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
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.
#2 by eilatan Apr 17, 2007
I totally agree, that's hilarious because almost all of it applies to everyone. Wow
#3 by Ellen Apr 17, 2007
You might be and IB student if your weapon of choice in a surprise mugging is your Bedford.
#4 by Kamita Apr 21, 2007
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.
#5 by Kamita Apr 27, 2007
i just did this:
...if you can use the word "Connotation" meaningfully in everyday conversation that isn't directly related to English.
#6 by Evan May 4, 2007
...if you are reading this to try to aviod studying for you higher level physics test tomorrow.
#7 by Kamita May 11, 2007
...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.
#8 by chof May 17, 2007
im an ib studen and i'm reading this to try to avoid studying MATHH HL
#9 by Kamita May 21, 2007
... when you think things like "pshhh who needs to study for (insert subject)"
#10 by Trettzy Sep 24, 2007
...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.
#11 by Princess Nov 16, 2007
...When You stay up all night finishing epic poems for history
#12 by yo, pops. Jan 30, 2008
..if you just finished reading this and are bothered by the amount of grammatical errors it holds.
#13 by q the dude Mar 21, 2008
...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.
#14 by moi Apr 27, 2008
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
#15 by bob May 17, 2008
if ur reading this, ur ib.
#16 by QACI Senior 08 May 20, 2008
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!!!
#17 by Jo Aug 6, 2008
You might be an IB student if you spend your time looking at IB jokes instead of working.
#18 by lala Aug 26, 2008
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
#19 by julia Sep 17, 2008
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.
#20 by Lindsey Oct 26, 2008
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.
#21 by NotYetASenior Oct 30, 2008
"...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.
#22 by lala Oct 30, 2008
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
#23 by Nas Nov 11, 2008
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.
#24 by Nas Nov 11, 2008
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!!!
#25 by Livy :) Nov 20, 2008
i know! can they make the physics book any more unclear?!?!
#26 by Ame Dec 8, 2008
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.
#27 by Ame Dec 8, 2008
"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
#28 by Aniela Dec 15, 2008
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!
#29 by anonymous Dec 15, 2008
u know u're an ib student when u think colleges actually care about that ur taking ib courses
#30 by Nikola Dec 16, 2008
A father had two twins, the first one he loved and the second he enrolled in IB
#31 by Ame Dec 20, 2008
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
#32 by Miguel Grilo Jan 7, 2009
... you know you're not the only one and comforted by these definitions!
- a guy attempting an ATPL and IB at the same time!!
