If something breaks, just assume it is IB Student messing around with WP. 
UPDATE:
My messing around with WP is over with. So I really like this new theme I’m using by HelloWiki.com. I have designed/coded WP themes on my own before but uhm…I don’t have time to design/code a custom WP theme for this site xP.
Imagine that you have been working on an important project for school (say, your History IA or your EE), and are almost done. You just have that one thing to revise…so you come home and you press the power button on your computer. You wait a few seconds. Hmm. Still nothing. You check the power cords and connections. They are all intact. The nagging voice in your mind tells you that your Important Project is due next week but EVERYTHING is on this computer that seems to have died. Crap.
Now if you made a backup of your files (on a CD/DVD/USB drive/etc.) and have access to another computer, then you’re fine. However, if you were lazy/technologically incompetent/afraid of computers and usually have no idea what the heck you’re doing, and have failed to make backups of your files then…well, you’re screwed. Better re-type everything! Or beg your instructor for mercy.
Once upon a time, IB Student was a naive Pre-IBer who did not backup any of their Important Project files. If not for their cleverness and creativity, they would have failed their Science Subject (twas a Science paper they failed to backup). IB Student wants to slap their Pre-IB self for being remarkably naive/impractical/stupid.
Fast-forward to today and IB Student almost compulsively backs everything up. Rule of thumb: make 3 backups of your Important Project files; one online, one on writable media (CD-RW, DVD-R), and if available, another computer.
It’s amazing how one’s overall opinion of humanity and its progress (or lack thereof) can change dramatically in one day, and then change dramatically again…and all because of a few hours of sleep missed or a few hours overslept.
My sleep cycles have lately been very erratic because I have had varying amounts of homework this past month. It can go anywhere from 1 assignment for the night to the Stress Overload Package (tests/assignments/essays/blah all in one even though the teachers are supposed to schedule things in consideration of other class work!).
At this point in my life, yes, I am perfectly aware that my lifestyle is not the best for my youthful age. Anyway…
Let us subtract 4 hours from a typically 7-hour sleep cycle.
It is difficult to see humanity in a good light when one is irritable, extremely sleep-deprived, overloaded with work, exhausted, and sick with a head cold. It is especially difficult when everyone seems to be existing simply to torture you with their biting sarcasm. They all seem to want to block you when you are on your way to class; it seems a significant part of humanity wants to congregate at extremely inconvenient spots where you want to walk through but because these congregations occur you cannot. If only you could just push through them…or even mow them down somehow.
You come home, a pile of work ahead of you so gargantuan you might be able to build a small hill with it. And what is it all for? You slap yourself; you must keep going because what you do (or don’t do!) will affect you come fall when you begin your quest for uni. Damn teachers! What do they take you for? Mindless drones of IB students who will do homework at whatever cost?
And then you watch the headlines, watch about how such and such group wants to fight the other because they look different or speak differently or have something they want. And then that very night in your IB History book you read of mass killings, of millions executed, tortured, driven out; blown up, enslaved by work, enslaved by despair. The numbers are so long, so massive, you can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of grief each death has caused.
“Damn, we’re cruel to each other.”
Damn, what a miserably lazy lot we are, we IB diploma candidates.
Damn, what a miserable race we are, we humans.
Let us assume it is a normal 8-hour sleep cycle.
Oh, how nice! She held open the door for me.
Look at those silly pre-IBers, always panicking about their tests. If they only knew how amusing they are to watch.
And that old man! It seems he needs my assistance. Let me help you carry these things. Oh thanks, I’ll smile back as well.
Oh, for a laugh. You’re a witty lot.
I almost sound bi-polar…
But I am not. 
Note that the nice day is notably short. There’s usually not much for me to say when everything is going dandy and well.
A year or so ago, I read an article on how certain parents wish to ban the IB Programme from the US. I do not think this article is available online, so I cannot link to it.
It’s depressing to me that there are parents in the US who aren’t against IB because of its rigidity and its stress-inducing practices…no, sir, there are some parents who want the IB Programme completely out of school curriculum choices because it’s…
“Anti-American!“
So because we’re not completely focused on US foreign policy and US history in our IB History classes and because we are not taught that the US is the “greatest nation” in the world that automatically means IB…
“Promotes left-wing isms!”
The first one is definitely not the case. And what, per se, is wrong in exposing students to alternative political views and economic systems? I would even go to say that IB at my school may have a Western, individualistic bent, especially since most of the books prescribed for history are written from the perspective of Western authors who have lived primarily in “capitalist” nations. Nations that either are or were under say, Communist rule, are often portrayed as being “backwards” nations.
Having said that, there is certainly a Eurowestern-centric tendency in the IB classroom…at least, where I live. The books we read, the facts that we are taught, almost always suggest that Western Europe is much more a civilised area of nations than other parts of the world. To say that IB promotes left-wing socio-political movements and is blatantly anti-American is basically unfounded.
