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@adventuresofanibstudent
hi! I'm an IB student too, what do you think of making friends with IB students overseas?
Hey, Chase here!
I think its really cool that IB gives the opportunity to interact with people around the world. I’m currently in a group chat for the college I’m attending next year, and one of the coolest things about that is hearing about what IB is like in other places. I am always a fan of global sharing and IB is a very cool connection that allows us to do that!
Thanks for your question!
IB graders be like
Good luck to everyone starting their exams tomorrow! You’ve been preparing for this for two years, so don’t stress too much about it. Just go in, show off what you can do, and have fun.
Master Harold and the boys notes? Or anything that you have really, I would appreciate it haha :p
I unfortunately don’t have much for Master Harold but here’s the link to my folder! I think it has two short journals that I wrote, some notes from people’s presentations in my class, and maybe a short thought dump on the play. Sorry there’s not more!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hn1Y1jNj2f0mGIB72WLWCrG8leGF2Qx0rFW1SdrRHCk/edit?usp=sharing
Heyy for my ib I need to do a CAS project but I don't know what to do, do you have any recommendations?
Hi! I did a post here about CAS, ToK, and the EE that has some good CAS info as well as suggestions for projects and stuff like that that might be of some use. What I would generally say when considering CAS is to first assess what you normally do (like extracurriculars and stuff) and try to make it into a CAS project or activity. I used a lot of stuff that I was already involved in like Band and competitive speech for my CAS activities and that took off a bit of strain since I was adding new stuff to my schedule.
Otherwise if there’s something that you’ve wanted to do for a while like train for a 5K maybe or write a short novel, you can use CAS as an excuse to do it provided you can find an adult supervisor.
I wish I could help a bit more, but just with the way CAS worked at my school not a lot of people really ventured out for CAS projects and primarily used things that they already did.
-Palmer
I just handed my Written Task 1.1 Draft in and i am so relieved but at the same time I'm scared that all I wrote is complete bullshit hahah
Honestly, that’s what so much feels like haha. It feels so so so good to finish, and even if you feel like you bs’d the entire thing it probably went alright. As long as you convincingly bs, it’s all good! I’m glad that it’s done for you.
-Palmer
Hit me up with any resources please? Especially for IB History?
I don’t have a ton, but I can give you my stuff from last year! Sorry, this is super late.
Here’s the link to my folder from senior year: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B372JlqRcw_jZHpXMWV3ZnI5WmM&usp=sharing
It’s a bit messy, and for that I apologize. The most useful stuff would probably be the big “REVIEW” folder which was kind of collaboration between my classmates and I last year, the second semester notes maybe, and then some of the other documents like “A Comparison Between Stalin and Chairman Mao”. I also have my IA and stuff and some of the short papers that I wrote last year for class in there. Sorry it’s so messy, but I hope that it helps!
-Palmer
Hi!! I'm currently doing the ib and I take maths HL and I'm finding it so hard to catch up with the class and with the teaching pace. Do you have any advice to organize my maths life out? Or to improve in general!! Thank you have a nice day❤️
Hey, I’m in Math HL this year too, and it is certainly a tough class. I’ve found that sites like Khan Academy are really helpful if you find yourself falling behind the teacher, since they walk through the concepts in a series of videos that you can easily watch a bunch of over the weekend. I’d also suggest talking to your teacher about how to stay caught up with the curriculum because a lot of the things taught in Math HL build upon each other. I know that for me personally, going in for help on certain topics has been very helpful. If anyone else knows other ways to tackle Math HL, feel free to chime in!
-Chase
hello!! as u kno or don’t, i’m in the ib (international baccalaureate) program!! so bc of that i typically shouldn’t have time for tumblr (but w/e) && it’s probably gonna come down to that soon! :’) but i’m here to ask for a small favor from u guys.
in ib, we’re required to do these investigations/extensive reports/experiments (depending on the subject) for each ib subject we take which are called IAs (internal assessment(s)). i’m in statistics rn && for my stats ia i need a lot of data points. in order to collect these data points, i have made a survey which can be found here. if u fill it out, it would really help me!! i need to get as many data points as possible so if u share the link w ur friends it would help me even further!! ^^
for any of u guys who fill this out, message/shoot me an ask so i can write down a mini shout out post for u guys. also, in the report there’s a section called acknowledgements and i’ll mention everyone of u. every. single. one. and take a picture of it and upload it to tumblr!! ^^ anyways, thank u very much!!
>> link to the survey <<
Hello! I wanted to ask about IB. I'm starting IB next year and I'm pretty afraid of how much the workload might be and whether or not I'm capable of handling it. I was wondering if you could tell me about your experience? ( As a side note: I'm thinking of doing HL Chemistry, HL Physics, & maybe HL Maths. I'm wondering if this is overkill and I should drop one? )
If you have the will to handle it, you can!
