You Know You're in IB When .. (127 Examples)

1. You are already planning where your lockers will be next year. 
2. At least 4 of your classes (history, english, TOK, psychology) are talking about almost the same thing, or at least you think they are ... it could be an illusion ... maybe you're not in class at all ... 
3. You start walking in geometric circles. 
4. You start analyzing random books, song lyrics, and street signs.
5. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before. 
6. A good night's sleep is 5 hours. 
7. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before. 
8. You can't enjoy a heart-warming cartoon because the French grammar is wrong. 
9. You have made up complicated metaphors relating your love life to a card game and have fun doing it. 
10. 16 + 2 = ... wait, let me get my graphing calculator! 
11. The idea of "getting off on tangents" is hilariously 

funny

.
12. You start overanalyzing the rainbows on people's clothing. 
13. You write a newsletter half in Latin. 
14. Your Physics teacher knows how to say "outstanding" in over 30 languages, yet chooses "cool beans!" 
15. You need a graphing calculator to bake. 
16. You're disappointed when you only get 100% on a test. 
17. You're smarter than all your teachers ... no, that just means you're in public school. 
18. You relax vicariously through your non-IB friends (what non-IB friends???). 
19. You forget to breathe. 
20. Your backpack is heavier than you are. 
21. You realize that something is missing when your backpack feels too light. 
22. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before. 
23. You complain that you can't store notes on your graphing calculator for the IB English exam.
24. You write parodies of Faulkner's work for fun. 
25. You attempt to do your extended essay on Dr. Seuss. 
26. Your idea of a 3 AM party game is analyzing the socio-political commentary in Dr. Seuss. 
27. You complain about studying for your foreign language exam ... in multiple foreign languages.
28. You write stories and give them to other people to analyze for you because you don't understand them. 
29. You were a pair of antennae (deedleyboppers) on your head and think you're a water molecule. 
30. The fact that "wear" is spelled wrong in #29 bothers you. a lot.
31. You forget the meaning of the words "free time" yet remember the meaning of "literary analysis" (n. ) 
32. You have complicated dreams about graphing circles and ellipses. 
33. You take over the hallways in the morning before school, unloading your bookbag and settling in for a 30-minute homework party.
34. You walk in the movement patterns of a knight to improve your chess strategy while you nap on your way to your next class. 
35. You have theological discussions at parties 
36. You have theoretical physics discussions at parties. 
37. 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. 
38. Whenever you're watching a movie you find all the motifs and themes ... without trying.
39. "Friends" and "fellow IBers" are interchangeable. 
40. You go to bed at 3 AM and think, "Oh, it's an early night!" 
41. Your favorite saying is "If I get a hundred on every test for the rest of the year ..." 
42. Social life? What's that? 
43. You've fooled yourself into believing that colleges actually care whether you're in IB or not. 
44. You try to wake up fast enough to catch yourself sleeping - and succeed. 
45. You talk to yourself in the 3rd person. 
46. You write sentences on multiple choice tests. 
47. It's okay to fail, so long as you are not alone. 
48. You frequently catch yourself saying "What?? We had homework??" 
49. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing you've said it before. 
50.The Sun is too loud. 
51. Trees begin threatening you. 
52. You can see individual air molecules vibrating.
53. While writing a TOK paper, you begin to actually understand the material. 
54. You explore the possibility of setting up an IV drip of espresso. 
55. You wonder if brewing is an essential step in the consumption of coffee. 
56. Things become "Very Clear". 
57. You begin speaking in a language that only you and Channelers can understand. 
58. You believe that if you think hard enough, you can levitate. 
59. You heart beats in 7/8 time. 
60. You and Reality file for divorce. 
61. It appears that people are speaking to you in binary code. 
62. 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. Oh well, ice cream time!
63. You discover the aesthetic beauty of school supplies. 
64. 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. 
65. You yell: "STOP TOUCHING ME!!!" even though you're the only person in the room. 
66. You manage to complete a semesters worth of homework the day before the term ends. 
67. You finish your extended essay shortly after midnight. Your smile of satisfaction fades when you remember to start on your World Lit paper. 
68. You've sold your soul … and have to wait 4 years to get it back.
69. You cloned yourself so you could sell your clones' souls to each of your teachers.
70. 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. 
71. You have a special "test writing sweater" that you wore to all the IB exams. 
72. Your idea of impure thoughts is whether or not to copy math homework. 
73. You can count your first math quiz grade on one hand. 
74. You wonder if there's SparkNotes on the Calculus book. 
75. You don't really cheat - you just tell people the answers. 
76. Cheating became too difficult, so you took up telepathy. 
77. You have a tab running at Barnes & Noble. 
89. BN.com, amazon.com, and Books-A-Million offered to give you a free shipment/order each so you took full advantage of it and are now banned from those stores/sites (it took 6 semis to deliver the orders!) 
90. You understand that the list skipped from 77 to 89 for one sole reason: LACK OF SLEEP.
91. You've consulted tarot cards for hints on a History test. 
92. You have the library on speed dial. 
93. You've developed an imprint of your book bag in your back. 
94. Your best hope for most classes is either divine intervention or a strategically placed lightning bolt. 
95. Your books weigh more than you do. 
96. Your thesis for the Extended Essay is whether or not Bert and Ernie are gay. 
97. Your alternate thesis for the Extended Essay is why IB jokes/checklists are so prolific and the amount of fact contained within them. 
98. You plead insanity on a research paper. 
99. Your plea is accepted by your teacher. 
100. You do your essays on the plane ride to school. 
101. You can lead your way through a frog's intestines with your eyes closed. 
102. You have to stop twice and get gas to make it all the way to school. 
103. You've been out various times looking for the Abridged Cliff's Notes. 
104. You consider giving up going to the bathroom permanently to give you more time to study. 
105. Your backpack is only comfortable when it weighs >30 pounds. 
106. You have convinced your parents the "1" you received on your IB Chemistry exam was really the "top 1% of all IB students worldwide". 
107. You skip breakfast so you can get to school early to get in some extra cramming time to gain that "upper edge" on the rest of the class.
108. Your home becomes a "home away from home". 
109. You think the meaning of life is: G = -RTlnK.
110. Your favorite equation is e(iπ)+1=0 
111. Said equation comes up on a test. 
112. You go insane from trying to work Pythagoras' constant and the golden rule into said equation. 
113. You succeed in mathematically correctly adding above to said formula without changing number bases. 
114. Pressed for time, you conclude a history essay with, "And they lived happily every after. Amen." 
115. You get into a slugging match over priority for the library photocopier. 
116. It's essential to learn to live with occasional failures. 
117. Can we say EXTRA CREDIT?? 
118. You actually worry about the 105% you have in math. 
119. You find that you overreact when you get 2 points marked off on your homework. 
120. You find that you spend more time sleeping in class than at home.
121. You are 18 but can't drive. 
122. You have 15 library cards each under a different alias. 
123. You searched all the books in the local public library, so you found a loophole that allowed you to check out books from the local university stacks. 
124. Your list of excuses for not doing your homework is the length of Anna Karenina. 
125. You exceed the 4200 word limit on the Extended Essay (by over 1000 words). 
126. The simplest words you know are at least 10 letters long. 
127. You ask what your summer reading assignment will be in October.