It's getting lonely in here

IB kids don’t have many friends.  Stereotypically.  But stereotypes only exist because it happens enough within a specific group for the observation to even be made.  There is an accumulation of reasons for this stereotype, many of which I agree with, and each of which I know a handful of people that it describes.

IB kids don’t have time for friends.  As much as BDavis claims that IB is not time consuming, it really is.  If you’re actually doing the quality of work expected out of IB classes, it takes time.  It might not be the hardest thing in the world, but it takes time.  Many of my weekends are spent doing homework, or just IB related things (mostly art, duh..or maybe english and history...definitely history), instead of hanging out with people I used to spend all of my time with.  This creates frustration with those people, and between a lack of time and bitter feelings from them, we begin to lose people.  But that’s how it is.

IB kids are arrogant.  We think that just because we’re in all IB classes, get laptops, and are TOTALLY EXCLUSIVE IB DIPLOMA KIDS, that we’re better than everyone else.  Please, give me a life.  I know many people more intelligent than IB kids that just don’t want to take IB because it doesn’t offer the courses they’d like to take, or it isn’t their learning style.  Besides, we all know that certain IB classes are just a joke and an easy A...

IB kids like to flaunt the fact that they’re in IB.  Again, the arrogance.  They think that it’s awesome to always mention that they’re in IB.  It’s not, people get annoyed, and don’t care.  “Oh hey, in IB english...?” begins a common question in the presence of others, meant to inform those others that the speaker is in IB.  It’s superfluous, because the person you’re talking to is obviously also in IB english if you’re asking them the question.

IB kids set themselves apart intentionally.  There’s been exclusive IB costume days, exclusive IB hangouts, exclusive IB just about everything.  Because the IB kids like to set themselves apart and be seen as the IB kids.

I don’t know why I have such a vendetta against IB when I happen to be an IB kid.  Maybe I’m just bitter that I don’t have much of a life anymore.  Who cares though, I see scholarships.