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The “You Might be an IB Student If…” List
This is a list about all of the ridiculous things that IB students endure, and are.
- …If you can easily argue both sides of random pointless/complex arguments.
- …If you have more energy drinks than meals in a week
- …If you argue about whether it’s symbolism, a simile, a metaphor, personifying, or something else
- …If You use the word “perpendicular” in everyday conversation
- …If You can answer a random intellectual question within 3 seconds
- …If You can use picoseconds meaningfully in a normal conversation
- …If You understand when somebody uses picoseconds in normal conversation, and respond by telling them that you have nothing with which to measure picoseconds
- …If You (can) randomly recite Shakespeare
- …If You can differentiate between the theme and the topic of a conversation
- …If You blood is 90% caffeine and 8% sugar
- …If You function your best on 3 or less hours of a sleep a night
- …If You complain about the amount of homework you have, but really you’re bragging
- …If All of your convos are random and appear to have no theme, but are actually deeply meaningful and are full of symbolism and philosophy, which you can, of course, point out
- …If You do unnecessary work and/or are an overachiever
- …If You are in more than one cult
- …If You are under extreme peer pressure to make your own cult
- …If Everyone you know has at least one deck of cards with them at any given moment
- …If You are an overachieving procrastinator, and right now you’re wondering if that’s an oxymoron
- …If You can write an essay in one word, and respond to a one-word question with an essay
- …If You can write an essay in ten minutes at 3 in the morning and still get a B on it
- …If You can have 2 facts and BS the rest of said essay and still get an B
- …If Your circle of friends and acquaintances are all in IB/PIB and are in 90% of your classes, including your electives
- …If You can condense 27 pages of heavy reading into 10 minutes and answer all the questions about it
- …If You never study, but you pass every test
- …If More than half your classmates don’t attend their home school
- …If 80% of your class does the optional essays in English
- …If You can correct someone within 3 seconds on any given topic
- …If You have knowledgeable, theological conversations with your friends while waiting for the bus to come
- …If You differentiate between random and spontaneous activities
- …If You’re an “insider” and know what that means
- …If You know the social, economic, philosophical, political and religious reasons behind the American Revolution and can debate them at any given moment
- …If You are dyslexic and can spell it
- …If You can make grammatical corrections in 3 or more languages instantaneously
- …If You willingly take unnessecary academic classes, like calculus
- …If Your electives are academic
- …If You use words like constituent on a regular basis
- …If You have to explain sexual innuendos toy our friends (no, that’s not a typo)
- …If You caught and corrected the above typo before you read the paranthetical
- …If You know what a paranthetical is
- …If You misspell a word, erase it, write the exact misspelling again, erase it, write the misspelling again, erase it, and finally remember how to spell “why”
- …If You can take apart, name and give the meaning of every organ of a given organism
- …If You labeled the above as repetition and began looking for structure and rhyme scheme
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Describes us IB kids perfectly. Some of this applies to all people in the IB, and most of it applies to everyone. Makes me laugh every time I see this. So much the truth.
I totally agree, that’s hilarious because almost all of it applies to everyone. Wow
You might be and IB student if your weapon of choice in a surprise mugging is your Bedford.
You might be an IB student if…. you’re in the IB program. just maybe.
You might be an IB student if you know just a little about just about everything, and you don’t know why.
you might be an IB student if you and your friends discuss the meaning of life over lunch.
You might be an IB student if whenever you think about something you try to answer the six most important questions: Who, What, Where, Why, When, and How.
you might be an IB student if you get 100% on an essay about The Grapes of Wrath by writing two pages about Pizza.
you might be an IB student if you and all of your classmates or friends fit one of these two extreme personalities: a. you spend all of your free time doing homework, studying, or learning something new. you always(much to the resentment of your friends) have everything you have to do done a long time before you need to. or, B. you spend all of your time avoiding your homework, you either read obsessively, play unreasonable amounts of video games, or you watch more television that believed to be humanly possible(but only are extremely un-entertained by it because most of it is extremely stupid and you watch it only to complain about the stupidity of it to your friends). You always do your homework at the very last moment before it’s due.
i just did this:
…if you can use the word “Connotation” meaningfully in everyday conversation that isn’t directly related to English.
…if you are reading this to try to aviod studying for you higher level physics test tomorrow.
…when you foresee yourself saying something three months before a unique occasion, forget about it, and it actually happens(at which point you remember your prediction.)
