u/starry_sage_

on the switch

y'all friend me

My friend code is: SW-2644-9138-5502

comment ur display name I'd u do so Ik who u r

https://preview.redd.it/j1wx40o9969h1.png?width=1036&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8e066c28dae19557c368814fec6bfbe31d1d02c

Use these tools to help:

• https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/administration/school-administration/performance-senior-secondary/2025-grade-distributions-vce-graded-assessments - 2025 grades (or any previous year)
• https://vce.atarcalc.com/ (once you calculate rough study scores, you can calculate your atar predicted using this)
• https://www.monash.edu/study/atar-calculator/seas-calculator (if SEAS is applicable to you)

*Disclaimer: no calculations will be 100% accurate, but it should give you a general idea on how you are going + it's kinda fun to do when you have time.

Also I'm a general maths student, feel free to correct me if you better at math kids can come up with a better way LOL

As a trans dude I can confirm I was never a girl, I was only faking. Therefore girls aren’t real, trust me, I have inside information regarding this very specific topic. AMA

The most goated posts ever made in this sub live here forever:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sagesbasement/comments/1uchaa2/sage_gender_reveal_cake/ - u/ConfusedCoIlegeSimp congrats you absolute legend for being the first user to get a post in the hall of fame (HOF)

https://www.reddit.com/r/sagesbasement/comments/1ucgqts/my_whole_life_is_a_joke_3/ - u/starry_sage_ most upvoted in r/sagesbasement (SB)

I have trouble communicating my needs, but when I get upset I physically can't talk or I'll just cry. Since early schooling I have been using communication cards to explain my needs when this happens, but they're bulky and annoying to carry around.

I was wondering if I could instead use an AAC app on my phone now that I'm older. But I worry that it's misappropriation or something as I'm not a non-verbal autistic, and am usually highly articulate when I'm not mute.

I wanted to get people from my own community's opinion on this, because I feel like it might help but I'm scared too scared to make the switch...

Any advice for which app to use/ why/why not this would be okay??

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Thursday last week my friend ran away from home shortly after receiving a grade on her unit 3 topic in general maths — 23%

She went to a private school who was trying to get her to move schools or switch to VM. Her parents were also pretty mad about the grade.

She had been texting me her worries about VCE after the start of this year (we are both in year 11, she accelerated in this subject). I should have taken her more seriously every time she texted “I’m gonna kms“ after a SAC, but I thought nothing of it because literally everyone at my school says that. I’d reply with a “nooo” or an emoji trying to empathise with her as we are all struggling with the stress of VCE.

On Friday she was found in a park over an hour and a half away from our area, dead. Overdosed. A friend who I had went to kindergarten with gone, because the system lets people like her slip through the cracks. Gone because I was an idiot blinded by VCAA and it’s unrealistic standards for “healthy study habits“.

This shouldn’t have happened, she tried to get help from school psychologists. People should have noticed, but she blended in with the rest of us struggling in the two year fog of VCE. The type of fog that blinds you so you can’t see a clear path forward to your future. The kind of black smog that surrounds you, suffocating you, silencing you and your voice.

VCE is stressful, I know that… The system is fucked up and the fuckers at VCAA only see you as your student number or ATAR you receive after all the suffering is done. Something needs to change.

Go check on your friends. Life continues after highschool, I promise.