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Fluffysama_:
--- Quote from: Justin_L on April 18, 2020, 10:09:15 pm ---EDIT: Reworded my last comment to be closer to what I intended to say
Oh damn, that formatting came out much worse than I was expecting. I'll try and separate stuff using more colour, bold, and line breaks.
So, I have a couple of things I need to prepare for this holiday. I'm going to list them out in priority order so I can reference this later on.
Priority 1 (Assessments)
1. Software Major Work (Weighted)
2. History Extension Major Work (Weighted)
3. Maths Extension Half Yearly (Unweighted due to corona)
Priority 2 (Homework)
1. Read King Henry IV (Module B)
2. Polish up general notes for all subjects
3. Misc.
Anyways, this is just a general list to get my thoughts together, I'm obviously going to break this down into subtasks and all that tomorrow. I dread the thought of touching any of my major works so much because it just seems so massive, but it also makes the most sense since those are guaranteed to still be weighted. Luckly, they're both internally assessed so they haven't been impacted by the NESA's new rulings.
P.S. If anyone has any tips on understanding Shakespeare or on KHIV, hit me up because I find reading Shakespeare harder than reading actual academic publications.
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lmao hope im not too late to the bandwagon, haven't read angelina's comments yet but no fear shakespeare? i think watching the play is so good if you can find one on yutube or sum! they do be fire n its like watching a movie, use the book in front of u and it do just be like reading subtitles heheh, i find audio books to be good as well but mostly i just go with the gist like context wise? i feel like a general understanding is all you need for shakespeare until you're looking for quotes for essays, das when you gotta break it downnn, can't say im shakespeare #1 comprehended but its been working ok, hope this helps
Fluffysama_:
oh dang man, lmaooo, i just realised your first post was in april! you fire bro, also, I took inspo from alice's format which was infact ur format ;D damn things got real meta real fast, jus want to say thanks! everything is so noice n pretty, i love it n hope you don't mind me also taking inspo from it n yeahhh, looking forward to reading more updates hehe
Justin_L:
--- Quote from: s110820 on June 01, 2020, 10:15:45 am ---snip
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Thanks Darcy! Lot's of good practical tips and advice in there, I might message you for a few questions later down the track if that's alright.
--- Quote from: alice343 on June 01, 2020, 06:49:46 pm ---I have a list of ALL the work I have not done (you know, those times when you have a casual teacher and you get textbooks for the whole lesson), and that list is pretty substantial - not excessive, but not small either. I realised I was wasting my time by trying to tick off everything on that list, since I was just taking the attention off of what was currently going on in class.
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That's a really good point, there's so much that I "should" do and not enough time to do all of it. In terms of homework, our teachers are giving us sane amounts but it's can be difficult when you're studying for exams and you have to just go through a massive chunk of content at once. That's definitely a good tactic though, although a bit of a slippery slope for me since I've done this in the past and it's come back to bite me when we start building on previous content, especially in subjects like math.
--- Quote from: alice343 on June 01, 2020, 06:49:46 pm ---I'm having the exact same problem with my History Project! I feel like I'm not even writing an essay - it just sounds like I'm summarising my research. Though I'm not behind on schoolwork, I would like to be further ahead for trials preparation, so I'm planning to spend more breaks in the library studying, and utilising all my free time to make sure I'm not cramming for trials.
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Exactly!!!
--- Quote from: Fluffysama_ on June 09, 2020, 10:57:21 pm ---oh dang man, lmaooo, i just realised your first post was in april! you fire bro, also, I took inspo from alice's format which was infact ur format ;D damn things got real meta real fast, jus want to say thanks! everything is so noice n pretty, i love it n hope you don't mind me also taking inspo from it n yeahhh, looking forward to reading more updates hehe
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haha, thanks fluffysama, sorry for all the meta I suppose studying metaphysical poetry for english got into me.
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the support! I have a math test tomorrow and I've sort of accepted that I'm sort of screwed but that seems to be a bit of a recurring theme for me and math. I've got so much stuff I want to write about but I'm going to be responsible, do some last minute math revision, and write about it tomorrow.
SpoilerOne tangent I will go off on is that today, our cohort gathered at lunch to watch one of our classmates eat a whole chocolate mudcake and chug a 2L bottle of milk. I'm not sure if they were trying to replicate the chocolate cake scene from Matilda, but sometimes, moments like these make me question... everything.
Fluffysama_:
--- Quote from: Justin_L on May 21, 2020, 08:02:25 pm ---Hey y'all! Just wanted to give a quick update as a precursor to probably another big post tomorrow/later.
