Merry Christmas!

Hey guys,

Hope y'all are enjoying having a few weeks to not think about school - I know I am. I have so much free time I was able to take almost 6 hours today to make
a Bûche de Noël.

Isn't it pretty?

But in more important news as of Christmas Eve there are exactly 150 days until we're done. WOOHH!!!!!!! Well, unless you're Stu, Morgan, or Jen in which case it's even sooner.

I'm not really sure what this post was about, but yeah, Merry Christmas!

Spiders!

 

Spiders on drugs for the first 50 seconds, but then its lolololols for the rest...  so funny! :D

for the chem students (:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/07/26/funny-pictures-chemistry-cat-science-puns/

IB Fortress

We need our own fortress. Inside the school, preferably. A series of procrastination and bullshitting tasks must be completed before entering the fortress – kind of like in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone when, in order to get to the stone, one had to complete a series of tasks laid out by the Professors. Our fortress will be accessible only to those with IB-vision. Similar to X-RAY vision, IB-vision allows one to see through the BS of others while simultaneously protecting oneself with a shield of procrastination, protecting the IB student from any harmful homework, assignments, tests, essays, IAs, and exams until the night before said work is due. Our fortress will be magnificent – a wonderful place to go and actually get some work done and/or nap when class, as usual, becomes entirely useless. The fortress can even have invisible horse guards at the secret entrance to please those of us who like horses better than people. Also inside will be a smoothie bar, because smoothies are awesome. We will also have a water gun defence system to squirt any trespassers who are getting to close to our fortress’s walls. The fortress will also contain an endless supply of sour gummy worms and Black Blood of the Earth to keep our sugar and/or caffeine levels at their usual unhealthily high level.OH, AND A BOUNCY CASTLES. Everyone needs a bouncy castle.

Here is a picture of Chancey and Bob, who will be the guardians of the fort along with the invisible horses:

"DO TOK" HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZED

Skip to 0:45 seconds into the video, just a boring intro. And lol at the fact that they use TI-89s, which are not permitted on the exams, probably not even IB students.

optical illusions

focus on the + in the middle if the circles are moving, if not I messed up

TOK HELP

Haven't been on here in forever, but seems like you guys have been having some fun... anyways not to bring y'all down with talk of school or anything, but there is a really useful/ cool TOk website I found, has some good videos on it if you are ever stuck for real life situations, and there are knowledge issues interspersed throughout the page... might be useful http://theoryofknowledgestudent.com/category/waysofknowing/

NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pumped that there was no school this afternoon, able to do homework. mylifeisib. And above is a comic I thought was funny.

Storytime in TOK with Michael Wigginton

So, Wigg just told this story to Sarah & I and we basically died.

"This one time, I was in Toronto to visit U of T, and there were A LOT of Asians. I was actually surrounded by Asians. And I'm not Asian. So I felt extremely uncomfortable. Naturally, I was looking for a way to escape, but everywhere I looked there were more Asians. I noticed there was a staircase in front of me, and felt relieved - but then I remembered I don't do stairs. So, I decided I would just run away to India... But then I remembered that I don't know where India is."

LOL TOK last year. <3

Even more lol's

I'm afraid that my ToK presentation will end up being this bad.

:)

Glad to see that the EE's are finally coming together!

Although I am rather disappointed that I don't get to slap Mike on Monday as he instructed me to do if his essay wasn't complete :(

I was also lucky enough to experience the wonderful feeling of finishing my EE draft this weekend. I'm not sure how everyone else is doing, but some extra motivation is always needed!

Re-watching this video is what motivated me to finish, I hope it does the same for everyone who is in a rut with whatever work they need to be doing right now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1iEK2h8wIc

Best of luck :)

EE Done.

It's done. It's finally fucking done!!!!

Like, it has an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. It even has neat stuff like citations, a table of contents, and a title page!!!! IT EVEN KINDA MAKES SENSE!!!!

I mean, it's still missing an abstract and only has 3200 words, BUT WHO GIVES TWO SHITS?!?!?! IT'S DONE! DONE! DONEDONEDONEDONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CATVERTISING!!

Sarah tweeted about thebloggess.com (so funny and thank you for sharing) and I read one of the earlier posts which was about this video, please watch, lol.

