I wish he’d start school soon — my head is already stuffed with Napoleon. The third one — not the other one, apparently.
… IA, EE, AI — do they know which is which? She certainly does not. He is better with those…
Then TOK, yeah… endless talk.
Oh, and there is also a Woolf? All the time, Woolf and Woolf… I am not a friend of all those howling brothers — had a fight with husky in Nanjing — so perhaps it is good that this Woolf (or should they say wolf?) stays far away in Virginia.
John Something Mill. Another thing that I am tired of. Oh yes, a stout observer indeed: I saw a mill out the bus window in Kent too. There was a lovely green around it but my humans didn’t let me out. Was it moral? Did they benefit?
ANOVA, they repeat, anova. I shiver at the thought — I hate all stars or fireworks, regardless of how nova. And why ‘pee-value’? A bit embarrassing to hear…
What can be worse? The Kew regression (multiple, they say). I was never there. For shame.
… I hope the poor collie is alright (they call her E. coli, maybe her first name is Elizabeth?). She is resistant, they say, so she should be safe.
Uff… Either he finally brings it all to his teachers or I go to UCAS — United Canines Against Stress. They should save me from this IB…
Whatever it means.
Disclaimer: No collies were harmed in the making of the Biology IA
Decoder’s Corner (What Kaka overheard):
- IB – International Baccalaureate, an international secondary school programme with a long list of independent research projects.
- IA – Internal Assessment, an individual research project required in most IB subjects.
- Biology IA – project on antibiotic resistance in E. coli and domestic disinfectants. No collies involved.
- Maths IA – statistical study of weather and Kew Garden visitor numbers (with ANOVA and multiple regression).
- History IA – Napoleon III and the Franco-Piedmontese victory of 1859.
- Philosophy IA – whether restricting personal freedom for societal benefit can be moral.
- Extended Essay (EE) – on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and the presentation of subjectivity. No wolfs at all.
- ANOVA – Analysis of Variance, a statistical test used to compare means across groups.
- E. coli – Escherichia coli, a common bacterium.
- John Stuart Mill – 19th-century English philosopher, political economist, and one of the most influential thinkers in liberal political theory.
- TOK (Theory of Knowledge) – the IB’s subject about how we know what we know.
- UCAS – Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, the UK’s university application system. Does not consider dogs. Yet.
Kent, UK, IDruzhinina, 2025
