<p>whay is an ee?</p>
<p>EE is extended essay…4000 words essay that all IB Diploma kids have to do.</p>
<p>My first draft was due last week of September…</p>
<p>but so far I only have an outline. I am hoping to write at least 2000-3000 words this weekend (I did a lot of research over the summer).</p>
<p>For me Historical Investigation is a lot more important. EE doesn’t count for grade, and I don’t care that much about getting the diploma or not.</p>
<p>My HI is also due in couple of weeks, and is like 20% of my Topics grade for the quarter.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else who is fighting the war of attrition with IBO.</p>
<p>we didn’t get the topics for TOK yet…they are trying to keep it a secret and build suspense.</p>
<p>My teacher doesn’t think we are quite ready yet. We just finished all the ways of knowing (language, emotion, experience and what not), and are now moving on the areas of knowing.</p>
<p>lol…I finished my EE last week…3,300 words and starting on my TOK title paper and oral and our HI is due in March. It’s funny to see how different schools place different emphasis on different IB components though. annandale1: I actually have the list for the TOK topics this year…do you want it? lol</p>
<p>muyloca57, do you go to Blair?</p>
<p>ozzie…yeah sure, you might as well post it or PM me.</p>
<p>Given the procrastinator I am, I will probabbly do it the night before it’s due (isn’t that all we IBers do? procrastinate till last moment, and then complain about not having enough time). One thing IB teaches you is how to BS at the last moment, and yet still sound erudite.</p>
<p>For me, everything is due like in next couple of weeks or so. I start my EE tomorrow, and for HI I am upto Summary of Evidence.</p>
<p>It’s nice to know that teens across the country are suffering through this. I really think that adcoms need to acknowledge IB…it’s so much more work than AP! (also more well-rounded and international focused)</p>
<p>ahhhhhh! as an AP kid, I feel sooooo out of the loop. I thought IB was similar to AP, except the exams were out of 7 instead of 5. Wow, it looks like there’s so much more involved.</p>
<p>IB’s pretty cool…just a little anal though. Kids at my school end up taking more AP tests than I.B. tests in the end.</p>
<p>wrath…that’s what colleges think too. To make it even worse, you only get credit for HL courses, when most SL courses are just as hard as many AP courses.</p>
<p>IB Diploma forces you to take advanced level course in all subject areas, unlike AP which you only take in the areas you are strong in.</p>
<p>The bad thing about IB is that you rarely get the American perspective on things, almost everything is seen from a foreign point-of-view.</p>
<p>I think I would rather wish our school offered AP, but we only have IB in our school (an “IB World School”…lol)</p>
<p>haha, HL…SL…? well after a thorough search of Wikipedia, I think I know what the IB program really is</p>
<p>hey, anyone interested in continuing the original thread topic?</p>
<p>I was looking at the freshman face book (not the online one, the book one) and they have a section where they break up the class by regions. there were A LOT of new york and cali kids. too many. :)</p>
<p>as a resident of los angeles, let me say there is no such thing as to many californians,lol :)</p>
<p>as a resident of the Bay Area, I concur.</p>
<p>yes, californians are very cool.</p>
<p>Coloradans are cooler…lol</p>
<p>indeed, but people from philly are ultimately the coolest. no question.</p>
<p>nah, I think SoCal people still win.</p>
<p>Joisey biAtches.</p>
<p>Ah yes! Who can argue with the frigid, bitter cold of Jersey during the winter. (I feel hypocritical by saying this since I’m applying to Yale but oh well) :)</p>