We should also hire the people who made the last video to plan our Christmas party.

and here's some more stuff about cats...

"When cats have eyebrows"

Also, on a side note, this the third post where we talked about cats. lol

these srsly killed me, hope you all lol

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Nerd Comics

Just wanted to share this wonderful geo-related comic.

Oh how little I miss geo.

HAHAHAHAHAHHA.
I just found this in the quotes link of the IB page Stuart linked us to in his last post, and it is so, so, SO true. I'm sure you all will agree.

"IB is like an abusive husband: You know you should leave, but you can't because you have a life together even if that life occasionally beats you, calls you names, and makes you feel like killing yourself."

Oh, IB. <3

cats & further tales of procrastination

Today my cat was meowing at me from her litterbox. I asked her why she was making a fuss and walked away.

I later found out that the door of the box wouldn't open for some reason and the cat was stuck in there until my mother noticed her piteous crying, went to investigate, and took the top off.

I now feel like a terrible pet owner.

That is not related to IB, but I felt the need to share.

In other news, as usual I've left my weekend homework until Sunday afternoon... And I have to work from 3 - 8:30.

I've got the design of that filthy rates of reactions lab done, though. The easy part, yes, but on the bright side, we don't even have to do a conclusion, which is really what I dislike doing.

I'm trying to avoid thinking about the Theory of Knowledge essay that's due on Wednesday.

Let's be serious, I'm probably going to fail that course.

Old IB Blog

I was going through old bookmarks on my computer and I don't know where I originally found this link, but there was an IB blog for our school previous to us... Not very much on it but interesting...

http://nrhsib.blogspot.com/

TOK

We are sitting in TOK ... procrastinating, as usual.

Some people are doing their chem labs, the rest of us are sitting here pondering WHY THE HELL THIS CLASS EXISTS.

Catherine just found the Graduation Diplomas ... screw this, we're out of here.

Stress!

World lit. EE, Tok paper and presentation, math, chemistry, life! Nothing more to say...

YAYAYAYAY

Actually was so pumped when Mr. Stewart Facebook messaged BPye and told her our study guide isn't due Monday.

More time to procrastinate :D:D:D:D

Good Times in Math Class

I honestly don't think I'll ever forget today's math class! Apparently the trolololo guy is named Eduard Anatolyevich Khil and is still living at 77. Wikipedia (so you know it's true) says he has toured in over 80 countries and currently lives at Tolstoy House in St. Petersburg. I wonder what he's like live...

 

Well, it's 11:13PM on a Tuesday evening and I was thinking about how I could procrastinate from my homework even more when I remembered this blog. Perfect!

We've only been back to school for six days and I'm already behind on work. Still haven't read chapters 2-5 of L'etranger or analysed How to Read Literature Like a Professor, and don't even get me started on the chemistry and math exams.

Tonight's goal is to actually complete the assigned homework for math and chem, which may or may not be attained. I thought about starting the assignment on Midaq Alley for English or my biology assessment statements, but let's be serious - they're not due until Thursday. That's for WEDNESDAY night at 11:13PM.

I don't really have anything particularly exciting to say. I noticed that the last like, four posts were from Stuart, so I thought I'd just hop in here for some variation. What the hell happened to everyone else?! Come on, guys. We still have eight more IB-licious months to document! Don't give up on the blog!

Anyway, I guess it's high time I got my nose into the ol' chemistry textbook. Have a good one, ladies and gents.

Grad Year!

Almost halfway through the second week of school and we already have tons of homework, exams to study for... But just think, only 8 more months (and a pile homework) and IB is done. I can't believe that this is our thirteenth year of school, and our last. Anyway, hope everyone enjoyed their summer and is ready to have a great grad year!

The captain's ship has sailed!

The captain revealed in a comment on her blog that today is the day, she is (sadly) leaving for South Korea to teach English. We will all miss you (I'm assuming the Captain reads our blog) and please keep uploading to your blog with more photos and stories of your crazy adventures. Sort of related to the Captain's new conquest, below are some photos my cousin took while teaching English in Taiwan.






I seriously wonder if they used Googletranslate...

Stuart

TOK

Although I know its summer, I watched this TED talk video and it screamed TOK and I just had to share it (because everyone loves TOK, ;) ). Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video!

