Class of 2016!!

[Elizawei]

Lucky came in late so I'm at the back haha

[tashhhaaa]

Guys I went to the legendary lecture by Thushan, and he signed my Physics atarnotes book.

life is complete tbh

I think my biggest VCE regret is not asking for this when I went to his lectures

[plants]

Just finished the physics lecture - Alwin was great! His notes will be replacing the textbook tbh

[sweetiepi]

All the notes will replace my text books... They are really awesome!
How was physics? (I would of gone but spesh was higher up my concerns  )

[Maz]

how do you stop being an introvert?
like I have soo many people come up to me and ask me why I don't say anything. And say I'm like the 'observer'
This isn't a bad thing, and they don't say it in a bad way...it's just weird that in a group conversation I have literally nothing to say
and it's not cos I'm shy (i know I'm not), I just don't know what to possibly say. like nothing massively interesting happens in my life: I sleep, eat, study, study, study, go on AN, do more study then sleep again. So it's not like I have things to talk about
I'd really love to hear any thoughts

[pi]

how do you stop being an introvert?
like I have soo many people come up to me and ask me why I don't say anything. And say I'm like the 'observer'
This isn't a bad thing, and they don't say it in a bad way...it's just weird that in a group conversation I have literally nothing to say
and it's not cos I'm shy (i know I'm not), I just don't know what to possibly say. like nothing massively interesting happens in my life: I sleep, eat, study, study, study, go on AN, do more study then sleep again. So it's not like I have things to talk about
I'd really love to hear any thoughts

Sounds like you need to do more stuff!

[Maz]

Sounds like you need to do more stuff!

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maybe...but then I feel bad for being in year 12 and not studying. besides I'm one of those people who (are apparently weird) and actually like studying. I find genuine joy in studying. But then even if I do other stuff that just adds 2 lines worth of conversation...I still end up being the quiet one

[sweetiepi]

Hey mq123! I know how you feel!
I study when I can and when I study, I purposely ignore all the messages/phone calls I get. Solely because study is important. However, maintain a balance. I usually have a couple of hours each day I use to socialise on the media or hang out with friends. (Just don't get caught up in 3-hour phone calls...)


EDIT: Typo. I cannot spell tonight, my apologies!

[Swagadaktal]

how do you stop being an introvert?
like I have soo many people come up to me and ask me why I don't say anything. And say I'm like the 'observer'
This isn't a bad thing, and they don't say it in a bad way...it's just weird that in a group conversation I have literally nothing to say
and it's not cos I'm shy (i know I'm not), I just don't know what to possibly say. like nothing massively interesting happens in my life: I sleep, eat, study, study, study, go on AN, do more study then sleep again. So it's not like I have things to talk about
I'd really love to hear any thoughts

brah just spent 10 mins writing a response and net cuts out and its not posted fml.

ill respond as discussion unravels... but basically: be as natural as possible coz ppl can tell when you're not.
Understand your audience - cant speak to your teacher the way you speak to your friends (if you do it's either you have a super cool teacher or super weird friends)
-- There's also general topics/ideas that will resonate with a particular audience. You gotta understand different character types and what their likely response would be. I.E talking about the liberal party with 90% of students will cause a specific reaction .
This extends to a lot of stuff, talking shit about school is pre much a universal student topic.
Umat is the next topic (hehe) - any aspiring med students you could easily keep a conversation going about umat for hours.

- Understand what works for you (what your character type is) - dont try be someone you're not

- in a discussion, try be critical about what you hear (this goes under general advice: be critical about everything you hear/read) - it'll lead to an interesting discussion I guess.

Do you have any specific scenarios you wanna flesh out? Coz there are a multitude of ways to tackle different aspects of this .

Last point: it's ok to say nothing if there's nothing to say. - but sometimes you need to keep a conversation going with someone who simply needs a conversation so it's an essential trait to have. Practice makes perfect - making a fool outta myself countless times have led me to become more extroverted

[conic curve]

Hi fellow VCER's

I am currently from NSW but the threads are very inactive from time to time (and I need to boost up my post count)

Mind if I join you all in your conversations? 

Cheers

[Jakeybaby]

Hi fellow VCER's

I am currently from NSW but the threads are very inactive from time to time (and I need to boost up my post count)

Mind if I join you all in your conversations? 

Cheers

I'm from SA, and I think that they don't mind me....
*emphasis on 'i think'* ahahaha

[babushka818]

Just going to jump in and say the more the merrier, feel free to join us!

[HopefulLawStudent]

how do you stop being an introvert?
like I have soo many people come up to me and ask me why I don't say anything. And say I'm like the 'observer'
This isn't a bad thing, and they don't say it in a bad way...it's just weird that in a group conversation I have literally nothing to say
and it's not cos I'm shy (i know I'm not), I just don't know what to possibly say. like nothing massively interesting happens in my life: I sleep, eat, study, study, study, go on AN, do more study then sleep again. So it's not like I have things to talk about
I'd really love to hear any thoughts

There is nothing wrong with being an introvert and there's nothing wrong with being the "observer".

I sorta feel like doing nothing interesting is a common thing for Year 12's. Legit, the most interesting thing I've done in the last few weeks is watched ink travel up a chromatography plate (we did a whole tonne of chromatography and spectroscopy experiments and I have no idea why but I found TLC the most interesting, lol). idk what your friends are talking about but mine are freq talking about either one of the following:

1. Goal ATARs
2. Goal Universities
3. Future aspirations
4. What we're gonna do in that gap in between high school and uni
5. How much we're struggling with the stress/life/whatever
6. School-work

We've just been recycling those topics or variations/extensions of them for the last 6-ish months...

Hi fellow VCER's

I am currently from NSW but the threads are very inactive from time to time (and I need to boost up my post count)

Mind if I join you all in your conversations? 

Cheers

Feel free to contribute to our conversations! I promise we're not scary people (though Swag and the mods can be a bit scary sometimes what with how insanely smart they are).

[conic curve]

Feel free to contribute to our conversations! I promise we're not scary people (though Swag and the mods can be a bit scary sometimes what with how insanely smart they are).

Ahaha, thanks for the warm welcome. If only the HSC NSW threads were more active, I wouldn't of had to resort here in order to boost my post count 

[Swagadaktal]

Feel free to contribute to our conversations! I promise we're not scary people (though Swag and the mods can be a bit scary sometimes what with how insanely smart they are).

How you gonna play me like that when you did methods and spesh in year 11

But can defs concur, heidii is extremely scary.

*emphasis on 'i think'* ahahaha

solid emphasis
<3