Similarly I feel its a bit difficult to get involved with the forum as much; but I'm sticking around to answer questions in the subjects I did and general vce stuff; obviously the uni and tutoring boards are a bonus. It's a bit harder to get involved when you're not really experiencing what everyone else is, which is probably why most ex students dont stick around (or maybe they just wanna forget vce
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Yeah I agree, after being in this position [post-year12], you really start to appreciate the sheer dedication and selflessness of people like Mao, Russ, TT etc who manage to get past that barrier of ceebsness and help out the current cohort wherever possible.
If it werent for this website, I would know nothing outside the textbook, the technicalities of the VCE system [SACS, graded assessments etc.] would all be foreign concepts to me and I certainly would not have gotten anywhere within 20 ATAR points of what I got. This site brings out your full potential, and provides you with pretty much everything you need to grasp that 99+ score.
What disappoints me most, is the hundreds if not thousands of the null-post users who merely browse the forum, leech all the information and fail to contribute to the community in any way [in terms of general chat, not necessarily assistance]. They all seem to magically acquire their voiceboxes around mid-June, Nov-Dec and mid-January though ;]
P.S. Been nice having you around andrew ;]