“Encourages Anti-Christian sentiment!”
Teaching us about the schisms in Christianity and the various issues that have rocked the Christian religion during the course of history is not necessarily anti-Christian. Just because IB History does not focus entirely on Christianity’s history does not make it an anti-Christian programme, nor does not teaching IB students that Christianity is the way to go mean anything. The IB Programme is not a religious institution. If you want your children to have a Christian-focused education, please enroll them in a religious school, not, say, the IB Programme in a secular institution.
Argh.
I have much more to say on this, but I need to blow off some steam offline first before I post something I’ll regret. IB may be rigourous; it may deprive me of hours of sleep, but it is certainly ridiculous to say that it’s blatantly anti-Anything. I may revise this post tomorrow to clarify my arguments.
And don’t get me started on brainwashing. Brainwashing occurs no matter where you live, no matter what form it may take.
But that’s another post.
Dearest TOK,
At first, I thought I would like you, for what is more interesting than epistemology?
Then you began your verbose musings on every subject I study in school. That was when our chances at love began to dwindle.
The homework was not so abominable as in other classes. However…
Our relationship worsened when you repeated yourself. Constantly. Literally. Unbearably.
Why yes, Mr. Hempel, we get it. You like math. You love math.
Why yes, Mr. Halmos, we know you like math also.
And to all of you authors of these articles, we get it. Pure math is da bomb. Applied math ain’t so pretty.
Proofs are hawt.
Science is inductive. Math is deductive.
Logical deeeduckshun. Woohawhaysupyay.
I reckon you sleep on truth tables.
Now let me be honest when I say this: I am not planning on missing you when I graduate from IB. The one thing that you, dearest Theory of Knowledge class, has made me realise is that knowledge is ultimately pointless.
Kthxbi, please die.
Sincerely,
IB Student
So there. Above video is by penchant lama .
*Creepy music*
Imagine that you are an IB student in another world, one which is parallel to that of our own…
I take a nap everyday when I get home from School. Strange dreams seem to accompany these daily naps from IB–erm, school.
In a previous post, I mentioned that I had a dream that IB students play human chess as an exam for history class.
If these dreams are a connection to the many doppelgangers of I, IB Student, then that would indicate that in parallel worlds they have espionage classes in the guise of TOK. Yes, espionage. Which seems much more exciting than what I have to go through everyday in my world (hum-drum quizzes and tests).
In Some Strange Parallel World Where IB is Exciting, there is a TOK class in which the students are assigned to a partner and to two different countries. Each group or team is to keep quiet as to which country they were assigned to and what their assignment is supposed to be about.
IB Student’s doppelganger is assigned to Brazil and Peru; the job assignments were somewhat cryptic…there were only two words on the paper: restraint, surveillance.
So to conclude, IB is much more exciting in parallel worlds. And possibly more dangerous. 
[Image from gustavus.edu]
Indecisiveness. My favourite time of the year is coming. IB course selections. (No, it’s not food-related).
Yay. I am ever so excited. *sarcasm*
At my school’s version of the IB requirements, we are required to take an IB elective (I believe this is also a requirement for most schools’ IB). This sounds exciting, this illusion of choice, but to be honest…I may literally just pick out my selection for an IB elective out of a hat because I am not that decisive about such matters.
Apart from that, I am debating whether I should a) continue writing my memoirs about pre-IB and IB or b) actually do some homework or c) end world hunger. I think I’ll ultimately choose a and c since they’re generally easier for me to do than b.
Procrastination. Now that I realise it, I haven’t actually been that bad about procrastination this year. It’s a bit of a shock, actually; I’m ahead on many of the long-term projects assigned to us and I’m at that stage in my EE that involves actually going about the experiment (my topic is on science).
Speaking of which (procrastination), I saw this article about ways to procrastinate “for better results.” This article basically supports my belief that procrastination does have its benefits…
Parallel Universes! So lately I have been having dreams about alternate formats for IB examinations. If there are in fact other universes parallel to that of ours, and our dreams are a connection to those other universes, then my doppelganger must have really strange IB exams. In a parallel universe, an IB student takes her monthly history exams by…wait for it….playing human chess. If your team wins the game, you automatically receive a markband of 20. If a stalemate results, another game must be played. It was rather strange. I’m not very good at chess so I think I’d probably fail history in that strange parallel world.
Physics. As I read the book Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass, as the book is known in other countries), my ex-passion for theoretical physics (lawlz I’m such a nerd) reawakens itself. Particles! Quantum mechanics! PARALLEL UNIVERSES. ZOMG. (OK, these topics of which are related to theoretical physics aren’t necessarily mentioned specifically in the book but there are parts about the book that remind me of physics). Having said that, I can’t decide whether the book is more scifi than fantasy because it fits the characteristics of both. Ah wait, perhaps it’s BOTH. And miraculously enough, yes, I do in fact have managed to find time to read a book outside of the IB curriculum. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
