Top Ten Reasons You Know You've Been in IB Too Long


10) You've memorized the quadratic formula, and of course know how to program it on the TI-83.

9) You pride yourself on your ability to BS your way through any topic a teacher can throw at you.

8) You can actually spell International Baccalaureate without a dictionary.

7) You have complex philosophical, religious, and/or moral debates with your friends during free class time as opposed to having a conversation about what you did over the weekend because of course, this is IB and you weren't supposed to do anything over the weekend worth talking about.

6) You don't do homework all term, but get up 2 hours before you need to the day of a big test to study before school starts, having already studied until 4am and only gotten a sum total of 1 hour, 47 minutes of sleep.

5) For fun, you make up complex math equations for your friends to solve.
a) and they solve them.
b) and then complain that they were too easy.

4) You're excited about hearing a new word such as "existentialism" or "ostentatious" because it's so seldom you hear a word that isn't already incorporated into your extensive vocabulary.

3) You take your physics textbook to the bathroom with you because you're so afraid someone will steal it if you don't.

2) You are obsessed with your graphing calculator and have countless conversations extolling it with your friends.

1) You know, you just KNOW that you can do absolutely anything with your graphing calculator...even take over the world!

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