Jayeless

Almost one year ago, I wrote a post called Reflections on 2008, summarising the year which had just gone by. According to that post, I did much the same thing at the ends of 2006 and 2007, but I don’t remember writing those posts (does this mean I’m getting old??), so all I have to go by is 2008.

And I guess it would be wrong to pretend that I’m the only one who writes these end-of-year wrap-ups. Seemingly most bloggers do, so I’m hardly unique. However, no other blogger has had the year I have had, so at the very least, the content of the wrap-up has to be unique. Read More »

Today was the all-important day VCE students everywhere have been waiting for… results day! Let’s start with the most important part: the ENTER. My percentile ranking is 97.85, which is fantastic, and more than I was hoping for so yesss! I had a feeling I would get 94, because if I got 95 I’d be eligible for a merit scholarship to my university of choice, and I felt that knowing my luck I’d probably miss out by one point.

But I didn’t. So, unless there were a ton of scholarship applicants, I won’t have to rely on the Commonwealth to pay for my undergraduate degree, and I won’t have to pay them back for it afterwards! But I’ll actually find out whether I got it in February, I think.

With that out of the way, let’s continue with a study score matrix:

If you don’t get what the GA#s or (S)SSs are that’s fine, because I will now narrate this table, by subject (or if you want to skip the narration, you can read the TL;DR version): Read More »

So, I have this friend. He was in my Psychology and Geography classes. In Psychology one day, a few weeks before our all-important year 12 exams, we were talking about how closely related all our subjects were. In particular, I was defending my strategy of studying Revolutions to the exclusion of all the other subjects I do.

“Revolutions relates to everything,” I said. “In English, I can talk about revolutions. In Philosophy, I can talk about revolutions. In Psychology, we’re studying conditioning and that was used in revolutions. See?”

“How about Geography?” he asked.

I thought about it. “No… I don’t think it does relate to Geography.”

“Um, what are you talking about?” he demanded. “MURRAY-DARLING BASIN REVOLUTION.”

I laughed. “Hm, funnily enough, I haven’t heard of that revolution.”

“That’s because it hasn’t happened yet. We have to make it happen.”

“Yes, they need a revolution. Too much unsustainable use of water. They need radical changes to force them to use their resources in a sustainable manner… and to stop growing cotton.”

“Yeah, see? That’s what I’m talking about!” Read More »