I'm listening to my old playlists I've built up over the past few years, and I'm being hit by massive waves of nostalgia. I'm not a particularly musical person, but I am a member of my schools crew, which means I've attended pretty much every single disco, talent show, or otherwise vaguely musical event. I've built up my music library painstakingly over the years, and so every single song is a throwback for me because I can remember the exact year and event where I first heard it.
Now that I'm almost halfway through Term 2 and received my HSC timetable, it's only now that I'm really grasping how final this all is. With all events cancelled, I'm probably never going to crew another disco. I'm not going to come to school on Saturdays to build props. To stay back after school and go on Maccas runs with the rest of the crew, then come back run sound for Night of Stars. To stay back til midnight bumping out lights and then heading to afters. I might keeping doing this sort of thing after, but it won't be this crew, or this school.
I don't know, I'm probably being irrational. But I've done these events every single year, without fail no matter what. I remember last year when I had an English assignment due during our musical week, and I ended up arriving home at 11, pulling an all nighter to get it done (My first!), handing it in the next day, and going back to calling cues that night with the help of some coffee.
Part of me wants to stay in high school forever, but the other part wants to just get this over and done with, to head off to Uni and start anew. Everything just feels wrong, because Term 2 shouldn't feel like the endgame but it somehow does. All of my hand ins and major works will be done by the end of this term, after which it'll be trials. I know that I'm romanticizing the past, and that's fine. When I look back, I'd like to look back without regret. I suppose that one of the key defining things of this year will be my atar, which will either make or break my year. Weird how my entire experience will be defined by one number. If I get a "good" number, it'll all have been "worth it", and I'll look back with satisfaction. If it's a "bad" number, I'll have looked back with regret, that I could have done more, spent less time procrastinating or on hobbies, etc etc. I know atar isn't the only option forward but it sure makes life a hell of a lot simpler if I just get my desired atar.
Although now that I mention it, I'm not sure whether I want to look back on the truth or on a romanticized version of the truth. I mean, we all know memories are unreliable. With no other evidence, how do I know that what I remember is an accurate depiction of the past? A journal like this only captures my thoughts at any given point in time, but can words truly convey all the work that has led to that moment? I'm probably going into 1984 territory here, but now that I think of it, how can you be sure that something really happened if not for your own memories? I'm sorry about going way off topic here but I'm going to check out the History Extension Discussion Thread or I don't know, there are so many things that need answering that I don't know and probably won't know the answer to.
I'm really sorry, this was suppose to be a quick update and not a brain dump but I'll hopefully be back later to edit this into something that makes sense.
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HOLY CRAP BRO,
you got meta, this was fire, totally feel it, omg heheh, I keep saying meta on my comments but its true! I guess your meta poetry REALLY did get you, this is so weird, english is so coOl oop
:( about it all, it defo feels so weird to have everything cancelled and like knowing that things won't be the same for some time is a boo boo, I'm in school orchestra so I would probably been one of the people really benefiting from all your efforts as a crew member! thankyou !
but also again, sad sad, I do art and music and every year our school has an exhibition, so all muso kids preform and there's a sort of art gallery set up, it would've been so cool but so far, it seems to be cancelled ugh but also, I'm hopeful that we get to squeeze an event in somewhere on the calender soon! stay hopeful!?
ps: love brain dumps
Fluffysama_:
--- Quote from: Justin_L on June 15, 2020, 08:58:24 pm ---Thanks Darcy! Lot's of good practical tips and advice in there, I might message you for a few questions later down the track if that's alright.
That's a really good point, there's so much that I "should" do and not enough time to do all of it. In terms of homework, our teachers are giving us sane amounts but it's can be difficult when you're studying for exams and you have to just go through a massive chunk of content at once. That's definitely a good tactic though, although a bit of a slippery slope for me since I've done this in the past and it's come back to bite me when we start building on previous content, especially in subjects like math.
Exactly!!!
haha, thanks fluffysama, sorry for all the meta I suppose studying metaphysical poetry for english got into me.
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the support! I have a math test tomorrow and I've sort of accepted that I'm sort of screwed but that seems to be a bit of a recurring theme for me and math. I've got so much stuff I want to write about but I'm going to be responsible, do some last minute math revision, and write about it tomorrow.
SpoilerOne tangent I will go off on is that today, our cohort gathered at lunch to watch one of our classmates eat a whole chocolate mudcake and chug a 2L bottle of milk. I'm not sure if they were trying to replicate the chocolate cake scene from Matilda, but sometimes, moments like these make me question... everything.
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justin bro, doode, man, bruv,
I love that spoiler,
the boys at my school did something similar but not as cool,
they smashed an apple with their head, 1v1 typa thing, was a highlight, defining moment in our school history
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