I’ve been wondering about life today, and who I am, who I’m trying to become, etc.
so I pose this question
How much are we being who we are, and how much are we trying to seem like who we wish we were?
lctx.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Signs of the IB
You Know You're In IB When ...
2. At least 4 of your classes (history, english, TOK, psychology) are talking about almost the same thing, or at least you think they are ... it could be an illusion ... maybe you're not in class at all ...
3. You start walking in geometric circles.
4. You start analyzing random books, song lyrics, and street signs.
5. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
6. A good night's sleep is 5 hours.
7. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
8. You can't enjoy a heart-warming cartoon because the French grammar is wrong.
9. You have made up complicated metaphors relating your love life to a card game and have fun doing it.
10. 16 + 2 = ... wait, let me get my graphing calculator!
11. The idea of "getting off on tangents" is hilariously funny.
12. You start overanalyzing the rainbows on people's clothing.
15. You need a graphing calculator to bake.
16. You're disappointed when you only get 100% on a test.
17. You're smarter than all your teachers ... no, that just means you're in public school.
18. You relax vicariously through your non-IB friends (what non-IB friends???).
19. You forget to breathe.
21. You realize that something is missing when your backpack feels too light.
22. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
23. You complain that you can't store notes on your graphing calculator for the IB English exam.
24. You write parodies of Faulkner's work for fun.
25. You attempt to do your extended essay on Dr. Seuss.
26. Your idea of a 3 AM party game is analyzing the socio-political commentary in Dr. Seuss.
27. You complain about studying for your foreign language exam ... in multiple foreign languages.
28. You write stories and give them to other people to analyze for you as Paper 1 practice because you don't understand them.
29. You were a pair of antennae on your head and think you're a water molecule.
30. The fact that "wear" is spelled wrong in #29 bothers you. a lot. (OMG I ACTUALLY EDITED IT OUT. UNTIL I SAW THIS)
31. You forget the meaning of the words "free time" yet remember the meaning of "literary analysis" (n. )
32. You have complicated dreams about graphing circles, ellipses and parabolas.
33. You take over the hallways in the morning before school, unloading your bookbag and settling in for a 30-minute homework party.
34. You walk in the movement patterns of a knight to improve your chess strategy while you nap on your way to your next class.
35. You have theological discussions at parties
36. You have theoretical physics discussions at parties.
37. The number on your screen name corresponds to the page number that character you use for your screen name has an appearance in the book you got it from.
38. Whenever you're watching a movie you find all the motifs and themes ... without trying.
39. "Friends" and "fellow IBers" are interchangeable.
40. You go to bed at 3 AM and think, "Oh, it's an early night!"
43. You've fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you're in IB or not.
44. You try to wake up fast enough to catch yourself sleeping - and succeed.
45. You talk to yourself in the 3rd person.
46. You write sentences on multiple choice tests.
47. It's okay to fail, so long as you are not alone.
48. You frequently catch yourself saying "What?? We had homework??"
49. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
50.The Sun is too loud.
51. Trees begin threatening you.
52. You can see individual air molecules vibrating.
53. While writing a TOK paper, you begin to actually understand the material.
54. You explore the possibility of setting up an IV drip of espresso.
55. You wonder if brewing is an essential step in the consumption of coffee.
56. Things become "Very Clear".
58. You believe that if you think hard enough, you can levitate. (Ant! Rmb..)
59. You heart beats in 7/8 time.
60. You and Reality file for divorce.
61. It appears that people are speaking to you in binary code.
62. You have great revelations concerning Life, the Universe, and Everything else, but can't quite find the words for them before the white glow fades, leaving you more confused than before. Oh well, ice cream time!
63. You discover the aesthetic beauty of school supplies.
64. You begin to talk to yourself, then disagree about the subject, get into a nasty row about it, lose, and refuse to talk to yourself for the rest of the day.
65. You yell: "STOP TOUCHING ME!!!" even though you're the only person in the room.
66. You manage to complete a semesters worth of homework the day before the term ends.
67. You finish your extended essay shortly after midnight. Your smile of satisfaction fades when you remember to start on your World Lit paper.
68. You've sold your soul … and have to wait 4 years to get it back.
70. 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.
71. You have a special "test writing sweater" that you wore to all the IB exams.
72. Your idea of impure thoughts is whether or not to copy math homework.
75. You don't really cheat - you just tell people the answers.
76. Cheating became too difficult, so you took up telepathy.
89. BN.com, amazon.com, and Books-A-Million offered to give you a free shipment/order each so you took full advantage of it and are now banned from those stores/sites (it took 6 semis to deliver the orders!)
90. You understand that the list skipped from 77 to 89 for one sole reason: LACK OF SLEEP.
91. You've consulted tarot cards for hints on a History test.
92. You have the library on speed dial.
93. You've developed an imprint of your book bag in your back.
94. Your best hope for most classes is either divine intervention or a strategically placed lightning bolt.
95. Your books weigh more than you do.
96. Your thesis for the Extended Essay is whether or not Bert and Ernie are gay.
97. Your alternate thesis for the Extended Essay is why IB jokes/checklists are so prolific and the amount of fact contained within them.
