#ironically that created a sort of paradox of standard Japanese class too easy but extension Japanese v hard

[etlu-yume]

Okay so not really 1 or 2 but somewhere in between.

After ONE TERM (so like idk 10-12 weeks) of year 9 computing, my teacher started pushing "what about year 11/12!?" at Parent/Teacher interviews.

(This wasn't exactly a complete surprise looking back - family background in tech, personal interests in digital art and multimedia, etc etc. Kinda walked into it.)

So somehow - they made it happen. First day of year 10, I had a complicated timetable to make my year 11 subject work. All very PoA Hermione vibes, minus an actual time turner. Walked into that classroom with all the kids from the year above, because of course it was their class. Fair enough.

"Sit on this side of the room if you want to do Software Development and Programming," one of the teachers said. "Or sit on that side of the room if you want to do Information Processes and Technology"

(We had two teachers of course because two classes - lovely husband-wife couple. Both individually awesome teachers, too.)

GUESS WHO'S THE ONLY PERSON SITTING ON THE INFORMATION PROCESSES SIDE OF THE ROOM. YUP. ITS ME.

So for like the first year of the course I'm pretty much the only one in the class - which is fine, it made it really good for one-on-one tutoring. (That thing where I said the teachers were awesome? It also meant that she got the opportunity to share and explain a whole heap of study techniques. Do little funky tests to help determine what colours help me retain information better [yellow, with orange as a secondary], little movement things to do before and after a study session. Which sounds like she was making it easy but like lol no she was also NOTORIOUS for making her exams so difficult that you literally were not meant to finish them in the time allocated. She got both me and the other student that joined us later on to get twitter to make us ask or answer questions with that enforced 120 character limit. She was actually amazing in terms of "here's some things to help you" but equally "I'm going to push your limits".)

Technically still one of my best classes, and all jokes aside I think it actually was something that has so much fundamental use in my everyday life - both personal and professional - that I would without a second thought do it all over again. Stupid 8pt textbook and all.

[we covered all sorts of stuff like databases and html, binary which you had to learn how to calculate manually because they didn't let you take calculators into that exam, and we focused on multimedia in depth for the final year which meant we covered all sorts of stuff like analogue media vs digital media, how things like fibre optics and bandwidth work, the difference of file formats and raster vs vector. There's just SO MUCH that is so applicable to stuff today I'm really sad they didn't run it for my actual year group.]

little joel on youtube got me wondering what the percentage is actually like. please reblog so i can get more responses and thus a more representative data pool for my demographic of "people who use tumblr in 2023"