus. The seats were so uncomfortable. I was ready for food.

Other than that not much has happened except I had to hand in my first religion assessment in. It was out of 32, 6 marks to an annotated bibliography, 2 marks for a video, 2 marks for submitting the video, 2 marks for the video being on 7mins and 20 marks for the transcript. I think the assessment was a litte ridiculous but anyway.

My second english assessment is tomorrow. I am hoping the test goes well! It's about Mod A in Advanced Richard 3 and Looking for Richard. I'm not a fan of LFR but the play is okay.

Oh and straight after the assessment I have a study period and I have to go to an Orthodontist appointment to get something in. I may have told you before about how I have Invisign but I am officially done with that and am on the road to being done! I literally have to run to the senior carpark to get to my appointment on time.

I am on the way to getting my liscense!  When I get to 50 hours I can do the PCYC course worth 20hrs and then do all of my 10 instructor lessons worth 30hrs all together meaning I get to 100hrs and will only need night! I can see the end of the tunnel. I really want my P's!

Anyway, sorry long post! Hope you enjoyed your week!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on March 14, 2018, 09:18:37 pm
I FORGOT TO MENTION! My major is going really well. I'm on scedule (I think) and am almost finished my first sculpture and I am sooooo happy with it! It took ages! I'm in an unusually good mood the night before an English assessment, double maths and an ortho appointment. I'M GONNA HAVE GOOD TEETH FOR GRAD! yay! That was really my ultimate goal! Oh and btw I absolutely suck at Logs and exponentials. Will have to work on some this weekend.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on March 15, 2018, 05:54:15 pm
English task went well! The teachers had chosen the scene everyone didn't want to be picked. It was the Crowning of Richard in Looking for Richard. I think I did pretty well. I finished with five minutes to go. Hopefully I do well. My ortho appointment went well too! I am finally finished with invisilign and am onto the wire and within the next year I won't have to do anything.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on March 21, 2018, 07:18:16 pm
Second engineering task done! Second art task done!

They are both due on Friday and I hope to do some art essay practice tomorrow afternoon. I love engineering and it's actually somewhat interesting to research for for a research assessment. For art we had to do an Ai Weiwei case study and I tell you what a lot of weiwei jokes are spreading around out class like 'you better go a weiwei' there's been better ones but that's literally the only one I can think of. I actually like Ai Weiwei and the message that underlies his artworks. I like how he is taking a stand in his artworks.

Anyway! Have a good night! Exams are in week 10 and 11. I got my exam timetable and I have:
Adv english in the morning - Friday (2 hours0
Engineering in the morning - Monday (THREE HOURS LONG! My only extremely long one)
Mathematics in the morning - Tuesday (2.5 hours)
Art in the afternoon - Wednesday (Doesn't count towards out overall grade but 1.5 hours)
Ancient in the afternoon - Friday (1.5 hours. Will this be long enough? I will never know...)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: jamonwindeyer on March 21, 2018, 07:52:37 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on March 21, 2018, 07:18:16 pm
Second engineering task done! Second art task done!

They are both due on Friday and I hope to do some art essay practice tomorrow afternoon. I love engineering and it's actually somewhat interesting to research for for a research assessment. For art we had to do an Ai Weiwei case study and I tell you what a lot of weiwei jokes are spreading around out class like 'you better go a weiwei' there's been better ones but that's literally the only one I can think of. I actually like Ai Weiwei and the message that underlies his artworks. I like how he is taking a stand in his artworks.

Anyway! Have a good night! Exams are in week 10 and 11. I got my exam timetable and I have:
Adv english in the morning - Friday (2 hours0
Engineering in the morning - Monday (THREE HOURS LONG! My only extremely long one)
Mathematics in the morning - Tuesday (2.5 hours)
Art in the afternoon - Wednesday (Doesn't count towards out overall grade but 1.5 hours)
Ancient in the afternoon - Friday (1.5 hours. Will this be long enough? I will never know...)

Congrats on finishing those tasks! Have loved reading your updates ;D

It's so weird that your Art Task doesn't count!! Is it something you and your class are going to prepare for properly? Or is it sort of being treated, like, "Meh" ;D it's a pretty decent timetable besides having Art smack bang in the middle there actually!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on March 24, 2018, 04:11:23 pm
Quote from: jamonwindeyer on March 21, 2018, 07:52:37 pm
Congrats on finishing those tasks! Have loved reading your updates ;D

It's so weird that your Art Task doesn't count!! Is it something you and your class are going to prepare for properly? Or is it sort of being treated, like, "Meh" ;D it's a pretty decent timetable besides having Art smack bang in the middle there actually!

Thank you!!! I am so glad they're done! I handed them in on Friday and I hope all goes well!

I know that it's weird. I was so happy that it didn't count but then again what's the point in doing it? Our teacher says that it's good to sit in an exam and get used to the conditions that we get in the HSC and that she thinks it'll be good practice. Then she said she knows we have other exams to worry about so I guess minimal study for it at the least. I'm not sure if I am going to do any study for it. We'll see.

I kinda like the timetable except for the fact I don't have my license yet so I can't leave after an exam. I will have it by trials but it's a bummer that I can't go home and study and I have to stay at school. Good news though! On the Friday exams and term ends, it's my friends birthday so we are going to have a sleep over and watch horror movies! (Don't tell one of my other friends that. Hahaha)

Today I did some maths. I started with geometry: congruence and similarity but I just got so frustrated. I did 1.5 hours on revising geometry and eventually moved on because I was so sick of it. I used to be so good at geometry in year 10 and 11 but now is like 'what the heck am I doing?'. I went to curve sketching (st pts, nature of pts etc) which we were recently revising in class so it was pretty easy. A bit later I'm going to do some of my major.

I am so excited for the four day long Easter weekend though! I mean, I know I have to study but I can sit, eat Easter eggs and watch TV for a bit right? What I am not excited about is the Athletics carnival on next Wednesday. It's great that I can finally participate with my friends as I am a year younger (Only turned 17 this year) and the age group is 17+. It's our last one ever. It's hard to think that we will be doing things for the very last time this year. Once this term ends its only 2 terms till the end of school. Wow. 13 years of schooling almost over.

Anyway. I'm going to stop rambling and go do something semi-productive. Bye!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 02, 2018, 10:05:15 am
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! I should have typed this last Thursday when I actually had school... It's the four day long weekend and I am studying for my half yearlies. I ate most of my Easter eggs yesterday... Whoops!

Anyway. Back to the good news. Remember that English listening assessment task I did a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, I kinda got that back on Thursday. It was period 5, I was totally expecting to just write an essay that lesson but I heard my teacher say "Oh and I'm handing back your assessments". Suddenly dread filled me. This was the task before I had to go to the Ortho... I was worried.

When the first person got his task back he literally ran out of the room to scream in happiness (I don't know why cause he's like the smartest person in our class), he's very full of himself. I've literally hated him since I started at that school in year 9 when he was in all THREE of my elective classes. I still strive to beat him. Anyway. Back on track.

I finally got my task back (It was out of 20) and there was a big red 18 marked on the top of my page. I had to stare at it for a few moments to actually believe that I had gotten 18/20 on an in-class English task. Believe me, it's never going to happen again. Since it was my last period of the day (5th period cause I had a study 6th) I felt like it made my day. I thought I did really bad and didn't answer the questions properly. I counted up the marks only losing two, I got to the last section and was like maybe they added it up wrong but no 6/6 for the last question. I swear my eye balls almost jumped out of their sockets.

The top mark in the year was 19.5/20 and the class average was 15/20. The English coordinator walked into our class and asked everyone if they were happy with their marks, only half the class put up their hands. I was surprised because the side of the room I sit on put their hands up and no one on the other side did.

Oh boy was I happy. It made my day.

But oh well. Hope everyone has a good weekend! Tomorrow I have to go back to school.... uggghhh
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: StudyBuddyKJ on April 02, 2018, 11:30:49 am
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on April 02, 2018, 10:05:15 am
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! I should have typed this last Thursday when I actually had school... It's the four day long weekend and I am studying for my half yearlies. I ate most of my Easter eggs yesterday... Whoops!

Anyway. Back to the good news. Remember that English listening assessment task I did a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, I kinda got that back on Thursday. It was period 5, I was totally expecting to just write an essay that lesson but I heard my teacher say "Oh and I'm handing back your assessments". Suddenly dread filled me. This was the task before I had to go to the Ortho... I was worried.

When the first person got his task back he literally ran out of the room to scream in happiness (I don't know why cause he's like the smartest person in our class), he's very full of himself. I've literally hated him since I started at that school in year 9 when he was in all THREE of my elective classes. I still strive to beat him. Anyway. Back on track.

I finally got my task back (It was out of 20) and there was a big red 18 marked on the top of my page. I had to stare at it for a few moments to actually believe that I had gotten 18/20 on an in-class English task. Believe me, it's never going to happen again. Since it was my last period of the day (5th period cause I had a study 6th) I felt like it made my day. I thought I did really bad and didn't answer the questions properly. I counted up the marks only losing two, I got to the last section and was like maybe they added it up wrong but no 6/6 for the last question. I swear my eye balls almost jumped out of their sockets.

The top mark in the year was 19.5/20 and the class average was 15/20. The English coordinator walked into our class and asked everyone if they were happy with their marks, only half the class put up their hands. I was surprised because the side of the room I sit on put their hands up and no one on the other side did.

Oh boy was I happy. It made my day.

But oh well. Hope everyone has a good weekend! Tomorrow I have to go back to school.... uggghhh

OMG that is amazing! Great job! Keep up the good work!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 05, 2018, 07:23:14 pm
Quote from: StudyBuddyKJ on April 02, 2018, 11:30:49 am
OMG that is amazing! Great job! Keep up the good work!

Thank you! I found out two more of my marks today, religion and my art case study I did a couple of weeks ago. I got 30/32 for my religion and 91.5% for my art case study. I still haven't gotten my art essay back but everything is looking okay so far!

Exams are tomorrow and I'm so nervous. I never thought I'd be this nervous for an exam. I start with English which I think I am actually doomed for. Like, I know my quotes but structuring a response in 40 mins is hard for me. I write WORSE when under pressure. I like hand-in tasks as they can be looked over again and again for mistakes. But anyway.

Goodluck for all year 12s doing or have done exams!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: kauac on April 05, 2018, 07:31:29 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on April 05, 2018, 07:23:14 pm

Exams are tomorrow and I'm so nervous. I never thought I'd be this nervous for an exam. I start with English which I think I am actually doomed for. Like, I know my quotes but structuring a response in 40 mins is hard for me. I write WORSE when under pressure. I like hand-in tasks as they can be looked over again and again for mistakes.


My English exam is tomorrow too! The build-up to the english exam is the worst out of all exams, I feel.  :-[
Hope it all goes well for you tomorrow! It will all be done in a flash (and unfortunately I feel like this is always the case: when you need time, it goes too quickly  ;D).
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 06, 2018, 02:40:13 pm
Quote from: kauac on April 05, 2018, 07:31:29 pm
My English exam is tomorrow too! The build-up to the english exam is the worst out of all exams, I feel.  :-[
Hope it all goes well for you tomorrow! It will all be done in a flash (and unfortunately I feel like this is always the case: when you need time, it goes too quickly  ;D).

Oh I totally agree! Time pretty much ran away from me during the exam. I did the essay in 45 minutes, short answer in 40 and the creative in 35. I think the most challenging part of the exam for me was the short answer. I did a little bit of bs cause I had no idea what to do for one of them. I remembered all my quotes (Thank god!). Anyway, time to study for engineering for next monday morning!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on April 06, 2018, 02:42:44 pm
A little late, but congrats on that 18/20 - just read it, and it made my day!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 09, 2018, 02:32:50 pm
Quote from: Joseph41 on April 06, 2018, 02:42:44 pm
A little late, but congrats on that 18/20 - just read it, and it made my day!

Thank you  ;D

Today, I had my 3 hour engineering exam which I wasn't too bummed about. I was more scared about the fact that it was 3 hrs. So it turns out our paper was really similar to the 2017 HSC with some tiny adjustments. I studied that like yesterday so I think I did OK!

Tomorrow is 2U maths and I feel so unprepared. I've SO much revision but I feel like it has gotten me no where. I've been doing heaps of HSC's, trials and half yearly papers, they're okay. I get most of them right but some of them are just really hard to start and finish. I think I might be okay because there's no probability and physics which is a good thing. Theres so much in our exams. Here I'll give you a list:

I get that most of it is prelim but there's so much! Oh and I accidentally forgot my maths book for this afternoons study in the library. I successfully finished the 2002 HSC paper - missing topics we had not yet done - and it seems okay. I think I just need a bit of confidence.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: jamonwindeyer on April 09, 2018, 07:41:10 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on April 09, 2018, 02:32:50 pm
I get that most of it is prelim but there's so much! Oh and I accidentally forgot my maths book for this afternoons study in the library. I successfully finished the 2002 HSC paper - missing topics we had not yet done - and it seems okay. I think I just need a bit of confidence.