98. You plead insanity on a research paper.
99. Your plea is accepted by your teacher.
100. You do your essays on the plane ride to school.
104. You consider giving up going to the bathroom permanently to give you more time to study.
105. Your backpack is only comfortable when it weighs >30 pounds.
106. You have convinced your parents the "1" you received on your IB Chemistry exam was really the "top 1% of all IB students worldwide".
108. Your home becomes a "home away from home".
109. You think the meaning of life is: G = -RTlnK.
110. Your favorite equation is e(iπ)+1=0
111. Said equation comes up on a test.
112. You go insane from trying to work Pythagoras' constant and the golden rule into said equation.
113. You succeed in mathematically correctly adding above to said formula without changing number bases.
114. Pressed for time, you conclude a history essay with, "And they lived happily every after. Amen."
115. You get into a slugging match over priority for the library photocopier.
116. It's essential to learn to live with occasional failures.
118. You actually worry about the 105% you have in math.
119. You find that you overreact when you get 2 points marked off on your homework.
120. You find that you spend more time sleeping in class than at home.
122. You have 15 library cards each under a different alias.
123. You searched all the books in the local public library, so you found a loophole that allowed you to check out books from the local university stacks.
124. Your list of excuses for not doing your homework is the length of Anna Karenina.
125. You exceed the 4200 word limit on the Extended Essay (by over 2000 words).
126. The simplest words you know are at least 10 letters long.
127. You ask what your summer reading assignment will be in October.
127. You come into school at 6:00am to do Biology and don't complain.
129. It takes more than one trip to carry the books you need between your car and your locker.
130. You carry around SAT vocab flash cards to whip out in your free time.
131. You can list all 5 definitions on vocabulary tests.
132. When you are homesick, you can't help but wonder what work you're missing and what your homework is.
133. When you're watching TV, you feel guilty because not all of your homework is done.
134. That was a lie, you don't watch TV (except for NBC News at 6).
136. During a Chemistry test, instead of doing the work, you write a random answer program in your TI-83+ Silver Edition and get the highest score in the class.
137. Your idea of great art is simultaneously graphing the sine, cosine and tangent graphs on your calculator.
139. You can type 70 words per minute -- on a TI-89.
140. You actually believe "mental health days" are excused absences.
141. Brewing coffee takes too long, so you just eat the beans.
142. You're afraid of sunlight since you haven't seen it in 3 years.
144. The bags under your eyes are heavier than the ones carrying your textbooks.
145. You always seem to have one continuous headache.
146. You haven't seen light in so long you glow in the dark.
147. You find yourself thinking "Without stress my life would be empty."
149. You can count the number of hours you sleep each week on one missing hand.
150. You've taught yourself how to take naps while walking to your next class.
152. You think MTV is a formula for mass, temperature and volume.
153. You clean up your room and find a bed.
154. You wonder about things like what would happen if your car traveled at the speed of light and your turned your lights on.
155. Everything you know about sex, you learned from the English reading list.
156. You enjoy finding out the hard way why normal distribution should work.
157. It's the little things that confuse you.
158. You have the chemical formula and steps of synthesis for caffeine memorized.
160. You find all the "glitches" in movies.
161. You use your ToK background to analyze Winnie the Pooh's Book of Quotations.
164. You've mastered the art of procrastination so well that your research paper finishes printing just seconds before you have to leave for school.
165. You get to college and realize the classes you are taking seem really familiar.
166. Your college professors' grading systems seem a little too lenient.
167. You dread the word rubric.
168. You managed to write 4,000 words on the subject "Hitler was a nice guy, wasn't he?" (sarcasm not included)
169. You've managed to get through an entire year of History of the Americas without reading one page of your test book.
170. You hold "parties" to study.
172. Your fellow IBers look forward to your parties, attend them, and do actual studying there.
173. Your pick-up lines include compliments on the quality of her (his) epidermis and the wonderful shape of her (his) occipital plate.
177. You have races with your friends to see who can say the entire periodic table of elements the fastest.
178. You'd go into severe spasms if you ever lost your IB herd.
179. You see your Extended Essay advisor more than you see your parents.
180. You talk in your sleep -in Spanish.
181. The only French you know is "J'aime manger le poission."
182. You resort to communicating with classmates through a series of clicks because languages take too long.
183. You love the "Macarena" not because it's a neat-o dance, but because you actually understand what those Spanish guys are saying.
184. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
185. You no longer speak English
186. Fellow IBers understand and use the same combined language.
187. You convert it to 36-bit words converted to hexadecimal numbers to communicate as it is faster.
188. You write a text-to-speech program that uses this hexadecimal linguistic conglomerate.
189. You modify your text-to-speech program so that it also works as speech-to-text, and is eerily accurate.
190. You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
191. You scoff at others’ lowly TI-83s while you caress your TI-93+ with pride.
192. You debate about physics during lunch … and usually win.
193. You know the chemical composition of the ugly brown stains on the ceiling tiles.
194. Your calculator is an extension of your body.
196. You're sad, because you can only take four HL tests.
197. You hack the school’s network and duplicate your records so that you can take another three HLs, then merge the records together after you take your senior IB exams.
198. You actually think you have a shot at passing the physics HL exam.
199. You make a date to do homework together and you actually do.
200. You derive formulas for fun. From first principles.
201. You write your "What is Truth?" ToK paper entirely in Newspeak.
202. You celebrate pi day (3/14), mole day (10/23), and pi approximation day (22/7 (d/m), as 22/7 is very close to pi).
204. It rains and you place the umbrella over your bookbag instead of yourself.
205. You know how to spell "Baccalaureate".
207. You skip school to do homework.
208. The word "ponder" induces hyperventilation.
209. You're American and you write everything using British spelling.
210. You focus you WHOLE LIFE around the Group 4 project.
211. You accidently type "LOOL" instead of "LOL" in an IM conversation and explain it as "Laugh out ostentatiously loud".
212. Someone tells you to relax and you go into spasms - "Relax? RELAX?!?"
213. "It's a beautiful day outside to do that science experiment."
214. You are so accustomed to being stressed, that when you aren't, you have a panic attack.
215. You sleep with your eyes half open because you don't have the energy to close them all the way.
217. The cure to your depression is concentrating on homework.
218. You start working on your presentation for History of the Americas 3 minutes after you have already started presenting.
219. You persuade your History teacher that everything you have said in that half hour of presenting makes sense and has a point, even though you don't know what that point is.
220. When people ask you if your community service is for a crime and you reply with, "no ... it's just school."
222. You spend more time on college applications than on homework.
223. You keep your candidate number more secure than your social security number.
224. You begin to form verbs using book titles, and use them often in everyday conversation.
225. During the holiday break, instead of greeting you happily at the door, your family asks, "Who the hell are you?"
226. You're late for graduation because you are sneaking around to do chem labs.
227. Everything you notice everywhere seems to be ''ironic'' or ''symbolic'' of some deeper meaning or other.
228. Your IB dropout friends from IB HL Math tell you that AP Calculus is a piece of cake, and you're jealous.
230. You are intimately familiar with all the grading scales and manipulate them to exert the bare minimum effort.
231. You finish your homework before midnight, but find some excuse to stay up until 3 AM ... like compiling this list, just because it makes you laugh.
233. Forget your favorite band. The only good sounds after 10 PM are from Xerox, HP, or Lexmark.
234. Every computer in your school has a strategically saved copy of some work you did. Furthermore, you know which computers they are and what you left there.
235. Your history teacher is the one who reminds you your break starts tomorrow.
236. You go to school on senior skip day worrying about getting behind, and turns out, all your classmates are there too.
237. You freak out about class-specific or music-related school trips because of all the class and work you will be missing. Four months in advance.
238. You stay in class until the very last minute to make it onto the bus that you're taking with the soccer team to an away game, even though players were asked to leave class 30 mins early to get ready.
239. You spend more time trying to decide when you'll do your homework than actually doing it.
240. You get nervous when you have free time.
241. You spend more hours getting your CAS forms signed than the number of hours on written those forms, because you wait until the last minute to fill out the forms. Naturally; it would be a waste of time otherwise.
2. At least 4 of your classes (history, english, TOK, psychology) are talking about almost the same thing, or at least you think they are ... it could be an illusion ... maybe you're not in class at all ...
3. You start walking in geometric circles.
4. You start analyzing random books, song lyrics, and street signs.
5. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
6. A good night's sleep is 5 hours.
7. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
8. You can't enjoy a heart-warming cartoon because the French grammar is wrong.
9. You have made up complicated metaphors relating your love life to a card game and have fun doing it.
10. 16 + 2 = ... wait, let me get my graphing calculator!
11. The idea of "getting off on tangents" is hilariously funny.
12. You start overanalyzing the rainbows on people's clothing.
15. You need a graphing calculator to bake.
16. You're disappointed when you only get 100% on a test.
17. You're smarter than all your teachers ... no, that just means you're in public school.
18. You relax vicariously through your non-IB friends (what non-IB friends???).
19. You forget to breathe.
21. You realize that something is missing when your backpack feels too light.
22. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
23. You complain that you can't store notes on your graphing calculator for the IB English exam.
24. You write parodies of Faulkner's work for fun.
25. You attempt to do your extended essay on Dr. Seuss.
26. Your idea of a 3 AM party game is analyzing the socio-political commentary in Dr. Seuss.
27. You complain about studying for your foreign language exam ... in multiple foreign languages.
28. You write stories and give them to other people to analyze for you as Paper 1 practice because you don't understand them.
