IB is Killing Me!
That's right. I hate IB. HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stand every teacher thinking that their class is the most important so they pile on a but load of homework. The only classes I have yet to get an excessive amount in are Physics and Theatre. Granted TOK hasn't given me too much trouble recently, but we have an assignment due on Thursday and everything else in the world is due Thursday. Here let me show you:
Thursday- History: Test, Internal Assessment part 1 thing due, Summary of Evidence due
TOK: 10 Guidelines due
Musical: Finale choreographed
Ok, so not everything is due and I know Sil won't kill me if I don't have the finale done, but still....History gives so much homework. I haven't started the IA stuff yet. I guess some of that is my fault, but English is taking over my life! I have no time for other homework. I can't do the things I want to because of homework. For example, today I was planning on going to a dance class I haven't been to in forever and this will be the last time in about 3 months I'll get to go and I can't because I have so much homework to do.
English: read at least 30 pages each night AND take notes on 2 key passages, 3 key phrases/lines, and 3 key words. Essay on a key passage due Monday.
Math: don't even get me started. I don't understand what we're doing right now...though no one does. I didn't understand last night's homework. I don't understand tonight's homework. And he just won't stop and make sure we all understand completely. No one knows what we're supposed to do. We've told him that no one understands, but he just won't slow down. I HATE HATE HATE HATE math and I wish I had dropped out when I had the chance. Now I spend the remainder of the day in depression because I don't understand and so I try to do the homework but I can't. I want to burn the book! I wish second tri was here. At least TOK and math would be gone.
TOK isn't too bad. It's just that I have to put everything for that class aside while I do English. I'm not behind in TOK. It's just that I don't do my best because i'm so worried about english. So I think I'll have an A no problem in TOK, it's just that I will not have gotten as good of a grade or experience as I could have.
English keeps me up until 2 AM every morning. No joke. Granted some of the fault lies with me....like not starting english until 10, but still. That's 4 hours!!!!!!! And if I want any outlet at all, I need to dance. So that's why I start homewrok so late. I'm tired of staying up really late and gettting up really early. I'm tired of my senior year being the most stressful time in my life. What happened to it being the best? Easiest? Yeah, IB I know.
I had a mental break down today. It didn't start at home either. It started in math. We were learning new material and I couldn't handle it. I really wanted to get up and leave and go to Sil and talk to her. Instead I sat for 20 minutes in class crying silently to myself. Then I couldn't take it any more. I broke down crying while driving home. I called Mom and we talked, while I sobbed. Dangerous while driving I know, but I couldn't help it. I tried to stop crying. But that didn't work. Well, now I must go to take Brooke to dance so that I can got home and do homework.
Senior year should be fun! Why do I feel so depressed? I HATE IB!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I know some teacher read what students put on their blogs and the internet and I hope they read this so they know how each one of them is really stressing out the IB students.
Thursday- History: Test, Internal Assessment part 1 thing due, Summary of Evidence due
TOK: 10 Guidelines due
Musical: Finale choreographed
Ok, so not everything is due and I know Sil won't kill me if I don't have the finale done, but still....History gives so much homework. I haven't started the IA stuff yet. I guess some of that is my fault, but English is taking over my life! I have no time for other homework. I can't do the things I want to because of homework. For example, today I was planning on going to a dance class I haven't been to in forever and this will be the last time in about 3 months I'll get to go and I can't because I have so much homework to do.
English: read at least 30 pages each night AND take notes on 2 key passages, 3 key phrases/lines, and 3 key words. Essay on a key passage due Monday.
Math: don't even get me started. I don't understand what we're doing right now...though no one does. I didn't understand last night's homework. I don't understand tonight's homework. And he just won't stop and make sure we all understand completely. No one knows what we're supposed to do. We've told him that no one understands, but he just won't slow down. I HATE HATE HATE HATE math and I wish I had dropped out when I had the chance. Now I spend the remainder of the day in depression because I don't understand and so I try to do the homework but I can't. I want to burn the book! I wish second tri was here. At least TOK and math would be gone.
TOK isn't too bad. It's just that I have to put everything for that class aside while I do English. I'm not behind in TOK. It's just that I don't do my best because i'm so worried about english. So I think I'll have an A no problem in TOK, it's just that I will not have gotten as good of a grade or experience as I could have.
English keeps me up until 2 AM every morning. No joke. Granted some of the fault lies with me....like not starting english until 10, but still. That's 4 hours!!!!!!! And if I want any outlet at all, I need to dance. So that's why I start homewrok so late. I'm tired of staying up really late and gettting up really early. I'm tired of my senior year being the most stressful time in my life. What happened to it being the best? Easiest? Yeah, IB I know.
I had a mental break down today. It didn't start at home either. It started in math. We were learning new material and I couldn't handle it. I really wanted to get up and leave and go to Sil and talk to her. Instead I sat for 20 minutes in class crying silently to myself. Then I couldn't take it any more. I broke down crying while driving home. I called Mom and we talked, while I sobbed. Dangerous while driving I know, but I couldn't help it. I tried to stop crying. But that didn't work. Well, now I must go to take Brooke to dance so that I can got home and do homework.
