29 Signs You Were An IB Student

1. When people try to compare the IB programme to A-levels or AP classes you feel murderous rage.

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2. Because International Baccalaureate students know stress like no one else does.

3. As a result, you became a bit of a nightmare to live with.

4. Your graphic calculator took over your life.

5. Having to do six subjects, Theory of Knowledge, Extended Essay AND CAS points meant you literally never had enough time on your hands.

6. And this T-shirt became painfully true 

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7. All the deadlines happened at the same time, so it was impossible to juggle them all.

8. The IB programme just LOVED making you write essays.

9. You and word counts ended up having a very tumultuous relationship.

10. The Extended Essay caused you to cry into your keyboard many, many times.

You also had to luck out with the right supervisor. Having your PE teacher supervise your essay on the theme of rebirth in Sylvia Plath’s poetry, wasn’t very helpful.

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11. The art of bullshitting is something every IB student had to excel at.

12. Overall Theory of Knowledge was pretty interesting and philosophical but also very confusing.

This is what it felt like voicing your opinion in TOK:

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13. And this took up a ridiculous amount of your time.

14. You’ve considered bribing your parents/siblings/random lady on the street to do a bit of your work for you.

15. During exam time, your room was filled with piles upon piles of revision notes.

16. You spent 90% of your time making those notes.