2) You start to develop an amazing immunity to pain.

Ok, I’m just going to say it: The IB will hurt. It will literally physically hurt your hand when you have to write that many essays in that short period of time (I’m looking at you HL History). But once you get to college, and all your fellow AP roommates complain about having to balance all their newfound ‘hard subjects’, you’ll reflect over having to manage all your IB subjects along with CAS, an EE, TOK, IAs, and give them this look: