thatdumbstudent's vce journey

[thatdumbstudent]

thatdumbstudent's vce journey - class of 2020

Firstly I would like to say hello everyone  I'm Paris (a name I made up for reasons) hehe. I've recently just moved to Australia last year so yes, I am an international student so I know my English can be bad sometimes but I'll try my best.

If I'm being quite honest... I did not know what vce was, let alone an atar. I only researched this whole thing about a month and when I came here I've realized that I have loads more to learn. I was basically clueless. Haha, I know right... but it wasn't my decision to move here but I am honestly thankful that my family decided to send me here. I live with my other family member who has been living here forever so I don't feel lonely at all. 

It wasn't my first time visiting Australia, I've come here several times so there's not much shock or anything like that.

I remember my first day of school here, I was in year 11. I'd say my school size is medium and we're pretty average... I mean its a government school that's not well known (i think) and not competitive. The teachers here are supportive though and I love them all
I remember school started on a Friday and we had the school assembly... nothing really, I met this girl who was new too and she was very nice hehe if you're reading this rn I appreciate you xoxo

My first subject was methods and I remember being overwhelmed with it immediately because I was not here for headstart ... I didn't even know there was a headstart program in the first place!

geez life's great!!
After like a month or so, I was finally getting a hang of it, I had a solid group of friends and I was okay in my subjects ... I guess.
A lot happened in a year that I don't know where to start so long story short:
in year 11 I did:
- English
- chemistry
- biology
-physics (this will be the death of me, I was getting straight A's on my sac but the content is literally so boring or maybe my teacher sucked but anyways I dropped it )
-methods
- general maths

in year 12 I am doing:
- eal (i did English last year as timetable didn't work out, it went fine actually)
- chem (superior)
- bio (my fav)
- methods (IDK what I was thinking but I actually do enjoy methods although I'm crap at it)
- further (why I'm doing much worse in y12?)

I did not know you could accelerate and do 3&4 in year 11!!! so basically i won't get that 10% extra

Subject choices were somewhat hard... WHY WERE THERE SO MANY CHOICES???
to be honest if there were no limits i'd choose bio, chem, methods, englang,psych, media, geography, history, legal, busman, philosophy, literally soooooo many of them were interesting but here i am ... doing maths and science.

I think by now you have an idea of where I'm headed

sciences
being more specific, health science
being more specific? can't give you an exact answer
my journey is a long road of indecisiveness and changing my mind every 5 seconds
my first goal was medicine but then thinking about it... am I ready to commit to it? it's not going to be easy and I'm not sure if I can handle it if I made a mistake in a patient. also... I'm a bit afraid of dead people. yeah as funny as it sounds from someone who wants to do health science. the thing is... sometimes I'm scared and sometimes I'm not. I have to remind myself that a cadaver cannot just randomly 'wake up' and run after me.

enough of that... I'm interested in nursing which yes I have an idea it'll involve the above stuff but also I feel like it might be more manageable. another thing is biomedical science or biomedicine. research?? hell yeah.

I've been rambling on a lot in this introduction and probably sound so boring but I am creating this to record my journey. It was my last day of term one today and who knows when will school open again? I have more stuff to say but I'll let my fingers rest now.
 you are all welcome to follow me along


this year is a pain but let's all face and conquer it together!

whenever I'm back here again,
paris
thatdumbstudent

[brothanathan]

Well first off, don't ever say you're dumb. We all reach a saturation point at some point (hope you got that), anyways we're a supportive community and never be shy to seek advice.

[Chocolatemilkshake]

Hi Paris,
First of all, it's incredible that you only came to Australia last year, that would have been such a challenge but you seem to be acing it so far

I'm super excited to follow your journey through this (strange) year!
CM

[J_Rho]

Welcome to AN Paris!
I can't wait to see where your journey takes you, to me, it seems phenomenal that you came to Australia last year but are doing so well despite only learning what VCE is recently! I can't even imagine moving school let alone country!
Awesome to see you create a journal and I hope you find this community warm, welcoming and above all supportive of whatever academic (or non-acedemic) path you wander

[thatdumbstudent]

Well first off, don't ever say you're dumb. We all reach a saturation point at some point (hope you got that), anyways we're a supportive community and never be shy to seek advice.

definitely got that, nice one!

[thatdumbstudent]

Hi Paris,
First of all, it's incredible that you only came to Australia last year, that would have been such a challenge but you seem to be acing it so far

I'm super excited to follow your journey through this (strange) year!
CM

Hello! haha I am managing and will get through. I am following yours too!! also, a perfect 50 in bio wow it is literally my favourite subject

[thatdumbstudent]

Welcome to AN Paris!
I can't wait to see where your journey takes you, to me, it seems phenomenal that you came to Australia last year but are doing so well despite only learning what VCE is recently! I can't even imagine moving school let alone country!
Awesome to see you create a journal and I hope you find this community warm, welcoming and above all supportive of whatever academic (or non-acedemic) path you wander
Thank you!! I joined AN about a year ago and love all the people here hehe

[thatdumbstudent]

paris' journey: remote learning

Since the 'holidays' were pushed up to be earlier, everyone in my school was all over the place. Today I had no motivation whatsoever to do work I usually function best from 5pm onwards and that's kind of bad but I'm trying to adjust myself to it and push myself to do work like the normal scheduled classes.

I was doing further maths about 10 minutes ago and we're moving on to financial maths. It was something I struggled in general maths.

