In 10th grade, I decided to start doing pre-IB. I still didn't really have any problems with any of my classes, except that I wasn't motivated to do anything in French (which I'd decided to take alongside Spanish that year, which I had already been doing). That year, I got A's and B's, along with a single C in French.
This year is the real deal though. I'm in IB. It's really not that hard, unless you procrastinate a lot, which I (and 95% of my classmates) do. I'm horrible at English because my teacher only ever gives essays as assignments and grades them harshly. I have a D in that class, but that's my lowest grade. I have A's and B's in all my other classes.
The beginning of the year was pretty easy. We didn't get as much homework as we expected from IB, and therefore I didn't actually have to stay up till 4AM doing it, and I didn't see what all the fuss was about.
Now, though...
Since it's almost the end of the school year, and almost time for the AP exams, most of my classes are giving a shitload of work that wouldn't really seem like a shitload if I didn't procrastinate so much.
We have to do two chapters every week now instead of one in APUSH because we wouldn't finish in time for the AP exam if we didn't.
We just did our IB Film IAs and Oral Presentations...neither went particularly well for me because I suck.
We're doing a freaking music matrix in Music Theory and it is hard as fuck. Why do I have to do this? My teacher said even AP Music Theory students don't do it. I signed up for standard level Music Theory 1. We've gone through the workbooks for Music Theory 1-3, and now we're doing freaking matrices and soon we have to write a full composition and find performers to perform it live. I'm not even joking.
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| What do you mean this is hard? |
We had to finish our documentary script for IB Film by Friday. It had to be an 8-10 page, two column script, with video on one side and audio on the other. Sure, we were already supposed to have half done, but I had to completely redo that half because I wrote about philosophy and how film reflects it, instead of, you know, how the film affects and changes the philosophy.
I was up till almost 3AM and there was a good half-hour where I just wanted to burst into tears because it was past midnight, I didn't even have the first half rewritten, I was tired, and my room smelled like cookies for no goddamn reason.
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| Me on Thursday night/Friday morning |
Tonight I would've done the same for the first 4 pages of my math IA that are due tomorrow, except that we had all week in class to work on it, and I'm not one to sit idle in class. I've got 4 pages, I just need to fill them in a bit more. It won't keep me up till 2AM.
I still have homework to do though. I should probably go. But tumblr.
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