Greetings Year 12 Legal punters.
I read this article a few weeks ago and thought that I would pass it on to you. It is from the Head of the Univeristy of Sydney regarding the HSC.
A reminder there is life beyond the HSC
In case you do not wish to read it I will paraphrase a few things for you.
The first and most important for all you is that the HSC is super hard work and requires a marathon effort not an all nighter brought to you by a special energy drink.
Secondly the HSC is not the only path to get where you want to go, it is one method of gaining employable credentials or going to univeristy. It is defintely not the only way.
From a personal perspective I was a little directionless in my HSC (only a couple of years ago) so when I finished I decided to do a Business degree. I missed out on getting into UTS Business by 0.5 of the ATAR equivalent. Bugger.
My ATAR got me into uni, I then started a Social Science course at UTS and in the second semester I did three Business subjects which I received Distinctions and High Distinctions for and I promptly applied for an internal transfer. Mission successful.
Or so I thought. The facts are that the six months of univeristy studying politics, Sociology, Philosophy and Australian Constituional law exposed me an incredible world of ideas and people who I had not met whilst at school. Here I was a 17 year old from the northern beaches who thought that arguing with my parents about why I had been sent off from the football field knew how the world worked. All of a sudden I was in tutorials with a mixture of ages, sexual preferences and life experience I could only read about. It was this 6 months that provided the backbone for me later to become a public school teacher with the aim of involving myself in my local community of Sydney and contributing to the lives of young people.
The underlying messages- your intended path will not always be the destination and many unexpected paths may surface which all require hard work, being open to new opportunities and a little magic sparkle here and there in order to reach the end of that path.
Enjoy your journey Year 12.
