THIS 120 KILOGRAM MAN LOST 20 STONE IN JUST 2 WEEKS USING THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK - READ THIS JOURNAL TO FIND IT OUT.
So… It's been a week since my last entry and since I had a fairly free evening, I thought I would put on my writing gloves and throw some fully sick words down onto your screens (so please don't read them, I don't want them spreading their illness to you)
To give a general overview of my life at the moment, I would say pretty fantastic. School is pretty relaxed at the moment with no imminent SACs, so I'm just moving along through content and questions and enjoying it all. I'm not being overwhelmed by homework and study and I still seem to have the upper hand on stress. Outside of school, my running is coming along nicely and seeing good improvements for my big comp next week in seed knee (ewwww, I know)
And know to give you are little overview as to what is up in my subjects this past week… In alphabetical order (don’t ask me)
Cause I'm hip and like to change things up cause YOLO SWAG 360 NoScoope™, I'm gonna write in dot points
Chemistry
- Completed reaction rates and have moved through equilibrium and all that jazz. There's not much to say about this - Its kinda fun, but you can't really be that excited about it honestly (it's no biology, that's for sure)
English
- We've continued with analysing Frankenstein and I've enjoyed that thoroughly. I am particularly liking the class discussion where I can practice speaking in front of people without dying of embarrassment. I'm still really bad at oral presentations and am not looking forward to my speech I'm going to have to give at some stage in the future (I would know the date if I was actually organized - oopsies)
- We have also worked through language analysiserizing and did a couple practice essays (one in class, one at home).
- I have realised now that I really should start doing my own practice essays at home (especially for Frankenstein), but am still searching for the motivation to do so.
Maths
- I still feel like I am revising content from last year and we've almost finished term 1. I don't know if that’s a good thing or not, but methods is seeming pretty chill at the moment.
- That being said, we did do a test on polynomials using the CAS and I have realised that I am absolutely shocking with the CAS. I knew what I had to do, but everything I did on the calculator just gave me cranky errors and at one stage I displayed multiple applications in split screen and I couldn't get it to go back to normal. Needless to say, I did not do well on that test…
Physics
- We got the motion SAC back and I was 2nd in the class with a 91%. Pretty happ E about that
- Since then, we've now sunken our fangs into fields which is pretty funky. Suddenly physics has become 90% sign language what with ways to remember the directions of forces and what not (the FBI mnemonics)
- and
- that’s
- all
- I
- got
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- say
- bout
- physics
Psychology
- We are still going with memory and learning, and learning it all in a rather erratic and all-over-the-place-style. We're Jumping from this bit in chapter 7 here back to chapter 6 to chapter 203 and then back to the future and it's all very disorienting, but I'm hanging in.
- We covered Alzheimer's disease a few classes back which was exciting because I had done a fair bit of reading on that (namely the implication of the complement in the disease, and other immune elements) but strangely enough none of that was even close to being talked about (BIO COME BACK! YOU CAN BLAME IT ALL ON ME! I WAS WRONG AND I JUST CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU!)
NEXT EPISODE:
Looking into the future… (yes I can do that - its pretty craz E)
- I have 2 days left of school this term since I'm away Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to run in circles (and occasionally jump) for just under 10 minutes.
- I'm pretty excited about holidays cause I can meetup with some kool kid
- Also looking forward to the AN meetup so I can hopefully not sit awkwardly and actually initiate a conversation or two.
That should rap it up, yo dawg.
Sorry if this entry is disappointing, and you're welcome if it is the best thing since sliced butter.
P.S
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Great post as usual.
Please list the other 43,542 top moments of your life so far so I can assess how happy or sad I should be.
