Undermyskin said:
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Well, at least I do how much stressful this year is going to be or is already. Having said that these people are 'normal' students with superb talent, I bet they spend less time complaining about their results and their 'silly' mistakes but studying ahead and looking up. Yeah, can't tell how much I agree with you, just by looking at my experiences of having some ordinary assessment tasks.
Er... I had a 18th birthday already and well I didn't do anything special, just got a few messages from my friends and that was it. I wasn't bothered actually. It's just a number: 18. I do care when I cease being a teenager instead.
Have you actually put our head to HSC for the whole 12 years? Hell, no. Actually you just really worked you heart out in the last 2 years or less. I doubt you studied like hell in year 10 backwards.
In 15 years...most won't care but some will. I always attempt to withdraw some info about my teachers' UAI but they never leak a digit. People still tend to enjoy talking about themselves with pride of getting fabulous UAI, right? In a short fortune, everyone cares!
Those 100ers, in my class we only had a 99.90er and I can assure you that she was quite normal, and she did make silly mistakes and occasionally she slipped and did badly on assessment. Sure she was smart, but I can name people smarter then her. She just worked incredibly hard.
People still tend to enjoy talking about themselves with pride of getting fabulous UAI
You couldn't be further from the truth, sure the people who do fabulously are proud, but 99% of the time they don't go around advertising their UAI. That's what you call arrogance. Furthermore you talk to uni people and they couldn't give a shit... in fact its considered a bit rude to ask someone's UAI, let alone talk about how "awesome" you are.
Our dux got 99.9, and she was happy alright, but I talked to her and she honestly said she was just happy that she finished it before quickly changing the subject.
Study by all means, its important, but its no where near a big thing as you're trying to make it out to be.