This, plus there are five weeks in the summer holidays. Only taking two weeks out of it is really no problem, especially given how it'll help your Japanese. :D Unintentional study! Plus three weeks is plenty for doing whatever study you'd like.
Very true, and thanks :D I'd been so worried about IPT last year that the stress just burned out, and I wasn't stressed at all before the HSC exam. It was funny. And it's very enjoyable for me to study 4U, too; I procrastinate by doing 4U as well, which is great for 4U but not for my other...
I don't think I'm as stressed as I should be! I am feeling the pressure to keep my first-in-subjects (4U and economics, hurk) though. My mum thinks I'm rundown because I've been ill the last couple of months, which is strange because I've felt fine mentally. I felt much worse last year.
Sort of - in the sense that it's always coming up. My birthday's in -1 days. :) I'm a newly minted 17 year old! I'm one of the babies of my grade, sigh.
Oh dear. That sort of thing always scares me. And I agree, maths for life! :D
As for the offer for past papers from any school, thanks! I'll probably take you up on it later - even though I didn't really do you a favour - and how many people did you have to kill to get that many?!
Oh, I haven't been taught logic gates beyond what they are, and then failed miserably on a logic-gates-question in a university course exam -> instant aversion. ;D I'm sure that if I was taught about it further, I'd like them more. But right now, my marvelling is directed at 4U mathematics and...