Love or hate?

[absurdlittlebird]

Compared to the past twelve years of schooling, how has your final year experience shaped up?
Have you loved this year? Or has it failed to meet your expectations?

[Russ]

I finished a while ago, but I loved year 12. Better than uni in a lot of ways.

[sgeorge]

I love my school, supportive teachers and everything else that has come with year 12, except the pressure of this year being the final year.

[Visionz]

infinitely better than all years after grade 5. Radical downhill slope from then onwards. 2010 has been a good year to me though.

[busterBluth]

HATE IT! cannot wait to get away from the uniforms, the dictatorship that is the school administration, shitty and uninspiring teachers, the immature freaks of nature i call my peers and wait im sure im forgetting something, oh yeah, the unbelievable, depression-rendering, cause of my premature aging, sleep depriving amount of STRESS and PRESSURE brought on by exams, UMAT, parents, future aspirations and most of all my own expectations.

[Slumdawg]

HATE IT! cannot wait to get away from the uniforms, the dictatorship that is the school administration, shitty and uninspiring teachers, the immature freaks of nature i call my peers and wait im sure im forgetting something, oh yeah, the unbelievable, depression-rendering, cause of my premature aging, sleep depriving amount of STRESS and PRESSURE brought on by exams, UMAT, parents, future aspirations and most of all my own expectations.

does that make me a pessimist or a realist?

haha agree with basically all of that. Year 10 was the best year for me. I've got the worst teachers for year 12 it's probably the worst lot I've ever had in my entire schooling life.

[Visionz]

HATE IT! cannot wait to get away from the uniforms, the dictatorship that is the school administration, shitty and uninspiring teachers, the immature freaks of nature i call my peers and wait im sure im forgetting something, oh yeah, the unbelievable, depression-rendering, cause of my premature aging, sleep depriving amount of STRESS and PRESSURE brought on by exams, UMAT, parents, future aspirations and most of all my own expectations.

does that make me a pessimist or a realist?

It makes you a pampered bitch. If year 12 was the hardest thing ive ever had to go through then I would have had a cushy life. I think when you go through some REAL shit in your life you learn to be resilient and for me this has made VCE a walk in the park basically.

[schmalex]

HATE IT! cannot wait to get away from the uniforms, the dictatorship that is the school administration, shitty and uninspiring teachers, the immature freaks of nature i call my peers and wait im sure im forgetting something, oh yeah, the unbelievable, depression-rendering, cause of my premature aging, sleep depriving amount of STRESS and PRESSURE brought on by exams, UMAT, parents, future aspirations and most of all my own expectations.

does that make me a pessimist or a realist?

most of this, except that I'm not that stressed and not doing the UMAT. I've liked this year, but haven't really enjoyed school. I like that I get a lot of free periods and freedom and I don't mind the work, but I don't like school much at all. It's just not an environment I feel very comfortable in.

[hawks08]

hated in a way because you actually have to do work but otherwise it has been better, a lot of dickheads have left which is good and classes are generally better behaved

[vexx]

HATE IT! cannot wait to get away from the uniforms, the dictatorship that is the school administration, shitty and uninspiring teachers, the immature freaks of nature i call my peers and wait im sure im forgetting something, oh yeah, the unbelievable, depression-rendering, cause of my premature aging, sleep depriving amount of STRESS and PRESSURE brought on by exams, UMAT, parents, future aspirations and most of all my own expectations.

+++++++++++++1
except for the only thing i love this year is my social life, but school, oh my eff it's the absolute worst. i've felt so trapped in all this stress recently that it's difficult to do much.

It makes you a pampered bitch. If year 12 was the hardest thing ive ever had to go through then I would have had a cushy life. I think when you go through some REAL shit in your life you learn to be resilient and for me this has made VCE a walk in the park basically.

It's not that VCE is 'omg so hard', it's just so long and tiring, and none of us have experienced working hard like this since as early as january without a break with so much pressure as it COUNTS all of it.. blah blah there are ways around it but still, most of us want to do well and show that all our years of schooling meant something, and want to get somewhere.
i have taken quite a few 'breaks' though as people have suggested, or whatever, but they have just felt like wasting time and being stressed during them, and so it's hardly felt like a break.
yes there are harder things in life, but they aren't like this, this long, mentally draining 'school'. they are different.

[Mr Edwards]

love it or hate it
remember this, what doesn't kill you (but almost does ) can only make u stronger!

[matt123]

im so sick of school now
honestly
i get home at 4
study till 10
 go to sleep
wake up
go to skool
.. repeats

then i get my marks
B .. B+
..
its really shattering
cant wait for year to end . .. UNI TIME

[Mr Edwards]

how do you study?

[vexx]

im so sick of school now
honestly
i get home at 4
study till 10
 go to sleep
wake up
go to skool
.. repeats

then i get my marks
B .. B+
..
its really shattering
cant wait for year to end . .. UNI TIME

your amazing!
you will do so well at uni with your organisation if you can manage that, i'm jealous:)
I want to do this !! I will try and be like you - inspirational. but probably won't start till holidays..
how do you not get tired? i lose concentration too quickly:(

[absurdlittlebird]

Hmm.. mixed emotions guys?
For me, it's more a case of how I feel each day.
At the core I feel year twelve is pointless; at a vce level I've come to decide our education system isn't conducive to learning. I spent most of this year walking around going 'I hate year twelve, I hate year twelve, I hate year twelve' but you have to make the best of a bad situation I suppose. It took me seven months to come to that conclusion. So now I'm just trying to have a blast, and make the most of the next six weeks.

how do you study?

depends. i do history revs by correspondence which is a pain and a half. i generally do one of two things depending on my mood.

a) -finish school at 3. go grab some food. start studying at 3.30. leave school 5.30-6.. get home. eat dinner. relax. start studying at 7.30. work til 11ish.

b) get home at 4. walk til 5. study til 6.30. dinner. relax. work from 8-11.30

you guys?