…when you know what you got on an AP exam before you’ve taken it.
im an ib studen and i’m reading this to try to avoid studying MATHH HL
… when you think things like “pshhh who needs to study for (insert subject)”
…you have ever used the phrase, “Okey Dokey”…in a text message.
…you get mad at your friends for being late because you can’t copy their homework.
…you have ever yelled the phrase, “Rubik’s cube, called it!”
I’m guilty of all three of these.
…When You stay up all night finishing epic poems for history
..if you just finished reading this and are bothered by the amount of grammatical errors it holds.
…if you check the sources of your textbooks.
…if your bookbag is heavier than you are.
…if your idea of romance is sharing calculator programs.
if your ee presentation is tomorrow and you are trying the best you can to avoid proofreading your essay.
if you know every single weapon to fight sleep there is –> slap yourself, coffee ,
guarana and other forms of violence
if your advisor is the b%@$ that made you re-write your ee in one day
if you have way too many CAS hours by now…
if the only words that are lacking from your extensive vocabulary are SOCIAL LIFE
if your mom keeps cursing the guy who created the IB because he is killing her kid
if ur reading this, ur ib.
aha you guys are all correct. and don’t forget the dreaded World Lit essays. i’ve never used the words ‘comparative’ or ‘commentary’ as much as i did in one month, let alone my whole life.
ahh my mum wants to kill the theatre teacher as i have rehearsals all weekend from 7am til 10pm for 8 weeks.
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p.s. Good luck to all who sit the November 2008 exams. i will be with you alllll the way!
But im lucky coz i do VIS. ARTS and THEATRE, which have no exams. YIPPEE!!!
You might be an IB student if you spend your time looking at IB jokes instead of working.
you might be an Ib student if you want to kill your non ib teachers because of their lack of ibness
you might be an ib student if you check out facebook every three seconds to receive updates of you’re IB friends stress crisis the night before a paper due…
and obviously … to avoid doing your homework by inventing fake recesses – lying to yourself-in the periods were you should be studying
i love this! hahaha
you have a non-IB friend or relative who complains “your vocabulary is TOOOO BIGGGG.” you can’t help bursting in laughter about how the remark wasn’t used with proper grammar.
If you get offended when you try and impress and brag to people that you are in IB and they have no idea what it is.
“…If You never study, but you pass every test “
Sorry but thats so not true. If you do that you’re naturally gifted, not necessarily an IB student.
Funny stuff though.
GUYS, we’re SO CLOSE TO THE FINAL EXAMS
i wish good luck to everyone, from asia to latin america!
study hard, and please sleep before the exams
Is it bad that I’m reading this and am half way through my exams?
English HL Paper 1 tomorrow, just finished Math, Physics and Psychology a few days ago.
The IB is way overrated, this years exams are/were incredibly easy, and I have no doubt that I do not at all deserve the mark I’ll get but hey, I’m an IB student …If You never study, but you pass every test.
(By the way I’m amazed how accurate this list is, especially the part about the deck of card LOL).
Good luck everyone.
Oh and I’d like to add:
…If You’re annoyed by the vague questions in your physics textbook. Is it elastic or inelastic damn it!!!
i know! can they make the physics book any more unclear?!?!
this is way too accurate. I’ve had times were I debated about the wording of questions in books or on something stupid. I procrastinate by debating and talking about strange things that most people stare at me strangely for. I can’t go to parties anymore because the last one I went to I engaged in a philosophical debate. And I use connotation more often then necessary. yay IB! My exams are in May. I can’t IM anyone either without spelling out each work with correct grammer. Oh and archotypes…..worst months of my IB life. I couldn’t watch or read anything in peace for at least a month after that week.
“You might be an IB student if you spend your time looking at IB jokes instead of working.”
I’m doing that as I type. lol
You know you’re a prospective IB student if you read this list, and instead of recoiling in horror, think the following year sounds like fun!
u know u’re an ib student when u think colleges actually care about that ur taking ib courses
A father had two twins, the first one he loved and the second he enrolled in IB
Your know your too far into IB when…..
1. You discuss politics and the economy during a Bio lab.
2. On the way home from the IB meeting, you talk about the issues of the country with your dad.
3. 6 hours of sleep is normal.
4. Your excited to do the Math IA.
5. You avoid doing your homework by having intellectual debates.
6. Somehow you can B. S an entire argument about Capitalism and Photography being forms of veiled terroism.
7. Your “parties” end up with discussions on serious matters.
8. You wait to do your homework til 10 pm because you want something to do while you can’t sleep.
9. That 6 hours of sleep per night decreases but its ok somehow……
10. Review sessions become exciting.
11. You get excited when you finally figured out what to do for your History IA.
12. After spanish orals you use the time off to do your homework.
13. You have so much stuff on your jump drive you schedule time to organise it.
14. Your nightmares are about homework
… you know you’re not the only one and comforted by these definitions!
