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[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

55 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

Yeah...we have ATAR, which is your percentage of how smart you are compared with others in your state. There's one other abbreviation that people care about, that begins with a W and I can't remember the exact lettering of, but that's about it. (Basically its a percentile system)

And I have mixed feelings when it comes to ATAR (I think its kinda stupid...can be a good thing or a bad thing)

Aye @Delightfully Smoak That is quite annoying.

Edited May 11, 2017 by Darkness Ascendant

[Delightful]

3 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

And I have mixed feelings when it comes to ATAR (I think its kinda stupid...can be a good thing or a bad thing)

Aye @Delightfully Smoak That is quite annoying.

It does level the field between the HSC, VCE etc. I personally don't like how ending school and uni entrance are all tied up in this huge pressure-fest. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

5 minutes ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

It does level the field between the HSC, VCE etc. I personally don't like how ending school and uni entrance are all tied up in this huge pressure-fest. 

Ehh, sort of I guess.

Ergh yeas. 

[StrikerEZ he/him]

6 hours ago, Silverblade5 said:

Same. I think I'll be fine on the DBQ, I'm mostly worried about the LEQ, especially if it's a CCOT or Perodization.

Me too. The LEQs are the hardest.

[A Budgie she/her]

1 hour ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

Yup. meanwhile its actually statistically impossible for more than a handful of people to get that high.

 

Yeah, but in my school it's kinda expected for everyone to get a really high percentage- for us, seventy to eighty percent would be counted as dissapointing.
My school has really high standards, and it's stressful.

[Delightful]

3 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

Yeah, but in my school it's kinda expected for everyone to get a really high percentage- for us, seventy to eighty percent would be counted as dissapointing.
My school has really high standards, and it's stressful.

My school had really high standards, and then screwed around with us over and over again to the point that we were like okay...suuuuree......we'll get those 99's......reeaaallyyy.....

A couple people did get 95's I think in particular subjects, people didn't really share their ATAR's though.

[A Budgie she/her]

5 minutes ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

My school had really high standards, and then screwed around with us over and over again to the point that we were like okay...suuuuree......we'll get those 99's......reeaaallyyy.....

A couple people did get 95's I think in particular subjects, people didn't really share their ATAR's though.

Oh, we're an acedemic school, so we do have quite a few people each year who do really well and get high ATARs and exhibition awards.

[Claincy he/him]

22 hours ago, Mestiv said:

That sucks, no Stormlight healing for you then

I hope you'll get better dreams soon!

Thanks

I'm not sick in every dream fortunately, and some of them are cool all the same. (Was wielding some simple magic for a bit a couple of nights ago which was fun.)

_______________

My school also had really high ATAR standards. We had this whole accelerated program thing that involved doing years 7-10 in 3 years and then taking 3 years for the VCE, which attracted a lot of intelligent students and also made it easier to do well. They put so much emphasis on how critical a good ATAR is, then a couple of months later once the uni entrance process is done it probably won't ever really matter again.

[Jondesu he/him]

Guess who got to wake up at 6AM to get a new IV inserted? And blood drawn? And a lumbar puncture ("spinal tap") scheduled this afternoon?

[Silverblade5 he/him]

43 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

Guess who got to wake up at 6AM to get a new IV inserted? And blood drawn? And a lumbar puncture ("spinal tap") scheduled this afternoon?

... Trump?

[A Budgie she/her]

58 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

Guess who got to wake up at 6AM to get a new IV inserted? And blood drawn? And a lumbar puncture ("spinal tap") scheduled this afternoon?

*hug* I hope everything goes well.

[Jondesu he/him]

40 minutes ago, Silverblade5 said:

... Trump?

That'd be preferable.

[Delightful]

25 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

That'd be preferable.

But they'll make you all better!

*hugs*

[Jondesu he/him]

53 minutes ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

But they'll make you all better!

*hugs*

Even they don't try to promise that. It's all just hope and trial and error. I'm not holding my breath. Less likely to be let down again that way.

