My former best friend is back!

I’ve just realized it’s time to bring back my former best friend, with whom I’ve had many joyful moments during IB revision. As some of you might remember, we were quite hard to separate, me and my dear stop watch! (Having a déjà vu moment when writing this. Have I written about this old friend before? Hm.. Anyways…)

Ain't it pretty?

The point of using a stop watch is to maximize the efficiency of my studying. I study for 25 minutes, take a break for 5 minutes, study another 25 minutes and then go on like that until I’ve had four study sessions. Then I allow myself a 30 minute break and start all over again. Whenever I start to study I press start  and whenever I take a break I push the stop button. And that does not only go for my 5/30 minutes breaks – whenever I do not study for even the shortest while I stop the timer. Like that I control my studying to a larger extent and make it easier to keep track of how much I do actually study. We set a goal during revision to study at least 8 hours per day, and believe it or not, it turned out to be much more difficult than we thought! Those tiny winy moments you use to change the song on your iPad, go to the toilet or ask your friends about the weekend added up to some giant minutes.

Today, though, I’m not going to let those minutes grow. From now on I’m staying focused on studying and nothing else. So I guess I’ll see you tomorrow then. Have a nice day ;)

My plans for today.

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Exams here I come!

Just ticked off the last internal assessment on my examinations-to-do list. Now there’s only the exams to come, then I’m done with it all. A bit frightening thought but oh it will be nice…

Somehow it feels a bit better now that I don’t have to hand in anything more. Almost like I have less to do. But I know that it’s the opposite – I do in fact have more to do since the exams are coming up soon (was just about to tell you how many days there are left but I’m trying to stay in the shadow of denial for a bit longer. Bad move, I know). I have this subconscious feeling of stress but it’s like my brain doesn’t really want to feel it… But now when I’m conscious of my procastination it is slowly approaching the surface – gosh I should really go studying again.

By the way, just to brag a little, I got sevens on all three psychology mock papers. Was lucky with the questions but still, makes me feel a bit better.

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More than halfway

Now I’ve been on the IB programme for a year and there’s not even a year left! I’m really glad that I chose it cause after this first year it feels like it’s the best program I could ever chose. Although there’s a lot of tough work, that’s not all there’s to it. You get some super good friends and learn a lot about things that I bet you don’t learn at any other program, at least not in this country. When I was about to choose back then, my choice was between The French School and IB. I visited IB for a day and felt that it was right for me at once. Still I wanted to read a lot of French and IB was at first not sure I could get that cause it all depended on how many students that were going to choose French. But I chose IB and when I started it turned out that I could take French, which gave me the whole IB concept and French in one! Perfect!

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