29. You were a pair of antennae on your head and think you're a water molecule.
30. The fact that "wear" is spelled wrong in #29 bothers you. a lot. (OMG I ACTUALLY EDITED IT OUT. UNTIL I SAW THIS)
31. You forget the meaning of the words "free time" yet remember the meaning of "literary analysis" (n. )
32. You have complicated dreams about graphing circles, ellipses and parabolas.
33. You take over the hallways in the morning before school, unloading your bookbag and settling in for a 30-minute homework party.
34. You walk in the movement patterns of a knight to improve your chess strategy while you nap on your way to your next class.
35. You have theological discussions at parties
36. You have theoretical physics discussions at parties.
37. The number on your screen name corresponds to the page number that character you use for your screen name has an appearance in the book you got it from.
38. Whenever you're watching a movie you find all the motifs and themes ... without trying.
39. "Friends" and "fellow IBers" are interchangeable.
40. You go to bed at 3 AM and think, "Oh, it's an early night!"
43. You've fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you're in IB or not.
44. You try to wake up fast enough to catch yourself sleeping - and succeed.
45. You talk to yourself in the 3rd person.
46. You write sentences on multiple choice tests.
47. It's okay to fail, so long as you are not alone.
48. You frequently catch yourself saying "What?? We had homework??"
49. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
50.The Sun is too loud.
51. Trees begin threatening you.
52. You can see individual air molecules vibrating.
53. While writing a TOK paper, you begin to actually understand the material.
54. You explore the possibility of setting up an IV drip of espresso.
55. You wonder if brewing is an essential step in the consumption of coffee.
56. Things become "Very Clear".
58. You believe that if you think hard enough, you can levitate. (Ant! Rmb..)
59. You heart beats in 7/8 time.
60. You and Reality file for divorce.
61. It appears that people are speaking to you in binary code.
62. You have great revelations concerning Life, the Universe, and Everything else, but can't quite find the words for them before the white glow fades, leaving you more confused than before. Oh well, ice cream time!
63. You discover the aesthetic beauty of school supplies.
64. You begin to talk to yourself, then disagree about the subject, get into a nasty row about it, lose, and refuse to talk to yourself for the rest of the day.
65. You yell: "STOP TOUCHING ME!!!" even though you're the only person in the room.
66. You manage to complete a semesters worth of homework the day before the term ends.
67. You finish your extended essay shortly after midnight. Your smile of satisfaction fades when you remember to start on your World Lit paper.
68. You've sold your soul … and have to wait 4 years to get it back.
70. 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.
71. You have a special "test writing sweater" that you wore to all the IB exams.
72. Your idea of impure thoughts is whether or not to copy math homework.
75. You don't really cheat - you just tell people the answers.
76. Cheating became too difficult, so you took up telepathy.
89. BN.com, amazon.com, and Books-A-Million offered to give you a free shipment/order each so you took full advantage of it and are now banned from those stores/sites (it took 6 semis to deliver the orders!)
90. You understand that the list skipped from 77 to 89 for one sole reason: LACK OF SLEEP.
91. You've consulted tarot cards for hints on a History test.
92. You have the library on speed dial.
93. You've developed an imprint of your book bag in your back.
94. Your best hope for most classes is either divine intervention or a strategically placed lightning bolt.
95. Your books weigh more than you do.
96. Your thesis for the Extended Essay is whether or not Bert and Ernie are gay.
97. Your alternate thesis for the Extended Essay is why IB jokes/checklists are so prolific and the amount of fact contained within them.
98. You plead insanity on a research paper.
99. Your plea is accepted by your teacher.
100. You do your essays on the plane ride to school.
104. You consider giving up going to the bathroom permanently to give you more time to study.
105. Your backpack is only comfortable when it weighs >30 pounds.
106. You have convinced your parents the "1" you received on your IB Chemistry exam was really the "top 1% of all IB students worldwide".
108. Your home becomes a "home away from home".
109. You think the meaning of life is: G = -RTlnK.
110. Your favorite equation is e(iπ)+1=0
111. Said equation comes up on a test.
112. You go insane from trying to work Pythagoras' constant and the golden rule into said equation.
113. You succeed in mathematically correctly adding above to said formula without changing number bases.
114. Pressed for time, you conclude a history essay with, "And they lived happily every after. Amen."
115. You get into a slugging match over priority for the library photocopier.
116. It's essential to learn to live with occasional failures.
118. You actually worry about the 105% you have in math.
119. You find that you overreact when you get 2 points marked off on your homework.
120. You find that you spend more time sleeping in class than at home.
122. You have 15 library cards each under a different alias.
123. You searched all the books in the local public library, so you found a loophole that allowed you to check out books from the local university stacks.