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1. Studying Biology
2. Studying Biology
3. Studying Biology
4. Studying Biology
5. Studying Biology
6. Being Born
7.Studying Biology
8. Studying Biology
9.Studying Biology
10. Studying Biology
11. Meeting Poet
12. Studying Biology
13. Studying Biology
14. Studying Biology
15. Studying Biology
16. Being Complimented by Aaron
17. Studying Biology
18. Studying Biology
19. Studying Biology
20. Studying Biology
21. Studying Biology
22. Finding a half-eaten cookie on the ground
23. Studying Biology
24. Studying Biology
25. Studying Biology
26. Studying Biology
27. Discovering the cure for aging
28. Studying Biology
29. Studying Biology
30. Studying Biology
31. Studying Biology
32. Spiritually, Georaphically and Mathematically amusing J41
33. That time when I became legal ruler of earth
34. Studying Biology
35. Studying Biology
36. Making this list (without copying/pasting)
37. Studying Biology
38. Studying Biology
39. Studying Biology
40. Studying Biology
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43,540. Meeting Joseph41
43,541. Studying Biology
43,542. Studying Biology
Yes, you are seeing this correctly – you’re not going crazy - I am making a journal post within a month of my last one (by which I mean before a full month as elapsed (which I have approximated to 30.44 days) as opposed to within the same month as my last post). My life has been pretty extraordinarily ordinary over the last (just less than a) month; I have been pretty much tailoring my life around exams.
I have been trying to keep up the running. Like I said last post, I have tuned it back a little, but am still going out a few times a week to run, destress (and since its almost always damp and rainy) devote my full attention to dodging all the snails on the path. I am proud to say I haven’t had to hold a snail funeral as of yet.
Here’s a photo of one of me running with the snails
(https://imgur.com/GdalIOE.jpeg)
Now, I am going to let you in on a little secret – that ‘photo’ wasn’t actually a photo, it was instead a drawing I did. I understand that you probably don’t believe me because of how life-like it looks, but I assure you I am telling the truth. As you can see – I am quite skilled, so feel free to reach out for any drawing advice.
Aside from hanging with my snail buddies, I have also found myself getting back into some videogames to relax now and then. Particularly over the last week or so I have been getting into factorio (for those who know of it). And of course, most importantly (yes more important than snails) I have been continuing to hang out with Poet regularly throughout my exam period.
Now into exam stuff.
Since my last post, my exam revision has gone along rather successfully: I have done practice exams, made boo boos them, then going through and patched up the boo boos, then repeated the process. Occasionally I’d do a bad practice exam here and there which would demotivate me to an extent, but as a whole I have been maintaining pretty decent motivation, and most importantly, keeping my stress levels down (moderately). I do have the ever-present concern of what if I don’t meet my expectations, but I wouldn’t say that its causing me to stress in any harmful way and I think that comes mainly down to my successful performance (at least by my standards) throughout the year which is fuelling my confidence in my ability to achieve what I want to achieve.
So far, my exams themselves have gone well. Exams aren’t as dramatic as I think I was making them out to be in my head. Even after doing bio last year, I was expecting to be walking out the exam either over-the-moon with my performance or devastated after ‘flunking it’ – a make it or break it scenario of sorts - however, every exam so far as been pretty much what I have been doing in practice (funnily enough).
My first exam English went much like my last practice exam; over the 3 hour exam I spend 70 on each of section C and A, and then rushed out a section B in 40 mins. In my last practice, my teacher marked my a 9,8, and a 7 which does get me an A+ (at least by last year’s grade distribution) which I would be very satisfied with for the exam. I do have some regrets though – I don’t think the second half of my section B was all that good, but I am hoping that I am making it out worse in my head.
The day after I had psychology which (I hope) went about as good as my last practice as well, although its hard to tell. I feel that the content was fairly easy on the exam, but some questions were just a little ambiguous/hard to understand what content they wanted you to talk about. I am confident with what I wrote, so I am keenly waiting to see how it turns out.
Over the last couple days, I also had my two methods exams. I think I managed to scrap together a solid performance, but I am fairly sure that methods is going to be my 6th subject in terms of study score. I just seem to make a lot of silly mistakes and go through the exams too slowly.
Up next I have Chem (on Tuesday) and Physics as my last exam (on Wednesday). I am a little concerned about chem as I have such high hopes for the subject, but my recent exam marks haven’t been up to the standard I am hoping for. I don’t have a lot of time left until the chem exam, so I have to really focus on fixing up my weaknesses and getting my confidence levels up a bit. I haven’t got as high goals for physics, I think I will do better in it then maths, but I don’t think by much. However, that’s not to say I won’t put in some more hard work towards it before the exam.