Good luck! If you are doing papers from the early 2000's you are doing some of the hardest papers out there, so I reckon you are well prepared and you have every reason to be confident! Remember, positivity is a performance enhancer ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 10, 2018, 04:55:36 pm
Quote from: jamonwindeyer on April 09, 2018, 07:41:10 pm
Good luck! If you are doing papers from the early 2000's you are doing some of the hardest papers out there, so I reckon you are well prepared and you have every reason to be confident! Remember, positivity is a performance enhancer ;D

Oh wow. I didn't know that! I did the test this morning and boy was I glad to leave the exam hall. For the first hour and 15 minutes I was breezing through the multiple choice, Q 11, Q 12, Q 13 and then I got to Q 14... I was alright at it but I'm not sure if I got anything right.

I mean I know I did the right formulas and things but integrating and differentiating Logs has always been my worst topic. It had to be in one of the hardest parts didn't it. I really tried to answer it but I don't think it's right.

Q 15 was REALLY hard. I mean very hard, I remember people coming out of the exam hall saying they could get hardly anywhere with the last few questions which I was kinda relieved about. Now I just wanna know how you actually do it. It was geometry and our teacher had warned us that the question was going to be geometry but that hard? I don't think I'd ever seen anything like it before.

I will certainly be going back to revise with that test. I swear I did the first couple of Questions (11, 12, 13 and part of 14) then sat there staring at the ones in question 15, I mean, I attempted them... maybe I'll get part marks? Who knows. I think that is the worst I've felt after coming out of a math exam. I remember the days in year 10 where I could get 100% in my tests. Year 12 is a completely different cup of tea.

I have two exams left, art tomorrow and ancient on Friday. I'm actually so glad that the main three I was worrying about are out of the way. OH, I got my mark for multiple choice for my engineering exam. We have a small class of 7 ppl so it's pretty easy to mark. I got 20/20. It helped that the paper he used was the 2017 HSC. I studied by doing that and other exams. I think I might do okay in that test.

Half way done exams then it's holidays! Oh thank goodness. I swear this term has gone incredibly fast. We're half-way through year 12! It's so hard to believe. Less than six months till we graduate. Gah.

When I go on the bus to get to school in the mornings, I hear year 7s talking about schoolwork. I think to myself 'I remember when that was hard' now all we're saying is to them is 'everything you're doing is easy', compared to year 12 it is but when you're there, it is hard.

A part of me wishes I was more relaxed in year 7, 8, 9 and 10. I wish I had more fun. Though, I must say the highlight of junior school (7-10) was the year 10 formal. I wonder what the highlight of senior school will be. Graduation? Muck-up week? The holidays? My friends?

Anyway, sorry for the long entry. I feel like I'm procrastinating my art. I have three artists but our teacher didn't give our Duchamp case study back to us before she went on the year 9 camp. I literally asked her 2 weeks in advance, pretty much every art lesson. I'll sort it. I won't worry too much for the not counting exam.

Byyeyeeee
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 11, 2018, 08:39:55 am
OKAY so I have my art exam today and our art class group chat is exploding. I mean literally about how we are all gonna fail hahaha. But there's this problem. OUR TEACHER DIDN'T MAKE A STUDY GUIDE. So we can't find out how the exam is set out. Like, we've heard that its two HSC section 1's one time and then another time people are saying its like a normal HSC. Whhhaaatt doooo IIIII doooooo??? Keep studying my artists and artworks? It's this afternoon so I have time but like WHAT IS GOING ON? Our teacher is away on year 9 camp so it's not like we can ask her. Although it doesn't count everyone is still stressing about it. I mean it should be the exam we don't really study for.. BUT WE ARE SO CONFUSED. I'm just gonna keep studying my artists and artworks and see when I get into the room. What can go wrong? EVERYTHING  :'(
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 11, 2018, 08:12:33 pm
Okay so my art exam. I did like 6.5 pages for the essay and the short answer was so bad. I really think i need to revise it and go through the basics again.

The examiner forgot to give us the sheet that had the essay questions on it so we were given an extra five minutes reading time. Similar to last year where they forgot to give us the plate booklet. I think I did okay considering it was a non-assessable. Last exam is ancient and I'm pretty confident with it. Its on friday so I have all of tomorrow to study for it. Should be alright 😊
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 13, 2018, 10:41:45 am
Ancient history exam this afternoon and then its HOLIDAYS! THANK GOD. I'm so tired of studying and I'm bored of it. Like I don't think I've ever studied so much for exams before? Which is weird but I dunno. IM SO READY FOR HOLIDAYS! I may also have a look for what I want for a Grad dress.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Opengangs on April 13, 2018, 02:29:28 pm
GOOD LUCK! Enjoy the holidays - ya deserve it. Use this holiday period to catch up with family and friends, or just to cool off and re-energise for the rest of the year! Congrats on surviving this far, you're almost there!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 23, 2018, 08:22:51 pm
So! Week 1 of the holidays is finished and now I've only got another week to slack off. Though, I haven't been procrastinating too much as I have been doing my Art major. It's coming along really well and I am almost finished my second sculpture, so two of three almost finished. I hope to have it done by the time term starts again but we'll see.

OH, I went to Sydney on the weekend and we went to Chatswood, Parramatta and other places. I had a really good time other than having to drive in Sydney traffic which is actually really stressful especially when you're a country person (Less traffic!) and it's your second time driving in Sydney. I did so many things wrong! Whoops! I am so used to the relaxed environment of my town that it was a huge shock in Sydney. I was talking about it with my friends and half of them hadn't ever driven in Sydney. They should. It's a good learning experience as you always have to be careful and alert even if you are a confident driver.

 BUT ALAS. I got heaps of hours up and am literally so close (Well if you call 70 hours in the log book close). I hope to do some more driving this week, hopefully bumping it up to 80 and then I want to do some actual driving lessons with an instructor next term. I hope I can get my P's at least a month after the 1 year mark which is on May 6th then I can transport my art major so much easier!

OH! Did I tell you about my Engineering Studies mark? Yes, I know I told you about the multiple choice but I got my mark back. My FULL mark. I got 84/100 which I am extremely happy about. The average in our class was 63/100 so I am so happy to be 20 marks above average. I'm not sure what everyone else got but I hope everyone else has done well!

Anyway. I'm rambling. I hope everyone is having an amazing holidays and working hard even if half the day is procrastinating. I swear I sleep in till 10 every morning.

Byeee!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on April 28, 2018, 02:08:46 pm
So I finally finished updating my Ancient History notes. I am so glad I finished them.

I have to write an english essay tomorrow which is due on monday, the last day of school holidays for me. I kinda wanna relax on Monday because I've actually been very productive these last two weeks.

OH I FINALLY FINISHED MY SECOND SCULPTURE FOR ART. I am actually so proud of myself. I hope to finish my next sculpture in May or June.  I swear ive spent so many hours on my major over all my other subjects but anyway. I feel satisfied with how much Ive done this holidays.

Anyway. School starts on Tuesday and I'm really nervous to get my exam marks back. Like REALLY nervous. I know I probably flunked Math and Ancient cause they were both hard. Ancient was hard mainly becausr there was question in which I hadn't studied as much for. I swear we hadnt even learnt about one of them. But anyway. It'll be okay.

Good bye.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 01, 2018, 11:20:00 am
Aaannnddd WE'RE BACK. Back to school of course. Which sucks but you know, it's the last year of high school ever so that's a good thing, right?

I had art period 1, we got our exams back so it was pretty good. It didn't count but I did pretty horrible especially on short answer ugghh. I got 14/25 for short answer which is so bad. Since it doesn't count, our teacher didn't mark the essay. I felt more confident about that part. Apparently I was one of the only people in the class to include 3 different artworks from 3 artists (Meaning nine artworks in total).

I also had English this morning at period 2. We didn't get our exams back but our teacher guarantees that we'll get it back sometime this week. We instead started Mod B and we are doing W.B Yeats. Is he an okay poet? I hope he is.

At the moment I'm in a double study working out what I should be doing because I did a lot of schoolwork during holidays. But anyway.

This friday we are going to an expo in Bathurst. It's actually a facts day and my brother went to it a couple of years ago. He said it went too quickly and you didn't have enough time to talk to people much. I'm HOPING it is informative but we have to go back to school for period 5 and 6.

Anyway. Hope everyone is having a great first or second day back to school!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: hums_student on May 01, 2018, 02:26:05 pm
Hey! Really enjoy reading your journal  :D  How do you find ancient history? I'm doing ancient history as well for VCE, and I used to live in NSW so I'm really interested to see what the HSC curriculum is like. What are you studying for it?
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 01, 2018, 04:31:55 pm
So I think I just had the worst day ever.

Period 5 I got my Mathematics half yearly back. And from the point he handed it back to me I felt like crying. I'd done so much study for it. Like so much and I guess it didn't work because I didn't pass. I write this as I cry, I might seem over dramatic but I am literally so pissed at myself as well as disappointed in myself. I can't believe that this happened. I've NEVER failed a test in math. NEVER. Even my friends passed they both got high 60's and 70's. I felt like last year I was doing so well and now this year has gone down hill faster than I can imagine. I thought I did alright but I didn't. I did horrible and now that 2.5 hours is gone. What the fuck was I thinking? What was running through my brain at that point? Am I dumb or something?

And to top it off, I told you about my art mark earlier. God damn. Like come on. I WAS THINKING CAN YOU MAKE THIS DAY ANY WORSE.

THEN I go to engineering and we start going through the paper. I got my mark back in the holidays so I originally got 83/100. WELL THINK AGAIN because my stupid Engineering teacher didn't think it was fair to the people who hadn't looked at the past papers (WHICH HE SAID TO DO) and thought that we memorised the whole test. I didn't. It's the teachers fault for assigning a 2017 past HSC paper. Now I feel like I am being put down JUST because I studied past papers. I always go through the more recent ones first and 2017 was the first one I went through so I was like 'Oh is this the test'. I mean like come on. I ended up getting ten marks less so 73/100 in order to make it "closer" to the other people. I mean, I'm fine with 73 but lowering my mark just because everyone else wasn't smart enough to look at the past papers? Even our teacher recognises his OWN mistake. I'm like, fine take my marks because everyone else was thinking I was being unfair about not accepting the reduction of marks.

God I am so pissed off it's not even funny.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 01, 2018, 04:41:23 pm
Quote from: Lsjnzy13 on May 01, 2018, 02:26:05 pm
Hey! Really enjoy reading your journal  :D  How do you find ancient history? I'm doing ancient history as well for VCE, and I used to live in NSW so I'm really interested to see what the HSC curriculum is like. What are you studying for it?

Sorry for my rant five seconds ago.

Hiiiii. Thank you so much for reading my journal. I love ancient history, it's one of my best subjects. We do three options and another which is compulsory.

We do -
Pompeii and Herculaneum (Compulsory)
Greece: Athens in the time of Pericles
Rome: Julius Caesar
Rome: Roman Republic 1st century BC (I think)

Our teacher really likes Greece and Rome because they link really well together as well as it being easy to associate with the compulsory topic. At the moment we are almost finished Athens and we have finished Pompeii and Herculaneum. I'm really excited for Julius Caesar. Thank you, writing this has really calmed me down. Me talking about another subject that actually is enjoyable.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on May 01, 2018, 05:02:37 pm
Hey Caitlyn!

First: it's going to be okay!

- Failure is okay. I failed 2/3 of my prelim 3u exams (no wonder I dropped), but I do understand what it feels like to do worse than what you expected after working so hard. Seriously, your hard work will pay off in the end. Use this mark as motivation to keep trying :-)
- You should probably bring up that Engineering thing to the head of that subject department (idk what Engineering comes under lol) but that's something that should be disputed. You shouldn't have your mark taken down by 10... that's so dumb

All the best - I hope everything gets better for you!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Razeen25 on May 01, 2018, 05:30:05 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on May 01, 2018, 04:31:55 pm
So I think I just had the worst day ever.

Period 5 I got my Mathematics half yearly back. And from the point he handed it back to me I felt like crying. I'd done so much study for it. Like so much and I guess it didn't work because I didn't pass. I write this as I cry, I might seem over dramatic but I am literally so pissed at myself as well as disappointed in myself. I can't believe that this happened. I've NEVER failed a test in math. NEVER. Even my friends passed they both got high 60's and 70's. I felt like last year I was doing so well and now this year has gone down hill faster than I can imagine. I thought I did alright but I didn't. I did horrible and now that 2.5 hours is gone. What the fuck was I thinking? What was running through my brain at that point? Am I dumb or something?

