Guess who's back?
Yes, It's me, your friendly neighbourhood
Spiderman count back with another monotonous journal entry
Sorry for the lateness, but...
I procrastinated hard and neglected this JournalI wanted to save the euphoric experience of writing this here journal entry until this current point in time for obviously logical and sound reasons.
So... How's my VCE Journey going?In all, pretty good and honestly a bit surprised that its week 7 already. I was told that year 12 would go by in a flash, but never really believed it. However, it seems to be running along quite speedily (not as fast as me though hehe) which is both exciting and worrying. In fact, today I just completed my last SAC for the term, but you will hear more about that later (bet you are on the edge of your sitting surface with excitement and anticipation...)
Generally, I've been keeping up with the work and in some cases working a little bit ahead, but most importantly I've been enjoying myself and have so far maintained my sanity intact. Of course I have stressed a bit about upcoming SACs and what not, but my stress levels have been pretty low and I would attribute that to maintaining a good balance of work and play as well as having some great emotional support around
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On a semi-related-semi-unrelated note, My sleep hasn't been too bad recently - much better than the consistent 5 hours I was getting earlier in the year. Now I'm getting a fairly regular 7 hours - sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less. 7 hours is still probably not that good, but its getting there and I honestly feel pretty good off 7 hours sleep.
Because I'm not feeling masochistic today, I'm not going to go through a summary of each day for the last 3 weeks - however much fun you all will have reading through a mountain of tiresome recounts - but will instead just give a summary of whats been popin' in each of my subjects. If you would prefer otherwise, please go off and find an alternate reality where I do fulfil your dreams, but note that this version of me here is undeniably the coolest and most radical.
INGLYSHWe have been proceeding at a fairly steady pace through analysing and discussing Frankenstein (hehe). Most of our classes for the last few weeks have been a collage of reading a section of the book as a class, discussing themes, doing a little bit of a writing task and doing some prescribed reading from the teacher. We have also done a couple of practice essays as we develop our understanding, and while I have not gone overly well in them, they have given me some motivation and some areas to focus my study on. Apart from that, I'm really quite enjoying Frankenstein itself and think it is a great book (which always helps if you are going to be stuck with it for a while)
The other day (which really just means that I can't remember) we did get our SAC results back from our creative responses. I got a 25/30 which I wasn't all that overjoyed with. Apparently that's a really good mark according to my teacher, so I will have to take her word for it, but am still a little disheartened. Hopefully I can use that as fuel for a better next SAC!
FISICSWe have just finished off motion and all that stuff. Starting the year and hearing that we were to encounter "special relativity" I was honestly a little worried, but as it turns out it really wasn't that hard at all. I managed the content learnerizing pretty dandily and got through it fairly fast which allowed me to do plenty of exam practice questions. This is something I hope I can continue to do in Fisics and carry across to my other subjects where this same initiative is perhaps a little lacking. But anywho, I had my motion SAC today and was grateful that I did so many practice question because it really helped me get everything done in time. Most of the class apparently didn't complete all the questions and the general attitude of the class was that the SAC was a bit of a challenge.
Next class (whenever it is - cause I can't remember) we will be moving on from moving and into fields and all that crazy stuff.
KEMISTREEWe are chugga-chugga chugga-chugga choo choo-ing
(thats 4 thank) along at a decent speed at the moment in chemistry. Last week we finished the theory on galvanic cells and did a few little tests on that knowledge (which I did with success) before we moved along to reaction rates and equilibrium. Reaction rate has been fairly easy since it seems pretty logical and also was partially covered through looking at enzymes and reaction rate in biology last year. However, rate of reaction is newer and unknown content that I am currently wading my way through.
[It was at this point that I started to drift of to sleep and so I decided to throw some caffeine into my blood and delete the incoherent string of numbers and letters that I mashed on my keyboard]
I think thats everything that I wanted to say about Chem, so I'll make like a tree and leaf it there.
MAFsSpecifically, Mafs Mefods.
We aren't quite chugga-chugga chugga-chugga choo choo-ing very fast in methods right now. We are still mostly revising basic(ish) algebra from last year and as such, its been pretty easy. The only new thing I have encountered so far is matrices which seem simple enough, but frustrate me because I can never set them out to actually look nice in my workings. Apart from also doing occasional tests and receiving decent results, there isn't much more to say about maths really...
SIGHCOLOGIEPsych is plodding along at a good pace at the moment. Since we last chatted, I have completed my SAC for the nervous system and got a 94% which (I believe) was potentially equal top mark perhaps maybe. Regardless, I am happy with that mark, but still a little annoyed because the mistakes that I made were just little thinks here and there which I probably shouldn't have made (at least they weren't holes in my knowledge though...).
Now we have bitten into learning and memory which has a sweet initial taste as we cover the neurological basis of memory, however I presume will become a bit more savory as we head into all the different non-biology related stuff (HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I LIKE BIOLOGY
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Concluding Thoughts I'm very tired and don't know what to think of this vomiting of words which I hope holds some meaning and, better yet, a chuckle or two or three or four or five or six, but not seven (seriously, you would probably be wanting to see professional help if you think this was worth 7 chuckles). Realistically though, this is probably riddled with mistakes, but I'm tired and I hope you can forgive me for this unforgivable crime against humanity