Senior year should be fun! Why do I feel so depressed? I HATE IB!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I know some teacher read what students put on their blogs and the internet and I hope they read this so they know how each one of them is really stressing out the IB students.
posted by Crystal @ 4:06 PM
10 Comments:
At 7:29 PM,
kirsten said…
Too true IB is killer. More so for you than I, but i'll be in your boat next year and I just want to let you know that you can ask me for anything, o.k? Anything that I can do, you can go ahead and ask me. If you feel super stressed, I will do all I can to help, alright? I want your senior year to be fun, too! So, I realize that I can't do your homework for you, but if you ever have a lot of little things that add up to big things, please let me take some of them off your hands... come memorizing time for the musical, if you don't have time to memorize lines, I'll say them all on tapes for you so you can sleep to them and have them memorized the next day, or you can listen to them while you do your homework. Seriously, i'm a genius, i should get paid for my ideas, j/k. But I'm letting you know that I'm here for you through whatever and that I am your humble servant, but "I'm not going to wear a tutu for anybody!!!" Remember: try to relax even for 3 minutes a day. Also, this helps me...
when i'm really stressed or angry, play beethoven really loud.
If you're in a good mood but slowly getting sadder or whatever, play lighter beethoven or Chopin. very relaxing. if all else fails, burn your books and sing to Wicked at the top of your lungs or come to my house and punch me in the face. it'll take a load off.
At 7:48 PM,
Professor_obvious said…
*hug* you sound like you needed one. :)
At 6:13 PM,
saphria said…
IB was hell and I know that there a numerouse people who would tell you so. I cant tell you how many breakdowns and all nighters we all had becuase I think we all lost count. It takes a drive that will overcome anything and you have that drive CC. As someone who has gone through this I can tell you this. Math and English are definetly the most important you cant fall behind in those so keep up your hard work there. The passage stuff is stupid I know but it will pay off in the years to come. With history dont stress the IA too much. Last year so many off us just wroteit at the last minute and still managed a good grade. It seems like the world will fall just take the most time on what you feel is most important and pull somthing out of yor butt for the other stuff. I'm gladd your continuing with dance becuase if I didnt have theater music and sports last year I would fliped. You can do it I know you can! I wish I was there for you right now so this is me giving you a great big bear hug! I recomend having IB trash talk parties or sessions. Those were always fun. I miss ya and never give up, never surrender!
At 4:20 PM,
Katjah said…
Honestly, I'm only IB 1, and even I am working my ass off... I'm not much of a blogger, but it feels good to get out some emotions here. I've got a bio exam tomorrow, extended essay outline due wednesday, two chem labs and one chem assignment due monday, and an english oral. I freak out whenever I see the letter combinations ''HL'' or ''EE'' anywhere on the street and analyse my msn conversations in terms of litterary values of the sentences I write. Is that still normal? I'm (or used to be) a chilled (or lazy, whatever you'd like to call it) student, but now I actually worry about not understanding why molecules are in a tetrahedral shape or not. The IB syndrom really got me there... And I'm by far not the worst case at my school.
Peace out and don't drink too much coffee (though it can have funny effects on the shapes of enzyme substrates in your bio assignment)!
Greetings, another IB victim
At 10:36 PM,
TomG said…
Hi, I just googled I Hate IB, and sure enough, there were tonsof results. What does that say about the damn programme? I'm havingthe same troubles with my senior year. Good luck though, it's almost over.
-some random guy
At 8:46 AM,
Webmaster said…
Why not create a petition to have it booted out of your school system? It's expenseive BS, that is what it is, created by the UN to get you to be citizens of 'world government'.
It's treasonous.
The best way to brainwash someone is to make them exhausted first...they will be too weak to fight and will be suggestible.
Please look at one of IBO's own websites to see that they were created and are run by the UN's UNESCO group:
http://communitytheme.ibo.org/eng/everyone
At 12:42 PM,
Lauren U. said…
You know what's sad? I'm in my third year of college and I still talk about how much I LOATHE the IB program! I'm actually writing a paper for one of my classes about it and how much suffering it caused me. Sure, I graduated high school with 30 credits, but at what cost? I got a freakin' ulcer in the 11th grade from the damn program! I was so determined to become a doctor, but IB burned me out so badly that I was way to stressed in my freshman year of college that I changed my major the next spring. Now I'm an educaiton major and loving it, but it was a HUGE ego buster at first. Going from PreMed to Education, after 4 years of hell in IB?! I was so depressed. But now I'm slowly coming to realize what IB really taught me... it's taught me how NOT to be a teacher, how NOT to teach and ruin kids lives by stressing them out so much that they are diagnosed as clinically depressed at the age of 17. I feel I am better prepared to be a teacher now because I have learned so much from the failings of the IB program. Yea I learned a lot, but I could have done the same thing in AP or something, and with MUCH less stress! My mom actually used to threaten to pull me out of the program, but the only reason I stayed was because I kept telling myself "it will all be worth it..." and I didn't want all my hard work to be for nothing. Looking back though, I feel like it kind of was. I was way too stressed and way too over worked, and it really hasn't paid off all that much. Nevertheless, if you're reading this and are still in the program, just stick with the stupid thing and get it over with. It's hell on earth, it really is, especially your senior year, but just try to stay with it. Above all though, SPEND TIME WITH FRIENDS, GO TO MOVIES, PLAY SPORTS, DANCE, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAINTAIN EVEN THE TINIEST FRAGMENT OF YOUR SANITY!!! and somehow you'll pull through. If anything, IB teaches you how to cheat, procrastinate, lie, and most importantly, B.S. the shit out of assigments!!! Our motto throughout our 4 years was "IB therefore I BS" And don't forget to cry at LEAST once a month to relieve some stress!!