And to top it off, I told you about my art mark earlier. God damn. Like come on. I WAS THINKING CAN YOU MAKE THIS DAY ANY WORSE.

THEN I go to engineering and we start going through the paper. I got my mark back in the holidays so I originally got 83/100. WELL THINK AGAIN because my stupid Engineering teacher didn't think it was fair to the people who hadn't looked at the past papers (WHICH HE SAID TO DO) and thought that we memorised the whole test. I didn't. It's the teachers fault for assigning a 2017 past HSC paper. Now I feel like I am being put down JUST because I studied past papers. I always go through the more recent ones first and 2017 was the first one I went through so I was like 'Oh is this the test'. I mean like come on. I ended up getting ten marks less so 73/100 in order to make it "closer" to the other people. I mean, I'm fine with 73 but lowering my mark just because everyone else wasn't smart enough to look at the past papers? Even our teacher recognises his OWN mistake. I'm like, fine take my marks because everyone else was thinking I was being unfair about not accepting the reduction of marks.

God I am so pissed off it's not even funny.

Wait wtf, if you got 83, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU BE DEDUCTED 10 MARKS JUST BECAUSE THE REST OF THE CLASS DIDN'T DO AS WELL. That's the most unfair thing I've heard. Is that even legally allowed? Your mark is YOUR mark. If you got an 83, no teacher should have the right to do that. You should ask a head teacher or something I'm mad smh.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Lumenoria on May 01, 2018, 07:57:39 pm
THAT IS SO FUCKING UNFAIR OMFG YOU HAVE TO DISPUTE IT. I HAD A SIMILAR SITUATION HAPPEN TO ME (OVER ONE MARK BUT STILL), I FOUGHT FOR IT AND WON. 10 MARKS IS A LOT MAN, you definitely don't deserve to be punished for working hard. They're not at a disadvantage because they're free to access HSC papers at their own accord, so YOU DEFS HAVE GROUNDS TO FIGHT THIS. LEGIT I would be so mad if I were you hahaha
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 01, 2018, 09:08:39 pm
Thank you all so much for the support! I don't know what I'd do without you guys!

I need to remove some feelings! Bear with me...

Yeah, I was gonna dispute it with my engineering teacher right then and there but pretty much the whole class (except for the four of us who actually looked at the past paper) ganged up against me and said I should just take it. I was reluctant to take it but I submitted because I was afraid I would lose even more marks.

I told my mum about it and she's really angry. I told her not to be angry because yeah maybe I did memorise it or remember it. Isn't it just common sense to look at past papers? My brother, who had been in the same engineering class two years prior had to do a past HSC paper too (So its not like we weren't expecting it). I believe that teachers should write their own tests even if it does take more time.

As a student, I find it hard to accept I've just lost 10 marks. I find it hard to accept my lame maths mark (As soon as I get it back fully, I am going through to check to see if I can get some more marks. Call me a mark scab) and I find it hard to believe that my art teacher was probably too lazy to look at the rubric to give us a mark for our essay. I mean whats the point of doing a test that a teacher doesn't fully mark?

Now I'm worried about my other exams being exact same as these first three. I know my ancient teacher is reliable and doesn't deduct marks to people who work.

 I also find it funny how one person (In my engineering class) does Graphics and her teacher ALSO uses past papers all the time for half yearlies. She goes back and looks at the papers, sometimes even getting 100% because she looks at past papers. Isn't it weird that there is so much inconsistency within the D'n't department? I also find it sad that MY teacher is the only engineering teacher within the department making it even harder to bring up to another teacher. But anyway.

Does this always happen in peoples HSC year. Suddenly a BLOOP comes along and almost ruins your marks. I wanted to get my rank higher in engineering but that doesn't look like it'll happen till I receive LAST terms hand-in engineering task which we won't get until the school inspection is over. I literally have my fingers crossed for this assessment.

Literally so sorry for the rants the last couple of hours. ATARNotes has helped me through this afternoon and let me face the fact it was unfair. Thank you all so much  :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 01, 2018, 09:10:13 pm
OH I FORGOT.

HSC timetable comes out tomorrow at 8am


I have not yet received my trials timetable.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 02, 2018, 04:13:09 pm
Soooo, I got my ancient history exam and its a huge step up from my previous results!!!

I got 37.5/45 meaning 83%. I literally thought I would do ten times worse but at the moment its the result I am actually happy with. I'm glad to see my ancient marks are still good.

Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on May 02, 2018, 04:36:55 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on May 02, 2018, 04:13:09 pm
Soooo, I got my ancient history exam and its a huge step up from my previous results!!!

I got 37.5/45 meaning 83%. I literally thought I would do ten times worse but at the moment its the result I am actually happy with. I'm glad to see my ancient marks are still good.



Great work! ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 05, 2018, 10:28:43 pm
Hi everyone, I was so busy yesterday since we went to a Facts day in Bathurst. Heaps of universities were there and UAC was there so we could learn more about our atar. I got lots of books for unis I want to go to and some extras for some options.

I also got my English exam back yesterday. We were back at school for period 5 & 6. I was really happy with it. I got 79% (rounded from 78.8%). I'm so happy, its literally the highest mark ive got in an exam that has an essay, creative and short answer. I normally get in the 60s but I dunno, Im really proud of myself! I got 15/15 for short answer. I literally thought I did so bad at this part. 11/15 for creative, apparently everyone did crap in this section with a range from 4-9 out of 15 for the average. I also got 9.5/15 for my essay, I really need to improve on writing essays but we still have time!

Anyway. BYEEEE.

OH, I started a new TV show called The Rain on Netflix. Its from Denmark so I watch it dub but its really really good! I think we just watched five episodes...

Now, bye!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Opengangs on May 05, 2018, 10:37:25 pm
Awesome sets of marks you got there - glad you're happy with the marks. ;D Huge congrats on that 15/15 - I could never get 15/15. I always ended up with 13 or 14 for short answers. :(

omg that makes me want to get Netflix but I'm just a broke uni student :( everyone is telling me to get Netflix *cry*
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 06, 2018, 09:35:19 am
Quote from: Opengangs on May 05, 2018, 10:37:25 pm
Awesome sets of marks you got there - glad you're happy with the marks. ;D Huge congrats on that 15/15 - I could never get 15/15. I always ended up with 13 or 14 for short answers. :(

omg that makes me want to get Netflix but I'm just a broke uni student :( everyone is telling me to get Netflix *cry*

Me and the rest of my family use my brothers account, my brothers girlfriend does too! I give a couple of dollars to him a month and so does everyone else so we're set. You could always buy an account with friends and share? I dunno cause Netflix is getting so expensive!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 07, 2018, 07:45:28 pm
So I've gotten some of my ranks for this semester and I am glad to say that I have improved greatly in some of my subjects. Our English teacher told us what our ranks were and I am coming 13/63 which is really impressive for me! I'm used to being in the 20s or 30s! I hope to keep doing well this term so I can improve even more. I think my art teacher said I'm coming 2/18, the person who is coming first is really good at writing essays. I'm not sure about my other subjects but I did really well in my last SOR task and pretty good in Ancient. I think we are going to get reports back soon-ish so fingers crossed it's good.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 10, 2018, 09:23:17 pm
Okay, so my week so far has been pretty good. A tiny bit exhausting, I think I want to do a lot of sleeping on the weekend. I'm so glad that the weekend is coming up. I organised all my schoolwork and notes from when everything got messed up during exam period which is good. Nothing much has happened since Monday except for parent teacher interviews are in two weeks and we get reports next week. I really want to know the rest of my ranks.

I haven't gotten any assessments as of yet but I am still working hard. I have been doing cards for art with my artworks for the essay which our teacher pretty much forced us to do but I'm not complaining. My English teacher finally returned my LFR and Richard III and it was SO BAD. I mean, I knew it was bad. At least she gave me plenty of feed back.

I know I'm going to have two assessments due in week 8 which is art (Half of major) and English (Speech). I bet our maths test is gonna within that week as well. We'll see...

Signing off for now. BYEEE
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 14, 2018, 04:34:42 pm
Ok, so it's Monday and I had Maths sixth period. I had engineering third.

Firstly I would like to comment on how rude my friend was today during engineering. We were talking about the awards for the presentation assembly next week and my friend said 'I might get consistency and effort again because I've been improving unlike some people." I swear she looked me right in the eye and laughed thinking that I took it as a joke. No. I didn't. She doesn't know how hard I've been working. I really wanted to go punch her up her gifted maths arse. Wasn't it obvious that I wasn't happy with my maths marks this year? Wasn't it obvious I've been struggling? Wasn't it obvious that every time I stepped into that maths class, I wanted to walk right out again?

Come to think of it, we used to talk about the problems we encountered while working questions out. We did this for year 10 and 11. This year it's like I don't even exist in maths and I sit right next to her! My other friend who sits on the other side of her gets all the attention and no one asks if I need help or if I'm having trouble. It's as if she thinks we're not on the same level anymore. It breaks my heart. I used to enjoy talking to her about the problems, putting our ideas into the problem to get it right. This helped.

So maths sixth, obviously I didn't want to be there but I knew I had to be there to work as hard as I could. When the bell rang I almost ran out of the room and onto my bus where I have multiple year 11 friends. I almost want to say "Fuck this" and "Fuck you" to maths. I used to get the concepts but I don't know whats happening. Maths has now become my most hated subject and I only do 2U! I look at some peoples results from half yearlies on this forum and they say they're disappointed with a 70. Oh god, you know how much I'd love one of those again. Yes, I know they want an atar in the 90s but to be perfectly honest with you, I'd love to be you.

It feels like the amount of work I'm putting into math is not coming out in my results. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of school and the bitching that comes with it all. I hate walking into some subjects and love walking into others as they offer relief but it's not enough. I feel like I need to sleep for eternity as well. That's literally the only thing I did on the weekend. I gave myself a weekend break knowing that if I pushed myself too hard I'd get worse towards the end.

Literally the only thing that has me happy is that I got 1st in Engineering Studies. I think reports come out this Friday so be ready to hear some of my better ranks!

Sorry for bitching and ranting, I hope everyone had a good weekend with their mums.



Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 19, 2018, 01:59:49 pm
Sooo I got my report yesterday. EVERYTHING IS ALL GOOD. Except for the one subject we all know has been pissing me off since the day I got my Half yearly back. Here are my ranks for semester 1.

1/7 - Engineering Studies
1/18 - Visual arts
2/14 - Ancient history
3/71 - Studies of Religion 1U
13/63 - Advanced English (Super proud of myself for this one since at the end of year 11 I was 29/65)
?/29 - Mathematics (Super disappointed with this one. I did not come last which is a good thing but I also didn't improve on last years. Not comfortable with sharing this one.)

All in all, I'd say its one of my best reports since the start of year 11 (Ignoring that math one) but I'm still super disappointed. I guess I'll have to work even harder for my next assessment and Trials. The pressure is on.

You know that friend I was talking about in my last post? Yesterday she was rubbing it in my face that she had come 7th in math. I could have done that last year but I didn't did I? I went for 7th to 10th in year 11 but I didn't rub it in. To be honest, I'd like to rub my other ranks in her face. One bad mark doesn't give her the right to put me down the way she does.

Anyway, Imma stop bitching about her because I know that I shouldn't (But am anyway cuz' I'm pissed). I think I just need time.

Byyee.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on May 26, 2018, 04:16:22 pm
Hi everyone! Long time no see!

Short update today, I've been mulling over my Adv English speech question today and trying to interpret the question raking in some themes from the Yeats poems. I think I need to ask my teacher some questions about it on Monday and hopefully start it the period after English. Wish me luck!

Art is going well. I've almost finished covering my third sculpture. Half of our major is due for a progress mark in week 8 which is all good because my teacher expects 4 done for the due date, I've finished two! Halfway through number three. I have been coming home smelling like coffee due to what is getting put on the shell of my third sculpture XD

I received another engineering assessment which is due next term (All good!) about Aeronautical Engineering. We had to make a paper plane at trivia night last night and failed miserably.

We had presentation assembly yesterday and I got four awards, one for engineering, ancient, art and SOR 1U. I felt really proud of myself :)

We started probability in math and our teacher says oh its EASY and I'm like, I've been failing this topic for the last three years. But anyway, I've been revising it in the afternoons so I think all will be well. Parent teacher was last Monday and my math teacher said I would improve over the next two assessments.

Anyway, goodbye! Have a nice weekend.

Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 11, 2018, 05:17:30 pm
HI EVERYONE! LONG TIME NO SEE!

