Certainly, this year will be so much different from the years that have gone by. This will be for many of us, the first year that we are no longer attending normal school lessons. It feels so... different now. We will not have our usual teachers nagging us for homework, deadlines to meet, projects to complete, etc.
Looking back... WOW! We've really accomplished a lot through the IB program these two years, and possibly some in pre-IB. That came to me as I was filling in my achievements for university applications. I could actually write short paragraphs about my accomplishments! And I actually ran out of space on the forms to list all of them! It has really been something. I mean, it has never really felt that I have left school, possibly until now, when the new year comes along, and you realise that the next working day.... you don't go back to school again to begin a fresh new year with new teachers and work to do. And it's not because you were expelled or dropped out either. You've graduated!
Some people say the years went by so fast. Well, if you consider that now you are here at this space-time coordinate, yes it's instant, because all you have are memories and recollections about the past. (Somebody could have actually put them there and you didn't live all these years you know? well not the point, I'll continue.) But I vehemently beg to differ. Think of all the activities that you did, every single thing from the worksheets that you do each day, to the big Extended Essays, to the overseas trips, to the excursion trips. There were so many things you did! So many things I did at least. It feels like I've lived quite long, and the years certainly haven't passed by fast at all. So where did all those days go? Just search into your memory, and you have there your products of your time investment. There is quite a bit of returns there!
Well, enough about the past I guess. Now we wait in great anticipation for the moment and information that our lives hinge on. We've been for two years, watching from above the ceremony, the anxiety. It's now our turn. We will be in the hot seat. It's been so long since I've sat in that seat. I'm not sure if I should be thankful for that. The IP Programme spared, or robbed, us of one of that moments. It's been 6 years thanks to that, that I have waited in such anxiety, and this I would say, would be even more nerve wrecking, for it offers the widest possibilities given the best circumstances. Our reach is beyond the local shores now. Time to be a scholar, leader and global citizen indeed.