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IB is the International Baccalaureate program. Schools are evaluated before they are permitted to start to offer the program. IB is the last two years of high school and culminates in the extended essay (1500 words), internal and external examinations (external = tests rated a 1 to 7 unlike AP 1-5, internal - teacher evaluates your work) and a bunch off stuff too complicated to explain here. Its a world recognized program started by diplomats. Why? Because the children of diplomats shifted from assignment to assignment and when they went back to the mother country they could not go on to college. The reasoning was they didn't have a high school diploma or its equivalent in that country. If you get the IB diploma (what the program's all about) by meeting the various requirements, you can attend out of high school, ANY college or university in the world as they would accept the IB diploma as the equivalent of one from a school in their country. To go to a college overseas, like OXFORD in England, you need a college degree first. IB and AP are like we hate one another but colleges look better on IB as it is a very vigorous program. The workload is much heavier than AP in that the requirements differ. But some parts of IB are in the dark ages....the PURE pesudocode for IB computer science is pascal with a few changes. Now who remembers programming in Pascal?????

I personally must say that "seeing their chick 5 hours a day" is a very male chauvinistic pig-like statement. I would rather be viewed as a gentleman in the first place. Now, I would not mind seeing Pamela (everyone says we're a couple...she's also on 179) 5 hours a day. We have done that outside of robotics... movie and dinner as well as homecoming...but a lot of time we've spent together is at robotics competition (its even more time together if our teams are staying at the same hotel....I just dash to make it back to my room right before curfew after saying goodnight).

"I would love to be in a relationship where U could be treated like a person and not an object and carry on a normal conversation about nothing and be so interested that I smile through the whole thing. That is a great feeling to call someone and be able to smile the whole conversation" - Shelley_delphi chick (thought I'd note what I'm responding to)

Pamela and I personally we already do that even through we are staying as friends (not dating....but we have gone out to places). That's how I knew I really cared about her as I found I was completely at ease, comfortable talking about anything with her. We never fight/argue and nothing could ever make us mad/angry with one another. Its is a great feeling to be able to see/talk to someone and never break a simile you put on your face the moment you hear the other person's voice. Its a beautiful thing. To those who don't know by now (I wonder nowadays of who doesn't) just read my previous post in this thread.
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