So as you probably know, I am really busy. I have assessments for every subject except for maths atm but I bet I'll be getting it next week. So I'm all booked out until the end of term then I'm gonna have to study for trials like a lot more than I've been doing. I'll probably have my Ps by then so yay!

My major is going well. I have half finished my fourth piece and our next assessment for art is due not this week but the week after which is supposed to be atleast 30 hours of completed artwork which is half. I'm going to struggle to finish this one in over a week.  One of my sculptures took a whole term! The other was 3.5 weeks and then the other was around 2.5 weeks. I only started doing this one last week! My teacher says she wants 8 done for the due date and I'm like WHHAAAAT.

Anyway, I went away to Sydney for the long weekend and it was pretty good. I drove from home to Sydney and then again when we came home. OH THE HOURS! It was great. Genuinely excited to get my Ps soon though.

We went to EngFest in Bathurst which was kinda good. Pretty much our whole engineering class skipped school (Not really, our engineering teacher said he would like us to go. We didn't have Math or English that day so it was a good day to go.) It was pretty much a flashback to HPV (Human powered vehicle) excursion and our engineering excursion in Sydney at the start of the year. It was fun! Though, I had to get up early to go to my friends house cause she was driving us there.

Not much else had happened. Except that there's going to be a PJ day/casual clothes days and let me be honest with you, I've NEVER been a fan of casual clothes days and PJ days are even worse for me! I literally wanted to crawl under a rock. I don't want to go to school in Pj's. My friends went out to buy some today and I was like "I'm not wasting money on Pj's" like seriously. I don't have money as it is. I think I'm just going to wear some skinny jeans and a sloppy joe or a fluffy jumper that is comfortable but I don't want my year group to rally against me for not wearing full Pjs. In the morning, I don't want to get on a bus full of people I don't know in my Pjs. I know its a little thing and a little fun for year 12 but I'm not comfortable with it...

I finally finished my english speech after 6 drafts XD gah its finally OVER. Thank gosh.

Anyway, its a long update but life is tiring and I feel like I need to sleep for eternity. BYE
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: jamonwindeyer on June 11, 2018, 05:21:35 pm
Loving your journal Caitlyn ;D how many hours do you have left on your P's? Fingers crossed you have them by Trials so you can do a good old fashioned Maccas run after the last exam ;)

You sound like you are all over your work - Make sure you are resting! ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 12, 2018, 08:32:25 pm
Quote from: jamonwindeyer on June 11, 2018, 05:21:35 pm
Loving your journal Caitlyn ;D how many hours do you have left on your P's? Fingers crossed you have them by Trials so you can do a good old fashioned Maccas run after the last exam ;)

You sound like you are all over your work - Make sure you are resting! ;D

Thaaannkk yoouuuu!

I have around 95 hours done, I need 9 more night and 16 more day. I'm hoping to do the course that our local PCYC provides which will give me 20 hrs day I think. I will probably do some driving instructor lessons so I can get my night hours quickly but all is well and I will definitely have it before trials in week 3 next term :)

Oh don't worry about me resting, I stay in bed to at least 11am on weekends. That long weekend was GLORIOUS!

I also got my fifth adv English task today. Its a hand-in essay which is OKAY but I don't want another assessment right before I am about to hand in my speech and do it. I'm doing it during period 4 which is during SOR which I'm not bummed about. WISH ME LUCK! I am actually shit house at speeches sooo it may not go well.

Anyway, I hope everything is going to be okay.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 13, 2018, 05:21:33 pm
I MADE IT THROUGH MY LAST EVER SPEECH FOR ENGLISH! GAH I'M SO HAPPY!!!!

And to celebrate tomorrow my friend group is all going to the movies to watch Incredible's 2! I'm so excited!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 19, 2018, 05:23:52 pm
HI EVERYONE!

So 'half' my art major is due on Friday for an assessment and I am really stressed on getting everything together. I found out two weeks ago that my teacher wanted 8 sculptures done by the final due date and 4 for this Friday. At that point I only had three done. Now, a couple of days left to the due date and I messed my fourth one up and I still have to FINISH it!

On top of that, I have a maths and ancient test next Thursday. WHY ARE THEY ON THE SAME DAY! I also have to write an essay which I have thankfully started due on the same day. I think SOR opens next week as well. I better get studying!

I am also sick. I think its getting worse as well because I was boiling in a supposed freezing classroom and I kept coughing and sneezing. I hate having a cold especially when I need to get things done. It makes me feel so tired and sluggish. I was gonna get up at 6am this morning to do some more art but my alarm went off and I felt like shit so I set it to 7:15.

Wish me luck because the last few weeks of this term are gonna be stressful especially with trials approaching so soon! We only have 12-14 weeks of school left and its making me really emotional as well. Am I ready to leave the thing that I've kept coming back to for the past 13 years? WHO KNOWS! I will probably miss it though. I can't wait till November when it's truly done and we get to have our Grad Formal (Officially known as the Grad Ball. Not really a deb anymore. I'm not wearing white! BAHAHAHA Stuff the rules. It's a creamy browny pinky colour. Looks better in person)

Anyway. I wish everyone luck for the coming weeks and trials. DO NOT FEAR, THE END OF SCHOOL IS NEAR!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 20, 2018, 02:00:52 pm
So I successfully made it through 4 periods with my cold. In our double engineering I felt 10x worse so I ended up going home. As much as I'd hate to miss math, I couldn't concentrate what so ever. I kept feeling hot then cold.  I called it a day and went 'Staying at school will make me feel worse.'

So I'm going to get some sleep and take some medicine.

Goodbye.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on June 20, 2018, 02:02:47 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on June 20, 2018, 02:00:52 pm
So I successfully made it through 4 periods with my cold. In our double engineering I felt 10x worse so I ended up going home. As much as I'd hate to miss math, I couldn't concentrate what so ever. I kept feeling hot then cold.  I called it a day and went 'Staying at school will make me feel worse.'

So I'm going to get some sleep and take some medicine.

Goodbye.

Hey, that sucks. :( Hope you're feeling better really soon - sounds like a good decision to go home.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 26, 2018, 11:52:49 am
So our whole class asked our Ancient teacher for an extension on our test with us submitting our essay on the original date but he said no. Of course he did. He found everyone stressing about it so he ended up calling us into a classroom at recess and telling us to stop stressing and that everything will be fine. Did I believe him? NO. I have a math test that exact morning. I'm going to die in that test let alone my ancient test. gah. I sent a draft essay to him today and I hope it's okay.

I'm stressing about my math test. We have probability, series + sequence and compound interest in it. I'm fine with series and compound interest but probability goes over my head. I've been trying so hard because I really want improve my ranking. WISH ME LUCK.

Also, my SOR assessment opens tomorrow. I'm planning on doing it on the weekend, studying for it on the saturday and doing it on the Sunday. SO FINGERS CROSSED IT'LL BE OKAY.

Anyway, I'm in a double study right now and I am TIRED. I set my alarm to 7:15 am so I didn't have time to have a shower which I'm fine with. Any extra sleep is needed. I can't help going to bed thinking about schoolwork these days. I CANT WAIT TILL ITS OVER. My art major is going well. I just need to put my head down and do it.

BYE
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 27, 2018, 08:39:50 pm
This afternoon, I ADULTED. Wow. My parents pretty much forced me to book all my appointments, driving courses by myself and I was like WHHAAA.
I did it though. I have the PCYC course booked for the middle weekend of the holidays. I'm going to book a driving instructor for the next week and then hopefully I'LL HAVE ME P's!

Onto the present. I have a math and ancient test tomorrow and I am literally scared shitless. Mainly because I really want to improve my maths rank by a lot and I really want to keep my rank for Ancient. The guy I'm tying with in ancient was stressing about it when we were sitting in the art room. I'm literally just pissed that I have two assessments on the same day. I got the essay done yesterday. I stopped studying math at 7 because I'm SO DEAD. I could hardly keep my eyes open! So I stopped. I have time before ancient to study but math is straight after roll call.

Anyway, Imma go watch an episode of Game Of Thrones (Season 6 Ep 7) cause I feel like it. AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME! Mwuahaha. I feel like I'm going a little crazy here... I think I need to rest...
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 29, 2018, 10:22:36 pm
So I moved onto Game Of Thrones season 7. GOD ITS SO GOOD.

Anyway, back to something to do with school. I got both my Math and Art marks back and everything IS ALL GOOD. I got 32/35 for math which I'm extremely happy about. I'm hoping it will tug my rank back up a bit but I am so happy!

For art, I got 20/20 for 50% of my major (Pretty much more than that) and tied with another person who also got 20 but I'm still coming 1st in course. Yay for me. Happy with that one too but I just need to get my major done soon otherwise I'll be stressing over trials time.

I also got my Trials timetable. We start week 3 next term.

Monday - English Paper 1
Tuesday - English paper 2
Wednesday - Nothing
Thursday - Mathematics
Friday - Art and Ancient

Monday - SOR 1U
Tuesday - Nothing
Wednesday - Engineering
Thursday - nothing
Friday - nothing

Monday - nothing.

So I pretty much finish with 3 days off of school after I do my last exam. BUT I am not looking forward to having five exams in one week. Imma die now.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on June 29, 2018, 10:26:46 pm
I forgot.There's also this HSC Mathematics/General 2 day in Bathurst the week before our trials start and I'm not sure if I wanna go because it's the week before trials. Our teachers not going and we have double maths that day too, meaning it'll be valuable learning time with our teacher like asking questions and getting help on topics and questions we don't know. I'm not sure. I'll just have to see what my math teacher says on monday.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 04, 2018, 09:38:01 am
Hi everyone! Its week 10 term 3 and I'm almost to holidays. I'm a little excited for holidays to come because I need to catch up on some well needed sleep. Gah I'm so tired. I feel like my sleeping pattern is all over the place. I go to bed at 10:30 but I can't get to sleep until 11:30 and I know this is bad. I've set my alarms later in the morning to like 7:15 but I still need more sleep! Hopefully when I get my P's I will change that to a 7:30.

So an update on my art major! All is going well! I have completed 4 sculptures and two more are underway. I will hopefully have the two done before trials. My teacher wants 8 but I think I'll only get 7 done. I also need to think of a title which I'm having so much trouble with. My artwork is sort of nondescript where the audience can decide if its a plant or an animal. All of them have many elements that relate to both plant animal. For example, one has lino print scaling (Looks better than it sounds!) with a plant like 'head', another has aluminium can scales (I've kept the scales thing consistent) with a cool flowery looking thing. I might post a picture soon. 61 days till its due.

Anyway. I finished season 7 Game Of Thrones on the weekend. Yes, I may not have a life but IT WAS SO GOOD. Why do I have to wait till next year? I'll be an adult then. :O

I think I sort of have a plan for the holidays. It's gonna be all about PAST PAPERS! I still need to fit in time to do my major plus do past papers for all my other subjects. I need to complete my Rome notes and start my Caesar ones. I need to do my engineering and English assessment. I'm slightly concerned that I won't get enough time to study subjects but I'll try to even it out as best as possible!

I have english next period and we are doing "Brave New World". I think my related text is going to be GATTACA so hopefully that will go well. I am in a study now, I come to the art room because it's warmer and its so much quieter. I can even get up to do anything I want. I don't have a teacher yelling at me to do my work. It's so much more relaxing. Right now, I should be doing other things like schoolwork or my major but I'm so tired. Sometimes I take my studies to relax a little bit.

My parents are leaving my brother and I for a couple of days while they go off to help my Grandma move in. I have to study so I can't go and my brother has to work. Say hello to lots of pot noodles and mac 'n' cheese.

I'm going to stop writing now because I always write too much. I can't believe that I've had this journal since January. I don't think I've kept one this long... Good luck to everyone's last few days at school (if you've already finished... I'm jealous!)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 09, 2018, 04:18:14 pm
Hi everyone! Today is the first day of official holidays (If you don't count the weekend) and I slept IN. Gah. It feels so good to sleep in knowing you don't have to go to school for the next two weeks. Then again, it only reminds me of all the shit I have to do before holidays finish.

I am going to aim to do more active things this holidays (Gotta look good for Grad) and I want to get back into practising my piano more because Year 12 has sucked my time dry. I want to learn some popular songs cause my teachers so classical. Any recommendations? I finished AMEB Grade 4 last year which I'm so glad about. I am never going to a piano exam ever again (Mainly cuz I'm finishing school and its expensive).

Anyway. You want me to talk about school work? I won't because I just did the 2009 HSC paper and am dead. I also started looking at my related text for english and thought about Art. Yes I thought about it. I didn't do it. I FEEL SO LAZYYY. I have to cook my brother dinner tonight  >:(

OK BYE.