This is something that I end of saying in a lot of asks like these, but I believe it to be true. If you’re motivated to do IB and care about your subject matter and are willing to put in the effort, it is definitely doable! That’s kind of the philosophy that I adopted going into IB. My experience in IB was pretty hectic. To be completely honest, I actually did IB because I’m a petulant and vindictive child and people told me that I couldn’t because I wanted to stay in my extracurriculars and stuff. So of course, I directly did the exact opposite thing and joined.
Not gonna lie, for a while it kind of sucked trying to balance things like band, the school musical, piano lessons, etc. and IB. But with the time I spent in IB, my reasons for staying in it changed. I liked the discussion base, I liked reading different literature, I liked having a smaller group of peers to connect with, I liked the global focus, I liked... well, everything. After finding a better reason for myself that wasn’t “They told me that I couldn’t but I’m going to anyway” it kind of became a lot easier to rationalize why I wanted to do it and therefore I became motivated. And with motivation anything can happen.
(That was literally the cheesiest thing I’ve ever typed, but I digress.)
In any case, what it boils down to is figuring out why you want to do and and then, well... just doing it. If you want to do well, you can put in the work and effort to do so. I think that you can do it, but you know yourself better than anyone else. It’ll be stressful and there might be times where you feel like you can’t handle it, and it’s in those moments where you need to take a step back and chill for a little bit. Your mental health is important, and if you need to take a break you take a break. That’s something that I had to grind into my own skull because I always tried to keep going.
As for your HLs, I guess my answer again is that it kind of depends on you. Do you really like those three subjects? Why do you want to take all of them HL? If you feel like you genuinely want to study all of them, I would say go for it. But if you’re hesitating, I would say that it wouldn’t be unreasonable to drop one of them. I never took any of them in my time in IB, but I know that they can be time consuming and difficult but also very fun (to be honest, this actually goes for most HLs, haha) They’re three tough HLs, and if you don’t really really want to do it, I wouldn’t try and overextend yourself. But if you want to go for it, do it! Just make sure that you have another HL so that you have three total and stuff.
Sorry for the long answer! I know it’s kind of wishy-washy, but that was kind of my experience in the program and stuff. I wish you the best in the upcoming years with IB and everything else!
-Palmer
Hi! My name is Kate, I'm an IB senior in the U.S.! I just started this little blog to keep me motivated this year, I'd love to be able to reach and follow more people! If you could help me out, I'd really appreciate it!
Hi Kate! The IB community on here is really fun and cool and stuff, glad to have you! :)
Everyone, please follow studioussenioritis for more IB stuff!
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Hey, I thought I would let you guys know that since Palmer graduated and is going off to college soon, I’ll be helping her run the blog!
My name is Chase, I’m in 11th grade this year, so just starting the IB program. I’m currently enrolled in Music SL, Psych SL, Bio HL, English HL, Math HL, and Latin SL. However, I’m working with my counselor to see if there’s a way I can change from Music SL to Physics SL, so that is not set in stone.
I’ll do my best to be around and to answer any questions I can. Hope all is going well!
Hi! I was wondering if you could please publish this so anyone can see it! I'm Mackenzie and I'm finishing IB this November. I do SL Dance, and it's really hard to find online resources and help for IB Dance. I'd like to offer my help for anyone doing Dance (SL or HL), or just wants some help/a sounding board. Also if anyone wants help with an EE in Dance! :)
Wow yes totally! That’s so so so cool that you do dance!
Just to put this out there, if you ever need resources (especially for History HL - 20th Century World and History of the Americas) just send me a message and I’d be happy to send them your way. I have so much review stuff amassed and would be very happy to send it. Also, if you ever do:
Hamlet
True West
Top Girls
Master Harold and the Boys
I have stuff for those too. But yeah. Hit me up. I have a bunch of stuff sitting in Google Drive. Also if you ever want examples or stuff from IAs or a History EE I’ve got all of that lying around as well.
Thank you for you answer! I really appreciate it
I know I’m late to responding to this, but thanks for saying thank you! It means a lot :)
Hey! First of all, congrats with the end of all the IB tortures. Second of all, I came seeking for an advice. I have a habit of overestimating my energy and motivation when it comes to studies, so I find it extra difficult to survive somewhere in the middle of a school year, but end up managing somehow. How difficult is my life going to be if I take HL bio, art and hist and SL math, english and russian (native speaker)? I'm mostly concerned with the amount of reading
Hey thanks! And I’m sorry that it took me so so so long to reply to this - I realized today that I hadn’t and had a “Yikes!” moment. I’m very sorry about that.
A lot of kids have the same problem that you do. It’s easy to hit a rut somewhere in the middle, and I can honestly say that it’s probably going to happen. You just have to do what you’ve been doing and manage. It’s hard and you don’t want to do stuff because the motivation isn’t there, but once you do them it’s done and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. I totally feel you, though. Just keep pushing and you can do it!
It sounds like you’ve got a challenging schedule, though. I mean, every IB schedule is challenging so I guess that was a bit of a redundant statement. Reading is going to be a big part of your classes. Depending on your learning style and your teacher, Bio can be a lot of reading or not much. I didn’t read much in bio, but I know that some teachers require more of it or some people learn better. In my experience though, you can figure out how much you need to read based on your own learning style.
I didn’t take art, but from my understanding it’s less reading and more doing. Some of my friends that took HL Art were always working on their art journals and put a lot of effort into it along with their projects. It is a work intensive class (to the best of my understanding) but if you’re passionate and engaged with the subject you can totally make it work.
I can say that history is a lot of reading. Going into primary sources and texts written by experts is a big part of it. I had a lot of books this year, and I can honestly say that if I had 100% done all of my readings I would have probably scored just a bit better during the year and on my exam. Reading is really crucial to history, but you just have to plan and manage it! It was, however, my most work intensive class this year. It’s definitely one that you’ll have to devote a lot of time to.
SL math is pretty chill! I liked it a lot, and there wasn’t a big focus on reading, at least in my class. Depending on your teacher, it can go from work intensive to, well… really chill. Once again, it depends on your learning style and how you best absorb that kind of information.
As for English and Russian, it kind of depends. I’m not very familiar with what SL Language A looks like as a class. I took HL English (as language A), and for me that was a lot of reading literature and stuff. It wasn’t like a book a week, but we read six books my first year, and two books, three plays, and a bunch of essays and poetry my second year. I would assume that there will be a fair amount of reading in that class.
I took SL French for language B, and there wasn’t a ton of reading in there. I really liked it as a class. The readings that we did were pretty short and we just did comprehension exercises with them and all that. Between the two classes, you should be alright!
I know that it’s hard to keep up the motivation, but when you hit a rut just push through it! It’s going to be challenging, especially between Art and History I think. But you definitely can do it! It sounds like you have a really fun schedule lined up and I hope that you have a good experience! Hit me up if you have any more questions and stuff. I’ll really try to respond to them in a more timely manner!
Hi i'm a rising senior who's struggling with ee writing. I only have a few days to write my first draft before it's due and I realized now that my research question is terrible and I'm awfully lost. My research question is "How does Khaled Hosseini use dramatic foils to emphasize his theme of imprisoned lives of women in Afghanistan in “A Thousand Splendid Suns”?" but I realized that I'm not doing much except listing the differences between Mariam and Laila, two characters. Please help?
Alright, so basically what you’re going to have to do is connect the two parts of your research question. Basically, you’re halfway there. I haven't read “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, but foils are always a good point to work with. Start with the two characters you have. Listing differences is a good way to begin. Basically, you just need to push it a little further and establish them as foils. It’s a small connection, but it lets you proceed to the next part of your analysis.
I looked up a little on the wiki page, but forgive me for not knowing much about the book! I wish I could help you more with that. So you start off by listing the differences. After that, pretty much explicitly state why this makes them foils. So like, “From the beginning of the novel, Mariam and Laila hold opposite places in society. While both are women, Mariam is born without privilege while Laila immediately holds it.” Continue with that kind of thing (with text substantiation of course) and then go to more “Through this, Hosseini clearly establishes them as foils in terms of their opposing social status and generational gap” or something along those lines. Once you’ve established them as foils, that’s the big thing.
Now that you have that, you have to get to the “why it matters” kind of thing. From your research question, it’s how they emphasize the theme of imprisoned lives of women in Afghanistan. The tack I would try to take with this (from the little I know about the book) is that he uses their nature as foils to establish the point that even though they are essentially opposites and come from different generations and different backgrounds, they are both imprisoned in some form or another. (A marriage within the novel?).
Essentially, you’ve got the "what”, but you just need to connect to the “why”. If you wanted to explore any other characters, you could try to do that. However, I think you should revise your research question a little bit to narrow the focus of your paper just down to those two characters. It’ll let you dig a little deeper and also hold your focus within the topic.
I hope that this helped a little bit! If you have a little time, take like an hour or two to just outline your organization if you haven’t already. Trust me, it gives you more direction in your writing and makes it easier. I didn’t make one until I was like half done with my rough draft, and it made it go way faster. I hope that it all goes well for you, sorry I couldn’t be of more help with the book!