The other day I got verbally told my sac score (before moderation or anything) as the other classes have not finished marking theirs. I got 74% and let's just say I was kind of upset. I thought I did way better than that and as someone who recieved 90++ throughout general maths I was kind of .... shocked. I don't mean to sound cocky at all and I know that's low for some and high for some people but like idk how to feel about that! I'll try to be positive and will wait until my teacher gives my sac back to know what my mistakes were.

The thing I'll never get is the fact that the sac was 4 hours long. Yes, my teacher did take away our bound reference but like I could remember the topics and look them up at home?? but then other people can do the same thing so idk that's somewhat fair i guess. (?)

I aim high 30's and low 40's for further so I need to put in more effort. But this is just the first sac and although its worth more than other sacs, I shouldn't be entirely negative about it. I believe my cohort is not thaaat strong, either ways I am not quite sure how this whole thing about ranking works.

i have a lot more to learn

see you all soon! :-)
Paris

[thatdumbstudent]

chemistry lecture day

hi to anyone reading! :-)

today I attended (would that be a word for an online lecture?) the chem livestream and it was really useful. So thanks Alec for that! It made me realized that I had already forgotten bits here and there already and its only April! but now I know what to improve on so that's gooooodddd.

I honestly have nothing more to say. My days have been quite uneventful apart from the fact that I binge watch the good doctor. I can't imagine myself as a surgeon and although it's really cool I don't think its something I can handle

Did anyone saw the news about the government getting the final year medical students to help with the corona pandemic? I wonder how they'd feel,,

either ways have a great night!

whenever i come back,
Paris :-)

[Undeadeast15]

chemistry lecture day

hi to anyone reading! :-)

today I attended (would that be a word for an online lecture?) the chem livestream and it was really useful. So thanks Alec for that! It made me realized that I had already forgotten bits here and there already and its only April! but now I know what to improve on so that's gooooodddd.

I honestly have nothing more to say. My days have been quite uneventful apart from the fact that I binge watch the good doctor. I can't imagine myself as a surgeon and although it's really cool I don't think its something I can handle

Did anyone saw the news about the government getting the final year medical students to help with the corona pandemic? I wonder how they'd feel,,

either ways have a great night!

whenever i come back,
Paris :-)

Hey Paris!

How are you finding the Good Doctor? I remember that I used to binge-watch that back in the day!

It's pretty scary with the COVID-19 pandemic happening and the new learning adjustments students have to make around Australia. I assume that most if not all final year medical students will find the situation quite frightening.

Welcome to AN and I hope to read more about your journey!

[cornbornshape]

chemistry lecture day

hi to anyone reading! :-)

today I attended (would that be a word for an online lecture?) the chem livestream and it was really useful the same as https://www.wowessays.com/buy-college-research-paper/ this writing service. So thanks Alec for that! It made me realized that I had already forgotten bits here and there already and its only April! but now I know what to improve on so that's gooooodddd.

I honestly have nothing more to say. My days have been quite uneventful apart from the fact that I binge watch the good doctor. I can't imagine myself as a surgeon and although it's really cool I don't think its something I can handle

Did anyone saw the news about the government getting the final year medical students to help with the corona pandemic? I wonder how they'd feel,,

either ways have a great night!

whenever i come back,
Paris :-)

Hey! Thanks and have a good night also! No I haven't seen it yet

[thatdumbstudent]

it's been a while!

Hi to anyone reading this! Despite all the mess going on right now, I hope everyone's doing well! School opens on the 26th and I don't know how to feel  I kind of gotten used to online learning and my school has been so great in the transition. But we all know its not going to continue forever. I am looking forwards to seeing my friends and teachers again hehe

I have 3 sacs this week and I feel somewhat prepared but still so nervous!!! ahhh

It's been a while since I've updated this but it feels good to be back. I've actually been writing my thoughts out rather than typing and I am finding it very effective and soothing (?) but it is still good to switch it up sometimes. I am trying to be optimistic and follow my normal schedule and I'm actually proud of myself for going through this!

I hope everyone has a great night!!

Paris

[thatdumbstudent]

a week after the hectic sac week

hi everyone! hope you all are doing well. last week was a sac week for me and it was pretty busy. I finally had time to just 'chill' for a bit and catch up the work that I've fallen behind due to revising for sacs (yes I know my time management skills are soooo great wow) i got my results for chem sac today and let's just say I am so so proud of myself!!!! my hard work really paid off and I really can't stop smiling about it hehe 

I still haven't received my other sac scores back which is fine. however, big news, WE FINISHED UNIT 3 CHEM!!! WOOOOO

now I don't know if that is considered fast or slow depending on your school, but I didn't feel like my teacher was rushing or anything at all but we still finished it pretty early (in my opinion). it is time to go back and revise the beginning chapters as I've already forgotten loads of stuff.... whoops 

but I really need to manage my time better than this. I always find myself discarding all classwork to revise for sacs which results in me falling behind in class and having to work harder to catch up.

anyways, my methods sac was initially scheduled to be next week but because of covid, it's been postponed which I am kinda happy about because I really need to go over the old content. The sac is MASSIVE!! My teacher said we'll be doing it by the end of this term and I am so so scared but also want to get it over and done with.

rather than rambling on further, I should be doing school work!

how are your days going? has it been productive? what chapters/content are you up to in chem and methods or any other subjects? are you happy with your progress?

lastly, have a great night everyone! always remember to chill and give yourself a break. don't put too much pressure on yourself but also don't be too relaxed either hahaha

that's all for now! see you soon,

Paris