You 're an IB student when:
- Five words: "WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?!?!?!?"
- You can spell "Baccalaureate".
- "I.B., therefore I B.S."
- "IB has an honor code?!?!"
- "Friends" and "fellow IBers" are interchangeable.
- You go to bed at 3AM and think, "Oh, it's an early night!"
- Your favorite saying is "If I get a hundred on every test for the rest of the year..."
- Social life? What's that?
- You've fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you're in IB or not.
- You try to wake up fast enough to catch yourself sleeping - and succeed.
- You talk to yourself in the 3rd person.
- You write sentences on multiple choice tests.
- It's okay to fail, so long as you are not alone.
- You frequently catch yourself saying "What?? We had homework??"
- You don't drink, but you find it a convenient way to explain how you dressed yourself in the morning.
Top 10 reasons to be an IB Diploma Candidate
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.
Yeah, probably...