WAIT. I forgot. I got ancient back. I'm happy but it could have been better. I got 20/25 for the essay and 18.5/25 for the in class part. Fingers crossed that my 2nd position is still all good.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 22, 2018, 12:27:21 pm
I start school again tomorrow and I feel like I've done heaps but not enough. Trials start in week 3 and I'm super nervous. I just gotta put my head down and do schoolwork. Anyway. I am almost finished my 5th sculpture for art which is good but I've been going so slow this holidays because I've had to do so much other stuff.
 
I better get to it. I'm going to finish the sculpture today because I have to take most of my stuff back into school. I also have to think about how I'm going to display my artwork. I may attach pictures of my sculptures soon, since most of them are at school.

I am doing my hazard perception test tomorrow afternoon and I'm super nervous that I'm gonna fail. I've practised so much! Anyway, take to you all tomorrow. I'll tell you how my first day of my last term went. ONLY TEN WEEKS TO GO OH MY GODDDDD.

I'll stop stressing now (That's probs never gonna happen)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 23, 2018, 06:04:07 pm
So. Today was absolute shit. Not that the events were shit, how I felt was shit. Excuse the excess of shits.

This afternoon, I passed the Hazard Perception test which was good but I met my driving instructor while I was there and just looking at him made me cringe a little on the inside. *Thought bubble* reverse parallel park. NOOOO *thought bubble* So I smiled and waved.

I kept yawning today as well. I don't think I've gotten up before seven since the end of the school term. Gosh, I am so tired. I had to sit through every subject yawning. It was terrible. 6th period math comes along and I'm sitting there yawning my head off. I couldn't concentrate what so ever. Except, I heard when he said 'the people not paying attention need to pay attention because we all know most that aren't paying attention are the bottom of the cohort' (Or something like that). But ya know.

I also booked my Driving Test for the 7th and I'm literally so nervous. It's after my second english trial which is ok because I've got a day off on the Wednesday.

Anyway, I have this killer headache right now and I should stop typing because dinner is almost ready! Its crumbed steak. One of my favourites!!!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on July 23, 2018, 06:19:28 pm
Crumbed steak. I don't even know what that is tbh haha but it's making me hungry!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 23, 2018, 08:29:12 pm
Quote from: Joseph41 on July 23, 2018, 06:19:28 pm
Crumbed steak. I don't even know what that is tbh haha but it's making me hungry!

You don't know what crumbed steak is???????? It's like steak but flatter and has crumbs on the outside (I have no idea what in the crumb but it makes steak taste amazing). It's literally the only version of steak I actually like. XD

P.s IT WAS SO GOOD :D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on July 24, 2018, 09:46:33 am
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on July 23, 2018, 08:29:12 pm
You don't know what crumbed steak is???????? It's like steak but flatter and has crumbs on the outside (I have no idea what in the crumb but it makes steak taste amazing). It's literally the only version of steak I actually like. XD

P.s IT WAS SO GOOD :D

Like - schnitzel? Haha.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 24, 2018, 11:09:20 am
Quote from: Joseph41 on July 24, 2018, 09:46:33 am
Like - schnitzel? Haha.

Yes! It's good, you should try it!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 26, 2018, 12:51:26 pm

Fingers crossed that I actually feel prepared for trials because if I don't feel prepared then I stress and freak out like I did in my maths half-yearly. Anyway, I'm going to go have some lunch and then get some maths done. I got a section of an Ancient his paper done this morning, finished my palm cards for the artist/artworks. Might not seem productive but I'm proud of myself actually doing so much before mid-day. I forced myself to get up before 9am.

Anyway. Good luck everyone with the next few weeks. Really stressing about my major....
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 26, 2018, 04:28:23 pm
Just did half a math paper... cause they're three hours long and I don't really want to do the whole thing. Good news. I added up my score and got 58/60 for the first 5 sections. I know it gets harder but I'll do those on another day.

Byyeee
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on July 30, 2018, 08:33:19 pm
Hiiiiii. Me again!

I'm trying to fill out an application for an Official School Reference and I have to put down everything I've done the past four years at my school. Theres like certain sections:
 Academic involvement - TEAMS Stem comp
 Academic achievement - Got heaps of these thanks to some of my good results.
 Merit level - I'm level two thankfully
 Extra curricula - faith life
 Social justice/community involvement 
 Cultural
 Sporting - The only sporty thing I've done is the HPV team (Human powered vehicle team)
 Work experience - I have none.
 Positions of responsibility and other commitments. - I only have Peer Leader.

I need something else to put on there because I've only been at the school for four years (At the end of the year it'll be four). HELP. I have others on the sheet that I'm not bothered to list on here. I also got my UAC pin today and am excited to start applying for uni. I really want this reference from the school as my resume is really bare.

I think I'm on track for my major. Gooood. I have almost 6 sculptures done and am doing another one during trials since I'll have time to finish them.
Every other subject is also going well, I just hope I'm working hard enough!

I should go. I'm really tired. I spent 2 hours at school this afternoon doing art. One of my art teachers gave me a mars bar ^_^
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 01, 2018, 09:31:24 pm
Hi everyone. I hope everyone is having a good Wednesday.

So you remember that English essay that I did during the holidays? Yeah, I got it back. I think it's safe to say I'm pretty happy. I got 15/20 one of my better results this year. The average in the form was 13/20 so I think I did pretty good!

I started another two sculptures during my double period on Tuesday in art. They're about half the size so I should be able to get them done. All will be well in the world of sculpture! Anyway.

I better go. I've been working on schoolwork for a while. I almost have my hours for my L's (Literally an hour left) and my P's test is next week. So nervous for it. But I'm just keen to get in the car and drive. Ok bbyeee!
P.s Trials start next week and I feel like I'm gonna dieeeee.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on August 02, 2018, 04:48:20 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on August 01, 2018, 09:31:24 pm
So you remember that English essay that I did during the holidays? Yeah, I got it back. I think it's safe to say I'm pretty happy. I got 15/20 one of my better results this year. The average in the form was 13/20 so I think I did pretty good!

Awesome work! 👊

P.S. Really keen to hear how your driving test goes. Fingers crossed for you!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 05, 2018, 12:02:53 pm
Quote from: Joseph41 on August 02, 2018, 04:48:20 pm
Awesome work! 👊

P.S. Really keen to hear how your driving test goes. Fingers crossed for you!

Thank you so much!!!! I'll try my best!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 05, 2018, 12:08:39 pm
So.... trials start tomorrow.........

I think it *might* be okay. I think. I'M SO NERVOUS. I think I'm set for paper 1 of English but paper 2 ommmgggggggggggg.
I should be studying right now. But its just worrying me so much. My friend was texting me this morning and worrying about and I was like 'Stop, just take one exam at a time.' We're all stressing. It makes me want to go back in time to do more in the holidays. I think I'll be glad to get everything over and done with.
I better shut up now. Byeee, I'll tell you how everything goes tomorrow after the exam. I have to stay at school till school finishes cause I don't have my license. Fingers crossed thats gonna change on Tuesday.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on August 05, 2018, 12:12:28 pm
Good luck!! You'll smash it - just think about how you'll feel after you've done the exam :-)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 06, 2018, 02:42:27 pm
PAPER 1 IS DONE AND DUSTED. I actually finished at 11am but I went out for lunch with my parents, I spent till 1pm doing art in the art room cause I need to get that shit done.

It was okay. The stimulus was so weird though. There's been so many memes going around and I've been laughing my head off. I think everyone thought it was okay. Thankfully the essay question matched my texts so well! I think I had a bit of a timing issue as well because I had to cut out a whole paragraph. I also forgot three of my quotes. UGGHH. I had some quotes from the modules in my head. Anyway. Its done and dusted. Time to study for Paper 2.

My license test is tomorrow as well. Wish me luck!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: BrittyG on August 06, 2018, 03:05:18 pm
Same girl, same. Feels so good!!

Study hard and good luck on both paper two and your licence test :)))
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Fergus6748 on August 06, 2018, 03:45:58 pm
Well done!! I envy you having gotten the first exam out of the way. My trial exams start next week, which is a bit nerve wracking, but just trying to keep going. Good luck on your license, which level is it?
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 07, 2018, 11:02:11 pm
Quote from: Fergus6748 on August 06, 2018, 03:45:58 pm
Well done!! I envy you having gotten the first exam out of the way. My trial exams start next week, which is a bit nerve wracking, but just trying to keep going. Good luck on your license, which level is it?

I'm went for my first provisional license. One year on that and then two years on the second provisional license! :D Thank you so much! Good luck with your own exams!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 07, 2018, 11:09:46 pm
Good news everyone! *insert simpsons gif here*

So as you know I had paper 2 today.... And Mod C and Mod A went great. I remembered all my quotes and finished them within their alotted 40 mins. Better than what happened for paper 1. But Mod B went especially horribly! The question was so hard and I didnt understand it. I only had like two quotes for each of the poems! I also memorised the structures, rhyme, rhythm schemes of them but it definitely wasnt enough. I only wrote 3 pages for Mod B. The other two were atleast 6 pages each. I knew I was under prepared for Mod B. Gah. At least its only trials.

Tomorrow I have no exam so Im going to do some math study which should be okay.

AH YES. THE GOOD NEWS. You remember that driving test I said I had today? Yeaaahh I passed! I'm officially in the 'you're now targeted by police' group. I got 109/110 and I only lost one point cause a stupid truck was parked in the middle of the road 5m from where the test ended. So annoying but at least I got them and dont have to worry about another test for getting my other licenses! Yay me. Tomorrow I'm going to go for my very first drive alone. Luckily we live in the country. I cant imagine what it would be like for people in the city.

Amyway. I better get off to bed! Night night. Dont let the bed bugs bite!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 09, 2018, 02:49:32 pm
So the maths paper this morning was actually fucking atrocious. I can't believe that it was like that and before the exam our teacher was like "It's definitely going to be easier than your half-yearly". I walked in, read it and went its not easier. LIEESSS. I got to question 11 and 12 and was like, is this seriously question 11 and 12?

Gah! This will bring my rank down SO FAR. Holy shit, you know dumb I felt walking out of that three hour exam? The only thing that I was glad about was that everyone doing Mathematics (Except those extension kids) said it was really hard.

Woooww. After that exam I feel like procrastinating even more! I've got four exams left. Two are tomorrow. I think I'm pretty set for art and ancient. I just need to look over my notes and stuff.

On other news. I parked in the school car park without being crooked. :)

Anyway better study for my next subjects.BYEEE.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on August 09, 2018, 02:56:02 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on August 07, 2018, 11:09:46 pm
Good news everyone! *insert simpsons gif here*

Got your back.

(http://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/everythings-coming-up-milhouse-gif-12.gif)

Hope your next subjects go better than your maths paper! 👊
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 14, 2018, 09:05:58 am
So its been a little while since I last posted an update on here and that's because in the space of two school days (Yesterday and Friday) I got three exams out of the way.

 On Friday, it was my double up so I had Art and Ancient. I'm pretty sure Art went well but I forgot one of my artworks, luckily I still got 11 artworks from four artists. I'm thinking it went well.

Also on Friday, I had Ancient and I zoomed through the paper. I think I finished with 30mins left so I went back and added things to my extended responses. I'm hoping I did okay. FINGERS CROSSED.

Yesterday I had SOR, which went well and I think I was the most satisfied when I walked out of that exam. I chose Islam for Section 2 and Christianity for Section 3. I pretty much avoided doing environmental ethics and baptism for it. I'm hoping that it gets me good results!

Anyway. My last exam is tomorrow afternoon and it goes till 4pm. GAH. Ancient was hell when it went to 4pm cause when the bell rang for the end of the day we just sat there with an hour left. I kept thinking lucky people. Now I've gotta study for engineering and I wanna do well in it. Wish me luck! After that exam is finished, I have three school days off but I think I'll be going into school on Thursday to do art then going in again on Monday. I really need to talk to my art teacher about it XD

Anyway. Byeeee. Have a good remaining exam period to those who also have exams.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on August 14, 2018, 03:14:26 pm
Three exams in two days is brutal. Nice work! 👊

Good luck for tomorrow. :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 15, 2018, 06:15:46 pm
*Jumps up and down happily*

I FINISHED TRIALS THIS AFTERNOON. You don't know how relieved I am, I thought they'd never end! Today, I came home and sat on my butt for the rest of the afternoon. I haven't done that since before trials!

My engineering teacher started marking the multiple choice at the end of our exam and he asked me if I wanted to give it to him to mark and I was like HELL NA. I'd just like to not know any results until I go back to school. I'd just like to rest and sleep! But alas, I have to go to school tomorrow to do art. Well I don't have to but ya know. I want to. I spoke to my teacher today and she was like 'I'm stressing about a lot of the people in the class'. I asked her if she was gonna be there tomorrow and she said yes so I hope to gain some info.