124. Your list of excuses for not doing your homework is the length of Anna Karenina.
125. You exceed the 4200 word limit on the Extended Essay (by over 2000 words).
126. The simplest words you know are at least 10 letters long.
127. You ask what your summer reading assignment will be in October.
127. You come into school at 6:00am to do Biology and don't complain.
129. It takes more than one trip to carry the books you need between your car and your locker.
130. You carry around SAT vocab flash cards to whip out in your free time.
131. You can list all 5 definitions on vocabulary tests.
132. When you are homesick, you can't help but wonder what work you're missing and what your homework is.
133. When you're watching TV, you feel guilty because not all of your homework is done.
134. That was a lie, you don't watch TV (except for NBC News at 6).
136. During a Chemistry test, instead of doing the work, you write a random answer program in your TI-83+ Silver Edition and get the highest score in the class.
137. Your idea of great art is simultaneously graphing the sine, cosine and tangent graphs on your calculator.
139. You can type 70 words per minute -- on a TI-89.
140. You actually believe "mental health days" are excused absences.
141. Brewing coffee takes too long, so you just eat the beans.
142. You're afraid of sunlight since you haven't seen it in 3 years.
144. The bags under your eyes are heavier than the ones carrying your textbooks.
145. You always seem to have one continuous headache.
146. You haven't seen light in so long you glow in the dark.
147. You find yourself thinking "Without stress my life would be empty."
149. You can count the number of hours you sleep each week on one missing hand.
150. You've taught yourself how to take naps while walking to your next class.
152. You think MTV is a formula for mass, temperature and volume.
153. You clean up your room and find a bed.
154. You wonder about things like what would happen if your car traveled at the speed of light and your turned your lights on.
155. Everything you know about sex, you learned from the English reading list.
156. You enjoy finding out the hard way why normal distribution should work.
157. It's the little things that confuse you.
158. You have the chemical formula and steps of synthesis for caffeine memorized.
160. You find all the "glitches" in movies.
161. You use your ToK background to analyze Winnie the Pooh's Book of Quotations.
164. You've mastered the art of procrastination so well that your research paper finishes printing just seconds before you have to leave for school.
165. You get to college and realize the classes you are taking seem really familiar.
166. Your college professors' grading systems seem a little too lenient.
167. You dread the word rubric.
168. You managed to write 4,000 words on the subject "Hitler was a nice guy, wasn't he?" (sarcasm not included)
169. You've managed to get through an entire year of History of the Americas without reading one page of your test book.
170. You hold "parties" to study.
172. Your fellow IBers look forward to your parties, attend them, and do actual studying there.
173. Your pick-up lines include compliments on the quality of her (his) epidermis and the wonderful shape of her (his) occipital plate.
177. You have races with your friends to see who can say the entire periodic table of elements the fastest.
178. You'd go into severe spasms if you ever lost your IB herd.
179. You see your Extended Essay advisor more than you see your parents.
180. You talk in your sleep -in Spanish.
181. The only French you know is "J'aime manger le poission."
182. You resort to communicating with classmates through a series of clicks because languages take too long.
183. You love the "Macarena" not because it's a neat-o dance, but because you actually understand what those Spanish guys are saying.
184. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before.
185. You no longer speak English
186. Fellow IBers understand and use the same combined language.
187. You convert it to 36-bit words converted to hexadecimal numbers to communicate as it is faster.
188. You write a text-to-speech program that uses this hexadecimal linguistic conglomerate.
189. You modify your text-to-speech program so that it also works as speech-to-text, and is eerily accurate.
190. You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
191. You scoff at others’ lowly TI-83s while you caress your TI-93+ with pride.
192. You debate about physics during lunch … and usually win.
193. You know the chemical composition of the ugly brown stains on the ceiling tiles.
194. Your calculator is an extension of your body.
196. You're sad, because you can only take four HL tests.
197. You hack the school’s network and duplicate your records so that you can take another three HLs, then merge the records together after you take your senior IB exams.
198. You actually think you have a shot at passing the physics HL exam.
199. You make a date to do homework together and you actually do.
200. You derive formulas for fun. From first principles.
201. You write your "What is Truth?" ToK paper entirely in Newspeak.
202. You celebrate pi day (3/14), mole day (10/23), and pi approximation day (22/7 (d/m), as 22/7 is very close to pi).
204. It rains and you place the umbrella over your bookbag instead of yourself.
205. You know how to spell "Baccalaureate".
207. You skip school to do homework.
208. The word "ponder" induces hyperventilation.
209. You're American and you write everything using British spelling.
210. You focus you WHOLE LIFE around the Group 4 project.
211. You accidently type "LOOL" instead of "LOL" in an IM conversation and explain it as "Laugh out ostentatiously loud".
212. Someone tells you to relax and you go into spasms - "Relax? RELAX?!?"
213. "It's a beautiful day outside to do that science experiment."
214. You are so accustomed to being stressed, that when you aren't, you have a panic attack.
215. You sleep with your eyes half open because you don't have the energy to close them all the way.
217. The cure to your depression is concentrating on homework.
218. You start working on your presentation for History of the Americas 3 minutes after you have already started presenting.
