Black Lives Matter: An Open Letter to the AISB Community
Dear AISB students, parents, and teachers, Even though I technically graduated from AISB on Saturday, and was free to walk away, to stop working, stop writing, I felt the need to say something other than “farewell and good luck” via Zoom. With protests going on…
All You Need to Know About Senior Year
The DP is tough. If you’re a junior, you’ve probably come to terms with this pretty recently. You feel like you’ve learned more in the last few months than in your entire MYP career. The prospect of EEs and university are still but a distant…
We are the Prisoners: A Poem on Living with Anxiety
We are the prisoners of the night; Shrouded in the secrecy of moonlight, Cause it’s the only thing that protects us From their penetrating gazes. Everything yearns to be hidden. Even time itself, Whose nervous hands slow to a stop When given attention. The darkness…
IB Stress: Why we need to stop being 7-obsessed and start setting realistic expectations
“If I don’t get a 7, they’ll be disappointed in me.” “I have to get a 7 because that’s what’s expected of me.” “I’m a failure unless I get this 7.” Sound familiar to you? It does to me. And to many other students at…
RM’s Mono: The Album Everyone Needs In Their Lives
We all have ways to overcome stress, whether it’s crying, over-eating, or a common IB student favorite, procrastination. But there’s another not-so-toxic method you can turn to: listening to music. About a month ago, I discovered and fell in love with an album that not…
Wrapping Up Our 1st Year @ The Bite
The MYP Design Cycle: essentially seeing the need for a product, creating that said product and then evaluating it. Students choose to make all sorts of thing–3-D fidget spinners, furniture, simple robots, even articles of clothing. But what happens when you decide to create a…
AISB’s March For Our Lives Gets International Attention
Last Saturday, on March 24th, students from all around the world marched for the lives of those who were lost in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. On Monday, the AISB community did the same. The event, led by journalism students Gal O. and Mominah…
Which Language Should You Be Learning?
A student stares coldly at a block of text. The bitter aftertaste of coffee lingers on their tongue, their shoulders slumped, head pounding, and eyes strained from attempting to understand what they were reading. Frustrated, the student turns to an old yet reliable friend that…
South Korean Music: Why is it so K-Pop-ular?
AISB’s Secondary School K-pop squad: a group of girls and sometimes a few guys, eagerly gathered around one bright laptop screen, huddling and cuddling one another, occasionally squealing or singing (badly) in Korean. Firstly, if you have no idea what I am talking about, I’d…
Korean Food in Bucharest: Seoul Restaurant Review
In the city of Bucharest, consisting of mainly Romanians, Hungarians, Turks, and Germans, it’s interesting to know that there’s a restaurant serving solely Korean food. Its name: Seoul Restaurant. With the help of their native Korean head chef, Seoul claims to incorporate salty, sweet, spicy,…
Homework: Is it Actually Bad for Us?
Most high-school students can agree that homework isn’t exactly the thing we look forward to most when returning from summer vacation. Even so, since we are all responsible students (and none of us really want to go to homework catch-up club), we do it anyways….