School Progress Introduction

Here is an idea that I have thought about and ultimately decided to go ahead with. Many people may think this is not the most sensible idea I have ever come up with but I think it will work for several reasons.

As friends, family, regular readers and online stalkers will know, I am in year 12 this year and so my final year of school. Ever. It is potentially the most important year of my life and probably the most stressful. As a way of staying focused on achieving high grades this year I have decided that I will post my results for the year in each subject on the blog so the wonderful wide world can see how I’m doing.

There are two reasons I’m going to do this, one is the motivation factor. Anyone who has tried will know that by keeping clear goals and something tey can keep track of the goals with will help achieve those goals and I’m no different. In each subject we get profile sheets which show our marks for each assessment piece and we can see what we get, what we need to get and what our overall marks are. Putting these profiles on the blog I hope will keep them in my mind more clearly. There is also the added pressure of having the entire world know my results, the stakes are higher and I will be more determined to succeed.

The second reason is that even if I fail the year, have breakdowns and the like (hopefully none of which will happen) by putting the tale online it will be accessible for younger students to read and hopefully will serve as advice for future year 12s. I may be getting a little full of myself in that regard, but I know I’d certainly read a blog about surviving senior, in fact I intend to.

The reasons for not doing this that I have considered are that being open to everyone is can be read by future employers. I think the motivation reasoning covers this. Another reason for not doing it is that the school can see it. Well, actually I’ve never mentioned my own name on this blog. Occasionally it comes up in comments, but I’ve never said who I am. I’ve also never specified which high school I go to and I don’t and will not mention teachers by name. Even keeping that aspect anonymous I won’t be saying anything negative about teachers anyway; they are all professional and while some teachers are certainly incompetent, if I have any incompetent teachers, and I’m pretty sure I don’t, then it is not my place to defame them. There is of course the pride factor as well because my classmates will all be able to read it. I don’t mind my classmates knowing my results so much though.

So today was the first day of year 12. Too be honest I’m terrified. Probably not something I should say online, but I am. The workload doesn’t bother me at all, sure it will be hard and stressful but of the 3 periods I had today all 3 teachers said that we’d get stressed and that was normal, we’d have to work hard but we shouldn’t cancel our social lives because while they will need to be capped they are all that will keep us sane this year. I agree absolutely. Not going out every week is fine, not going out all year is stupid and causes breakdowns.
I’m fine with the workload, the people I work with are great and supportive. The reason I’m scared is that it is 10 months of mad assessing and then suddenly graduation and then I’m not going to be in school any more. I like school. Still, I know more adults than I do anyone else and they obviously all survived it so I’m not too seriously worried. I guess it is a bit like worrying you’ll die if bitten by an ant.

So those are my feelings about my final year after a day and my intentions for keeping the world informed.

On a non-school related front, I have in the past day discovered that my reader base is about 7 times larger than I thought it was and places all over the web that are completely unrelated to me are directing to me. As such I’m going to try and talk about things that people care about more often. In particular my Hottest 100 post which was viewed over 100 times in 2 weeks. Thanks Google!

Everyone have a good night!