17 Signs You Went To An ESF School

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Michelle Li, July 12, 2014

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1. You are an inquirer, knowledgeable, a thinker, a communicator, principled, open-minded, caring, a risk-taker, balanced and reflective. All those things. All of you.

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2. You’ve flagged down a complete stranger to sell your school fair raffle tickets before. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

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3. Every time you step into Hollister, you know there is a 87% chance that chirpy “Hey guys! Welcome to the pier!” will come from a familiar ESFer face.

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4. You can tell the three “islands” apart. The islanders go a bit cray cray when you can’t.

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5. You have found yourself wondering, many a time, if walking your dog counted towards Action CAS hours.

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6. TOK taught you how to perform knowledge inception: to learn how to learn how to learn.

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7. TOK also taught you that this lady’s reasoning is completely flawless.

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8. Your Y13 prank week planning started the moment you entered IB.

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9. Your Y13 prank week also probably featured one or more of the following: cling wrap / vaseline / confetti / paper cups of water

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10. You understand that the 69K to STCers is as important as Neymar to Brazil.

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11. You’ve done Balzac.

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12. You laugh at the Renaissance College uniform but secretly quite like it. Polos are comfy.

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13. You know that in case of an apocalypse, sticking with the guy that did HL Math will be your best chance of survival. He knows his shiz.

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14. If you’re an expert in anything, it would be in the art of differentiating accents…or imitating them.

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15. Bacon Hill will always be Bacon Hill. Nobody will ever convince you otherwise.

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16. You still have TI-84 and his baby brother TI-30X (with or without games installed).

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17. Most importantly, you discovered after graduation that wherever you go, you will always have no less than 10 mutual friends with another fellow ESFer you meet. The ESF world is a small but loving world.