Post Year 12 exams

Okay...
Well what can I say...
It's over.
 

It's an extremely strange feeling. All those things you wanted to do while you were studying, seem not as exciting. And now all you feel you should be doing, is studying. It's kinda hard to explain. But it's alike being in limbo, torn between two places at once, because the former once took up your entire life.
 

But then there's schoolies. Now that doesn't even seem real. I'm going to Melbourne tomorrow for a few nights (I'm not the partying type, so tourist things) and that hasn't even registered yet, but it should be good to have some independence.

Valedictory didn't seem real either. You can't really comprehend that these people that you've seen almost every day for the past 6 years, are about to stay in the past, and you may never see them again.

I don't know how you're supposed to react to that, no one does, so we're all organising schoolies and get togethers to make sure it doesn't happen, but of course it will. We are being thrown into an entirely new portion of society, whether it be uni, or the workforce, we will be soon apart of a mass of new faces. And after being in the safety of a school, this is strange and a little bit scary.
 

In just 3 weeks, we will find out the results that apparently determine our future.

This is not true.

We find out how we place academically.

How we move towards our future is an entirely different thing altogether.

 

The ATAR is more a springboard. It's an easy way into whatever further education we wish to participate in. But you can still get in there eventually. So don't stress too much about December 14.

All in all, I wish you good luck. You have now completed a major part of our early adulthood lives. You will remember this for your entire life. But also remember that all you can ever do is your hardest. When it gets down to that last half an hour of waiting to go in, you are as prepared as you will ever be.

 So all you can do is your best. Disregard how others go, but of course comfort or applaud them, but this is a test of what you can do, not what they can do.

 

I wish you all the best.

 

- Michelle