IB Without Hashtags

"Sooo much work 😢😢 #IBLyf"
The number of variants on this that I've heard from my classmates deserves a sarcastic #noreally because I've heard/seen it on Snapchat screenshots far too much. (Snapchat...captions? What do the social-media-savvy people call the text they carefully put over photos?)

And even though my FB news feed largely consists of fandom posts, photos of acquaintances who have social lives, and feminist articles, every once in a while there'll be an IB meme like:

This one is probably true, tbh

Welcome to the community of IB students. So far what I've seen of it is dire warnings and complaints about the amount of work we have. Literally the only positive things I've seen about it is on ibsurvival.com - which is proving to be helpful in figuring out the many odd things IB requires you to do - by people who've graduated IB already (yes, such people exist) saying "It'll help you in college, just get through this!"


I'm...hopefully going to do neither. Since I'm not an IB graduate but a current student, I will not be the encouraging "I got through it so can you" kind of person, but nor will I be the "IB IS DEATH" kind of person (in my personal experience, the people - at least in my class - who complain the most tend to do the least work).

I'm starting now, at the end of IB-1, and if you're graduating with me, good luck, folks. If you're not, sit back with some popcorn. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride.

...and even if it's not a rollercoaster, it's not like you need an excuse to eat popcorn.