A Guide to the IB

Today is the day. It's the day you get to see who got in to the IB, and who didn't. Your heart is pounding and your friends are texting frantically about which acceptance page they have open. You, along with hundreds of other students, are continuously refreshing the page with wide eyes and adrenaline coursing through your veins. The clock on your bedside table ticks over to 07:59. You have one minute until results are published. You begin to count down the seconds until the moment you get to know if you got into the IB or not. The minute feels like an hour, a day, a lifetime, but it finally comes. The clock strikes 08:00 and you hit refresh once more. The results have been published.  You immediately begin sifting through the names faster than you can even properly read what they're saying and everything seems to be a blur. You realise that the names are organised in alphabetical order and you stop sifting for a moment and skip straight to the section your na...

CREATIVITY Regular activities 1. Makeup When finding things I could do for creativity, I was told by teachers that I could do anything from writing to painting and drawing. While I already did plenty of these things before the IB started, I instantly knew that doing those same things during the IB would be a struggle, since I only found time to draw, paint or write on rare occasions. I began to think of things I did during my day-to-day life that I could in theory try to squeeze in as something similar to those types of activities. When IB1 started, I remember joking to someone about makeup as an activity similar to 'painting your face' and then it hit me... maybe I could do makeup for CAS hours, since that was something that I already was doing every single day! Sure enough, I showed my CAS supervisor a few examples of me doing 'wilder' and more experimental makeup and she loved the idea. She even said that makeup wasn't very different from pa...