Hi guys! I've been addicted to reading VCE journals for a while now, and I officially start Year 11 on Monday (transition week), so I figured what better time to start my own!
This year I did Bio 1/2 and Legal 1/2 as higher studies, and I absolutely loved Legal and... slightly despised Bio. Either way, I'm continuing them both into 3/4 next year, which is terrifying. My main challenge is going to be finding the motivation to actually study, as this year I basically just winged everything with little to no study. I got my Legal exam result today and it was a huge disappointment, so that's got me feeling very determined to try harder next year. I haven't got my Bio exam results back but I'm not expecting much - the exam was an absolute joke and everyone was confused.
As for 1/2 subjects, I couldn't be more excited for History. Our school's history teacher is an absolute legend, and I can't wait as I'd say History's one of the only subjects I'm actually passionate about and genuinely love learning about. I'm only doing Psych because Spesh wouldn't fit in my timetable, but I'm actually feeling pretty excited about it now! I'm apprehensive for Lit, because I've heard mixed things about it, but the content looks really enjoyable. I may end up switching to mainstream English depending on how it goes. Methods is the one subject I'm absolutely terrified for, because I've been progressively getting worse at maths since Year 8 - don't know why I ever thought doing Spesh would be a good idea. I'm hoping the teacher manages to somehow make it understandable, or maybe I'll be switching to General after I get the first SAC results back. I'm really not confident about the subjects I chose, mostly because there's so many things I'd love to be doing - Chem, mainstream English, Sociology, etc. I really wish I was doing Media or Studio Arts because I adore folio subjects - my main hobby/passion is photography, especially film photography, and also videography.
I'm really not sure what I'd be interested in doing as a career, mainly because there's such a big range of areas I'm interested in. At the moment I'm looking into an Arts degree majoring in Politics or Law and minoring in something like History at Melbourne or something like Global Studies at Monash. I'd also really like to apply to overseas colleges, things like Stanford and Oxford. Despite my low chances of getting in I figure it's worth a shot!
I'm currently writing this to procrastinate studying for my final two Year 10 exams tomorrow, so I should probably go do that. If you've stuck with my rambling so far you deserve an award - I'll try and update this some time next week when I've had some of my Year 11 classes! :,)