Stuart

Farewell, Captain.

Schoooooooool's. out. for. summa.
Schoooooooool's. out. for. eva.
Schoooooooool's. been blown. to pieces.
Noooo more pencils, nooooo more boo-ooks. nooo more teacher's dirty looks.

LOLJK. There's more books. Four, to be exact. God's Bits of Wood, The House of the Spirits, How to Read Literature Like A Professor and L'Étranger. There's also the good old math and chemistry textbooks that need to be studied for exams in September. And of course, there are more pencils - extended essay rough draft is due the first day back, as are the analyses for the books we have to read.

As for the teacher's dirty looks .. Well, the captain is retiring. Not that she's really big on the dirty looks. But she does have some highly entertaining facial expressions at times, which will be sorely missed. As will her stories of dancing on tables, stealing the attention at other people's weddings, being accused of trying to strangle students, sperm tadpoles, and dicks.

Mrs. Hanley, if you're reading this (which you better be!), I want you to know that we're all going to miss you like crazy. You are an amazing teacher and also an incredibly awesome person. Thank you for everything you've taught me this year, not to mention all the entertainment. The students in Korea are not going to know what hit them! Don't forget to blog - You know we'll all be following.

P.S. Now that you're retired, you should probably add me on Facebook. And follow me on Twitter. :)

Sleep Is For Losers.

So, it's 5:12AM on Saturday morning and I, for some reason, am still awake. I wish I could say I was cramming in some extra studying or something - maybe doing the math IA - but alas, no, I'm just kind of surfing the net and listening to non-mainstream music, which is completely unlike me.

This is going to be an extremely boring post, but I'm extremely bored, so there you go.

I'm hungry. I want pasta super bad. Like, frigging hook me up with some Olive Garden, pronto. I actually only ate at the Olive Garden once, and it was so delicious. Now I'm craving it. This kind of sucks.

The first period of today's double math class was a wonderful time. See, there were only seven of us there, because the rest of the class was at students' council executive retreat. So, it all began when Anna MacDermid brought Mr. Stewart a cupcake. Someone, I'm not sure who (it may have even been me) called out "Mr. Stewart, split it into eight pieces!" So he disappears into that crazy bathroom-apartment off his classroom, returns with a plate and a knife and proceeds to carefully divide this little cupcake into eight pieces. It was delicious.

After we munched, Mr. Stewart showed us a TED talk, and then we spent the rest of the period yelling out youtube videos for him to put on. Not Right Now Derrick, Llamas With Hats, Lolol, Bon Qui Qui .. It was a lovely half hour.

ANYWAY, the sun is rising and I can hear my mother upstairs. If she comes down here, she is going to murder me. So I think I shall retire for the morning. :)

Change the Time of Class

SO we're sitting here in chem, watching Wilky count a behemouth pile of chage - we're all ready over 40$, and not even a third of the way through. I'mma have a fun period of internet browsing :)

An Average Day for IB Seniors

Hello everyone,

Since at the moment this was posted, we only have eleven full days of school (and summer) until grade 12, so, do you think you'll be on the left or the right (see video)?

Stuart

There's Only One Carrot ..

Just another lunchtime in Cap'n Hanley's classroom. Oh, how I will miss this.

DISCOVERED!

So for those of you who aren't in english right meow, this is just a little heads-up that the Captian has found our blog. So hi Mrs. Hanley!

w00t! WE HAVE A FAN NOW!!!!!!!


oh, and here's a link to some cool stuff.

Free Period!

HEY Y'ALL

WE HAVE A FREE PERIOD!

For those of you who have HL Bio instead of SL Physics, the concept of free periods are probably not as exciting. BUT THEY ARE FOR ME!

However, I believe that the concept of 'having time' to work on SCHOOL WORK that is NOT 5am is taking its toll on Mike. He has been hitting his head off of the computer monitor next to me for about 20 minutes, off and on. I am slightly scared. We are apparently supposed to be working on our Extended Essay, but I don't have a topic yet, so too friggin bad dear. Instead, we are all 'working' on English, otherwise known as emailing each other and talking about Mexicans.


Now, a wonderful picture I found by google seaching 'cat hotdog':

Oh crap. Apparently there is more to this English project than I thought. GOTTA GO!

