As of four o'clock today, I'm officially off on fall break. Now for some of you, this "Fall/Autumn Break" might mean sleeping in, warm cups of hot chocolate and fun times with friends and family. However, if you're an IB student, your schedule will most likely not look as relaxed as the average highschool student.
With upcoming IA deadlines, Fall Break for an IB student really just translates to "here you go, a one week break in which you can catch up on all the course work you've been disregarding since the beginning of the year". I see it more as a catching up "week of grace", than an actual vacation. Naturally this doesn't apply for all IB students. You'll soon begin to realize that people tend to generalize the stereotype of the "typical IB student", reinforcing this image of a stressed, over worked, mess of a student. I agree, but only to a certain extent. Speaking of the extent of something...I really should be working on my TOK Oral, but I still have 7 days to get that done so I'll do that tomorrow.
Generally speaking, I would say that the majority of the students in my grade level are going to be spending this one week break doing the following:
1. Science IA
2. Arts IA
3. Extended Essay (ok not even kidding here, but I know a lot of kids who haven't even started writing yet...)
4. TOK Oral
5. CAS (shoutout to all of the slackers who left their CAS to this year. They have to somehow make themselves look like they care about the lives of others, in just one week. I'm praying for y'all)
6. Stress eating, drinking way too much coffee, probably smoking up
7. Rethinking their UCAS uni options because their predicted grades gave them a harsh reality slap
Ideally I think the most of us are hoping to regain our energy in preparation for the long and strenuous sprint ahead until winter break. For those of you who've already graduated and can't quite picture what it feels like, I'll give you an idea.
So imagine running a marathon but only 100m before the finish line, the ground your running is now a treadmill and you keep on running at full speed without getting anywhere. Thats pretty much how the stretch from fall break until winter break feels like.
One could say that this next week will be a recharging exercise in which you try to save your ass from quite literally failing the entire IB, without completely burning out (that is, if you aren't burnt out already)
In complete honesty if you were to ask me what my ideal fall break routine would look like, I would give you a list of the following things;
1. Getting enough sleep (translates to actually getting those 8 hours a night)
2. Finishing my TOK Oral
3. Handing in a decent first draft for my Psych IA
4. Start and finish my Bio IA write up
5. Film and upload at least one youtube video
6. Wash my hair less (ok this might be weird but after a long hard day of IB, a hot shower is pretty much a given. But its come to the stage where I'm showering my hair almost every single day and its definitely not doing my hair any good)
7. Go jogging at least once a day (lmfao, CAS and all. Gotta get that #action in)
8. Write an english written task for 1984
9. Edit my EE
10. Organise folders, bills, papers etc.
11. Study for bio
12. Finish research for Film IA A/V script
This seems like a really long list, but I'm certain that I'll get at least 10 of these done. It is after all an entire week!
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