How do IBs work? They get you a year off university, don't they?
Depends on the university. At most of them, though, at the time I took them, they functioned much like our AP exams--you could get credit for an intro-level class (biology, english, whatever), but only if you got a 6 or 7 (out of 7) on a higher level exam (IB diploma=3HL and 3 subsidiary level). Which...yeah.
So I ended up taking AP exams also. In other words, was not in class for most of May, due to taking five IB exams and I think seven APs? Something like that... (hnmm. I think I took lower calc, chem, and two econ ones junior year, so...english lang and lit, spanish lang and lit, bio, higher calc....am I missing one?)
lisah, how do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
Thanks, y'all. The discussion was basically "okay, it needs to work under a helmet, but layering too much won't work because that gives me pointy head. Spikiness is also Right Out, unless you want me to use a lot of wax on my hair. Go!" And then we hung out at the bar. I love my hairdresser.
I'm looking for something that will be very easy to care for given my training schedule until October
I'm sure Hec will have some ideas, but I think bangs + spiky in back might work. Maybe.
layering too much won't work because that gives me pointy head
This is an important consideration. I have been known to succumb to pin-headedness with too much layering...but I really like spiky...I'd love to take off the sweaty hat, run my fingers upward and come away looking sassy. Is that even possible?
lisah, how do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle?
HA!
um...
tech writing
(and, awww, Cake is a total My Life in SF in the 90s nostalgia band for me)
I'd love to take off the sweaty hat, run my fingers upward and come away looking sassy. Is that even possible?
Product is Your Friend in this case.
I declare Juliana's hair to be hotter than Manteca astroturf and give a big thumbs up on the silver low-tops.
Seconded. How many do we need to open up Lightbulbs?
The British university discussion reminded me of one of my classes the first week of AP Literature and Composition. We'd had to read Oedipes Rex over the summer. After we got back, our teacher gave us this essay on it to read. It was written by a professor at Oxford, and was basically, "I have asked this same question of many upper-level Oxford students. Their responses can be divided into three categories. [explanation of each response] Here's why they're all wrong. And remember, these are upper-level Oxford students, who should be smarter than this, but apparently, they're not."
We had to read that for homework. The next day, our teacher asked us what we thought of the article. There were a few tentative "Well, he had an interesting point about ..." answers, and then finally, one girl said, "I thought he was a pretentious asshole." The teacher grinned and said, "Well, yes. In this article, he certainly was." Then we spent the rest of the class period discussing rhetorical devices, starting with straw man (for the article) and ad hominem (for the girl's response to it.)
Somewhere, I've still got a list of "Twelve Important Rhetorical Devices." We were supposed to try to make our writing more interesting by using at least one (and using it properly) in each paper we wrote.
One of my electives was Bio 101. Irritating to me, since I'd chosen maths and the hard sciences at age 16, so why would I want to draw
more
dissection candidates. But if I hadn't fucked up Analysis of Algorithms the first time round, I'd have been out in three. One of my IB friends made it out (and hit her goal of 'Masters by 21'), and the other had the same deal as me--needing 3 years+1 course to get out.
