But sudokus are awesome!Jessica14 said:dw... i can forsee myself failing english paper 2 tomorrow
i shouldve paid attention in class instead of doing sudoku puzzles
i'd have to disagree. start of your independence? possibly - although i don't see how living at home and having to submit to the whims of your parents AND overzealous teachers in independence.trivedir said:im over it, but its not too bad. the hsc is the just the start of ur working life and independance - not the end..
Hear Hear.Rachael21 said:I'm not over the HSC, I'm over english!! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! Whoever devised the english syllabus and made english compulsory should be shot. Seriously, who cares about the different view points of an imaginative journey? How is that ever going to help anybody in real life? It shouldn't even be called english, it should be called trivial studies. English doesn't even test your abilities in english, it tests your memory and if you have alzheimers, like me, then you're screwed! I haven't learnt one thing about english in highschool. I'm gonna leave school not being able to spell and not knowing what an adjective is but i'll know that Coleridge was a freakin weirdo who enjoyed imagining things...great, I hate you Coleridge.
yeah ofcourse were all over it but think about it theres only wat 2 months unit ITS ALL over
fugg man, fully agree on all your points. my older brother went to uni and did a degree, pretty much just because he got the UAI for it, and he could. now after doing his degree (which he hasn't even really used yet) he's travelling and in a band, etc.. he reckons I'd be so much better off taking a year or so off to save up some money, then travel, find out what I really love in life and come back and do it. a lot of others (including teachers) have told me the exact same thing. I have no fucking idea how to decide on my future at my age (but those ppl who do have massif skillz), and I'd rather make the best of having fun, travelling etc, while I'm still young, than miss half my youth studying a degree I eventually find out I'm not interested in, or not even going to use.campbellleo said:sorry if i'm breaking the thread of the conversation a little here, but for anyone else who is stressing out, and who doesn't have a specific goal (as in, they are applying for university next year, and that is all they want to do), just don't.
i think that almost all of the important, interesting people in the world would do horribly at the HSC, because listening to every banal word that your teachers say and spending your days studying instead of experiencing life has never, ever been a positive character trait.
i don't mean to insult anyone who is working toward a goal - if that is what you want, i salute you. but in all honesty, i am sceptical of anyone who says they know what they want at this age and stage of their life.
if you examine your vague career aspirations, please, take money out of the equation at least. nobody was every happy from having money. i just got back from a holiday to thailand (in the middle of my HSC year! woohoo!) and those dirt-poor kids are happier than any i have ever seen in australia.
and even if you have a fairly good idea of what you want, or you want to keep you options open, remember two things. number one: going straight into uni before you experience at least some part of the world outside of school is NEVER a good thing. number two: this is supposed to be the best part of your life.
the teachers and parents tell you that you have to study and work, so you can be successful in later life. what-the-fuck-ever! from now on, whoever tells you that study got them where they were, take a step back and see if they are even happy where they are. i know half my teachers aren't, and the few who are happy are telling me 'stay the fuck out of university for a while'.
i mean, there is so, so, so much more to life than material success. i find it so ironic we can be studying poets like Coleridge, and being told to memorise, learn that, study this, prepare that, but all the time we are ignoring the biggest joke: we are inside doing this when Coleridge is screaming at us how pointless it is! he is telling us to imagine, to think, to live, not to memorise...
it really is horrible the way the education system is set up. i say, almost anyone who is actually pursuing something real in life would be fairly relaxed about this exams. i mean, they are so arbitrary: they dont measure someone's worth, just their willingness to sacrifice their time for something that is very close to useless. screwed if i want to win THAT category.
phew! rantage. well, i have english paper two trial tomorrow, so i guess i should... study, or something?
interested to hear your views...
none of the things I was interested in when I chose my subjects, I am still interested in. like in year 10 I loved computers, so I chose IPT and SDD, now I fgn hate computers to the extreme..f3nr15 said:i can handle the hsc.
go and appreciate the fact we are free to choose subjects of our choice, with the exception of english, why get stressed about it ?
its not like we are in year 10 where maths, science, history and geography were compulsory compared to now.
why not party and go to uni!!!!... and travel after uniRussdog said:fugg man, fully agree on all your points. my older brother went to uni and did a degree, pretty much just because he got the UAI for it, and he could. now after doing his degree (which he hasn't even really used yet) he's travelling and in a band, etc.. he reckons I'd be so much better off taking a year or so off to save up some money, then travel, find out what I really love in life and come back and do it. a lot of others (including teachers) have told me the exact same thing. I have no fucking idea how to decide on my future at my age (but those ppl who do have massif skillz), and I'd rather make the best of having fun, travelling etc, while I'm still young, than miss half my youth studying a degree I eventually find out I'm not interested in, or not even going to use.
I don't see why people think it's so important to go straight to uni or into a career. what's the difference between being 18 at uni, or making the best of your last teenage years travelling and partying, and going to uni/career at 22?