UPDATE: 5/08/2020 Hello friends and welcome back to the latest installment of this very INTENSE VCE journal, proudly brought to you by a certain someone not doing work during online religion class (me).
I haven't been up to much outside school over the past few weeks for obvious reasons, but I have been able to spend a lot of time on some hobbies. Over the past year and a half, and the past few months especially, I've become really interested in a number of fields, most notably politics, philosophy and sociology to the point where I may actually consider studying these at university. (At the moment, I'm still looking at a science degree and majoring somewhere in maths or engineering, but if I study at Unimelb I could potentially do some of these other interests as breadth subjects.) In general, I feel like I have so many interests in so many different areas that choosing is going to be so difficult.
Song of the Week
Listening to this at 12:30am in the morning in a dark room with headphones was a bit of an experience, such a beautiful song, even better in the context of the album.
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Anyway, moving onto my subjects...
Maff Mefods So over the past three weeks I did my Unit 3 Methods SAC, which was my very first SAC for VCE (also happens to contribute 22% lol) We actually did it in three parts instead of two because the first one was only an hour and a half, so we did an extra half hour that was tech free later. I was feeling a bit annoyed after the first one because I knew I messed up a couple of easy questions, but I pretty much came to an attitude of "whatever happens, happens" after that and tried to not think about questions I may have gotten wrong. Well, this morning I got my "results" back, and even though I don't know what my exact marks were on each of the parts, I was essentially told by my teacher that I got a moderated score of 98% which was... the highest in the cohort :)
Colo u r me shocked, after the SACs I was hoping for maybe a top 4, I thought my rank 1 dreams were dead in the water. I'm just so so happy that all the work I put into this subject has actually payed off into something. Of course, it's no time to get complacent, but at the moment I have just had a triple dose of confidence injected into my veins and it feels pretty good. ;)
Spesh Spesh has been going along rather smoothly, we did a quick test on Complex Numbers the other day and I got a nice hundo. (The test was fairly straightforward due to the topic not really having any applications in spesh.) We're doing vectors now, which is a lot of fun, luckily I had the infamously difficult tip-to-tail vector addition already down pat thanks to 1/2 Physics 8)
Fizzics As I hinted at above, we are tackling the notoriously hard topic of motion in physics at the moment. I have spent many hours trying to wrap my feeble brain around the concept of velocity, which is understandable given how abstract it is. I have asked my teacher if we can move on to some topics with more real-world applications like Relativity but to no avail.
la bellissima lingua italiana please forgive me, I'm going to write some stuff in my awful italian
la settimana scorsa ho fatto una presentazione PowerPoint sulla geografia dell'Italia. (ho dovuto parlare per circa 5 minuti, il PowerPoint era solo un visivo) Come al solito, ho iniziato il PowerPoint la notte prima della scadenza nonostante il fatto che avevo scritto la sceneggiatura quasi due settimane prima. Quasi tutti gli altri nella mia classe hanno fatto un video invece di un PowerPoint, ma ho molta familiarita' con PowerPoint (ne ho fatti un sacco), pensavo che sarebbe stato piu' facile. Onestamente, il mio design era bellissimo 8) ma l'ho registrato alle ventidue, quindi la mia voce era un po' troppo silenziosa. (stavo provando a non fare rumore). Comunque, sono contento del risultato, speriamo che sia un successo.
Eng Lang English Language has generally been pretty chill over the last few weeks with not much going on. We're looking at the history of English which is interesting enough. The state of affairs with the world at the moment has actually given us lots of things to talk about with language, e.g. the way politicians message the public about the coronavirus. I've also found the subject has had some interesting links with some sociology stuff I've been looking at (for example, why do people refuse to refer to trans women as women or use she/her pronouns because "it iGnoReS bIoLoGy" but have no issue with referring to adopting parents as "mum" or "dad". Goes to show that these words are not inherently defined by biology but also by social constructs.)
I've done enough rambling for one day, and if you noticed, at the start I said I was in the middle of RE class (which was at about 1pm), so that can give you an idea of my tendency to procrastinate. ;) Please stay safe during this time and best of luck for the rest of the week!
for some reason the emojis stopped working halfway through writing this so there should be a bunch of weird semi colons and stuff throughout this lol