Hey guys,
First week of school and I'm already exhausted. I come back to school on Tuesday and I was grumpy as hell. I was really tired and it was made even worse when the teachers are like 'We know you're burnt out but you gotta keep pushing on.' What happened to mental health?? So that ruined my mood for the rest of the day. Luckily, Tuesdays are sports days so I had 3 periods and study during sport (and by study, it was more like my friend and I online shopping for dresses and together a group haul for Korean cosmetics). I mean, I'm really burnt out and I've gotten used to having holidays after exam blocks.
Anyway, I was grumpy for the whole week because we were getting Trial papers back already -_- I wasn't ready for that, considering my last exam was on Monday. Math made me kinda salty because I made a lot of silly mistakes. I passed, but there were too many silly mistakes that it made me more salty than depressed. Of course, there were some questions where it had simple working out but I couldn't figure it out during the exam. And then there were other questions where I couldn't even get one mark for a 3 mark question because of the marking criteria.
As for physics, the quanta section wasn't as bad as I thought. Because I at least put something down I was able to get some marks but it wasn't the best. I am glad that I recounted my multiple choice marks and found out my teacher miscounted so I was able to get one more mark. I'm hoping to scab another mark from the quanta section because when we went through the marking criteria for the question on the different parts of a nuclear power station, I named all the parts (fuel source, moderator, cadmium rods, radiation shield) my I got deducted 1 mark- I don't even know where I lost marks because I said uranium fuel source but my teacher said I needed to say Uranium-235 but he said he'll think about it. As for my overall mark, not the best but my rank isn't too bad. For someone who was last-minute cramming content, coming fourth out of fourteen people wasn't as bad as I thought (considering how I was sixth for a good portion of the year group).
I got Society & Culture back as well. I feel like my teacher was marking us a bit easy because Term 2 was a bit disjointed and we were preoccupied with the PIP. I did better in both Depth Studies than my multiple choice and short answers. And boyyy am I kicking myself with these silly mistakes. I lost marks in areas where I could've gotten full marks. But I really struggled with two short answer questions and I literally bs-ed my answer because I had no clue what to write (still got some marks for it though). I really wanna blame the fact I had 2 exams in one day for this but that's just me being salty. My rank isn't too bad- fourth out of twenty something people so it's not as bad as I thought. I'm just salty that I lost easy marks.
English is a bit unstable. I knew I was gonna fail Mod B. Not as bad as I thought but it's not as high as the marks I usually get in English. My short answers and discovery essay were also not as bad as I thought. I'm salty with short answers because the mark I got was the same mark I got for my practice responses, so it's not like I improved or anything. My discovery essay mark was the same as my half yearly mark so it's not like I have anything to say there. Mod C was surprising because I failed my Mod C task last term but I managed to do well. Considering that I couldn't remember the quotes correctly and remembered a good portion of the quotes, my teacher didn't call me out (not sure if he noticed or not), making Mod C my best essay. I haven't gotten Mod A and creative back and I'm a bit concerned because the teacher gave us general feedback for Mod A and the fact that she's used caps and red font is already concerning. I haven't got creative back but my teacher said a lot of us just regurgitated our creative. Since we finished all our modules, we've kinda been doing Trials reflections and my teacher even set a whole lesson showing us how our internal marks are moderated in comparison to our exam mark and HSC mark so that was interesting.
I still haven't got SOR or any of my history subjects back. Modern is a bit concerning because my teacher told us a lot of the source analysis was done poorly and she gave a lot of 6/10 (and that was her and teachers from other schools being optimistic). She also said a lot of the Germany essays were weak because some people completely agreed with the question even though their arguments were weak and no one argued against the question. She said a lot of people got mixed up between the November Criminals, stab in the back legend and the Treaty of Versailles, and also got annoyed that people didn't write a lot. I mean, I did question b so I'm not sure if she's got problems with responses that did the other question. As for Personality essays, she said our Part A essays were the 'most ludicrous essays she's ever read' (that's a legit quote, I'm not paraphrasing). She said a lot of people didn't address the question. She also said Part B was also done a bit poorly because a lot of people agreed with the question even though there was room to disagree. To be honest, it's a bit difficult to do Leni Riefenstahl because she's a film director, not a politician so it's not like Leni would significantly change the course of history. She hasn't marked Conflict in Europe (and I'm not expecting her to finish over the weekend considering she was going away for the weekend). So yeah, modern is concerning.
With all these Trial papers being given back, I've been doing my scholarship applications. I'm not sure if I'm taking the phrase 'apply for as many scholarships as you can' too literally because I've applied for a bunch of scholarships and the uni isn't even in my Top 5 preferences. At the moment, I've applied for: ANU Tuckwell (unsuccessful), UTS Women in Engineering (still waiting for a response), Macquarie Uni Faculty of Science and Engineering scholarship, UOW Early Entry and WSU True Rewards. I'm currently applying for Macquarie Uni Global Leadership Program, Macquarie Uni Alumni Scholarship, WSU Leadership Program, UNSW Women in Engineering, UNSW Co-op and USyd Equity Scholarship (i.e. Women in Engineering). I need to keep track of these dates since most of them are due in September. I should also scan my application for the Macquarie Uni GLEP since applications close on Monday. I also need to gather all my certificates and scan them for SRS application. At this point, my career adviser has called me a veteran for scholarships lmao. I think I've reached the point where I can copy, paste and edit my previous responses because the questions they ask are similar. I mean, UNSW Co-Op is probably one I actually had to do more writing because they have the most unique set of questions and a larger word limit (I'm bs-ing my response because of the 1000 character limit. I'm not sure how I'm gonna survive the 1250 character limit).
Also, I finally got my formal dress! My mum took me to Parramatta after tutoring today and she was like to me on the train 'If we can't find a dress here then I have no clue what to do.' We actually went to Myers and found a dress in the sale section that was decent enough for me to wear. It's kinda like a high neckline dress with spaghetti straps. The skirt is also kinda high- low, i.e. there's no dramatic difference between the skirt at the front and back but there's a bit of difference in length. And it also has pockets!!! POCKETS!!! I've never encountered a dress with pockets, and this is great because I don't have to buy a clutch. I will never understand why pockets are never an option in women's fashion because holding my phone is really annoying and I use backpacks not handbags (handbags are actually bad for your shoulders because the pressure is only applied to one shoulder whereas backpacks put an equal amount of weight on both shoulders). Anyway, it's a navy dress (my friend forbade me from wearing black because I wore black to my Year 10 formal lol), and I'll probably be wearing my shoes from my Year 10 formal as well. The sad thing is that they didn't have it my size, but thank god Myers has this thing where you can order your size (since my size was available in Myers Sydney CBD) and pay today and they will send the dress to you via Australia post. My dress should be here by Thursday.
As for my friend, well I'm not sure if she's in much luck. The problem with both of us is that we're both under the petite section and as Asians, we have a different body type/frame to the models that wear the dresses. We're both flat front and back (if you know what I mean lol), we're short and we don't like anything tight-fitting, low-cut or even strapless. Except, my friend is a lot more petite than me. I consider myself a "fatter" petite- you know, got a bit of flab but short. But she's tiny, both height and weight. So dresses don't fit her well and a lot of stores aren't petite-friendly (well the dresses she likes aren't petite friendly).
Anyway, with all this formal stuff aside, I should get back to... binge-watching Youtube videos. I was wondering, is anyone going to UNSW Open Day next Saturday?
Well, see you soon!
- Olivia
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