You know you're in IB when...
1) you start walking in geometric circles
2) you start analyzing random books, song lyrics, and street signs
3) a good night's sleep is 5 hours
4) you have made up complicated metaphors relating your love life to a card game and have fun doing it
5) 16+2= ...wait let me get my graphing calculator!
6) the urge to shout "Sir, yes sir" overwhelms you and...you do it
7) the idea of "getting off on tangents" is hilariously funny
8) the word "switzerlish" makes more sense then "swiss"
8 addendum) "conspiricized" makes more sense that "conspired"... and then it takes you a couple of tries to get it right.
9) when you find mistakes in the yearbook you have to write the correction in every yearbook
10) you labor under the impression that index cards are "handy dandy nifty difty"
11) you get high off of intellectualism (credit Sheryl Crow...)
12) you logically investigate the mystical powers of the phrase "wouldn't it be funny if..."
13) you find deep meaning in the words to "I Wanna Be Sedated "
14) you don't speak french, yet you compile a list of insults in french
15) when reading "Les Mis." in French you spend the entire class period figuring out how to say "is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" en francais
16) you spell "am" wrong
17) it takes you 3 days to get this joke:
A: you know what?
B: no, introduce me.
18) you write stories and give them to other people to analyze for you because you don't understand them
19) you were a pair of antennae (deedleyboppers) on your head and think you're a water molecule
20) you get brownie points with your chemistry teacher for the above
21) you forget the meaning of the words "free time" yet remember the meaning of "mantic" (n. )
22) you have complicated dreams about graphing circles and ellipses
23) you start a Scrabble Club. wait...that's a bad thing?
24) you have theological discusions at parties
25) 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
26) whenever you're watching a movie you find all the motifs and themes
27) you start to laugh hysterically when you're writing a bibliography because a book has TWO authors
28) you find juxtapositon in places you shouldn't be looking for it
29) you spend all your time complaining about your work, then do it hurriedly because you want to get to bed and don't know where all the time went
30) you brag that you only got 2 hours of sleep last night
31) you have Amsco parties
32) you write a two page answer to a one sentence question
33) you look forward to arguing
34) you enjoy complaining and scaring underclassmen (yeah, and they gave us 500 pages of History, but I managed to do that even though my back is now permanently damaged by the weight of my backpack, and the track bugs almost got me so I was exhausted from running... etc.)
35) you have no idea who the drug dealers are
36) you consider sweet tarts, chocolate, and caffeine drugs (so actually, you DO know who the drug dealers are, in a way...)
37) you love telling your boyfriend the story your math teacher told you
38) you give out fliers anoucing that you're going to the movies
39) when writing down decimals you don't understand why you can't write them to the 10th decimal place
40) you feel sorry for the chemicals in chemistry class
41) your math teacher is telling you a story and you say "that could never happen, the light bulb would burn out" and it MAKES SENSE
42) this number means something
43) your brain is such a pile of mush that you carry around a teddy bear so you don't start shaking in the middle of class
44) you are already planning where your lockers will be next year
45) 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...
46) 7 classes means seven classes
47) the longest you can go without caffeine is less than 24 hours...okay, okay, less than 12 hours
48) you faithfully copy words without vowels in them, yet somehow understand them
49) you still don't have a schedule after a week of school.
50) your teachers taunt each other and/or hit themselves on the head with markers or water bottles
51) it's TWICE as amusing to have TWO of SOMETHING than one of it.
52) it's THREE times as amusing to have THREE of SOMETHING (julie...!)
53) the wall really IS there! (Mr. Baron PROVED it...CLUNK!)
54) rolling down hills is an appropriate math project.
55) you start overanalyzing the rainbows on people's clothing.
56) you write a newsletter half in Latin.
57) your Physics teacher knows how to say "outstanding" in over 30 languages, yet chooses "cool beans!"
58) you need a graphing calculator to bake.
59) you're disappointed when you only get 100% on a test.
60) you're smarter than all your teachers...no, that just means you're in public school.
61) you relax vicariously through your non-IB friends.
62) you forget to breathe (or to eat, or to sleep, or other luxuries).
63) you realize the IB drop outs are smarter than you are.
64) you utilize semi-advanced computer technology to make stupid web sites like this one!
65) writing poetry is your idea of a good time.
68) you have a better love life on the computer than in real life.
69) this number means something to you...something you haven't followed up on yet
70) you write parodies of Faulkner's work for fun.
71) you attempt to do your extended essay on Dr.Seuss
72) your idea of a 3am party game is analyzing the socio-political commentary in Dr.Seuss
73) you complain about studying for your foreign language exam...in your foreign language
74) you have a thought, and it hurts.
75) you have a hurt, and it thoughts.
76) your main addiction is to sleep...and you're always experiencing withdrawal.
77) you get angry at someone for being late so you can't copy their homework.
78) your backpack is heavier than you are.
79) you realize that something is missing when your backpack feels too light.
80) you complain that you can't store notes on your graphing calculator for the IB English exam.
81) you get a smug satisfaction out of f-f-f-finally remembering the word "fovea" (or f-f-f-forgetting "Fundamental Laws")
82) you use logic to justify the color of your nail polish.
83) you can't enjoy a heart-warming cartoon because the French grammar is wrong.
84) the most peer pressure you have recently experienced is someone trying to get you to eat potato chips.
85) the central ficus of this passage is... um, kinda green and spiky?
86) Philosophy club is the highlight of your Friday.
87) Mrs. Svrcek wants to see you. (dun, dun, dun)
88) you check out a stack of books from the library each week and return them a week later... unread.
89) you break down in tears in the middle of Biology (or English, or History, or whatever) class, can't stop, and can't explain why.
90) you attempt to graph perfection in your free time.
91) you ask whether a purity test has essays.
TO BE CONTINUED..........
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