Saturday, April 21, 2007

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
^ The IB scream. The IB coordinator at my school has this picture on his door of a kid clutching his hair and screaming with the words "The IB Scream" written below it. I now know exactly how that poor kid feels, and I'm pretty sure that that picture was inspired by the Extended Essay. If you don't know what an IB program/class is, it's short for International Bacceloureate (I most definately butchered that word like none other) which still doesn't really tell you anything. But yea, it's this 'smart people who think they can do 10x more work than everyone else and retain their sanity' program at some schools and is composed of a bunch of college level courses and you hafta write a bunch of papers and stuff and send them out to like Whales or something for 'external assessments' so you can get the IB diploma.

Well, I'm not actually in the program (I'm a non-diploma candidate as my lit teacher says), but I'm taking IB literature basically cuz I can and cuz my lit grades are usually really good. But right, so in IB lit there's this 4000 word essay you hafta write called the extended essay. You choose a subject area and then formulate a research question about it. My subject area is English A1 which is an analysis of a book or a comparison of poems or some sort of analysis of some sort of literature. And then my research question is 'Does Elizabeth Wurtzel successfully portray the illness of depression and what someone suffering from depression feels in her memoir PROZAC NATION?' Yea... And as of now I only have about 1500 words written and I need all 4000 by Tuesday. I'm going to die. Cuz then tomorow I have a Biology lab to get done (due monday) and I have to go to a Presbyterian Church service for a religion project, due Wednesday.
Yes, the IB Scream is very appropriate right now.

But on a happier note. I saw Disturbia last night. Absolutely amazing. I thought it was gonna just be OK, but I really liked it. And next Friday I'm going to the MCR/Muse concert after school. And then the next day I'm going to an Open House at Mount Saint Mary's college in Maryland. Woot. I'm so excited to see Muse, and supposedly Rise Against is playing with them too, and I REALLY wanna see them. Yay.

AND, Marilyn Manson's album Eat Me Drink Me comes out on June 5!!! Which is the day after I'll be 100% DONE with my junior year of high school, and the day I'm going to see Fall Out Boy and +44. I can't wait. Oh and Marilyn Manson now has a myspace and it has a song from Eat Me Drink Me on it, but I can't listen to it cuz my speakers aren't working right now for whatever reason....

Summer's almost here. I'm so happy. Junior year has definately been the most fucked up year ever. Well atleast when it comes to friends. And it feels like it's just gonna keep deteriorating, but I've become really apathetic about who I keep or lose contact with. I really just wanna get out of high school and all the unneccessary drama that comes with it. Plus my senior year is gonna be a shitload easier than this year academically speaking. I'll have 2 study halls while I didnt' have any this year, and I won't have AP Bio everyday... And I won't hafta deal with Mr Jay.

But yea, I'm gonna go try and get some more written on the Extended Essay.... Cuz even though I don't technically need to do it cuz I dont' hafta send it out to get an IB diploma, it's for a grade in the lit class and I'm asking my teacher to write me college reccomendations... So I might wanna do a good job on the biggest assignment of the year. Don't you agree?
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