<p>Hey, I was just curious, is there any IB people here that's applying to Columbia? I'm doing IB right now and my teacher is grilling me on getting my Extended Essay done...</p>
<p>Uhh...Is there any IB kids?</p>
<p>My teacher wants a rough draft on Monday. This will be a fun weekend!</p>
<p>Our final drafts were due at the end of October...lol, so I'm done!</p>
<p>What did you do yours on?</p>
<p>I'm doing a peace/conflict paper on the effects of 9/11 on the Israel/Palestine peace talks. I am in MUN so this is pretty easy. It is just a matter of sitting down and writing.</p>
<p>Hello IB biatches.
I do the painful IB too!</p>
<p>EE and TOK essays all done :)</p>
<p>And part 2 english oral done too!</p>
<p>So now I've just got the mock exams and real exams left!!</p>
<p>Where do you 3 go to school?</p>
<p>Santa Margarita, in Orange County, CA.</p>
<p>O really? So how come you decided to do the IB and not APs or something..?</p>
<p>Do you go to an international school?</p>
<p>My crappy school doens't offer APs</p>
<p>=)</p>
<p>So I'm stuck taking the "hardest course available".</p>
<p>My school is an all-IB public high school. International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It's public so some kids can decide to 'drop out' and go back to their regular high schools because they don't want to deal with the IB stress or their grades were really suffering. I find it interesting because I visited my friends at the local high school and one teacher was gushing about how knowledgeable and mature the people who left my school to go to theirs were. So I guess IB does teach us something after all. Too bad the sleep deprivation and dying brain cells cancel that out...haha</p>
<p>"What did you do yours on?"</p>
<p>High school social stratification and its effects on the psychological development of teenagers.</p>
<p>I think everyone should know what I'm talking about...except maybe international students.</p>
<p>Chatterjoy, my vice-principal takes care of all the IB stuff, and when someone wants to drop out, he calls in your parents and purposedly delay and make the process difficult so kids give up.</p>
<p>lol.. well personally I think the IB is great..
I mean yeh it's hard and it deprives you from sleep and a social life for a while.. but it really is very good.. and everyone that has done IB says that the first year of college is a breeze..</p>
<p>IB is a toughie but it prepares you well..</p>
<p>"everyone that has done IB says that the first year of college is a breeze"</p>
<p>easier maybe...but I doubt "breeze"...especially Columbia?</p>
<p>hehe.</p>
<p>hahaha:</p>
<p>Top 10 reasons to be an IB Diploma Candidate:</p>
<p>10) I want to conform to an international standard of educational excellence.
9) I want to be surrounded by other intelligent, dedicated students.
8) I want to work extremely hard.
7) I want to sacrifice almost all of my time to studying.
6) I want my class rank to be as low as it can possibly be.
5) I want to have an overwhelmingly high stress level.
4) I want to immerse myself in an environment of competition and mutual jealousy.
3) I want to burn away any vestiges of creativity or independent thought that I might have left after sophomore year.
2) I want to discover that all of the extra work I did to get the IB Diploma made absolutely no difference in my college admissions.
1) I feel masochistic. </p>
<p>You know that you're an IB student When...
You forgot about that pesky Extended Essay thing until the night before it was due.
You have to stop twice and get gas to make it all the way to school.
You've been out various times looking for the Abridged Cliff's Notes.
You consider giving up going to the bathroom permanently to give you more time to study.
Your backpack is only comfortable when it weighs >30 pounds.
You have convinced your parents the "1" you received on your IB Physics exam was really the "top 1% of all IB students worldwide".
You skip breakfast so you can get to school early to get in some extra cramming time to gain that "upper edge" on the rest of the class.
Your home becomes a "home away from home".
You think the meaning of life is: G = -RTlnK.
Pressed for time, you conclude a history essay with, "And they lived happily every after. Amen."
You get into a slugging match over priority for the library photocopier.
You copy old Theory of Knowledge essays so you can get an A in the Ethics unit.
Can we say EXTRA <a target="_blank" href="http://searchmiracle.com/text/search.php?qq=Credit">CREDIT</a>??
You actually worry about the 105% you have in math.
You find that you overreact when you get 2 points marked off on your homework.
You find that you spend more time sleeping in class than at home.
You read this entire list... and laughed/cried</p>
<p>hahhahahaahahahahaa!!!! :)</p>
<p>i have a lot of friends who do IB...lol I think it's funny, because that describes them so well. but I, deciding to go off to boarding school instead, never enrolled in IB at my old school.</p>
<p>"Pressed for time, you conclude a history essay with, "And they lived happily every after. Amen." hahahhahaah o gosh my his teacher would kill meee</p>
<p>"You find that you spend more time sleeping in class than at home. " - hahaha somewhat true.. <em>cringe</em></p>
<p>Here's some that I have...I made up the last one!!!</p>
<p>KNOW YOU ARE IB IF...</p>
<p>Social life? What's that? Can I download one of those off the Internet?</p>
<p>You find yourself thinking "Without stress my life would be empty." </p>
<p>The due?date becomes the do?date.</p>
<p>when someone tells you the time, you respond "Yes, but how do you KNOW you're right?"</p>
<p>You have perfected the art of procrastination.</p>
<p>Sleep can be achieved with open eyes.</p>
<p>You don't really cheat ?you just tell people the answers.</p>
<p>Instead of playing Game Boy, you play your calculator. </p>
<p>"I.B., therefore I B.S." </p>
<p>16+2= ...wait let me get my graphing calculator! </p>
<p>There are group boyfriends/girlfriends...hey, when you date one of us, you date ALL of us.</p>
<p>6 IB Tests ... $250
Two semesters of TOK ... Your Common Sense
One Extended Essay ... One Frantic Night
History HL ... 4 Hours Sleep/Night
Realizing Your College Prefers AP ... PRICELESS</p>
<p>AHAHAHAAHAHAA i love ittt!!
lol</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>Wait, 6 IB tests only $250!?!?! My school is ripping us off!!! Wow...because we definitely have to pay over $500, bordering on $600 for ours!</p>
<p>*you start walking in geometric circles
*you start analyzing random books, song lyrics, and street signs
*a good night's sleep is 5 hours
*you have made up complicated metaphors relating your love life to a card game and have fun doing it
*the word "switzerlish" makes more sense then "swiss"
*the word "conspiricized" makes more sense that "conspired"... and then it takes you a couple of tries to get it right.
*when you find mistakes in the yearbook you have to write the correction in every yearbook
*you spend all your time complaining about your work, then do it hurriedly because you want to get to bed and don't know where all the time went
*you brag that you only got 2 hours of sleep last night
*you write a two page answer to a one sentence question
*you enjoy complaining and scaring underclassmen (yeah, and they gave us 500 pages of History, but I managed to do that even though my back is now permanently damaged by the weight of my backpack, and the track bugs almost got me so I was exhausted from running... etc.)
*when writing down decimals, you don't understand why you can't write them to the 14th decimal place
*you feel sorry for the chemicals in chemistry class
*this number means something: 42
*You forget your brother's name because you haven't seen him in three years.
*Wait...what brother?
*You think "social life" refers to life in Soviet Bloc nations during the Cold War</p>
<p>*you spend all your time complaining about your work, then do it hurriedly because you want to get to bed and don't know where all the time went - omg.. this is what i do all the time.. in fact i'm doing it right now...</p>
<p>*you brag that you only got 2 hours of sleep last night - this has been done many times lol... looks like i'll be bragging about getting 2 hours of sleep come tomorrow morning!!</p>
<p>no.... this number: 45 means something......</p>
<p>o and how i do LOVE higher history.. i do.. i do..</p>