Dave2007 said:
EE2 is the least work of any course in the entire HSC, including aboriginal studies.
DO IT!!!
Yeeeee ... no. Not quite. I have to disagree with you. But this depends on how your school goes about teaching the subjects. Some schools have very in-depth lessons where the teacher is involved directly in research that's conducted, and where almost everything is done in-school. At the other end of the spectrum, other schools only have EE2 lessons once every week or fortnight, perhaps to explore the medium through the distribution of various examples of whatever medium it is, to check up on Journal entry and progress, etc; in this latter case, most of the work is done independently by students.
So it depends on which way you look at it.
But back to the point.
DO IT. DO IT. DO IT.
Come to the EE2 side. We have cookies.
No, seriously. EE2 has been by far my favourite subject of the ten units that I'm doing (goodbye UAI of 83, but that's another incohesive 5:30 AM rant for another day); it allowed me to express things that I'm passionate about, through a medium that I consider my strengths. And you can get to know people in creepy ways, too - I found out how my classmate ticks by reading her Major Work and finding a flaw in her main character in the way he reacts to bad situations (heh, I feel so evil ...). But that's beside the point ...
EE2's an insightful and fun course. How difficult it turns out to be depends entirely on how difficult you make it for yourself; some people I know attempted post-modernism and tackled the ex-gay movement or chose scarily in-depth, omniscient psychoanalytical viewpoints for their Major Works, and the amount of research they ended up having to do boggled the mind. BOGGLED, I say. But others I know drew a lot from personal experience (myself included), with some research needed, but not nearly as much as others.
The good thing about EE2 is that you have free reign over pretty much everything you do. Just don't go forming a montage of porn-esque sequences or we'll all be worrying.
I jest. But seriously - you have practically limitless creative freedom when it comes to what you do. The only other course that really gives you that is, of course, Visual Arts.
BESIDES! ("Oh shit," they say, "the ramble continues ... let's run while we can!") It's entirely up to you, but balancing Visual Arts and EE2 is very very very very (very very very) possible; the two correlate in many ways, and although the workload may seem really taxing, they are fun subjects. I didn't take VA for the HSC, but my friend did both for hers and she turned out fine. *nods encouragingly*
OH.
But some advice, at this point (as you've indicated great excitement about doing EE2, so let's party, yo.):
DON'T go changing your idea a term before the process ends.
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... that's it.
I've known people who've done that and managed to get through everything, and then others who almost ripped their hair out (or they might've just been moulting excessively ...) from the same decision. SO! *breathes*
That's my two (billion) cents. Best of luck with EE2! And let us know how you're going with it, yes?
