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How to write IB essays:

As told by my economics teacher when he was telling us how to write our IAs and told is that it would be good for any subject with essay questions.

There are three criteria to achieve:

Evaluate: Evaluations give grades 6-7, with 450 words on it

Apply: Applying knowledge gives levels 4-5, here we should give explanations and if there are any diagrams explain that as well, with 250 words on it

Knowledge: This gives grades 1-3, here we should write down definitions and background information, with a word count of 150 words.

How to write it:

Intro: State and explain the dilemma, justify its importance, and use minor citations.

Body: Here we should show off our knowledge, using definitions, diagrams with explanations of any, basically used to analyse the situation. This analysis is then used to evaluate.

Note: it is useful to underline or highlight important keywords or statements in the assignment or exam paper, it shows where all the work is done and also leaves a good impression on the examiner.

Okay, I am in my first semester of college and took a fairly easy schedule since all of my gen eds have been knocked out due to IB and realized something. 

I don’t feel like I am doing enough unless I am physically exhausted. 

I’m finishing with a 3.7/3.8 depending on finals and literally feel like a failure. On paper, I am doing great and am excelling in college, but I didn’t realize why I didn’t feel like I was doing enough until the other day I had to pull my first all nighter and finally felt successful in a way. Throughout IB, I tied my exhaustion to my work ethic and now I am going to have to work to untrain myself from that thinking pattern and reteach myself that sleep is so so important. 

I’ve talked to a couple of other students from my school and everyone is kind of on the same page and agrees they have weird sleep schedules now that is taking a while to readjust after doing it for four years. 

If you’re reading this, don’t do this to yourself. A lack of sleep is not indicative of working harder. It just tells of how exhausted you are. That’s it. Please try to sleep more. 

Ugh I'm feeling like giving up on the entire IB diploma entirely recently, I have a business management ia to finish, ess ia, math ia, the EE, the TOK essay, Economics ia check, and so many tests at the same time.

I feel like I don't even care if I just pass the diploma anymore. I'm just so, so tired. I always feel like I'm not deserving of any rest or sleep if I have not done anything that is related to school. I'm so tired of hearing these thoughts go over and over in my brain. I just want to rot somewhere more often now.

I sometimes even wonder if I actually even like my school anymore. I feel constantly lightheaded in school, like everything is a fever dream, especially in certain classrooms. I have to stim a lot and I have to leave the classroom often just to go somewhere and breathe in natural air instead of AC. I also get hungry in school often, I usually eat lunch at 1 or 1:30 pm but when it's school I come back at 3:30 pm so I'm very hungry and tired by the time I come back.

It sets the energy for the whole day, I don't even feel like taking my laptop out of my bag when I get home. And what would be the point in doing something anyway? It's going to take hours and if I can't even finish it off by that time then there's no point to it for me. I literally took a day off today just so that I could start my business management IA.

And I don't even have close friends or a friend group to belong to at school. My closest friend at school battles mental health problems and I rarely see him there. And I KNOW that it's okay to be alone or enjoy things by yourself, but when you've always sucked at making friends in school it kinda gets to you later on. I feel envy when I see groups of friends and I always wonder if I will actually belong to a group like that someday. Sometimes when some classmates talk to me I always get the feeling it's for a joke which I'm the butt of. Maybe it's bc I have a monotonous way of speaking irl most of the time??

I wish that some of this stuff and all the IAs we do now was actually in DP year 1 BC it would save a lot of stress for a lot of people. Like the business ia could be done in January when I was in year 1 or something. The ess ia too. Instead of it all being crammed later on in 12th grade.

Ok but today, I'm going to make myself the cup of herbal tea I've been avoiding for weeks because in the end, I know I deserve sleep.

Day: 4/100

I finished another part of my Business Management Internal Assessment today. I'm hoping I can finish the rest tomorrow and start another project. I'm still going to ignore all my current tests though because these IAs are more important.

Day: 5/100

I finished the final draft of my Macro Economics IA and turned it in.

I finished my Business Management IA first draft and turned it in.

I also finished what I could of my CAS today.

Day: 6/100

I FINALLY FUCKING FINISHED EVERYTHING OF CAS!!!

I started working on my Mathematics IA.

I also submitted my recording for my piano exam. Which means I DON'T HAVE TO STRESS ABOUT PIANO CLASSES AS WELL!

And this wasn't productive but my French teacher allowed me to take my French oral exam on a later date so I got a lot more time to prepare. She is so sweet. Idc if she often calls me by my sister's name at least she's nicer than my previous french teacher.

In my opinion, in a solarpunk future, education about the environment should be mandatory in a good school system. This is why we do this , this is why we started doing this, etc. Today I heard my Theory of Knowledge teacher say that he doesn't believe that human beings directly affect climate change. Because I study environmental science I know that's simply not true.

Studying environmental science would teach so many people that all the systems of the earth are so interconnected. For me, that made me more aware that my choices had so many widespread impacts on many areas. I wasn't so passionate about the environment before I took this subject and it has made me think differently.

Other than this, I think indigenous or cultural knowledge should also be taught along with this. I think a lot of people in the solarpunk community know that if we do want to make an impact working with indigenous people is a good method. I was reading Braiding Sweetgrass and it's so noticeable that the way we see everything is influenced by a cultural perspective.

Either way, greater education about the environment is so, so important.

Day: 9/100

I finished organising my shit for my mock exams

I started doing more stuff for my math ia (I basically just sat around my computer all day and tried to figure out how tf I record amplitudes on Audacity)

I also went on a meeting with the director of the college I'm going to after school.

Day: 13/100

I submitted my math internal assessment. That all really. Also I've decided to try out a few games because I wanted to.

On the other hand, I found out I like showering with lo-fi music on. Its A whole different feeling, especially if the water is warm. Just one of the little joys of life, I guess.

Does anyone know of good soil moisture data sets that are easily accessible and gives the soil moisture of Europe for over 30 years??

Please I need it for my environmental science ia where I compare soil moisture with temperature.

Mock exam week but the day before I was on character ai

Anyway, hopefully I'll at least be able to maintain my current grades as it is. I started studying too late for this anyway....

I finally made a side blog for studying! I was so disappointed at the way I felt during some exams recently and I want to change that.

Anyway, if you're interested, this is my studyblr: @latte-studies-sometimes and yes it's academia themed although I don't know or care which type of academia.