219. You persuade your History teacher that everything you have said in that half hour of presenting makes sense and has a point, even though you don't know what that point is.
220. When people ask you if your community service is for a crime and you reply with, "no ... it's just school."
222. You spend more time on college applications than on homework.
223. You keep your candidate number more secure than your social security number.
224. You begin to form verbs using book titles, and use them often in everyday conversation.
225. During the holiday break, instead of greeting you happily at the door, your family asks, "Who the hell are you?"
226. You're late for graduation because you are sneaking around to do chem labs.
227. Everything you notice everywhere seems to be ''ironic'' or ''symbolic'' of some deeper meaning or other.
228. Your IB dropout friends from IB HL Math tell you that AP Calculus is a piece of cake, and you're jealous.
230. You are intimately familiar with all the grading scales and manipulate them to exert the bare minimum effort.
231. You finish your homework before midnight, but find some excuse to stay up until 3 AM ... like compiling this list, just because it makes you laugh.
233. Forget your favorite band. The only good sounds after 10 PM are from Xerox, HP, or Lexmark.
234. Every computer in your school has a strategically saved copy of some work you did. Furthermore, you know which computers they are and what you left there.
235. Your history teacher is the one who reminds you your break starts tomorrow.
236. You go to school on senior skip day worrying about getting behind, and turns out, all your classmates are there too.
237. You freak out about class-specific or music-related school trips because of all the class and work you will be missing. Four months in advance.
238. You stay in class until the very last minute to make it onto the bus that you're taking with the soccer team to an away game, even though players were asked to leave class 30 mins early to get ready.
239. You spend more time trying to decide when you'll do your homework than actually doing it.
240. You get nervous when you have free time.
241. You spend more hours getting your CAS forms signed than the number of hours on written those forms, because you wait until the last minute to fill out the forms. Naturally; it would be a waste of time otherwise.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Taking notice..
Early hours for me when you assess my sleep cycle on a regular basis.
Just a few minutes ago, my mom came over and pat me on the shoulder. A supportive move which nevertheless, was quite comforting.
It then hit me how much people actually cared about each other, without having to say so. You can feel it and once in a while, feel that little tap on the shoulder to remind you that what you do now does not go wasted - it’s acknowledged.
So I’d like to say thank you to all those out there who ever loved, cared or thought about me in any shape or form.
I love you all, and I wish you all the best.
lctx.
Just a few minutes ago, my mom came over and pat me on the shoulder. A supportive move which nevertheless, was quite comforting.
"sleep early, it’s not good for you"I’m quite aware, but when you have a pile of work, the existence of both Facebook and Tetris and Entangled and Youtube and Tumblr (and of course Blogspot), its hard to stop.
It then hit me how much people actually cared about each other, without having to say so. You can feel it and once in a while, feel that little tap on the shoulder to remind you that what you do now does not go wasted - it’s acknowledged.
So I’d like to say thank you to all those out there who ever loved, cared or thought about me in any shape or form.
I love you all, and I wish you all the best.
lctx.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
heart without words?
I’ve always been one to believe that a persons actions and words reflect their person, that by what one says to another, it’s possible to decipher at least a small portion of who they are.
However, this does not appear to be the case anymore.
There’s a movie that is quite interesting, it’s called “The Invention of Lying”, and not to ruin the plot, but basically one man finally discovers how to be untruthful.
And all of a sudden, whenever he portrays himself to someone else (where the entire world believes everything is true), he gains the ability to have them perceive them any which way he pleases.
While this makes for a humourous hour and a half on the big screen, I find it tragic that to a certain extent we seem to act accordingly in our everyday lives. Countless people live their lives in constant fear of judgment from the outside world, so much so that we create a false face that we present to everyone we meet, whether for 5 years or 5 minutes.
It’s a sad reality that we care about what strangers think of us, so much to the point that we suppress that which we love, that which makes us feel alive, just to be what society deems as “acceptable”, or at least “passable”.
Personally, I find that all this needs to change, people are people, and everyone is uniquely beautiful in their own way. We bring our charms and our quaint mannerisms to every situation and change it in a way nobody else would be able to.
I believe that every single person should live a life that reflects on the outside exactly what is going on internally, that people would be exactly who they are to everyone they meet. Imagine a world where we could trust one another and be trusted by everyone to BE exactly who we seem to be.
If only people could say what they meant, from who they are, as opposed to trying to be someone else. When we put a mask over our entire personality we rob our statements and actions of their soul, we take out essentially the only thing that matters, ourselves.
Perhaps it’s time that we start speaking from who we are, not who we think we want to be. Our hearts are screaming for expression, and perhaps it’s time we let them speak.
lctx.
However, this does not appear to be the case anymore.
There’s a movie that is quite interesting, it’s called “The Invention of Lying”, and not to ruin the plot, but basically one man finally discovers how to be untruthful.
And all of a sudden, whenever he portrays himself to someone else (where the entire world believes everything is true), he gains the ability to have them perceive them any which way he pleases.
