Howdy partner and welcome to my VCE journey journal!
what a great title that I totally came up withNow Settle settle. I understand your overwhelming excitement upon reading these words – honestly I wouldn’t expect anything else – I just ask that you save the autograph and photo requests till afterwards.
Now... Who is this handsome man you man ask?Well I am Erutepa a.k.a ‘the count’ a.k.a ‘super Cool kid ‘ (except maybe not so much that last one). I started on here around halfway through last year, but only really became consistently active until around about the end of October. I am usually lurking around the highly intellectual count to 20 thread where I probably
spend too much time don’t spend enough time, or around the bio boards when questions want an answering.
Academically speaking
(hi academically, my names Erutepa), I am a year 12 this year and am doing Method, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology and English in addition to having completed Biology last year. As you can see from this fairly focused subject platter, my passions are for that of the visual arts (haha, that is a joke – I love science).
So what next…
…sure, let's do some subject overviews, goals ‘n stuff
Subject overviews, goals ‘n stuffBiology [completed]
Bio was (and still is) my favourite science subject and I just loved all of it completely. I'm not sure what I actually wanted to achieve going into the subject, other than to enjoy it and get decent marks. I didn’t really know how any of the study score stuff worked and didn’t really think about the end of year exam - I just mainly focused on the subject knowledge itself.
Anyways… I ended up with a pretty good result (a 44 raw) but, more importantly, developed a stronger love for science as well as gaining a better understanding about how to better approach my 3/4 subjects this year.
Methods
I would like to say that I am fairly decent at methods. It’s not my best subject, but I seem to get along with it pretty well – a ‘sometimes each lunch together, but not like BFFs’ kind of thing. As such, I Just plan to do the work and think I will get a decent mark at the end of it all, but I won't peruse it with the same passion as some of my science subjects.
The teacher that I have this year is the same I have had for the last two years as well as in year 8 (so this makes it my 4th year of math with them). I guess this could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it, but I think they are a good teacher and we seem to get along well. (fun story break: every time she leaves the classroom to get something from her office, without fail, she will whisper to me (and only me) that she is leaving).
Chemistry + Physics
I put these two subjects together mainly because I feel the same way about them and because this is my journal and I will do what I want
(fyte me). I love both chemistry and physics with quite a passion (not as much a bio though). While I think they are a good challenge for my abilities, I still think I can get fairly high study scores in both of them.
My chem teacher is very nice and extremely supportive of our class. She has already told me that I am going to get over 44 in chem this year and i'll take her word for it. My physics teacher is brand new to our school which did caused me a bit of worry when I first heard, but now that I have had a few classes, I feel much more comfortable.
English
English is no doubt my most stressful subject this year mainly cause I think many of the skills within the subject don't come quite as naturally to me as do those of science subjects (Plus I h8 writing essays). Nonetheless, I still enjoy analysing texts and put the effort in to get decent results.
This year's English teacher I have had previously in year 8 and 9, and we get along quite well. She is focuses her class around class discussion (which is something that I like), but most importantly she is a fantastic baker of desserts (which she brings in after SACS and exams).
Outside of schoolThis year I do not want to drop everything for my VCE subjects if I can help it, and would love to continue doing activities outside of school as well as working for dat cash money. Currently I do quote a bit of running as well as work a few shifts per week as a swim teacher for little people. This equates to about 3 hours of stuff after school on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as well as most of Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. While this certainly could be more hectic, I think my schedule is pretty full and finding time for procrastination is getting much harder (techno you may have to help me with this one). We will see how this balancing act goes and I may need to cut back on some running (although would never stop it) to make more time if necessary.
What you've missedSo this was the conclusion of week three of school for me. We started on the 31st and had a short first week which wasn't much more than the teacher giving us extra time to complete holiday homework. Cause I am a good boy
and did all of my work over the holidays, I was able to get a little bit ahead on work.
For English over these first few weeks we jumped straight into preparing for our first SAC which is the creative response. We are basing our work of that of the Australian poet Peter Skrzynecki. So this meant analysing his work, then jumping onto our planning and drafting. I completed my final draft yesterday, with the final piece due this coming Friday.
In maths, chem and physics we just kept on working through content. For physics we completed circular motion and projectile motion; for chemistry we complete fuels; for maths we did basic function stuff.
Have you noticed how I dont''' realy,' know how;;; to use grammar yet() or spel too safe me Lyfe
In psych we worked pretty intensively over course commencement on the topic of stress, so that upon returning this year, it was pretty much just revision for the stress SAC which I did this Monday just gone. I think I smashed it (not literally though - I'm not a destructive person) and am happy with how I did it, I now just need to be wait for results to be returned to shatter my hopes and dreams. We have since begun working on the brain n'stuff
And now you are pretty much up to date... Yay!
Sorry the start of this journal is so belated - I was putting posting it off for a while (most of this was written last month... Yikes :/)
I shall hope to update you at least once before the end of the year, but that's a big promise to make and one I'm not sure I am capable of keeping