I’m bored.. + some random thoughts

awhh i'm so sorry the chat didn't go as you expected, hugs to you 💙 @Blackcloud

totally get how uncomfy it is when there's lots of silence. was this chat through text or call?

is there something nice you can do for yourself? sometimes i find that doing some self-care or giving myself a lil treat for surviving awkward/uncomfy encounters makes me feel better.

@rav3n @It was through the chat messaging function that the service’s website has.

I’m just resting right now pretty much. I was thinking of working on my assignment but idk if I’m able to do it before the end of today since with art history yesterday I’m like lowkey dreading on this essay that we need to be writing, so. But it’s not due until like the 13th of May so that’s a month away. But idk how I’m gonna go about it in the next couple of days and weeks..

I know that with the psychology degree, you guys have like essays/reports as part of assessments right? So I guess that doesn’t make it that much of a difference looool 😅🥲

@Blackcloud ahh yep, i see what you mean. i've had awkward text-based chats before too, i was so sweaty after it 😅

hope the resting recharges your energy-battery. would you be able to get an extension for assignment? it's good that you've got another month for that essay, i reckon you can do it!!

yeah haha we had to do essays and practical reports too. essays are bit tricky cos you gotta come up with your own arguments n stuff, but i found that the practical reports had a specific structure so as long as i followed it, i could pass.

@rav3n @yeah I could apply for an extension for that. I have an upcoming appointment with the uni’s accessibility services to obtain a plan for next Tuesday, so I hope I can use the plan to apply for an extension when I can. Yeah, hopefully I’ll be able to do it too before the due date or something. 🤞 just like how I was able to with the image analysis assessment.

also, with bachelor courses (well, higher education courses overall duh😅), the minimum mark/percentage for you to pass every assessment is 50% right? Since anywhere lower than 50% is a fail for all higher education courses across all unis if I’m correct.. 🤔

I love that you are doing art history. I love visual arts as well as music and literature.

@Appleblossom geez that sounds like a really crazy and traumatising experience!! even though it probably didn't seem bad to a greater extent, but its still as scary and traumatising as I imagine it'd be!!

with travelling overseas, I was thinking about like permanently migrating to another country where their legal system is the best/more strict that's the complete opposite to our legal system here in australia. but yet my mum keeps convincing me that australia is the best country here to live (with one of them mainly being because we have centrelink, like i get it i get it but you gotta think about the bad stuff you'd have to encounter on here too with the amount of junkies and people that commit such crimes here and the way police deals with them). singapore is one of them that comes to mind, though the only downside of that is that its only very hot in there lol - they dont have the 4 seasons thing that we have here. and i hate hot weather🤣

unfortunately, art history is the unit that's part of the fine/visual arts degree that we all have to take haha. 😅 i'm still waiting for the results of my image analysis assessment that I've submitted last Friday, hopefully I can get around at least like...50-60-ish % for it.

Just do your due diligence @Blackcloud when I study, I usually have had lots of other responsibilities so I just get the work in even if it is only average.

Regarding the things I have dealt with in my life, I tend to downplay things, cos otherwise I would probably get more upset.

Fear of what may happen can be paralysing. You are pretty thorough, you will work it out.... sometimes the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence.... Take your time

@Appleblossom i really appreciate the chats we're having tonight, your advice and words means a lot, so thank you. ❤️🫂

it's good that you're able to cope with rough situations well despite the fact that it happened, i admire and appreciate your strength! 💪🏼

About to have dinner now, and I know its gonna be a delicious one from the smell of it! 😋 its one of those meals that I ordered from a meal delivery service called YouFoodz (if youve heard of them) though, but I am considering on switching to a different service since I've found that a lot of the meals from YouFoodz are high in sodium (oof!🤧) so theres that haha!

perfect that you have that upcoming appt! @Blackcloud fingers crossed it all works out!!

yes you're right, it was 50% to pass. but depending on the course and subject, there was different rules. for example, one of my subjects - you need a minimum 50% in all assignments and attendance to pass the subject. but in another one of my subjects, you could fail an assignment but still pass the unit if you got a 50% overall (e.g. if you got 40% (fail) for assignment 1, 70% for assignment 2 and 50% for assignment 3, you still passed the unit).

so it depends on the subject rules. and some institutions also offer opportunities to gain marks back if you fail an assignment.

do you reckon getting 50% will be doable?

@rav3n ohhhh I see. yeah in art history we have to get at least 50% for every single of our assessments, I'm not sure about the other unit as the lecturer didn't mention anything about it, but nonetheless I can still hope that I can get at least a 50% at the minimum 🙂

I think around the 50% range would be doable especially for the difficult assignments/assessments, since that's the percentage I usually got for every single of my essays in English back in high school.