ISSUE
02 November 2012
AIS’S OFFICIAL IB NEWSLETTER
IB Busy!
GET IT?
this issue Sophomores: Your Guide to IB P.1 Deadlines & CAS Overview P.2 CAS Tuesdays P.3
Before I Die We asked you last time to tell us about your hopes and dreams, here is what you told us.
Film Competition & Teacher Interview P.4
Part of the CAS Photography Team’s Field Trip to Islamic Cairo
“Drop out and make billions like Steve Jobs” -Mark Iskandar “Hopes and dreams in IB. ha.” -Ahmed Tag Eldin
Sophomores: How to Get into IB
Surviving IB: IB Its and Bits
“My goal is to meet One Direction.” -Evelyn Dom
To enter the International Baccalaureate Program, you must understand what is the International Baccalaureate Organization’s definition of “international”.
“I hope to continue IB, get rich, and eventually have Gordon Ramzy work for me.” -Farahnaz Abdel Bary
The objectives of the IB are to mold students into wellrounded individuals who are more of the interpreters and not the recipients of information. You will be made into a person who learns how to inquire and not just expect to have everything handed to you. This will make you a better person in the ongoing challenges that you will face in your lifetime. Eventually, when you graduate from school, you will graduate with more than the IB Diploma. You will graduate with the characteristics that enable you to understand that others might also be right, despite differences with your opinions.
When you tell someone you’re an IB student, the conversation can go two ways. The first, “Why are you doing this to yourself? It’s not worth it!” and the second is, “Good for you! If you ever need anything, I’m here to help.” People will say that you will not have time to go out. Sometimes, even for the juniors, you feel like you do not have enough time to finish your work on Friday and/or Saturday, but you still go out on Thursday. Even if you have tons of assignments due that seem impossible to finish, go out! You have to have some fun or else your life will be miserable, not saying that it already isn’t. It makes you mad when your friends complain about their American Diploma classes and how “stressful” they are, little do they know, stressing out became part of your daily routine. For the juniors it was harder to adjust to the IB life; just because they are IB students does not mean they have changed. Two weeks into the first month of school, teachers were already expecting a different level of attitude, work and almost everything else. They are still the same students they were three months ago!
“I want to drop out of IB and become a _____*. Cause you know, that’s probably the only job out there for a dropout...” *The job was censored due to its sensitive nature. -Sarah Gharib “My dream is to get a 45 in IB and to study Physics at MIT. La2 khalas ghayarooha ana asasan 3ayez akhosh fenoun gameela.” -Abdul Aziz El Sabrout ³0\ GUHDP LV WR À\ ´ -Mirna El Banway “My dream is to get over a 40 in ,% DQG EHFRPH WKH ¿UVW IHPDOH minister of foreign affairs in Egypt :)” -Fatima Nosseir “I want to pass IB we bas. I don’t care what I get fe ay haga.” -Hagar Salama We thank all of those who have contacted us. We apologize if we did not publish what you sent. There is always next time.
Now, to get into IB, you must understand a few things. You will have to be willing to undergo a rigorous two years of numerous assessments and projects. For these years to move smoothly, you must understand how to cooperate with others, how to be CARING, and you must be KNOWLEDGEABLE. To actually enter the IB program, you will have to meet a certain set of standards that are acceptable for the IB program to work with. In other words, you already must be, to a certain degree, an inquiring, caring, risk-taking, balanced, openminded, principled, communicating, and knowledgeable thinker. These standards will be reflected by not only your grades, but by how your teachers describe you and how your actions outside of the classroom describe you. Then comes the part where you study and fill out several forms that will be given to you by the end of this year. Now is the right time to look at the courses that IB is offering and to study each alternative and then decide which alternative best suits you.
Even if it’s too early for the juniors, it probably isn’t for the seniors. These are just a few of “You know you’re in IB when...” $ JRRG QLJKW¶V VOHHS LV KRXUV <RX EUDJ WKDW \RX RQO\ JRW KRXUV RI sleep last night <RX EUHDN GRZQ LQ WHDUV LQ WKH PLGGOH RI Biology (or English, or History, or whatever) class, cannot stop, an cannot explain why, not even to yourself. <RX¶YH PDVWHUHG WKH DUW RI SURFUDVWLQDtion so well that your research paper finishes printing just seconds before you have to leave for school. <RX ZRXOG JR LQWR VHYHUH VSDVPV LI \RX ever lost your planner. <RX IROORZ ,QVWDJUDP DQG 7ZLWWHU accounts that only revolve around students complaining about IB.