Ah boy, it's been ages since I last wrote something on here.
The holidays have been fantastic, in terms of catching up on sleep at least. Unfortunately, I haven't done as much homework and it's starting to bite me in the ass. I don't have all that much left to do, I guess, but I am beginning to get stressed out by the fast-approaching biology exam (which will be the first 3/4 exam for me). My SAC marks have been decent, but our school won't let us know our cohort-rankings so I'm not relying on them for backup.
The past two weeks have been quite fun, nevertheless. My existential crises (what an odd word) have been riveting, Grey's Anatomy catch-ups emotional, and birthday very confusing (am I happy that I have made it to the age of 17, still too lazy to get my Ls, or am I sad to see Crows play so goddamn badly? Who knows? Not me.)
Oh yeah, my boys finished their 2017 season with a bang. Played so well for the entire year and then blew it against the Tigers, of all teams. Now we've lost Lever and Charlie. Ughhh
Ranting/complaining needs to be a VCE subject.
Some VCE-related points to conclude, because it seems I always forget that this journal is a
VCE journal;
-I'm really looking forward to starting accounting in 2018 - it's nice to have such a large spread of VCE subjects
-EngLang is the greatest thing on this planet but oh boy I got a terrible mark on my last essay because I submitted the wrong document (the draft was missing a paragraph... shit) (tbh I think she should have let me re-submit seeming as she "lost" my first essay whilst flying because the "airline lost her baggage" -- funny how they only misplaced our essays that she took 2 months to mark... I'm salty about this situation, but she's still a good teacher so I'm happy for that, better than a bad teacher who marks your essays on time)
-I seem to have developed amnesia with this oversleeping, because apparently I have to write up some water-purification experiment for chemistry and I completely forgot about it
-Maths ahhaha what a joke
-Sometimes I miss the challenges of methods, but then I remember that all I did in that class was graph and boy was that depressing
-Bio... I'm starting to get the love for it that I had in term one back (which is really good -- anyone who is reading this and about to go into 3/4 bio please never lose the passion for it, you can do really well as long as the passion is there), but there's a practise exam tomorrow and I can't go because babysitting duties
-I think I've spoken about why I enjoy Economics in another post (tldr; teacher doesn't set many tests and spends the entirety of every period teaching us, meaning we are learning heaps and studying because we want to know more, not because we want a good grade - this kind of thing is hard to come by in a school that manufactures 99.95s by the dozen).
As much as I do complain in this journal thingy, I have to reiterate how important VCE and school is to me. My entire life has been about being at the top of my cohort, and still reaching further, so that I can comfortably sit in a position where whatever I want, academically, I can get easily. I've worked my ass off since a young age to get into the school I'm in now, and I've made a lot of sacrifices in all aspects of life so that I can pursue my decade-old dream of practicing paediatric cardiothoracic surgery. I always make jokes about how I don't care about my study scores, or some subjects, but I really do. They mean the entire world to me. There are a lot of stereotypes about race and its correlation to academic performance at my school, a lot that are not in my favour, and I play along with my peers' jokes but I think sometimes they forget that I've worked just as hard as them to get myself in this position, so its disheartening to see them and other people treat me less seriously.
Anyyywayy... writing on here isn't going to get me into med school so ciao ciao