Today I realised that year 12 begins again in a week. I was sitting down reminiscing about my year 12 experience today and reviewed pretty much my whole year 12. Year 12 is a difficult year, heck, it was a pretty stressful year for me and everyone else. I still remember the look on students' faces on exam day, it was horrifying. I still remember the night I wasn't able to sleep before my maths exam because I was worrying so badly. I mean, I was one of those kids who said "oh, don't worry about anything" but there I was, worrying up until 10am until I literally passed out and woke up to my mother literally slapping me so I could wake up. You could say that I was fairly depressed in year 12 and a lot of us will suffer from inferiority, fear and depression. Oddly enough I've fueled myself by my pride and ego, however year 12 got the best of me. There I was studying ranks, exam score distributions and potential study scores.
Enough about that now and lets get to the point. Year 12 is a difficult year but now that it's all over, it feels so insignificant. It doesn't even feel as if I ever completed my VCE. You know when people say "its just a number", well, yeah it is. All year I wanted x score to get into Z course and I achieved it, and I never even ended up enrolling into that course, instead I enrolled into Y course which required a much lower ATAR score. I then sat there thinking, "wow, it really is just a number".
I really wish I made the most of year 12 and cherished it. You know those kids who have a poisonous attitude towards school? That was me, definitely. Oh, you can't wait until school is over because your teachers are so shit, you hate your fucking friends and everybody. Well, I really miss that. I miss rocking up to class and being dependent all year. I miss the ability to just do whatever. I'll never have that opportunity again.
I'm telling everybody this because I don't want anyone here to make the same mistake. I'm not one of those motivational people who can manipulate my word choice in order to drive people, but I want to inform everybody about the importance of year 12.
I'm just telling everyone to try their absolute best in year 12. There will be times where you just want to rip your fucking wall down or tear up your book. You'll want to drop out or change subjects. Some of you will probably complain that school is "too hard", well let me tell you this. I bet my life I can go to a Ugandan village and survey every single kid if they'd like the opportunity to come to Australia and do the hardest subjects in the VCE subject list and I promise you majority, if not all, would take the opportunity. Sometimes I think we're ungrateful for our opportunity to get an education. We have one of the best educational systems in the whole entire universe and I see people not giving it their best shot or striving to reach their maximum potential.
So if you don't achieve your goal, that's understandable, but let me tell you one thing. How many people in the world succeed without school? Many. Don't get fooled here, I'm all about school and education, but don't let it define you. I know people who have FAILED English and are living it up on their online salaries. This is 2014, not the 19xx's. There are so many opportunities in todays world and you need to grab hold of them. Someone with an ATAR in the 50s can be more successful than someone with an ATAR in the 90s. Success doesn't mean school results or money. You define success in your own way. If you're a 50 ATAR business graduate hosting his own company and making $50,000 a year and you're happy compared to a $500,000/yr miserable greedy stockbroker, then you're more successful than him in my eyes.
This leads me onto my next point. I want to tell you that that you should never consider changing your goal. Make a goal and STICK TO IT. I don't want to turn this thread into some bullshit "you can do it, do ur best" type thread, but you really need a goal. You live, then you die. That's how it goes. Life exists for eternity and you want to settle for mediocrity? A lot of us here are math fanatics, am I correct? Please do the equation, 80/∞ and what is your answer? I don't even know myself. But that's how long we live for compared to existence. It's so small there won't even be a fraction for it. 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 is tiny, right? Well our life span is smaller than that compared to the time of existence. Just make the most of it.
Allow me to add, that you should have a vision. A goal is a goal, but a vision will allow you to visualise your goal. Just visualise yourself opening up VTAC.edu.au and receiving your offer. Looks good, hey?
Do you have a difficult subject? Wait, let me find one of the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who don't have access to a proper education to go do it for you, because I know that they would. Go pick up your books and learn. We live in 2014. We have the internet. We have teachers. We have books. We have resources.
Just remember to stay driven and motivated. Year 12 is a fairly short year, so make the absolute most out of it.
Feel free to drop me a PM and I will be glad to respond to it.
Good luck in VCE everyone.
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