*Continues happy dance*

TRIALS ARE FINISHED. I CAN FINALLY SLEEP WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT SCHOOL!!!! Sooo happy rn. You should have seen the smiles on my friends faces after most of us finished trials this afternoon. Now three days off! Time to relax before we get back to school next Tuesday! Also, we have a disco next Wednesday and it's our last one ever. It's really sad to think about that. Last disco we went as the Power-puff girls and this time our theme is thrift shop.

Anyway. I've been addicted to these songs:
Hold me Down - Halsey
Control - Halsey

They popped up on my recommended playlist on Spotify. I've heard a few of Halsey's other songs but I've never loved them as much as I do now.

Imma go because I don't want to talk about school anymore. Gah I feel like a weight has lifted off my shoulders!!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: StudyBuddyKJ on August 15, 2018, 08:21:21 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on August 15, 2018, 06:15:46 pm
*Jumps up and down happily*

I FINISHED TRIALS THIS AFTERNOON. You don't know how relieved I am, I thought they'd never end! Today, I came home and sat on my butt for the rest of the afternoon. I haven't done that since before trials!

My engineering teacher started marking the multiple choice at the end of our exam and he asked me if I wanted to give it to him to mark and I was like HELL NA. I'd just like to not know any results until I go back to school. I'd just like to rest and sleep! But alas, I have to go to school tomorrow to do art. Well I don't have to but ya know. I want to. I spoke to my teacher today and she was like 'I'm stressing about a lot of the people in the class'. I asked her if she was gonna be there tomorrow and she said yes so I hope to gain some info.

*Continues happy dance*

TRIALS ARE FINISHED. I CAN FINALLY SLEEP WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT SCHOOL!!!! Sooo happy rn. You should have seen the smiles on my friends faces after most of us finished trials this afternoon. Now three days off! Time to relax before we get back to school next Tuesday! Also, we have a disco next Wednesday and it's our last one ever. It's really sad to think about that. Last disco we went as the Power-puff girls and this time our theme is thrift shop.

Anyway. I've been addicted to these songs:
Hold me Down - Halsey
Control - Halsey

They popped up on my recommended playlist on Spotify. I've heard a few of Halsey's other songs but I've never loved them as much as I do now.

Imma go because I don't want to talk about school anymore. Gah I feel like a weight has lifted off my shoulders!!!


Congrats on finishing trials! I am still going through mine and I lowkey wanna die
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on August 16, 2018, 10:52:18 am
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on August 15, 2018, 06:15:46 pm
*Jumps up and down happily*

I FINISHED TRIALS THIS AFTERNOON. You don't know how relieved I am, I thought they'd never end! Today, I came home and sat on my butt for the rest of the afternoon. I haven't done that since before trials!

Great work! You definitely deserve a rest. :)

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Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 23, 2018, 03:42:47 pm
Hey everyone. It's almost the end of the first week back to school and let me tell you it's been absolute shit.

 I've gotten two trials back and I was so close to crying in both those subjects. Goodbye Band 6 in ancient history! I got 66/100, 18 for Pompeii and Herc, 17 for athens, 15 for caesar and 16 for Rome. I thought I did okay but HOW am I going to improve and remember all the fricken content. I was pushed from my 2nd to a 4th as my final rank for the internals. Great.

I also got maths back. It was a little predictable though. I got 55.5/100. Its a 5.5 mark improvement from my half yearlies but UGGHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH. I want to cry and scream at the world but I can't let it out. Just wait till I get all my other shit marks back. Religion and english are coming next week, art teacher says we'll get it back once we hand in our majors and engineering (WHO BLOODY KNOWS).

Anyway, last night was the last ever disco I will ever attend at school. It was pretty good, they always have this thing at the end of the disco where theres the last song and its just for the year 12's but all the juniors tried to get into our circle thing (It's tradition) then after that song ended we did the school war cry. Then after the disco we all went to maccas. The worst thing about that night was I couldn't get to sleep afterwards and I vomited but what can ya do?

I've got so much to do. I have an engineering assessment due tomorrow. WISH ME LUCK! My major. GAAHHH. Thats due in less than 2 weeks. great.

Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on August 23, 2018, 04:04:45 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on August 23, 2018, 03:42:47 pm
the school war cry

pls elaborate
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 23, 2018, 04:51:30 pm
Semper Paratus Mercy Benilde
Sheridan McAuley Axe we wield
La Salle Norton Fire and Soul
Honour courage Red blue gold
Lightning thunder Never die
Sheahan Sheahan Sheahan High!


Thats our war cry :D we pretty much yell it.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on August 25, 2018, 04:56:27 pm
Hiiii everyone!!!!!!!!

Yesterday we travelled all the way from my town in central west NSW to Newcastle. It took AGGEESS. I drove from home to sydney and mum drove the rest.

I went to Newcastle open day and it made me want to go to University even more. I loved it and I especially loved the talk on Architecture and they were like naming the type of people who would do well in the course and I was like. Thats me!!

I legit want to go to uni now and skip everything but ya know theres one thing called the HSC.

I better go, Im typing on my phone. Byyyeee
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: envisagator on August 25, 2018, 06:17:41 pm
Hi Caitlynk, this is fantastic that you've decided wat u want to do and which uni, this is still something that I'm still yet to figure out. Unfortunately my MCL sprain restricted me from going to USYD open day, which I was eagerly looking forward to, I really wanted to see their aeronautical faculty and the vibe. Plus, good on you for that long drive, here I am after almost 2 years with 30 hours on my L's. I hope the best for you and hope you get into Newcastle Uni!!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on September 02, 2018, 08:39:52 pm
HIA EVERYONE! It's been a while.

And let me telll you, I am actually fed up with school. Mainly because my dumb ass trial marks. You know, I really tried my hardest and that literally wasn't enough. What pissed me off the most is that I study my ass off while some people don't study at all and STILL get better marks than me. I got no marks over 70. I literally wanted to burn them right then and there.

We had a year meeting on Monday right and our year coordinator was like 'everyone's trials marks need improvement'. He was pretty much saying that everyone did shit. It's as if the teachers don't know anything, don't they know that we may study so hard that we are tired everyday? Don't they know that we try to work our hardest?

Well. I really just want to get it over and done with. The exams side of thing isn't my thing. Like for goodness sake, why does half our bloody mark have to be a STUPID written exam? Do they not know that many people can't deal with exam conditions and that they do well in other tasks? I'm sick of the rankings and marks that are supposedly so important.

So what I really want to say is.... FUCK YOU NESA AND YOUR STUPID EXAMS.

Excuse the language but I am literally done. Now I have to worry about my art major being handed in tomorrow. GREAT. At least that's done. I also burnt myself with a hot glue gun five minutes before I finished. Fingers crossed that I get into the course I want to because the morning that ATARs come out I'll be sitting on the floor rocking back and forth.

On 28th of September, I will be saying thank fuck its almost over. I will be running out of school like a mad women.

Anyway. Sorry for the bad language, I will make sure to shush more next time but I really needed to get it out. SORRYYYYY
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: angewina_naguen on September 07, 2018, 11:32:34 pm
Hey, Caitlynk_22!

I hope you're feeling better and that you've taken a well deserved rest after Trials  :'( The unfortunate part about our system is that there is a need to do well, not a need for learning. I have always been really critical about this and have approached my HSC year with only one goal in mind- to learn something new everyday. As someone who was very focused on ranks and was highly competitive, I have become more forgiving of myself this year and accepted that while there are obvious flaws with the education system, there must be something good to take out of it. This is the mindset I have chosen to apply and it's not too late to have it too  :)

I hope your BOW submission was a relief  :) It must've been a huge weight off your shoulders and now you can take some time off for yourself to relax before the final hurdle. I was also burnt throughout my artmaking practice with the soldering iron so that personal damage to the physical self in your process of producing a major work speaks to me on a spiritual level  :'( :'( At least it's finally over now and you won't have to worry about it anymore! You'll go into VA with 50% already done and dusted  ;D

It's good that you have let it out here where we can offer you the most support we can as a community of equally stressed teenagers under the masterminds of NESA. The exams are amplified in importance more than they should be and despite all of this, there seems to be an element of futility to the HSC in my eyes. I think that the significance of exams have taken away what should have been an enjoyable last year of high school. So, with only a few more days until your graduation, I hope you'll value the remaining time you have left as a student in the school, not as a HSC student, and treasure the final memories you'll make. Trials are over now and you can rectify everything for HSC, alongside placing priority on last moments with those that matter to you.

I hope this helps in some way and I wish you all the best! Let us know if there's some kind of support we can offer, even if it's just a safe space to rant  ;D

Angelina  ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on September 12, 2018, 04:24:19 pm
Quote from: angewina_naguen on September 07, 2018, 11:32:34 pm

It's good that you have let it out here where we can offer you the most support we can as a community of equally stressed teenagers under the masterminds of NESA. The exams are amplified in importance more than they should be and despite all of this, there seems to be an element of futility to the HSC in my eyes. I think that the significance of exams have taken away what should have been an enjoyable last year of high school. So, with only a few more days until your graduation, I hope you'll value the remaining time you have left as a student in the school, not as a HSC student, and treasure the final memories you'll make. Trials are over now and you can rectify everything for HSC, alongside placing priority on last moments with those that matter to you.


Thank you so much for this. I really needed it. I ended up having a long chat with my mum on Saturday about school, my friends and my marks etc. And she made me feel a little better about everything. I think at the moment, I want to get through these last 2.5 weeks without anything bad happening. Fingers crossed everything goes well.

I also handed in my Major last Monday and gosh it was a relief to hand it in. I almost never want to see it again. I hope I get a good mark. I'm proud of my work and my teachers seem really happy with it. It's just art was my procrastination tool and now it's gone. Now I actually have to do school work. Great.

I also put in my UAC and my SRS so hopefully that goes well.

Anyway, I have work to do. BYE
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on September 17, 2018, 04:54:43 pm
Ok. Less than two weeks to go. Wow. I can't believe it. We're almost done.

So, we finish classes next Wednesday and I'm actually so excited. There's so many year 12 activities planned for the end of the week and I've been invited to a party where our whole year is going to be there. I won't be drinking alcohol, I personally hate the stuff. Also, we go to the top of the only mountain in our town and watch the sunrise, then we go to school to have breakky. Then we have to go home to get ready for the assembly at 11.. I can guarantee there will be tears next week. We are also having so many parties in class the last lessons that we will ever have. Gosh this is really sad.

Ok, I'm gonna do some study cuz ya know the HSC starts in a month. XD greeeaaat.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on September 26, 2018, 05:30:49 pm
HI EVERYONE!

I must say I'm feeling much better than I was a couple of weeks ago. Even though I did have a cold a few days ago. NOT FUN. Anyway, the countdown has begun. Two days till we graduate fully and I am super excited! We had our last lessons today, we only had two today so most of our last classes with our teachers were on Monday and Tuesday. Hahaha those two lucky classes that got to see us last.

We ended up cleaning up a room in one of our engineering periods. Not fun. The head of DnT made us do it because our teacher wasn't there. And then we all bailed and went back to our classroom, turning on Netflix and watching Guardians of the Galaxy. I'll miss that lot.

Our very last class for the whole year was maths. To be honest I wasn't that thrilled that it was math but anyway. We played darts on the dart board I think I'd been looking at for the past two years thinking "When will I play darts?". We played in teams and guess who won! Our team! I hadn't ever played it before so it was beginners luck.

We've had to do Grad Mass practice and it's so complicated. I think I'm gonna mess up tomorrow night, I'm not looking forward to it. Tomorrow we have to practice again and also for the Grad Ball (Way off into the distance after HSC) and Grad Assembly (On Friday) . We're also going bowling tomorrow! And we're having pizza for lunch. yay.

This week has been fun. We haven't been doing much school work but I don't mind. I just want to make this week a memorable one. On Monday we had our hair in braids, tuesday was space-buns, wednesday was side pony tail and tomorrow is half up half down. All the year 7's were questioning why all the year 12 girls had their hair the same.

OH and today at lunch was Gender Bender where the girls and boys switched uniforms. Sadly I didn't get to because there wasn't enough boys in our year. I don't mind. In period 6, it was girls vs boys dodge ball but we kept losing. :(

I think I'll cry on Friday during the Grad Assembly but at least I'll be with my friends :) We are planning on going out for lunch afterwards because after the grad assembly we are officially out.

ANYWAY. I think I've written enough! I'll get back to you at the end of the week. BYEEEE

Ps I am still studying. to my dismay.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on September 26, 2018, 05:34:18 pm
Step 1: HSC
Step 2: Professional darts player ;)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 01, 2018, 12:19:10 pm
HI EVERYONE. So I officially finished high school on Friday. YAY. I must say there were a lot of tears after the Grad Mass (Thursday night) and Grad Assembly (Friday) but I think we all made it.

