Thursday, November 11, 2010

What I.B. Program really is

I think today is another typical day for an I.B. student.
Any fellow netizen IB-ers will know what I'm talking about.
(I'm loaded with bullshit homework assignements to do)

To those of you who don't know what the I.B. Program is, it is a two-year (4-year depending on where one goes) "rigorous academic" program offered in high schools worldwide that "widens" one's knowledge in many different academic subjects and views of the world, (AND) at the same time prepares one for college (I.B. stands for International Baccalaureate, whatever that means).
I don't think that's an accurate description of what is exactly is.
The following really breaks it down and accurately describes what the IB program is/intended to do.

"International Baccalaureate (a.k.a. IB, Idiot's Baccalaureate, @*#&@#^^$,It's BS International Bullshit, It's Bollocks or more simply, Hell) is a two-year program of internationally recognized education edumacation for students aged sixteen to nineteen. As an internationally recognized program, this is the definitive ticket to Failure any university around the world (apart from countries that do not give a crap offer the program in state schools, e.g. China or Russia or Bosnia and Herzegovina). Furthermore, it requires you to dedicate your life and soul to the evil gods of the IB, also known as the IBO, who live in Buenos Aires/Geneva/Cardiff/Paris/London/Hell/God knows where, and who delight in devising revisions to the syllabus that will make it impossible to pass. All IB classes come with a warning sticker attached. Don't blame us if you weren't shown it. It generally reads: WARNING. IB class. Prepare to lick your teachers boots for a seven, share a bed with your laptop and calculator, worship your textbook and invest large amounts of money in bribes. There is a possibility that you will learn something, but this will be covered with so much bullshit that you will never remember any of it. Ever. Also prepare to have no life what so ever (because you're selling your soul to the devil)." - http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com -

So basically it's a program designed to make teachers give students tons of homework just for the lulz and troll them with harshly graded extra assignments called internal assessments and see who survives at the end.
Who knows why people continue to sign up for the program and stick with it...
Well, I'm one of those people and I can't answer why I even bothered to look at what it is in middle school o_o

Anyway, speaking of internal assessments, I have one due tomorrow for my economics class (in which I REALLY HAVEN'T LEARNED ANYTHING -_-).
I guess I'll just find a decent article on BBC or something and BS my way through.

OH! There is one thing that the I.B. Program definitely teaches you - the ability to BS with quality on practically ANYTHING.
I think that's the most I got out of being in this program.
It teaches you how to BS SO GOOD that whoever reads your essays/papers won't understand what the #$%@ you're talking about but at the same time the paper will sound quasi-intelligent that the reader WILL think it's great.
That's what I'm about to do on my econ I.A. :)


P.S. The I.B. Program isn't that bad. Really. It isn't.

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