Rubenerd Blog

This post was originally published on Rubenerd.com, my second attempt at a weblog. It was fairly short lived because I had just got my first job in the gap between high school and university, and I had very little time. Forth time’s the charm right? ;).

My second blog entry, and I have to talk about school. Hopefully for the last time.

“The moment I had been dreading for nearly 6 years has finally arrived.”

- Jean-Luc Picard: Star Trek First Contact
Copyright © 1996 Paramount Pictures

Yes, today I got my year 12 HSC results. You could check your results on the internet as of the 17th of December, but I was honestly had little desire to check them. I don’t know whether it was because I was scared of what I might have seen or maybe I was just not in the mood… you know how school stuff goes. Anyway I got 2 letters in the mail (letters in the mail? who would have known), one from the Board of Studies, one from the University Applications Centre or whatever UAC stands for.

Heh heh, what a crappy logo!

Opening those letters was really scary: I still find it really sad that they can sum up all your secondary education into a 4 digit number.

How did I go? Um, well a bit better than I thought. What was really cool though, the day I got the results in the mail I got a call from the nanster down in Sydney to say I was in the Sydney Morning Herald for honours in IT… I’m not sure whether she meant ‘IPT’ but in any case that was cool! I ran to my main computer and attempted to find the article on the SMH online site thing but it wasn’t there :(. My grandad down near Foster Tuncurry (Mr Burns voice: eeeexcelent!) saved a copy of the paper, I might take a look at it when I do my Australia trip. Cool stuff!

Well anyway here were my results, in all their glory. I did miserably in english, I thought the stuff I had written in the exam was some of the best work I’ve ever done. I guess things like English ARE subjective, not like maths or chemistry. They do say that 2 people mark the English papers to to be as objective as possible… err, well let’s just say I’m still sceptical. Grrr.

And I still defy the convention that if you’re good at maths you are good at IT and vica versa! It’s weird, if I have an algebra problem my mind turns to mush, but give me a computer programming problem that involves sorting and calcualtions and its no problem. Mystery of the universe.

Because of my mum’s cancer condition, SATAC (South Australian Tertiary… er, Thing) has given me a bit of assistance with regard to my university applications because they see my performace might have been compromised, which is good. The Board of Studies in NSW saw my mum’s condition as ongoing so they didn’t give me any special consideration in the final exams… bastards. Sorry, but that just really angered me. Life ain’t fair, welcome to the real world!

Well I’m glad I got that out. Hope if you did the HSC too that your results were good :). See you later.