The contents of this post is selected and taken from IB Humor Checklist website.
You know you’re in IB when…
- Relatives that have been dead for years come visit you and suggest that you get some sleep.
- You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
- You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
- You can see individual air molecules vibrating.
- While writing a TOK paper, you begin to actually understand the material.
- You explore the possibility of setting up an IV drip of espresso.
- You wonder if brewing is an essential step in the consumption of coffee.
- You begin speaking in a language that only you and Channelers can understand.
- You believe that if you think hard enough, you can levitate.
- You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
- You heart beats in 7/8 time.
- You and Reality file for divorce.
- It appears that people are speaking to you in binary code.
- 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.
- 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.
- You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
- Five words: “WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?!?!?!?”
- You can spell “Baccalaureate”.
- You go to bed at 3AM and think, “Oh, it’s an early night!”
- Your favorite saying is “If I get a hundred on every test for the rest of the year…”
- Social life? What’s that?
- You’ve fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you’re in IB or not.
- You try to wake up fast enough to catch yourself sleeping – and succeed.
- You talk to yourself in the 3rd person.
- It’s okay to fail, so long as you are not alone.
- You frequently catch yourself saying “What?? We had homework??”
- a good night’s sleep is 5 hours
- 16+2= …wait let me get my graphing calculator!
- you have theoretical physics discussions at parties
- 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
- you understand the above the first time you read it
- whenever you’re watching a movie you find all the motifs and themes…without trying
- you start to laugh hysterically when you’re writing a bibliography because a book has TWO authors
- 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
- you brag that you only got 2 hours of sleep last night
- you write a two page answer to a one sentence question
- 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.)
- you love telling your boyfriend/girlfriend the story your math teacher told you
- this number means something: 42
- you forget to breathe
- your main addiction is to sleep…and you’re always experiencing withdrawal.
- your backpack is heavier than you are.
- You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you’ve said it before.
- you complain that you can’t store notes on your graphing calculator for the IB English exam.
- you can’t enjoy a heart-warming cartoon because the French grammar is wrong.
- You know the chemical composition of the ugly brown stains on the ceiling tiles.
- You see 0110 1001 0110 1001 and get horny.
- Your Theory of Knowledge class has you seriously thinking if Hitler was justified in killing those 6 million Jews.
- You make a date to do homework together and you actually do.
- Your pick-up lines include compliments on the quality of her (his) epidermis and the wonderful shape of her (his) occipital plate.
- You wonder about things like what would happen if your car travelled at the speed of light and you turned your lights on.
- You skip breakfast so you can get to school early to get in some extra cramming time and gain that “upper edge” on the rest of the class.
- The bags under your eyes are heavier than the ones carrying your textbooks.
- 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.
- Explaining is too difficult – you just tell people the answers.
- You plead insanity on a research paper.
- Your plea is accepted by your teacher.
- You actually read all the above!!