My Inescapable Thought Abyss

                                Okay, so we're here already! Last post for the Student Blogging Challenge March - May 2020. It's been a new experience. Yeah, probably because I've never participated in a blogging challenge ever before much less one specifically for students.  And, reading other's works has been quite interesting too. Getting more than one point of view on a subject does broaden one's horizon. Admittedly, I couldn't commit 100% to the challenge. I even missed a week or two in the middle. But it wasn't for nothing.  Besides, to quote Hank Green from one of his videos, I know more stuff now!  So, throughout the course of the challenge, I wrote a total of 6 blog posts (including this one, the number sounds awfully small now, whoops!) Should've definitely written more.  Here's some questions about the challenge as a task to answer in this post: 1. How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in?     6 weeks 2. How many posts did yo

The topic of the Student Blogging challenge’s week 6 is Schools around the world. Now, the world is a huge place. So I don’t think it’s possible to make the post interesting if I go ahead and list all the different types of them. Neither would it be any help. So, I’d rather share with you something about the educational boards in my country, two to be precise: CBSE and IB. And maybe even impart some of my knowledge about them because I just changed by educational board for grade 11 and 12. P.S. There are other educational boards available too including ICSE and IGCSE and other State boards. But in this post I’m going to focus primarily on IB and CBSE. Okay, so, here’s the thing: When you pass 10 th grade in India from the mainstream board (Central Board of Secondary Education – CBSE), you’re expected to make a choice. And if I were to be honest, I don’t like either of the three options. The choice is to decide which stream of study you’d like to go ahead and study for th