What's IB anyway?
Technically International Baccalaureate Programme. My particular class long since changed it to the more accurate "International Bachelorette Programme" (since we have about eight guys in IB and half of them are gay at that). My best friend Nichole prefers the more amusing term "I'm Better".
And since there are people
who are not Ruka that also seem to care about how I'm doing for whatever reason:
This morning, I had a biology final (not the IB Bio test, mind you, just a final that our teacher wanted to throw at us) an hour before we sat for the IB History test (papers 1 and 2). I was talking to Rebecca (the valedictorian, also an IB student) and complaining that because our teacher had done that, we didn't have any time to cram for our history test, at which point she began screaming at me that I'm the last person who needs to cram for anything because I soak information up like (I really liked this simile) "an overbloated sponge".
Then we went over to the church, since IB tests aren't held in the school (we don't have enough room). The nearby Mormon church lets us use their gymnasium during the day for tests, since we outgrew the Baptist church next door. So we crammed in the waiting room and then went in for the test. After that hour, we left for a ten-minute break, at which point me and my best friend Stephanie ran outside and rolled in the grass for five minutes, then crammed for the other five with Nichole. Then we went back inside for Paper 2.
Paper 1 (one hour) is easy; it's a DBQ, you don't really have to know much of anything. Paper 2 (one hour, fifteen minutes) has you choose between around 30 questions total, and you only have to answer two of them in all, the only requirement being that they have to be from the six different topics (the rise and rule of single party states; causes, practices, and effects of war; etc).
Tomorrow we will sit at 8:00 AM for the Paper 3, which is a selection of three out of 25 random questions about all of the European history we've learned this year (I need to review my Napoleon and Revolutions of 1848, and Italian and German unification...) And there seems to be always guaranteed a Mussolini question, so I should go over that too. It's one hour and 15 minutes.
I'm WAY more worried about the back to back Paper 1 and Paper 2 of Biology, though, that comes not an hour after history ends. Paper 1 is multiple choice, and though others seem to think that's the hardest part of the test (yes, IB knows how to make multiple choice incredibly difficult), I find it easy; it's the freakish Paper 2 stuff I'm worried about. It starts out as short answer questions, then turns into full-blown essay questions; I need to review my photosynthesis, calvin and krebs cycles, EVERYTHING tonight. Oh god.
Paper 3 is Thursday morning, so no need to worry about that just yet.
I also have a college class Wednesday (6:00 PM to 9:00 PM) that I haven't been able to do any of my homework for all week. And before that, a review session for When Rain Clouds Gather after school, so I won't have any time to eat and I probably won't get home until about 11:00 (lol public transportation at night), and then cram for Paper 3 Bio.
My sole mercy is that I don't have Calculus to worry about, since I took that last year and got the bare minimum of a grade I needed to pass, which is all I care about (I suck so badly at math in general and Calc in particular that it's not even funny). And at least bio is easier than physics, since our teacher is actually
competent. I've also at least taken care of Human Rights entirely. And our yearbooks came in today! I did a good job as an Editor-in-Chief! And after coming home at around 6:00 (after a study session), I bought myself some strawberry cheesecake ice cream as a treat, 'cause I needed it.
Yay for seeing the sun shining through the clouds?
oh god i have to go cram now see you guys