At 12:43 PM,
Lauren U. said…
You know what's sad? I'm in my third year of college and I still talk about how much I LOATHE the IB program! I'm actually writing a paper for one of my classes about it and how much suffering it caused me. Sure, I graduated high school with 30 credits, but at what cost? I got a freakin' ulcer in the 11th grade from the damn program! I was so determined to become a doctor, but IB burned me out so badly that I was way to stressed in my freshman year of college that I changed my major the next spring. Now I'm an educaiton major and loving it, but it was a HUGE ego buster at first. Going from PreMed to Education, after 4 years of hell in IB?! I was so depressed. But now I'm slowly coming to realize what IB really taught me... it's taught me how NOT to be a teacher, how NOT to teach and ruin kids lives by stressing them out so much that they are diagnosed as clinically depressed at the age of 17. I feel I am better prepared to be a teacher now because I have learned so much from the failings of the IB program. Yea I learned a lot, but I could have done the same thing in AP or something, and with MUCH less stress! My mom actually used to threaten to pull me out of the program, but the only reason I stayed was because I kept telling myself "it will all be worth it..." and I didn't want all my hard work to be for nothing. Looking back though, I feel like it kind of was. I was way too stressed and way too over worked, and it really hasn't paid off all that much. Nevertheless, if you're reading this and are still in the program, just stick with the stupid thing and get it over with. It's hell on earth, it really is, especially your senior year, but just try to stay with it. Above all though, SPEND TIME WITH FRIENDS, GO TO MOVIES, PLAY SPORTS, DANCE, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAINTAIN EVEN THE TINIEST FRAGMENT OF YOUR SANITY!!! and somehow you'll pull through. If anything, IB teaches you how to cheat, procrastinate, lie, and most importantly, B.S. the shit out of assigments!!! Our motto throughout our 4 years was "IB therefore I BS" And don't forget to cry at LEAST once a month to relieve some stress!!
At 11:49 PM,
Tyler Grawien said…
Hi. I am nearly half way through my first year in the IB program. While reading the other comments posted on here, I feel so sorry for those who "loath" the program. My class of 15 is actually the second group to take the diploma program since our Wisconsin school started it two years ago. The teachers are as used to it as we are, causing them to load on the homework to a level that even the IB gurus (presumably somewhere in atlantis) wouldn't want. The 5-8 hours of homework we have every night is indeed exhausting, but beneficial.
I have been known to use the analogy of washing the dishes to explain what the program means to me. When the dishes are literally pouring out of the sink, and just calling for hours of scrubbing, no one is going to want to wash them. It is only after you drain the sinks after they are all washed that you realize what you accompolished. You remember back to before you started; all of the grumbling and complaining. You remember even offering to pay your brother to wash them for you. You then realize how amazing it is to be done. You look at the clean, empty sinks and understand that it was all worth it. You know that you did the right thing. It was hard....it took hours, but you now are able to go sit on the couch and relax.
To me, the IB program is a sink full of dishes....and i HATE dishes. But i can see that if i want to get to the places i want to in my life, i HAVE to do those dishes.
IB means so much more to me than proving im the best. It's the future. I've asked myself numerous times if i should sacrafice now and gain later, or gain now and sacrafice later. The answer, after some time of pondering, came to me simply. The longer I wait, the more dishes there are going to be.
I really hope someone will read this and look at their sink full of dishes differently. If this is true for you, please comment. I would love to chat with anyone who respects the IB program as I do, and am willing to post my msn/hotmail address. Thanks for listening to my nearly mindless rambling.
At 6:50 PM,
wishywashy360 said…
ok so i'm a sophmore and my school is implementing the IB program my senoir year which is complete bull if you ask me. they refuse to start the program on the incoming freshman, and since my school is a private school our tuition is like sky high now. but thats not the point. Since it would be my senior year we aren't able to take the diploma program just the certifict. I'm torn on if i should take IB classes or not. they're trying to crap a year and a half into one year which would require us to start school 3 weeks early. and i'm guessing that its going to be twice as much hw...any advice???!!!
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