Happy free-perioding fellow IBers!!

WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!

HELLO!
So, I'm finally writing my first blog post on here, and I am pretty pumped about it. I finally have the time!

As you can see, there is a lovely picture attached to this post of what appears to be a burning pile of papers. Those papers, my dear friends, are the entirety of my SL Géographie notes. Six modules, plus questions (mostly unanswered), case studies, and a practice exam. Let me tell you, watching it all go up in flames felt pretty damn good.
In other news, I finally feel like I'm on or at least near the same level of the other students in my SL Chemistry class, after switching into it from art a month after second semester started. I'll be a true chem whiz in no time ;) Chemistry and math are pretty much the only two classes at this point that even matter to me. In English, all we're doing is that Midaq Alley assignment, which is no biggie at all, geography is over, and of course, there's TOK. LOLJK, that's not a class. Although today I learned that knowledge issues are CRITICAL .. And Ms. Murphy was basically a celebrity NINE years ago.
Anyhow, I have like three pages of chem questions that apparently Wilkinson expected to be done by now despite the fact that I'm pretty sure no one did anything last week, so I guess I'll go get a start on that now.
Good luck to SL Physics-ers and French-ers!!!

NO MORE GÉO!

As of Friday, May 6th, all students who were forced to take the class-from-hell that is Géographie SL are rejoicing. WE ARE DONE! While most of the exam (and practically all of paper 2) was BSed like nothing I have ever done before, I must say the fact that I never have to open that 50 pound binder and cry as I attempt to read about la dégradation du sol or something equally as boring EVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE!

For those in HL Geo who test out next year, the best of luck to ya. You will need it my friend.

The only thing left for another year is the SL Physics exam, which is sure to be equally as awful (if not worse) than the Géo exam ... I guess I better go get studying.

BEST OF LUCK!!

Musings of a procrastinating IB student

Well... here we are less than a week away from our first ever IB exams, and I choose this time to write my first ever blog post. Why you may ask? Well I had planned on writing some more physics notes, then realized I didn't have my assessment statements, the realized I didn't know O'Tooles website, and I was unable to find the new syllabus online, so I figured I would attempt to do something productive, like our English blog, which led me here. Instead of doing something useful, like my chem lab that is due tomorrow and I have no idea to do it, or some more studying, I will bore you all with my commentary. Although speaking of exams, has anyone in géo read over that those "practice exams" in the green folder Mme. Munro gave us? It is most definitely not a practice exam, more like a random bunch of questions she threw together, which is helpful, but not as much as I would have liked. I wish these exams would just blow by, with us all coming out with sevens of course :). Physics is another story, at least with géo a few late nights of memorization will do the trick and I should be able to scrape by with a five or six ( if I am really lucky a seven, but lets not get carried away here), but you can't find understanding in a few late night, it will take several long hours and study sessions that are not interrupted by awful smelling teachers talking about fire ants.

Anyway that's all for now I guess, sorry for aiding in your procrastination efforts, but hey a study break is good every now and again :)

-ME :)

Oh the clutter...

This was once my desk, were I did all my homework. It has since been invaded by a behemoth pile of textbooks, stolen textbooks, study notes, English works, and various other pieces of IB related misery. Now, the obvious solution would be to put all this in the desk, but unfortunately I've already filled it with similar stuff. The same goes for the shelves in my closet. And my night stand.

*Sigh*

Not only is IB devouring my spare time, it's devouring all the space in my room.

PS: On an entirely unrelated note, here's something I posted on MLIIB:
http://www.mylifeisib.co.cc/4028/ib-knows-all

Exams

This is my first post on here! Exciting!
We've just gotten through our first semester of IB and practice exams (unless you're in physics or HL geo, writing on Monday, ha!) and I'm sure everyone is just super excited to start our first semesters of ToK, IB math and to finish off SL geographie! I'm really looking forward to starting this new term, mainly because it means we're that much closer to summer!! Yay!
I hope everyone's exams went well, or at least that everyone has survived :)
Good luck this term fellow classmates, stay strong, and STOP PROCRASTINATING!
p.s. if anyone was wondering; that last part about procrastination was for myself, even though I'm sure it applies to everyone else here as well.
- annavivgil

You know you've been in IB too long when...

