<p>That’s awesome for both of you. And now I feel inferior.</p>
<p>But school’s over for me too, though I still have to work this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and Saturday morning. And the rest of the summer. But the money is good.</p>
<p>I took a bunch of school awards this morning at the assembly thing. I feel just a tad guilty for a couple of them.</p>
<p>Guilty how? Did you buy them with drug money or something?</p>
<p>Watch me hit my bird walk.</p>
<p>Haha, no, but I’ve now received a Spanish award for all four years, and I got one of the much-coveted English award (the prize was a ream of paper and a Barnes & Noble gift card), and a school scholarship, and an attendance award, and some state award thing, and an accounting award. I had a tough time carrying all of it home. I felt rather gluttonous.</p>
<p>Drug money does sound exciting.</p>
<p>It is.</p>
<p>Part A of my exam: <a href=“http://www.directopedia.org/onTEAM/wiki/img/1/200px-Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan.jpg[/url]”>http://www.directopedia.org/onTEAM/wiki/img/1/200px-Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan.jpg</a></p>
<p>Rofl.</p>
<p>Damnit, philosophy.</p>
<p>That’s fun.</p>
<p>How much do I like Carolina Liar?</p>
<p>When I tell people I’m going to UChicago, they ask, “How close is it to downtown.” Then I describe its location. And they ask, “That’s not anywhere near Cicero, is it?” When I tell them no, they look relieved.</p>
<p>What are you doing with the picture? Describing the statement it makes about society? Explaining how robots will take over the universe in 2023 or whenever it was? Writing about how God created robots to govern humans?</p>
<p>I drove into the backwoods of Kentucky today, but then I turned around.</p>
<p>You should have stopped to talk to the locals. It would have made you feel better about Tennizzle.</p>
<p>Do you have your license yet?</p>
<p>I got mine in the spring of my sophomore year, which is apparently really early by national standards.</p>
<p>I turned 16 spring of my sophomore year, so that’s not early. I’m just lazy. I get it on Tuesday.</p>
<p>And it would not have made me feel better about Tennizzle, because it was 20 minutes from my house.</p>
<p>In twenty minutes, I can get to places that make me feel better about where I live. You can do the same; I’m sure.</p>
<p>Lawlz pretentious semicolons.</p>
<p>I suppose. I don’t feel as bad about Tennizzle as I did, say, 2-3 years ago. I don’t like it, but it could be worse.</p>
<p>I don’t have an accent.</p>
<p>I had to identify a central philosophical issue presented in the image, discuss two contrasting views on the issue, and then formulate and respond to a question about the issue.</p>
<p>Domo arigato.</p>
<p>Does your silly Canadian IB Philosophy class prepare you for any of this? Or do you just make up whatever comes to your mind? I would think the class would have something to do with things, but I don’t know how they could teach you what themes to find.</p>
<p>I used to think Ohio was pretty cool. Then I came on CC and saw what I’m missing.</p>
<p>Well the “core theme” is “What is a ‘human’ being?” so students have to know general ways of answering that question (the mind-body debate, various conceptions of human nature, etc.) which is actually pretty simple. The questions where they give pictures are pretty open ended and the mark schemes generally have 4-5 possible answers.</p>
<p>Then, there are “optional themes” like political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, etc. Each school is required to teach one of these optional themes. Questions on each are in the exam and students choose the questions they feel most fit to answer. The requirements for each option are very clearly defined, though.</p>
<p>That sounds so unnecessary.</p>
<p>Every mixtape is remiss without Spice Girls.</p>
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<p>Haha. Silly IB “programme.”</p>
<p>That doesn’t sound so bad. If you were to read that question without taking any philosophy courses ever, like I did, you would think that you could say pretty much anything.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s actually a common misconception that you can just write whatever on a philosophy exam. There are wrong answers and many “correct” arguments are founded on those of other philosophers. </p>
<p>Something I appreciate about IB is that all of the exams allow you to choose the questions you’d like to answer among a number of choices. They never force you into something you don’t know. This makes the exams a bit easier than AP exams, but the concept of “curves” is virtually non-existent with the IB because of the choices. And I feel like they expect higher quality responses with IB than with AP, and, because the grading scale is from 1-7 instead of 1-5, it’s more difficult to get the highest mark.</p>
<p>I like Journey. And Gary Sinise.</p>
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