28/8
exactly 3 weeks until graduation today!!! and i've got a 4 day week this week so all is good
today was a weirdly productive, but unproductive day. i spent a lot more time talking to friends about end of year gifts for teachers than doing work, because
technically my last day is thursday week 9 and everything needs to be done by then. subject run through for today:
period 1 - maths // had this seminar thing about keeping focused in the lead-up to the hsc, was quite informative and boring. i didn't have enough sleep last night (anything less than 8 hours is terrible for me) so i kept tuning out every now and then, and couldn't maintain focus on anything. that goes for the whole day today.
period 2 - business // since finishing the course last week, we're just having study periods, working on past papers. my worst section in the business paper is the short answers, so i've been working on those.
period 3 - modern // modern is my happy subject, so i'm always looking forward to going there. we finished the course today, so now it's just a whole bunch of study periods until the end of term. i handed up an essay i was far from proud of, but unfortunately, my teacher remembered me saying that i'd already done it, so was forced to hand it up, because i really wanted to rewrite it. turns out i don't have to, because apparently it was a 'great essay' so that was pretty satisfying, because i thought i did terrible in it. huuuuuuuuuuge rant for modern coming up, will be in a spoiler:
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people really annoy me in modern. they don't put effort into studying, listening in class, handing up stuff, etc. our range for every subject is bloody HUGE. like, 25-83. that's almost 60 marks. no matter what i do, asking people if they need help understanding stuff, they just don't give a shit which is so irritating because they don't care if the rest of the class gets dragged down with them. i don't want to tell people they should study, because that's their responsibility, but they just don't do anything. i asked someone today to pleaseeeee try and write an essay. or even a plan. she didn't even look me in the eye and say she would. half my modern class doesn't care that the whole class will drag down the rest. i don't know about scaling,
but if half the class does shit will that scale the top people down? also, it's not just the students, this reflects badly on the teacher, because they're going to look incompetent. it makes me so mad because this teacher is so amazing, puts 110% into teaching and caring about students, only for people to throw it away. he's never gotten mad until he yelled at this girl the other day, and she didn't even care? end rant.
period 4 - legal // we weren't assigned hand ins today, so i'll probably take the initiative and do one by thursday, because although legal is my best subject, it feels good when you're actually doing something for a subject.
period 5 - early leave // went home, and did nothing for the hour.
history geek me loves historical dramas. i get annoyed at historical inaccuracies, but i'm also a sucker for romance (historical dramas, particularly about monarchies tends to up the romance heaps), and today one of my favourite shows (obviously a historical drama) started its new season today. streaming has been really slow lately, which usually happens at the end of each month, so i'll probably take a break from shows until the beginning of next month. that'll reduce one distraction.
english update: draft is projected to finish today, will hand in a more refined version into the writing box (this is for all hand ins for english) on thursday, so i should get it back by monday of the next week. doing a reading task tomorrow, because i need to keep practicing those as i struggle to understand texts and more reading tasks should get me into the hang of things. essays for modules and discovery will be staggered across this week.
hope you all had a great day.
love,
fantasticbeasts x
edit: changed my forum photo because i freaked out when i saw a person from my school on the forums. i know it's inevitable that people from your school are going to turn up on AN, but this is like my secret life hahahahahhah