The IB Alphabet

It is safe to say that my friends and I are currently going through the IB blues due the the endless amount of coursework we are currently getting thrown at us and the impending doom of the upcoming exams in May! So this was created  for a bit of fun while on Skype with Katie, Laura, Amy and Annie. We may have to ask if this counts for CAS...


Addiction to caffeine *cough* Katie *cough*

Binging while 'working'

Copious amounts of crying

Does that count for CAS?

Easy has no relationship with the IB

Failure isn't an option

Grammatical errors

How do you know we know you know?

IB, why do you do this to me? (Laura's rhyme)

Just the threat of another year of IB makes you want to succeed

Kill me now...

Lack of sleep

Moan, moan, moan

Never ending flow of work

Oh ok, now you tell us there is a piece of coursework...

Procrastination... blog writing *ahem*

Question everything... thanks TOK

Rereading your extended essay several times = death

Say goodbye to most of your social life

This work ACTUALLY has to be completed

Universities like us... hopefully

Visual arts has destroyed Annie's soul

We take 6 subjects, how many do you take?

Xmas holidays - yeah right, you're revising for mocks!

You probably shouldn't leave thing until the last minute... but you will!

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My Extended Essay Hates Me...

Anybody who is doing/ has done the IB will understand how frustrating this is. I am currently doing my extended essay on food technology, specifically genetically modified foods. Because it is a food technology I have to do an experiment. For me, this involves making 2 batches of cakes, one containing lecithin powder. 

Now to start of with back in June/July I did my experiment 3 times using a different flour, later finding out that I would never have got the right results because it was the WRONG flour!! I then only found 2 companies which sell the right flour so had to contact them, but they could not send me it before the end of term... this was when the deadline was. 

Luckily, I was given an extension until September. Now, I have literally just been making my cakes and yet again I have faced problems. I had put all the ingredients into the bowls, I whisked the first batch containing no lecithin powder... that was fine. I go to whisk the batch containing lecithin and BOOM my whisk dies. It didn't literally explode but it did die. Graham said the motor has gone and it even made that horrible smell that electrical objects make when the motor dies. 

I swear my extended essay just hates me, it is fate that I'm going to fail it!! Well, I hope not!! 

Luckily, James was at Joely's at the time so my sister rang him and in 20 minutes or so he was back home with Joely's electric whisk!! Thank you Joely! 

Hopefully they will turn out well this time and actually give me good results!! Fingers crossed. But I guess the feeling is mutual... I hate my extended essay as much as it hates me... probably more!