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Wednesday February 15th: TOK Essay: Done! Completed! Finished! No more drafts! Yay! (Not that much work needed to be done on it, but it just feels good to have finished something else for IB :P)

Argh…geography field study…is stupid (But Geography is still better than History). The good thing is that we’ll have lots to write for the Sources of Error and evaluation of technique, but the data itself…is…weird. Well I guess that’s what we get when we rely on other people gathering data, and consequently have to ‘assume’ the data is ‘correct.’ The word limit is 2500 words. Such a little essay compared to my Geo EE of 4000 words, and I could have went on past 4000 words on my EE >.> But then my EE was on too broad of a topic…which wasn’t good…I guess that’s why I could have went on and on >.>.

TOK presentation next week…no idea what to do…have to write a script soon…

I think this was one of the more fun mandatory-fun events. Haven’t skated for few years and I found out I can still (barely) skate >.> at least in the forward direction :). Ok so yes I did learn figure skating before, but that was when I was little and I’ve lost most if not all or my figure skating skills since then.

Bad points:
- Skate rentals take way too long, and they should keep their skates sharpened
- Time on ice was too little
- Going around in one direction is boring

Good points:
- I finally did get on the ice with decent skates
- Pizza
- Does this count for active CAS hours?

Anyway, it was a great way to end the week, and thanks to IB Council for organizing the event.

…it would be to read the data/information booklet. The math mock exam was interesting. 6 questions in 1 hour. Seems easy enough…only if I had the sense to read the information booklet, which contained some formulae which I could have used on the exam. I looked at the booklet after the exam ended, which was very stupid of me.

Anyway, all mock exams completed! Yay! Now back to weeks of classes! Yay!

Completed the Physics and English mock exams today. Mr. Barois gave us the May 2005 IB exam to do (surprise surprise), and certain people during the break were previewing the answers to the Paper 2 on their laptop computer. In my opinion, that just completely defeats the purpose of a mock exam though, cheating in that way, not just having an unfair advantage over everyone else. The Paper 1 part was fine I guess, since it involved more of the theory than doing calculations. However, I screwed up the Paper 2, and left many blank. I should have continued writing two more lines to that radioactivity question after Mr. Barois said to stop, since many people were still writing anyway.

English was fine, in fact, I think I had too much time. For once in my whole high-school career, I actually spent time planning my essay. I wrote on topic 3A which was about the setting(s) of The Storyteller and how they are more of the plot at the end than they first appear. At first I thought it would be an easy topic to write on, but then later on coming up with coherent ideas was more of a challenge.

Anyway, I’ve only got 4 to go (most of the other IB people have 5 — hahaha), and my next exam is Wednesday morning, which means I have more time to study! Yay!

Well it’s the day before mock exams start, and well…I’m still screwed. At least I have no exams on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. There’s so much to study for in so little time. One and a half years x 6 courses.

Monday: Physics / English
Tuesday: None for me
Wednesday: None for me / Geography
Thursday: Chemistry / French
Friday: Math

Anyway back to studying…