While this makes for a humourous hour and a half on the big screen, I find it tragic that to a certain extent we seem to act accordingly in our everyday lives. Countless people live their lives in constant fear of judgment from the outside world, so much so that we create a false face that we present to everyone we meet, whether for 5 years or 5 minutes.
It’s a sad reality that we care about what strangers think of us, so much to the point that we suppress that which we love, that which makes us feel alive, just to be what society deems as “acceptable”, or at least “passable”.
Personally, I find that all this needs to change, people are people, and everyone is uniquely beautiful in their own way. We bring our charms and our quaint mannerisms to every situation and change it in a way nobody else would be able to.
I believe that every single person should live a life that reflects on the outside exactly what is going on internally, that people would be exactly who they are to everyone they meet. Imagine a world where we could trust one another and be trusted by everyone to BE exactly who we seem to be.
If only people could say what they meant, from who they are, as opposed to trying to be someone else. When we put a mask over our entire personality we rob our statements and actions of their soul, we take out essentially the only thing that matters, ourselves.
Perhaps it’s time that we start speaking from who we are, not who we think we want to be. Our hearts are screaming for expression, and perhaps it’s time we let them speak.
lctx.
google maps..
Because life is awesome, something I stumbled across on the net
Step 1. Go to Google Maps
Step 2. Type Japan as the starting location (point A) [No city names]
Step 3. Type China as the ending location (point B) [No city names]
Step 4. Scroll down to direction #43
Step 5. Laugh
Hope that brought a smile to some of you guys :)
ENJOY!
Step 1. Go to Google Maps
Step 2. Type Japan as the starting location (point A) [No city names]
Step 3. Type China as the ending location (point B) [No city names]
Step 4. Scroll down to direction #43
Step 5. Laugh
Hope that brought a smile to some of you guys :)
ENJOY!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Tales of the IB
You know your in the IB if your school has this traffic sign posted in the parking lot.
Caution: Kids might throw themselves in front of your car.
Rebel: Sneaks out/in of their house when they're supposed to be sleeping.
IB Rebel: Sneaks around own house to print homework when they're supposed to be sleeping.
10 IB Pickup lines:
1. "You're so hot you denature my enzymes"
2. "I'm Homozygous recessive. Wanna do a test cross?"
3. "I wish I was DNA helicase so I could unzip your jeans/genes"
4. "girl whenever I'm around you, i undergo anaerobic respiration because you take my breath away"
5. "Are you a start codon? because youre turning me on!"
6. "If i was an endoplasmic reticulum, how would you want me: smooth or rough?"
7. "You're so hot... I'll attach you to my active site any day"
8. "im attracted to you like the earth is attracted to the sun- with a large force inversely proportional to the distance squared."
9. "You must be an asymptote, because all my functions bend around you."
10. "If I were a nitrogen base, I would be adenine so I could be paired with U."
11. "You're as sweet as 3.1415926535897!"
One IB graduate once said, "Finishing IB is like coming home from war. You have been away for two years fighting battles, being ambushed by prep, preparing plans to destroy a history essay at dawn the next moring...
But then you go home and the world has changed, people have changed and you feel almost out of place...
It is fun because you know you came out of it alive, but ultimately the end of IB is a huge anti-climax....
your body is used to all the stress taken in 2 years and suddenly it is all gone...what to do?"
Another IB Student in his Valedictorian speech at the graduation ceremony:
"Looking back on IB, I probably wouldn't have gotten into Harvard without it. I plan on studying molecular biology, and Harvard has one of the best molecular biology programs in the world, and with this first-class education I hope to one day cure cancer. So if you think about it, my participation in the IB program could save millions of lives, and I guess my sanity was a fair price to pay over these past four years for that possibility. Although I do wish I didn't have to make the choice.
lctx.
Caution: Kids might throw themselves in front of your car.
Rebel: Sneaks out/in of their house when they're supposed to be sleeping.
IB Rebel: Sneaks around own house to print homework when they're supposed to be sleeping.
10 IB Pickup lines:
1. "You're so hot you denature my enzymes"
2. "I'm Homozygous recessive. Wanna do a test cross?"
3. "I wish I was DNA helicase so I could unzip your jeans/genes"
4. "girl whenever I'm around you, i undergo anaerobic respiration because you take my breath away"
5. "Are you a start codon? because youre turning me on!"
6. "If i was an endoplasmic reticulum, how would you want me: smooth or rough?"
7. "You're so hot... I'll attach you to my active site any day"
8. "im attracted to you like the earth is attracted to the sun- with a large force inversely proportional to the distance squared."
9. "You must be an asymptote, because all my functions bend around you."
10. "If I were a nitrogen base, I would be adenine so I could be paired with U."
11. "You're as sweet as 3.1415926535897!"
One IB graduate once said, "Finishing IB is like coming home from war. You have been away for two years fighting battles, being ambushed by prep, preparing plans to destroy a history essay at dawn the next moring...
