bucket list.
It’s that time of the year again, where colours are more vibrant, birds are chirping, and the sun is shining its bright happy waves. God is crying it’s salty rain on us, alarming us that it is now our reign of terror. No more shall we let the manipulative education industry control us, we are now unshackled, free to roam the lands.
Of course, freedom is a package deal, and in that package comes boredom.
To help you circumvent this unfortunate byproduct, we have curated an amazing top ten list of summer bucket list activities, hand picked by us professional fun enjoyers. As IBDP students, we’re sure that the extensive fun and fun and fun and fun we experience on a daily basis will be put to good use in this article.
9. Extended (E)Pain
The EE, otherwise known as Extended (E)Pain, is a crucial part to graduating the Diploma program. It's basically the IA (Internal (A)Pain), but much longer. You spend all summer working but the self-inflicted pain is very welcome over the summer. Enjoy the feeling of needing to meet a 4000 word word count while your supervisor breathes on your back menacingly, sending you threatening emails every 2 and a half minutes exactly.
Very mistakenly, I chose to undertake my horror journey in the wonderful subject of Global Politics. My research consisted of two hours staring at old white men shouting in diplomatic language at each other, while getting absolutely nothing done at all. 2 hours of my life wasted. Maybe if these politicians did an EE, they wouldn’t be so incompetent.
8. Internal (A)Pain
You think studying for exams will be enough to push you through DP? Think again. Now, instead of just memorising useless models and case studies, you need to learn the art of BSing.
7. Catch up
Just when you thought you started getting the hang of DP, you realised you were never getting the hang of DP. All those hours you put into fixing your sleep schedule by snoozing in maths and chemistry is biting you in the ass now. While the teacher is describing how crucial and vital your next test is, you’re sitting there questioning what the test is even on.
Ask any DP student what they learned this year. They can’t give you a straight(gay) answer. That’s because they, like all other DP students, are planning to cram their entire 2 year DP course into their summer vacation (the last week).
6. uni apps 😍
You think Universities want you? Absolutely not. They will do everything possible within their power to make their respective tertiary institutions seem way above whatever grade you are at. Are your portfolios even up to standard? You wanna make it into Oxford? Imagine Oxford as the customer service for a Ohio Walmart operating on minimum wage. More than likely you’ll get ghosted, left on read even. Good luck being the 0.00000000001% that gets a “idk maybe” response to their application.
5. Find good r(d)eads!
No one reads.
4. MAKE SOME BUCKS WITH THREE EASY STEPS (WORKING 2022)
Step 1. FInd a job that’s completely unrelated to what you want to do in the future
Step 2. Just email and apply. It’s that simple!! All you have to do is show your potential to fail :D
Step 3. GO MAKE SOME BUCKS!!!! EARN SOME BIG MONEY EVEN THOUGH MOST FIRMS DON’T HIRE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS!!!!!!! BUT IF YOU HAVE CONNECTIONS YOU’LL BE FINE!! ALSO NEPOTISM IS A THING THIS WORLD IS CORRUPT THE WORLD IS FLAT THE ECONOMY IS RIGGED YOUR ECONOMIC STATUS WAS DECIDED THE MOMENT YOU WERE BORN LIZARDS CONTROL THl
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2. crying session
In order to maintain a healthy wellbeing, we suggest that out plan out some designated crying sessions across the summer holiday, preferably between 10 AM to 7 PM. Usually crying would make you feel even worse about yourself, but by designating crying sessions, you’ll be able to distribute your negative emotions across the day. Imagine water flowing through pipes, towards a destination. If it were to flow through one pipe solely, it would be inefficient in distributing the water towards the destination, perhaps stressing the pipe and damaging it severely. But by distributing water across the series of pipes, it will be much more efficient, flowing at a much less harmful, faster rate!
Alrighty, now imagine all the pipes are worn out it's broken as sh*t theres algae everywhere and Plumber Mario doesn't want anything to do with that pipe and hasn’t checked that pipe in a decade. Thats you. Thats you, thinking that the suggestions of these pitiful crying sessions will do anything for you. You think that’ll help relieve you of any stress? Stop trying to cope and face it.
1. Sleep.
Ever heard of hibernation during summer? Well now you have. In order to catch up from all the all nighters pulled across the year from all the hard work we’ve done, this is the prime time to hole yourself up in your room and fall into a 2 month hibernation, which is coincidentally the length of our summer break!
0. Sweet release of death
You know what? Why not just dont bother waking up? Theres nothing left for you once you wake up anyway. You’ll have to endure the pain of University rejections, study up to 10000 hours for your pathetic Masters degree, spend agonising amounts of effort
-1. Nothing but void
