The IB Prayer
“As I lay me down to rest
A stack of books upon my chest,
And if I die before I wake
That’s one less test I have to take.”

You know you are an  International Baccalaureate (IB) student when …

1. Your backpack weighs more than you
2. You can function on 3 hours or less of sleep
3. You text your friends about homework and not your social life
4. The rest of the school calls you, (sigh) “Those Kids”
5. You are best friends with your counselor
6. You ask for school supplies for your birthday
7. You use the snow day to catch up on your homework
8. You use bigger vocabulary words than your teachers
9. You have 3 hours of homework and think, “Yeah, I have nothing to do”
10. Your social groups are really study groups
11. You learn to live on food that can be carried in your backpack
12. You convince your counselor to wave gym credits because you would rather be doing homework
13. You think a 90% is equivalent to an F (and so do your parents)
14. You can Google in your sleep
15. You have become immune to caffeine
16. You do homework in your sleep, especially math
17. You look forward to college, because they say it’s a cake walk compared to IB
18. You play hooky from school to finish your homework
19. Lunch is for homework, not eating
20. You have reoccurring nightmares about not finishing assignments
21. You own three or more calculators
22. You have a favorite element
23. Your backpack is so full that you can’t turn around on the bus without hitting someone in the head
24. Instead of playing video games, you play games on your calculator
25. You use your calculator to communicate with people during class
26. Your entire life is on a flash drive
27. You think about the chemical composition of your food
28. You hang out in your counselor’s office
29. You understand the joke “ATP, Energy!”
30. You have IB tests marked on your calendar a year in advance
31. You’ve paid to take tests
32. You know how to spell baccalaureate
33. You actually study in study groups
34. You’re OCD, no wait, CDO because you believe it should be in alphabetical order
35. Spark notes is on your favorites tool bar
36. 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.
37. You have a favorite equation
38. You memorize mathematical formulas in song
39. You use proper English when sending a text message
40. You go over the word limit on an essay and change the margins to fit the right amount of pages
41. You re-calculate your GPA every time you get an assignment back, and then run an algorithm that compares your GPA to your classmates’
42. You should be doing homework right now
43. You make a list called “You Know You’re in IB When…”
44. You understand the joke, “π and i are at a bar. π tells i to get real, then i tells π to get rational!”
45. Your biggest pet peeve is when people use the word “ironic” incorrectly
46. You make smiley faces on your graphing calculator using circle formulas … just for fun
47. You’ve considered the merits of injecting caffeine directly into your bloodstream, because coffee just doesn’t work anymore
48. You have a compelling argument for why this conversation never really happened
49. Trees begin threatening you
50. You think: Social life? What’s that? Can I download one of those?
51. You talk to yourself in the 3rd person
52. Your teachers get burned out by the curriculum

Links to IB Posts:

• MYP/IB PERSONAL PROJECT IDEAS
• THE MYP/IB PERSONAL PROJECT - PART 1
• THE MYP/IB PERSONAL PROJECT - PART 2
• THE MYP/IB PERSONAL PROJECT - PART 3