But then you go home and the world has changed, people have changed and you feel almost out of place...
It is fun because you know you came out of it alive, but ultimately the end of IB is a huge anti-climax....
your body is used to all the stress taken in 2 years and suddenly it is all gone...what to do?"
Another IB Student in his Valedictorian speech at the graduation ceremony:
"Looking back on IB, I probably wouldn't have gotten into Harvard without it. I plan on studying molecular biology, and Harvard has one of the best molecular biology programs in the world, and with this first-class education I hope to one day cure cancer. So if you think about it, my participation in the IB program could save millions of lives, and I guess my sanity was a fair price to pay over these past four years for that possibility. Although I do wish I didn't have to make the choice.
lctx.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Snippets from magazines
Now that mocks are finally over and done with, I've recently had time to clear out my magazine drawer that was beginning to look like a hoarder's nest. Among the many treasures and articles, there were a few sparkly snippets that taught me much more than the hard-core revision I've been doing (or not!!!)
Did you know, for example that a new study revealed that one out of every five people snores? In a separate study, right after that article, scientists found that four out of five people suffer from insomnia.
And a really meaningful one:
Why are coins made out of metal?
Because change is so hard.
Susan was desperate for a few days off from work, but she knew that her boss wouldn't let her take a vacation. So she got a crazzzzzy idea. She hung upside down on the ceiling until the big guy noticed and asked her what she was doing. "I'm a lightbulb," she told him.
"You are clearly stressed-out," said the boss, looking concerned. "Go home and take it easy for a couple of days." Susan jumped down and headed for the door. Her co-worker Janice seized the opportunity and followed Susan.
"Where do you think you're going?" the boss hollered after her.
:I'm going home too," Janice said. "I can't work in the dark."
Um, WUT?
lctx.
Did you know, for example that a new study revealed that one out of every five people snores? In a separate study, right after that article, scientists found that four out of five people suffer from insomnia.
And a really meaningful one:
Why are coins made out of metal?
Because change is so hard.
Susan was desperate for a few days off from work, but she knew that her boss wouldn't let her take a vacation. So she got a crazzzzzy idea. She hung upside down on the ceiling until the big guy noticed and asked her what she was doing. "I'm a lightbulb," she told him.
"You are clearly stressed-out," said the boss, looking concerned. "Go home and take it easy for a couple of days." Susan jumped down and headed for the door. Her co-worker Janice seized the opportunity and followed Susan.
"Where do you think you're going?" the boss hollered after her.
:I'm going home too," Janice said. "I can't work in the dark."
Um, WUT?
lctx.
Fear
Being fearless isnt about having the abscence of fear. It's being scared shitless but going with it anyway. TaylorSwift ♥
I really wanna gooooo!
lctx.
I really wanna gooooo!
lctx.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
what going to imperial does to you.....
made by a bunch of Imperial students, who decided that, in true student fashion, it was far too much bother to walk downstairs to the kitchen to fetch a cup of tea!
made from a two story (7.2m) crane composed of K'NEX and electric whisk
LOLL
lctx
Sunday, February 13, 2011
out of words.
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey (1937-)
cupid...
I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Ten ways to lovee...
1. Listen without interrupting. (Proverbs 18)love,
2. Speak without accusing. (James 1:19)
3. Give without sparing. (Proverbs 21:26)
4. Pray without ceasing. (Colossians 1:9)
5. Answer without arguing. (Proverbs 17:1)
6. Share without pretending. (Ephesians 4:15)
7. Enjoy without complaint. (Philippians 2:14)
8. Trust without wavering. (Corinthians 13:7)
9. Forgive without punishing. (Colossians 3:13)
10. Promise without forgetting. (Proverbs 13:12)
lctx.
Monday, February 7, 2011
sometimes when it looks like you're losing, you're really winning
“When you get a word spoken to you over and over again, it’s because you’ll have a process between the wilderness and the palace, in which you will need to remember that word. There is a process to greatness, and sometimes God takes a long time to act suddenly. But when you put a prince in a prison, he makes the prison a palace. Remember that sometimes when it looks like you’re winning, you’re really losing; and sometimes when it looks like you’re losing, you’re really winning.”
-
Kris Valloton
This is… GOLD. I have no words.
lctx.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
in the end..
... we're all just taller children
We never really grow up, we only learnt how to act in public.
Happy Chinese New Year!!!
lctx.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
typos
OMG. Mistakes like these can make one hell of a mess; like how my English teacher once typo-ed, "If you want a lift, let me know"
and instead sent:"If you want a life, let me know" to our scary-lookin' PE teacher who had crashed his car the day before.
Not that I'm immune from this either -.-' For my Economics Internal Assessment Portfolio, I recently discovered I typed "Argentina’s VER shits the world supply curve up (WS1 to WS2) on the world market..." when it should've been shifts.
Aww, dayum; guess this is just a sign that we're all human XD
lctx.
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