 Also, everyone was super tired because we watched the sunrise from Mount Canobolas and it was beautiful! I had to get up to drive to my friends house at 4:30am so we could go. We also went back to school and played a little prank on the year 11s driving to school that morning, the teachers made us breakky. It was yummy.

So at the assembly I got some awards and my final ever report. Yay. As well as my graduation diploma. I got 1st in Engineering Studies, 2nd in Visual arts and Consistency and Effort in Advanced English (I'm very proud of this one). And surprisingly I got the Contribution to Visual Arts award which is a special award. there was also the Contribution to music, orchestra etc.

Anyway I gotta go. I've been doing Engineering past papers MC for the morning. I'm heading to Sydney this afternoon to go buy some grad ball shoes and to just relax for a little bit.

BYEE
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Bri MT on October 01, 2018, 02:05:04 pm
Congratulations!!
No wonder you're proud of consistency and effort in advanced English, you should be!


Hope you get some well-earned rest :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 14, 2018, 03:04:17 pm
So, the HSC starts in 4 days and to say I'm nervous is an understatement. I'm really nervous and scared that I won't be able to remember all my quotes and write an essay that actually makes sense. At the moment I'm stressing about the five exams I have in the first 6 days of the HSC. I'm completely ignoring SOR1U and Engineering because of that 10 day gap.

I have also been sleeping really horribly. I try to go to bed earlier but my brain keeps running at a hundred miles per hour. I didn't get to sleep till 2am (I think) the other day. I went out to exercise yesterday because I thought it might help, it did somewhat. I think I ended falling asleep at around 11pm last night. I can't help but think that this may happen on Wednesday night where I REALLY need the sleep.

Damn. We're almost done. Finally. I can't help but feel excited and scared. Next year is going to be completely different to the past 13 years of school. I even got myself a tax file number because after the HSC I have to find myself a job and start working. GREAT.

I think this is the last day of the school holidays and I wonder if they're going back tomorrow. I wouldn't know...

Gah as you can tell, I'm super tense and when I try to do something I enjoy after doing hours and hours of study I feel like I'm guilty for not studying enough. Idk how to explain it. But anyway. I also have not broken down crying yet... maybe that's for after the exam but who knows.

Imma go and do something... Byee.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on October 14, 2018, 03:12:07 pm
^You'll be sweet - I reckon in general, people remember more than they think they will in exams. Almost done. You'll get there. 👊
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 16, 2018, 01:25:51 pm
LESS THAN TWO DAYS TO GO... *Runs around like a headless chicken*
(https://media.giphy.com/media/HUkOv6BNWc1HO/giphy.gif)

On another note, I finally worked out how to put a gif in my posts. Only 8 months late.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: sweetiepi on October 16, 2018, 09:08:23 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on October 16, 2018, 01:25:51 pm
LESS THAN TWO DAYS TO GO... *Runs around like a headless chicken*
(https://media.giphy.com/media/HUkOv6BNWc1HO/giphy.gif)

On another note, I finally worked out how to put a gif in my posts. Only 8 months late.
You've got this fam! Best of luck! ^-^ <3
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 18, 2018, 01:57:45 pm
I did my first HSC paper. WOW. I was so nervous! I DID IT! WHOOP WHOOP
(https://i.gifer.com/3RcE.gif)

Now I just feel relieved that I've done it. I think walking in was way scarier than actually doing the exam. GO ME.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: headsup on October 18, 2018, 02:03:38 pm
Awesome job!!!! What did you think of it????
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on October 18, 2018, 02:29:41 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on October 18, 2018, 01:57:45 pm
I did my first HSC paper. WOW. I was so nervous! I DID IT! WHOOP WHOOP
(https://i.gifer.com/3RcE.gif)

Now I just feel relieved that I've done it. I think walking in was way scarier than actually doing the exam. GO ME.

GO YOU, indeed! Awesome work. ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 18, 2018, 04:06:03 pm
Quote from: headsup on October 18, 2018, 02:03:38 pm
Awesome job!!!! What did you think of it????

It was ok... I guess. I didnt like the 5 marker , the creative was okay but I didnt know if I did the two perspective things right and the essay was ok. I'm a little concerned I didnt answer the question well enough. But since its done. I dont mind
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 20, 2018, 02:23:34 pm
Hi EVERYONE! It's weekend and I am actually so glad.

 EXCEPT that I have three exams next week and I wanna just not do them. I think I'll be fine for Art, I know all my artworks and stuff like that. I think I'll go over some art history etc. in the morning of exam just to refresh my memory.

But Ancient, I feel like I know the content but I'm not sure. It may go well depending on the questions I guess. I'm gonna go over the syllabus tomorrow and go over everything I'm not sure of. Then after my art exam, I'll keep doing some revision because I severely need it. I'm kicking myself for not being organised enough. I really want good marks :S

 Math, I dunno. Maybe it's gunna go well. Who knows. I feel like one of my units for math isn't going to count since I have 11 units. Math is the only one I want to get out of the way and never think about it ever again.

But on another note. ENGLISH IS FINISHED FOREVER!!!! YAY. Most of my friends burnt all their english stuff and it looked so satisfying. I gathered all mine up and put it in this huge pile, sadly, it's raining today. So no fire.

Anyway, I better go back to studying BAI.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 22, 2018, 11:09:05 am
Arts in two hours. Geez, I hate morning exams. At least we got more time to study XD Our art group chat exploded after like 3 months of inactivity, people are sending in quotes from the artists because thats all the no one has studied. I'm contemplating getting in my school uniform - what can I say? It's comfy.

See you guys after the exam!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: BrittyG on October 22, 2018, 12:59:08 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on October 22, 2018, 11:09:05 am
See you guys after the exam!!

Best of luck!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 22, 2018, 04:16:40 pm
DUN DUN DUN DAAAA. I finished art. Yay. Only four to go. Ancient is tomorrow and I'm kinda nervous but anyway.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 22, 2018, 09:23:20 pm
Ok. Kinda nervous was a huge understatement. I'm super nervous. THERE'S SO MUCH CONTENT!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 24, 2018, 04:21:44 pm
Ok, so turns out ancient went pretty well. I don't want to repeat myself so here's a quote of me saying what it was like.
Spoiler
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on October 23, 2018, 01:34:52 pm
I think that was possibly one of the most fair exams I have encountered for ancient history. Comparing it to my trial, the HSC paper was way easier. I don't know if it was just because we all studied heaps but it was actually pretty good.

Section 1 - Pompeii + Herculaneum - Pretty easy, can't complain

Section 2 - Athens in the time of Pericles - I didn't like the Social Structure 15 marker question but it was pretty similar to one I have seen before.

Section 3 - Julius Caesar - I think this was one of my best sections, soo all was good, I guess?

Section 4 - The Fall of Rome - It was ok. I wouldn't rave about it but it was a fair question. I chose the one relating to Caesar's Dictatorship and I could relatively answer the question.

All in all. It was pretty good. I liked this HSC compared to others I practiced with
But other than english, math has been the one I have been most worried about. I don't know, since the start of year 12, I feel like its the one that's been making me tired of schoolwork. After doing a full day of math study, it has made me realise that I may not be ready for it. I know I know, I should be ready BUT I realise now, that it's okay to not feel as prepared as one should. Just focus on what you do know and get good marks in the earlier sections. Concentrate on the multiple choices and actually think about your answers. No silly mistakes in those sections. All that matters is that I've tried my hardest.

Yes, I'm slightly scared but it's ok. I'm at that point where I just want to say 'fuck it' and not study anymore but it's that study guilt eating me up. After studying all day, I realise that maybe I am sort of ready. I don't know. Maybe I am. WHO KNOWS. I'll talk about the exam tomorrow afternoon or on friday to say how it went but honestly. I just wanna get it over and done with.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 25, 2018, 09:40:23 am
HEY. So math is in a couple of hours and I haven't gotten dressed, I'm sitting here in my pajamas. Also, I conlcude I'm going to have two days off after my math exam because I have heaps of time to study for my last two and I know that I will start to procrastinate if I do not take some time to relax. My friends and I have planned to go to Adventure playground tomorrow and then on Saturday we are going to see A Star Is Born. I actually can't wait to spend time with my friends outside of seeing each other before and after exams.

NOW! To get through Mathematics!!!!! WISH ME LUCK
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Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on October 25, 2018, 11:05:29 am
Good luck! 👊👊👊
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on October 25, 2018, 06:04:51 pm
I got through math! 11-14 were okay but everything kinda went downhill from there. But anyway, its done. I'm just relieved it is done. Now, two exams to go which are on the same day as each other >_<
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on November 01, 2018, 12:19:16 pm
Hey everyyoonneee!

So its less than a week till my last exams, YAY. So, I've been having trouble concentrating because theres so many days between math and my next exam. Maybe it is better having them all at the start. UGH its so annoying.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: kauac on November 01, 2018, 12:34:38 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on November 01, 2018, 12:19:16 pm
Hey everyyoonneee!

So its less than a week till my last exams, YAY. So, I've been having trouble concentrating because theres so many days between math and my next exam. Maybe it is better having them all at the start. UGH its so annoying.

I feel you! I have had to wait 13 days (since my last exam) for food tech, and have been studying less and less each day (oops). Whilst a week can seem like a long time, it will hopefully go pretty quickly - especially if you have other things to keep you busy rather than just studying.  :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on November 05, 2018, 09:59:20 am
Last full day of studying ever. With two exams tomorrow, I'm nervous as hell but WISH ME LUCK. I'm most worried about Engineering everything should be fine (I think). I think everyone in our class is regretting picking engineering studies even though it has been the best two years ever with that class (Putting aside the exams and assessments which we all used to complain about).

I just realised that I'm probably never gonna see most of my classmates again (Except at grad ball on the 24th) which is actually quite sad. I'm going to see my art class again on the 21st for our art show at school. I hope everything goes well!

Also! Three of my friends and I have organised a short trip to Melbourne in 11 days, we will be taking the bus and train down which should be fun!

Anyway, I should get to studying SOR and Engineering. See you after those exams!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on November 06, 2018, 05:47:23 pm
HI GUYS

So, I have some news.... I FINISHED THE HSC. I thought it would never end!  Thinking about it now, its kinda sad. This was the last day that I'll ever be in this uniform and the last time I'll sit in the hall doing an exam, the last time I ate a canteen pie, the last time I say high to my junior friends in the corridors. Jeez. It's been a long time, two whole years as a senior preparing for this HSC. The HSC that I have now finished. Like how weird is that? All my schooling years leading up to these exams and they're done. Whats next? What will I do with my life?

I'm taking a gap year next year and am going to take a tafe course which will help me with the degree I want to do. I hopefully get entry into university and defer it for a year. Then, the year after my gap year I will go uni and start something new. Something completely different from what I've been doing.

I'll keep the diary updated because we have not yet finished, I'll tell you about how the grad ball goes, the art show, my little holiday and of course my results (If I'm happy with them). I don't know what I'd do without all your support on ATARNotes, thank you so much!!!

BYEEEEEE

Ps. Oh and play this game called exploding cats, we played it in between SOR and engineering.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on November 06, 2018, 05:49:51 pm
Yay!!! Congrats on finishing the HSC -- I hope you have an awesome break and enjoy yourself! Are you going to be working and/or travelling as well as doing your TAFE course next year? Sounds super exciting, all the best!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: kauac on November 06, 2018, 05:51:35 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on November 06, 2018, 05:47:23 pm
HI GUYS

So, I have some news.... I FINISHED THE HSC. I thought it would never end!  Thinking about it now, its kinda sad. This was the last day that I'll ever be in this uniform and the last time I'll sit in the hall doing an exam, the last time I ate a canteen pie, the last time I say high to my junior friends in the corridors. Jeez. It's been a long time, two whole years as a senior preparing for this HSC. The HSC that I have now finished. Like how weird is that? All my schooling years leading up to these exams and they're done. Whats next? What will I do with my life?

I'm taking a gap year next year and am going to take a tafe course which will help me with the degree I want to do. I hopefully get entry into university and defer it for a year. Then, the year after my gap year I will go uni and start something new. Something completely different from what I've been doing.

I'll keep the diary updated because we have not yet finished, I'll tell you about how the grad ball goes, the art show, my little holiday and of course my results (If I'm happy with them). I don't know what I'd do without all your support on ATARNotes, thank you so much!!!

BYEEEEEE

Ps. Oh and play this game called exploding cats, we played it in between SOR and engineering.