I think I am slowly coming to realise the school is ending (at least high school) After coming on from the English exam to my desk covered in English papers, I didn’t know what to do with them. I am the kind of person who usually saves old work in the off chance I will want to look back on it in later years, but for English in particular I realised that I will probably never look back on any of it. I ended up just putting it in a corner (I’m glaring at it right now in fact) because I just don’t want to throw it out (maybe I am trying to deny that high schools ending haha)
In regards to my uni dilemma, I haven’t devoted much thought to the situation. I think I am sticking with my resolve to wait for scholarships and make a decision from there. The Monash course does have an increasing appeal to me, but I am not sure if I want to make the longer trip.
I will hopefully make another post here sometime next week after my last exam (which actually means I will post something here in approximately the year 2082) so stay tuned!
So… Exams are done
That’s pretty cool I guess?
To pick up from last post…
Yesterday I had chemistry. Sadly, this didn’t quite go as I had wished. From a mixture of a genuine passion for chemistry and really good SAC marks throughout the year, I was really hyping myself up to do amazingly in chem. I did twice the number of practice exams as I did for any of my other subjects and went through them just as thoroughly to repair mistakes – so I don’t think there was any real holes in my content knowledge going into the exam on Tuesday. What ended tripping me up I think was just a stress during the exam purely from the pressure I put on myself to do well which just clouded my thought and slowed me down. I didn’t do badly by any means, but it just wasn’t the performance I was hoping for. I think I got through 80% of the exam or so confidently (probably lost marks for calculation errors like I always seem to do haha) maybe rushed 10-15% of the marks when I realised I was running out of time and probably left blank the remainder of the marks. I am not too annoyed or sad about it – much worse could have happened indeed so I am grateful that this was the worst thing to come out of my whole exam period.
Today, fortunately I was able to smash the physics exam (I hope). I was thinking physics would be my worst subject, but I either miscalculated my abilities or the exam was easier than the ones I have done in practice. I finished everything on time (that’s a first) and I didn’t guess a thing. In hindsight I think I may have lost 1 or 2 marks on multiple choice – but I would be over the moon if those were the only marks I lost. Regardless, I am still very happy with how I went.
At the moment I think I am switching between feeling overjoyed at the realisation that school be done and feeling a bit sad and empty at the realisation that school be done. As exciting as moving forward in life is – off to uni and what not – I can’t help, at least to some degree, wishing school wasn’t over. I liked school (maybe not exams so much) but the classrooms of the same students and teachers I’ve known for years is something I don’t think I will experience again in quite the same way and something I think I will miss. Perhaps not though – perhaps once I move into uni I’ll forget about it for the most part. Perhaps I will even move on in a matter of weeks or days. I am sure there are plenty of exciting things instore that will keep at bay too much Reminiscence over the past.
These exams haven’t fostered any revaluations in me – I am still set on Uni and still set on a Bachelor of Science. I think I will enjoy uni. I like the idea of the more independent learning environments – but I am not sure how I well I will actually take to it. Some of my teachers have told me that I will be great at uni, so I can only hope their judgement is accurate.
Aside from uni – I do have plenty of things to look forward to in the ensuing months. I am on the prowl for an automobile; I am fairly set on moving out early next year; and I have to get another job so that I can make the first two plans viable. I will probably just try to find a summer casual job for the next couple months as I plan (hopefully) to get into tutoring next year. However, all that can wait a couple days as I plan to let myself relax till the end of the week. I will try to catch up on some neglected videogames and reading, and most importantly will probably lurk around atar notes for a lot of the day.
Hope you’ve enjoyed reading my journal throughout the year – and if you haven’t then I will be more than happy to refund you the full subscription fees. Thanks to all those who have offered support advice and, most crucially, banter.
I might make a post once results come out on the terrifying 12th of December, or not. I don’t know if its necessary everyone know my scores, but perhaps it would be good to reflect on the year in the context of my end of year results. I also have my uni preferences to work out though
I have just realised that this post has been particularly void of any of my failed attempts at humor, so I shall attempt to burden you with some here. However, since this post has already dragged on for too long, I will cut out the unimportant and irrelevant details and get strait into the punchline:
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I said "thats a honey badger, not a stawberry doughnut"
what a cracker. And by the way, feel free to steal this joke for yourself, just make sure you cite my properly (APA 6th edition should be fine)