-“I think therefore I have a headache…”
-You haven’t studied for American History all year, and the week before semester finals you think “Why should I start now?”
- It rains and you place the umbrella over your bookbag instead of yourself.
- The “due” date becomes the “do” date.
-TOK essays are now the easiest of tonight’s homework.
-You make graphs of your grades to chart your progress (or lack thereof).
-You’d go into severe spasms if you ever lost your day-runner.
-Teachers have actually said the following words to you : “Do your Extended Essay draft, TOK essay, lab-books, read those five books for Polish, write the Philosophy GCW, do the remaining thousand hours of CAS… and have a nice summer holiday!”
-You manage to complete a semesters worth of homework the day before the term ends.
-You’ve sold your soul to a teacher… for a C… for the semester.
-Desperate to fill up your CAS hours, you claim watching a black and white movie as “creativity” and walking your dog as “activity”, and your teacher approves it.
-You have a special “test writing sweater” that you wore to all the IB exams.
-Your idea of impure thoughts is whether or not to copy math homework.
-You can count your last quiz grade on one hand.
-You wonder if there’s Coles Notes on the Calculus book.
-You don’t really cheat-you just tell people the answers.
-You have the library on speed dial.
-You’ve developed an imprint of your book bag in your back.
-Your best hope for most classes is either divine intervention or a strategically placed lightning bolt.
-Your books weigh more than you do.
-Your thesis for the Extended Essay is whether or not Bert and Ernie are gay.
-You plead insanity on a research paper.
-You have a Coles Notes Preferred Customer Credit Card.
-You forgot about that pesky Extended Essay thing until the night before it was due.
-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 (or your arch-rival)
-Your home becomes a “home away from home”.
- 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 plagiarize from Coles Notes for the “What is Truth?” ToK paper.
-You actually worry about the 98% 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 are 18 but can’t drive.
-You have 15 library cards each under a different alias.
-The librarians know you so well that you don’t even have to go to the front desk of the library to check the book out.
-You’ve read most of the books in your library, and have a written report on over 3/4 of them!
-You exceed the 4000 word limit on the Extended Essay.
-The simplest words you know are at least 10 letters long.
-You ask what your summer reading assignment will be in December.
-It takes more than one trip to carry the books you need between your car and your locker.
-You carry around vocabulary flash cards to whip out in your free time.
-You can list all 5 definitions on vocabulary tests.
-The saying “When I graduate high school” has been replaced with “If I ever graduate.”
-When you are home sick, you can’t help but wonder what work you’re missing and what your homework is.
-When you’re watching TV, you feel guilty because not all of your homework is done.
-You find yourself spelling words out on scantrons. You are deeply saddened when you can only find one letter of “IB SUCKS!”
-During a Chemistry test, instead of doing the work, you write a random answer program in your TI-82 and get the highest score in the class.
-You firmly believe that “learning by osmosis” is a credible form of studying.
-Classes become so difficult that you look forward to your enjoyable ride on the C-Train.
-You find yourself saying: “did you see that special on the learning channel last night?”
-You come into school at 7:30am to do Math Extension- willingly.

My New Year's Resolution

I don't usually make New Year's Resolutions, but this year I'm resolving to stop procrastinating on school work and actually be a good student. The fact that I'm writing this at 10:30 pm on January 3rd shows that this isn't exactly going to be the easiest goal for me, though the fact that I'm writing at all does say something; I've been meaning to post on this since September. Even in the 3 days that have elapsed in the new year I've already managed to leave my physics homework to the last minute and just not get around to about five other things I was planning to do over Christmas break. Nevertheless my basic plan is to:

1. Do assignments when they're assigned (more or less) and not the night before (or after)they're due.

2. Stay organized. I spent hours organizing my notes today an I'd like to see them stay this way.

3. Study. I know that it may sound a bit far-fetched, but studying for tests might enable me do get better marks.

4. Plan ahead. I'm going to try and start major assignments, like the IOP, Geo IA, and revising for exams, well in advance to avoid the stress and terrible marks that come with doing them at the last minute.

I've already accepted that this resolution is going to fail to some degree, but I'm still hoping to get success in some degree. Anyone else with me?