[Delightful]

38 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

Even they don't try to promise that. It's all just hope and trial and error. I'm not holding my breath. Less likely to be let down again that way.

In that case  *more hugs and wine, chocolate, ice-cream, warm-fuzzy of your choice*

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Does anyone else ever get negative thoughts that don't really cause negative emotions? 

For example, while browsing fandom memes, I've come across several about how "What if we're all characters in a book, and when you forget what you were about to say, that was the author backspacing?" One of my first thoughts was, "If that's true, I'm probably nobody's favorite character." 

And I didn't feel anything…bad, I guess? Just a sense of "Yeah, that's probably true, back to browsing." 

Meh. I don't know. 

[A Budgie she/her]

8 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Does anyone else ever get negative thoughts that don't really cause negative emotions? 

For example, while browsing fandom memes, I've come across several about how "What if we're all characters in a book, and when you forget what you were about to say, that was the author backspacing?" One of my first thoughts was, "If that's true, I'm probably nobody's favorite character." 

And I didn't feel anything…bad, I guess? Just a sense of "Yeah, that's probably true, back to browsing." 

Meh. I don't know. 

For that comment: *hug*
But as for a reply...sometimes I do that a little, but usually when I think about stuff like that I get really emotional about it...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

2 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

For that comment: *hug*
But as for a reply...sometimes I do that a little, but usually when I think about stuff like that I get really emotional about it...

*hugs back* 

If I'd thought of it just two or three years ago, it probably would've made me really emotional, but now? I just think, "Oh, yeah, that's probably true, and here's why." I'm not sure what to make of that.

[A Budgie she/her]

30 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

*hugs back* 

If I'd thought of it just two or three years ago, it probably would've made me really emotional, but now? I just think, "Oh, yeah, that's probably true, and here's why." I'm not sure what to make of that.

You're...used to your mindset, I suppose? You've sorta accepted this idea of yourself as fact, whether or not it's true, because you're biased to be down on yourself.
Just a thought, I may be totally wrong.
But you're a good budgie. I'm sure that if this is all a story, there's people who have realised about you and, if you're not in the main part of the story, are disapointed you don't get much time in the limelight. 
Actually, I really don't know, because if this is all a story the story could literally be about anyone, anywhere.

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

8 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

You're...used to your mindset, I suppose? You've sorta accepted this idea of yourself as fact, whether or not it's true, because you're biased to be down on yourself.
Just a thought, I may be totally wrong.
But you're a good budgie. I'm sure that if this is all a story, there's people who have realised about you and, if you're not in the main part of the story, are disapointed you don't get much time in the limelight. 
Actually, I really don't know, because if this is all a story the story could literally be about anyone, anywhere.

What if this story is Cosmere style and a couple million authors are writing everyone's story and interconnecting them to make a gigantic series that no human could ever read all the way through?

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

I feel myself pushing everyone away.

You all included...
I can barely bring myself to say these words...

I just want to fade away

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

2 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

I feel myself pushing everyone away.

You all included...
I can barely bring myself to say these words...

I just want to fade away

I am concerned. *hug*

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

4 minutes ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

I am concerned. *hug*

I am grateful for your concern :1 *hugs back

I just...I can't bring myself to post here anymore...just not bothered/motivated...I'll type something up, then delete it..I'll forget what I'm doing half the time.

Idk perhaps I don't see the point in talking to you all *shrugs

eh...

Edited May 13, 2017 by Darkness Ascendant

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

10 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

I am grateful for your concern :1 *hugs back

I just...I can't bring myself to post here anymore...just not bothered/motivated...I'll type something up, then delete it..I'll forget what I'm doing half the time.

Idk perhaps I don't see the point in talking to you all *shrugs

eh...

Well, I hope you find a purpose to occupy yourself. You don't have to get on the Shard, we won't make you, but know that we care about you here.

[A Budgie she/her]

8 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

I feel myself pushing everyone away.

You all included...
I can barely bring myself to say these words...

I just want to fade away

*all of the hugs*
Just remember we care about you, right? Even if you don't post.