Congrats for finishing Caitlyn! And good job for getting through the two exams today. That's not a small feat to achieve.  ;D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on November 06, 2018, 05:53:20 pm
Quote from: fantasticbeasts3 on November 06, 2018, 05:49:51 pm
Yay!!! Congrats on finishing the HSC -- I hope you have an awesome break and enjoy yourself! Are you going to be working and/or travelling as well as doing your TAFE course next year? Sounds super exciting, all the best!!

I'm hoping to earn some money with a job for university and do TAFE while I have a job which should be manageable, I just want to keep myself going! :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on November 15, 2018, 10:56:14 am
SO GUYS, as many of you know, SRS came out this morning and guess who got an offer at University of Newcastle! I got accepted into Bachelor of Design (Architecture) at the Callaghan campus. I was so excited to wake up to that this morning, I really wanted to get into Newcastle. It was also my highest preference on UAC so now i can move that one. I deferred the course for a year since my gap year is still happening. I'm finding a job so thats all good.

Disappointed that I didn't get nominated for artexpress but that's life lol. My teacher really thought I'd get in but anyway, one person from my class did get in though, he is a photographer and felting person who made a really cool looking major.

I'm going away on saturday and return on Tuesday, then I have to help go set up the art exhibition on Wednesday. The grad ball is the saturday after that. But anyway, I better go be a sloth for a little while.

Baiii
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on November 15, 2018, 11:28:41 am
Congrats on your uni offer!!!!

Hope you enjoy the rest of your break :-)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on November 24, 2018, 10:53:09 am
So HEEEYYY

Long time no see! So I've actually been really busy last few weeks :D

I went to Melbourne for a couple of days and it was amazing, I really want to go back :) I went with my friends and we had an amazing time together. It was our version of schoolies :)

Also, the art show for school was on Wednesday, everything went absolutely amazingly. I think everyone loved my artwork which was good and everyone elses in our class looked really good as well :)

So today is the grad ball and I'm actually so nervous and excited at the same time. We have to walk down this long walkway all alone with hundreds of people staring at us. I'm afraid I'll fall over in my heels gahh. Wish me luck.

Baiii
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: fantasticbeasts3 on November 24, 2018, 03:54:23 pm
Glad to hear you’ve had an amazing break so far!! Question: is NSW the more superior state? 🤔

Best of luck for your grad ball today!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 12, 2018, 11:06:27 pm
HI GUYS!

After the last month or so I have been doing almost nothing with my life (Except for applying to jobs). I received two more unconditional offers, one for B of Arts (Heritage and Culture) at Uni of Canberra and B of Surveying (Honours) at Uni of Newcastle. Since I received my first preference in the first round I have decided to decline the offers and other people to be let in the course. I know some people would be like 'why did you get rid of your backups??'. I got into what I wanted and have deferred. All is GOOD in LIFE.

Anyway. Results come out tomorrow and I am super nervous and EXCITED at the same time. Like I just wanna know how well or bad I did. If my hardwork paid off at all in those last weeks before exams. FINGERS FRICKEN CROSSED.

I will post my results tomorrow whether or not I am happy with them. This journal has led to this moment and has helped me develop into the person I am today. STILL SUPER NERVOUS. More nervous than ATAR...

BAIII
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 13, 2018, 04:30:16 pm
Hi everyone, its taken a while for me to post but today has been a really hard an stressful day for me. The idea I had about the whole HSC scaling, marking, moderation... Has all changed. All that I have ever been told about the HSC has been false. And it was very misleading.

Here are my final results, I know I won't reach my ATAR goal but I am happy with some of them. I was shocked by others and very disappointed with others.

Visual Arts - 89 Band 5 ( ONE MARK )
Ancient History - 83 Band 5
Advanced English - 79 Band 4 ( PROUD!!!)
Mathematics - 76 Band 4 (SURPRISED)
Engineering - 76 Band 4 ( So disappointed)
SOR 1u - 35/50 Band 4 ( Don't really care )

So there they are. I am happy that its all over and I never have to worry about it ever ever again. I am happy that I got admitted into my university course based on my report and I am happy that I do not have to worry about my ATAR. I must say that I am disappointed, I was expecting more but I guess sometimes its just not enough. I worked really hard and thats all that really matters right?

I look at the results page of ATARNotes and a lot of the people that I have completed my HSC and see that they're way way smarter than me. They get higher results and bands and I always thought that I had to match others here. But as much as I studied, I didn't reach my goal. Even as I studied my ass off. I would like to thank all these people who I have looked up to, help and support me throughout this journey. Yes, you got higher marks than me but you inspired me to work so much harder than I would have before. I want to thank ATARNotes for helping me through this tough time. There have been laughs and there have been tears but no matter my ATAR I am not going to look back on this time as a bad one. I am proud of myself. I am proud of how hard I worked.

I remember when I first begun the HSC, it was a huge daunting task that seemed almost impossible. People used to say 'You'll live, its not bad'. I didn't think that at first but look at me now. Here I am. Writing one of my final ATARNotes HSC Journal its a surreal experience.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! I love you all and I will continue to write on ATARNotes about my gap year journey (Mada had the idea first) and then the year after, my Uni journey.

Bai for now!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Bri MT on December 13, 2018, 04:42:56 pm
CONGRATULATIONS!!   best wishes for your course (& gap year) and I'm glad you've decided to stick around to share those journeys with us :)

I will tell you that disappointing scores lose their emotional impact overtime; but I'm glad that even now you can look at the bright side
I also want to tell you that higher ATAR does not mean more intelligent. You have been measured on your ability to answer tests they way examiners wanted, and although intelligence *helps* (and the hard work you've put in helps a lot) there are a range of factors that influence it. It's not fair on yourself and it's inaccurate to believe you're less intelligent than someone else because they got a higher ATAR.

(also, it tends to be the happy and confident people who post their results on AN - it's definitely not a representative sample)


congratulations again & I hope you have a fabulous gap year!!! :D
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: jazcstuart on December 13, 2018, 05:37:14 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on December 13, 2018, 04:30:16 pm
Hi everyone, its taken a while for me to post but today has been a really hard an stressful day for me. The idea I had about the whole HSC scaling, marking, moderation... Has all changed. All that I have ever been told about the HSC has been false. And it was very misleading.

Here are my final results, I know I won't reach my ATAR goal but I am happy with some of them. I was shocked by others and very disappointed with others.

Visual Arts - 89 Band 5 ( ONE MARK )
Ancient History - 83 Band 5
Advanced English - 79 Band 4 ( PROUD!!!)
Mathematics - 76 Band 4 (SURPRISED)
Engineering - 76 Band 4 ( So disappointed)
SOR 1u - 35/50 Band 4 ( Don't really care )

So there they are. I am happy that its all over and I never have to worry about it ever ever again. I am happy that I got admitted into my university course based on my report and I am happy that I do not have to worry about my ATAR. I must say that I am disappointed, I was expecting more but I guess sometimes its just not enough. I worked really hard and thats all that really matters right?

I look at the results page of ATARNotes and a lot of the people that I have completed my HSC and see that they're way way smarter than me. They get higher results and bands and I always thought that I had to match others here. But as much as I studied, I didn't reach my goal. Even as I studied my ass off. I would like to thank all these people who I have looked up to, help and support me throughout this journey. Yes, you got higher marks than me but you inspired me to work so much harder than I would have before. I want to thank ATARNotes for helping me through this tough time. There have been laughs and there have been tears but no matter my ATAR I am not going to look back on this time as a bad one. I am proud of myself. I am proud of how hard I worked.

I remember when I first begun the HSC, it was a huge daunting task that seemed almost impossible. People used to say 'You'll live, its not bad'. I didn't think that at first but look at me now. Here I am. Writing one of my final ATARNotes HSC Journal its a surreal experience.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! I love you all and I will continue to write on ATARNotes about my gap year journey (Mada had the idea first) and then the year after, my Uni journey.

Bai for now!
Huge congrats from me as well! I love your attitude towards your marks, that although you were a bit disappointed, you also recognise you achievements!

Also really excited to see another UoN person on atarnotes!

Good luck and keen to keep reading your journals.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 14, 2018, 04:25:12 pm
HI GUYS!

So the ATAR was highly expected and the ATARNotes calculator was literally on the dot. I ended up getting 76.75. I've been like, five bonus points for being regional - 81.75 yay. Thats closer to my goal but ya know only some uni's acfept the bonus points luckily Newcastle does so I'm still like 81 81 81 81. Bahahaa

And I am literally thanking my unconditional entry because I would not have gotten into my dream uni course without it. THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE for seeing that I am bad at exams but good at other things and that I work hard :)

Anyway, this will probably be my final HSC Journal entry for 2018. I would like to thank everyone who has read and supported my journal throughout this year also to those who have inspired me to work harder than before. Thanks everyone!

I will probably be starting a gap year journal... May be boring as hell but I'll post it in accountability and motivation board.

Thank you!

This was My Year 12 Life everyone, thank you for reading.

Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Joseph41 on December 15, 2018, 04:33:35 pm
Just want to congratulate you on everything you've accomplished. This thread was genuinely fantastic to read. Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us - can't wait to hear about what's in store for you next. :)
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 15, 2018, 04:45:26 pm
Quote from: Joseph41 on December 15, 2018, 04:33:35 pm
Just want to congratulate you on everything you've accomplished. This thread was genuinely fantastic to read. Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us - can't wait to hear about what's in store for you next. :)

Thank you so much! The HSC really was an eye opening year, time to get into the real world now!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 15, 2018, 05:18:38 pm
Below is my art major work. I was extremely proud of this work, trust me, it looks better in real life. I have 8 sculptures in total and 3 photos relating to patricia piccinini (Won't post those). It was first inspired by a pangolin (the animal) and then evolved into a plant and animal type thing. It's called "In the Beginning". All these photos were taken before submission so final touch ups hadn't been finished. If you can't see the images let me know.
(http://Below is my art major work. I was extremely proud of this work, trust me, it looks better in real life. I have 8 sculptures in total and 3 photos relating to patricia piccinini (Won't post those). It was first inspired by a pangolin (the animal) and then evolved into a plant and animal type thing. It's called "In the Beginning". All these photos were taken before submission so final touch ups hadn't been finished.[img]https://i.imgur.com/9q7Di73.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/fs9xgdA.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/80Olidg.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/iMQPlI4.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/yi7itmP.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/QPesYK3.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/sC5HJS3.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/wDibHpu.png)

If you can't see all the images go to here
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: PhoenixxFire on December 15, 2018, 05:20:36 pm
Can't see them! You need a url that ends in .jpg or .png if you can't get one directly from the source then you can upload them to an image sharing site (e.g. imgur) and get the links off there.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 15, 2018, 05:24:38 pm
Quote from: PhoenixxFire on December 15, 2018, 05:20:36 pm
Can't see them! You need a url that ends in .jpg or .png if you can't get one directly from the source then you can upload them to an image sharing site (e.g. imgur) and get the links off there.
Thanks for the help!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 15, 2018, 05:39:52 pm
I think you can see the images now... I think. I have provided a link if it doesn't haha. You'd think a year of using the forums, I would know how to put images in haha.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Lumenoria on December 15, 2018, 06:25:00 pm
Congrats girl, your marks are definitely something to be proud of. However, I definitely understand your feeling of disappointment. Regardless, your attitude is honestly so admirable, and something that will take you way further than a mere number. Reading this thread seriously warmed my heart, and I wish you nothing but the best in your future studies :) x
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Bri MT on December 15, 2018, 06:28:56 pm
Quote from: Caitlynk_22 on December 15, 2018, 05:18:38 pm

The images work now :)

Looks amazing to me!!!
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 15, 2018, 07:55:21 pm
Quote from: Lumenoria on December 15, 2018, 06:25:00 pm
Congrats girl, your marks are definitely something to be proud of. However, I definitely understand your feeling of disappointment. Regardless, your attitude is honestly so admirable, and something that will take you way further than a mere number. Reading this thread seriously warmed my heart, and I wish you nothing but the best in your future studies :) x

Thank you so much :) I wish you luck as well, your support has been greatly appreciated throughout this year.

Quote from: miniturtle on December 15, 2018, 06:28:56 pm
The images work now :)

Looks amazing to me!!!



Thank you!! There were too mamy hours put into it and I'm glad its over now just wished I could've gotten one more mark haha.
Title: Re: My Year 12 Life - Class of 2018
Post by: Caitlynk_22 on December 27, 2018, 11:41:06 pm
I almost forgot to tell you to last thing to do with high school. You know how there was all this talk about house spirit at my school (maybe you don't) but I got this email from my house patron a few weeks ago (got sent to everyone). To my absolute shocking surprise, my house won the house cup. Like how did that even happen?

A good end to high school. I thought we would never win!

Stay tuned in the Accountability and Motivation board where I will be starting a Gap year journal in January.