Graduating Seniors Have Nothing to Talk About Now That They Can't Complain About the IB Programme Anymore
On May 23rd, the ISF seniors graduated, marking their completion of the IB programme. While at first most were overjoyed to be freed of the shackles of the programme, many are now realizing that they have been robbed of their only topic of conversation.
“Before, I could go up to anyone and mention a super hard history essay or chemistry test and suddenly we were discussing our disgustingly impossible workload like we were best friends,” muses one senior student with a melancholy look in his eyes. Now though, with graduation behind them, the senior class finds their conversations permeated with awkward silences.
“I open my mouth to whine about an Italian oral or a math internal assessment and then I realize that I don’t have any more assignments to complain about!” remarks a senior who was recently seen silently flipping through a blank homework diary and sighing. “We just have nothing left to talk about.”
One recent graduate shared a possible solution: “I suppose I can ask people about their plans for the summer… I mean, it’s better than nothing. But talking about a fun summer vacation just isn’t the same as joint-panicking about a 4,000 word biology lab report with someone… Speaking about our intense loathing for the IB program just creates this sacred bond between two people, you know? The only reason I started talking to most of my current friends is to grumble loudly and incessantly about an education that we are extremely privileged to have.”
The class of 2014 was last seen sitting in total silence, fidgeting uncomfortably as they tried to come up with something to say to each other.
By Malaika Handa