– a guy attempting an ATPL and IB at the same time!!
you’re an IB student if on the 16th of jan u freak out for all the work u still have to do, deadlines to catch up , and more than 100 CAS hours to go!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH arrgh…..
… you can spell “baccalaureate”
… you’ve calculated what grade you need to get on each exam to be able to get the IB diploma 2 years before you take them
… if you’re reading over these and trying to figure out what else there is to add the instead of working.. wait.. *starting*, on your TOK paper that is due tomorrow.
…if you’re bothered by the wording in the comment you’ve just left..
ToK….crap. I need to do that, but at least I’m working on the IA!
You know who is in IB when you can determine the “IB face”
……you start sleeping in really strange places like under a desk in an empty cubicle
…If you read a Robert Louis Stevenson just for fun and start annotating it as you notice the many rhetorical devicesm -I actually did this my 1st year of Pre-IB
…If you notice a spelling error on a standardized test two years after it came out even as 50 teachers failed to notice it after they proofread it before it was released. (This actually happened to an IB junior in Kansas-GO TO:http://www.kansas.com/news/story/697253.html).
…If you think Microsoft Word’s spell check is nowhere near being good enough for you.
you use other homework to procrastinate for the major assessment due the next day
…if you can make a philosophical statement while quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail
…if you are smarter than your pathetic new physics textbook when last years book infinitely better
…if you know what I’m talking about with the idiotic, purple physics textbook!
…if you can multitask 5 things at the same time…writing an essay… creating a power point… reading out of wtv ever book needs to be finished by the next day… browsing facebook… and watching tv
you read this page, and are happy to know there are others out there..
When you spend more time worrying about Assignments then actually doing them.
Kill me now…
IB – Nerdiness is relative.
You know you’re in IB when:
- you correct the typos in your textbook
- when you correct the scribblings of bored people (often found in the margins of said textbook)
- when you debate society’s obvious shortcomings on the bus ride home
- when you use this as a distraction from the germination lab you have due tomorrow
- when you review your textbooks and handouts for subversive political/ethnic biases.
- when you correct your teachers’ spelling/grammar on the board notes
- when you spend half of your time correcting the errors you have made on your homework
AND…
- when you make sure that your post is completely, 100% error-free before you submit it.
(There are five grammatical errors above. Care to find them?)
Sad but true…
It makes me happy to see that other people around the world is suffering as much as me, makes me feel like I\’m not actually as alone as I am thanks to my superior social skills developed by the mighty IB program .
Good luck everyone surviving however many years of IB you still have to slave through.
You know what, you’re in IB when you go to a party (the yearly party!), find and IB 2nd year student and spent 2 hours talking with her about the soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
God, reading this makes me so miserable. I’m only in 10th grade and I already qualify as an IB student. There was a guy in American Studies that said, “You know you’re an IB student when your definition of ‘free-time’ is CAS hours.” That made me laugh because I just know that’s going to be true. Before I continue this, I have one to add:
“You know you’re an IB student when you talk to people with a 5-10 sentence AEA paragraph reponses to simple question and you know the person you talk to is and IB student when (s)he replies in the same fashion.”
Like right now, I’m trying to put this lengthy reply. ARGH! SOMEBODY STOP MEH!
You know your an IB student when you are reflecting on whether eating the chicken salad for lunch was the right choice or whether you should have chosen the tuna salad.
you know your an IB student when you draw out a plan of how you are going to buy everything in a supermarket and are investigating which is the fastest way to do it all.
and this is why I adore being IB.
because I know that there are people everywhere that are just like me and my friends
…if you’re reading this to avoid doing your historical investigation due tomorrow.
When you realise you have some free time tomorrow and say: Yaayyy, I finally get to study for my SATs. (no sarcasm)
When you respond to your friend’s story about her boyfriend writing her a long e-mail of apology with a question: What’s the word count?
When you look at the posts above and think: wtf, 6 hours is some quality night sleep
Wow, Reading this makes me realise that there are many people in IB around the world binded by a single cause..it’s kind of touching really.As well as being hilarious. I love my life in IB, One more year, and Extended Essay, ToK essay, and 74 CAS hours to go!
…If you hear a TI hitting the floor and instinctively cringe