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beatroot:

--- Quote from: fantasticbeasts3 on August 25, 2017, 08:56:51 am ---sometimes i just watch youtube but everyone around me studies, then i study because i feel guilty for not studying. that's probably why i'm productive in study periods :-)

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This is why I stopped bringing earphones to my studies. I knew I would be tempted to go on youtube or watchseries or spotify and end up not doing work ;)

fantasticbeasts3:

--- Quote from: beatek on August 25, 2017, 01:03:23 pm ---This is why I stopped bringing earphones to my studies. I knew I would be tempted to go on youtube or watchseries or spotify and end up not doing work ;)

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i've stopped using my laptop unless i have to during study, so for the most part, the distractions have stopped. however, this has led to a lot of daydreaming because i'm unable to use my laptop to watch/do other stuff

fantasticbeasts3:
entry for today, 25/8

i really struggle with trying to understand the texts in the reading task. i haven't done a lot, per se, but every time i sit down and try to do one i find it hard to understand the texts. i don't get very good marks for the section, so in the next couple of weeks, i'm going to do as many tasks as i can (school gave us a ton of past trial papers because there's only 2 hscs) and try out a new structure of answering questions :-) really hope this works out, will keep you all updated.

today was quite a chill day at school because i only had 3 periods - 1 was assembly, and the other, i had early leave. english always makes me feel so shitty because i don't do well in it, especially compared to last year (but no one cares in year 11 so without trying i was able to get an amazing rank). then whoosh wow bam everyone starts getting tutors, and surpassing my marks even though i'm actually studying. anyway whatever i just want around 80ish because i reckon my other marks will compensate for my crap marks in english for my atar. :-)

legal is always so unproductive because there's not much to do in class, we get set 2 tasks (usually 2 essays, but this week it was hr short answers and options essay) and they're expected to be done by the end of the week. did well in the ones i handed up today so i'm pretty happy with that! i hope i can recreate that in the hsc, would be amazing.

we finally finished the content in business today!!!!!!!!!! very very exciting, it means there's no holes in my knowledge when i do past papers now so yay! we're given a lot more time to study from past papers and have questions answered in class so i'm quite happy with where everything's going in class. i think with every other lesson i'll alternate doing multiple choice and extended responses, and leave the short answers for at home.

i'm also going to list my options for modern, legal and english because someone asked me a question a couple of weeks ago via pm and i couldn't answer it because i didn't do the option they asked about :-/

modern
national study: germany
personality: gorbachev
studies in peace and conflict: cold war

legal
options: shelter and indigenous peoples (literally the most boring and dry topics although not going to lie indigenous can be interesting because it's worldwide)

english
module a: distinctively visual - vertigo (i know virtually no one does this book, it's really crap anyways hahahah)
module b: war poetry
module c: exploring transitions - billy elliot
discovery: away

forgot my signature whooooooops

love,
fantasticbeasts x

fantasticbeasts3:
i'm pretty sure i made a thread for modern memes and puns, but i'm far too lazy to look for it so i'll write them here. bit of a story to build up the suspense, if you can call it that, before the puns come.

had a really good laugh with my brother at dinner (he's doing accelerated modern, so he's currently doing the year 11 course - i'm a very proud sister) and we were talking about his options next year. turns out he's doing russia, trotsky and indochina. anyway,

bro: how did hitler come to know eva braun?
me: what
bro: he hitler up

history is the best subject, where else are you going to get all these puns and laughs?

edit: yes i did delete the other pun because i felt like it was very insensitive

fantasticbeasts3:
26/8

totally forgot how hard it is to write a creative, since i tried to do it so many times without success, and out of stress, i ended up not preparing one before trials (never ever do that, a very dumb decision). i've spent a whole day trying to write it, with a very detailed plan of what i'm going to write about but i'm unable to bring myself to actually write the story and i feel like i keep writing about the events as they happened, so i'm telling the story, not showing the story. i'm far from a good writer, and can't drag out the events as in a journal entry, because it happens over a short period of time and i just ughhhhhhhhhhhh

i also procrastinate by doing other work while i'm doing something and that really needs to stop because i spent half the day trying to write a creative, and the other half finding new related texts which not going to lie is kind of enjoyable because as an avid reader (at least not at the moment), it's fun to explore different texts and i don't read a lot of poetry so that was pretty cool :-) not going to give english the satisfaction of being written about a lot so i'm going to move on hahahaha

i've planned out a lot of my week as to what i'm going to hand in to teachers, but i can't write two essays in a night? it's really weird like i just can't do it, when i can write 3 essays in 2 hours for english. i don't know what's going on with me, but i hope everything will figure itself out :-)

next week, i'm going to the unsw open day! i went last year when i was a bit clueless about what i wanted to do after school, but now i have more of a solid idea, i'm even more excited. maybe i'll see some of you there. i would really love to go to unsw and do a double degree, so international studies and media (pr/advertising), but the atar cut off is waaaay too high for me because i haven't been doing well at school, and i'd be lucky to get a band 6 in one subject (fingers crossed i can get 90ish for my better subjects in the hsc!)

i hope you all had an amazing day.

love,
fantasticbeasts x

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