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20 Christmas Presents for Stressed IB Students
Are you struggling with what to get that anxiety-ridden student that you know as a gift for the holidays? Look no further. We’ve scoured the web and compiled a list of the 20 best presents for stressed IB students to pick them up. Some might be truly useful, others slightly sillier, but all will be…
Self-care during IB exams
For those of you with November exams, I’m sure you are deep into revision and perhaps feeling a little overwhelmed and exhausted. It can be easy to put your health to one side when faced with something as intimidating as IB exams. BUT, it’s more important than ever for you take care of yourself and…
The countdown to Christmas: managing mocks
Normally, when it comes to the Christmas holidays, students are desperately counting down the days till they can have two or three weeks of festive fun. I have discovered, however, as I travel around speaking to all you IB students out there, that many of you, especially second year diploma students with mocks coming up,…
Having an IB meltdown? Use mindfulness to cut your stress levels and boost your productivity!
As an IB student, chances are you know how it feels to have a million things buzzing around your mind – IA deadlines, CAS projects, ToK, how not to fail maths, EE… but you can’t seem to concentrate on any of them for long enough to get the job done! Instead, you sit there feeling…
Sleep Smart – 4 Tech Tips to Hack Your Sleep and get those 8 Hours
Sleep is important. We all know this. Thanks to PhD students at MIT, we now understand that it is whilst we are asleep that our brain’s prefrontal cortex shifts all of the information we learn in a school day to the file marked ‘long-term memory’, ready to be accessed when those final exams eventually roll…
We need to talk about stress
No, really. Those of us at Lanterna have been visiting a fair number of schools recently and it seems like a lot of students, at all stages of the IB, are stressed at the moment. Maybe it’s the season, maybe it’s this particular time in the course, but I think it would do us all…
How to Make Yourself Productive Over Holidays
I bet you’ve got good intentions and want to get things done. The summer is probably a time you were thinking of doing some IB work, but now it’s really hard to make yourself work. Don’t worry, everyone struggles to get stuff done sometimes. However, it is possible to allocate time in a way that…
