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sleep deprivation 

The IB is the ultimate academic path to sleep deprivation
sleep deprivation by E T November 27, 2006

Sleep Deprivation 

A long standing tradition of the International Baccalaureate (IB) where students are restricted from sleeping due to the ProCAStination and assignments due with acronyms, like ToK, IOP, IOC, IA, EE, DCP, CE, etc. Each student must re-enact this ceremony, which requires them to neglect their sleep continuously in order to be able to pass the IB.

Symptoms include (varies with person): Mental Breakdowns, Coffee Overdose, Migraines, Plagiarism, Regret over IB, among many others.

Also, students who state that they had 4 hours of solid sleep are to be considered gifted, and those who receive up to 8 hours are considered God-Blessed. However, those who receive more than 8 hours are either failing the IB, or doesn't give a ****.

Sleep Deprivation also has its benefits for the IB program, though...

Students gain the ability to BS on anything and at anytime due to the lack of sleep. They become highly analytical and could fit in a week's amount of homework in one night. These students could be credited for their sophisticated 1-hour essays that require scholars with PhD and years of experience to assemble in about a month.
Student 1: I have 3 hours of sleep on average. I am suffering from Sleep Deprivation!
Student 2: Please, I had 2 hours of sleep for 2 days! I suffer it more than you do!
Student 3: Haha, noobs, I've been awake for 2 days in a row! I AM THE DEFINITION OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION! You must kneel before me!
Sleep Deprivation by Sir Azder November 3, 2013

sleep deprivation 

An unfortunate side effect of the International Baccalaureate program. In order to finish the requisite amounts of work, sleep is often neglected. This produces symptoms including, but not limited to: red eyes, yawning, falling asleep in class, excessive bragging about how hard you worked, lack of motivation, napping in unorthodox places (hard floors, etc.), and occasionally in a highly intellectual mental state (allowing many in-depth observations and an ability to understand complex concepts). Sleep deprivation is also a common tool for bragging, with the more sleep deprived participant being declared the victor.
Student 1: I've got some hardcore sleep deprivation. I had to do three hours of calculus homework, finish an English essay, and I have a chemistry test next period.

Student 2: That's nothing. I had to finish my history IA, TOK essay, biology worksheets, and the math homework. I didn't get to bed until 3:30.
sleep deprivation by IPK June 3, 2008

Fact Deprivation Disorder 

Noun

Fact Deprivation Disorder(FDD) is disorder commonly found among sheltered first world peoples, typically, but not exclusively, from ages 12-30. The disorder is characterized as having a world view so saturated by safe-space circle jerking, poorly researched statistics, confirmation bias, over-reliance on media, and over-used meaningless rhetoric, that it never occurs to them in the slightest that their entire world view is built upon fallacies and an utter lack of basic facts or truth.

Behaviors caused by FDD are often demonstrated in the form of horrifying lack of understanding any group characterized by hereditary traits that does not match their group, excessive use of the Fundamental Attribution Error, Illusions of Grandeur that cause them to feel that they can speak for entire sections of the populace based on only their own feelings, and an over-abundance of Victim Mentality and/or a Persecution Complex.

FDD is infrequently a precursor to actual mental health illnesses, such as complexes mentioned above, Mass Hysteria, Gender Dysphoria, and even full-blown Schizophrenia such as the famous case of Lena Kochman. However, in the process of deciphering FDD, those with the disorder are so unreasonable and entitled that it is incredibly difficult to distinguish them from mentally ill peoples that desperately need medical treatment or psychological therapy.
Continually using the same statistic over and over again instead of making a point, regardless of whether or not the statistic is accurate, and continually repeating the same rhetoric is a flag that the speaker may be suffering from Fact Deprivation Disorder. Another flag is outright hostility to anyone who enters their safe space while not meeting the standards the FDD suffers set for it.
Fact Deprivation Disorder by IQuarent November 27, 2016

Dick Deprivation Syndrome 

A syndrome in which you are in desperate need of dick. Symptoms include: spaz attacks, constantly saying "I need dick in my life", and suddenly becoming a lowkey THOT.
Bonqueequee: "I think I have DDS."

Billie: "What's that?"

Bonqueequee: "Dick Deprivation Syndrome. I haven't had dick in a month. I need dick in my life."

Twilight Zone of Sleep Deprivation 

The experience one gets at a certain point of energized exhaustion. When the body is starting to shut-down due to late-night/early morning hours, but is being forced to function through a surplus of caffeine intake at regular intervals.

Anyone currently in the Zone will feel the symptoms of weariness coupled with jitteriness, loopiness, possible dizziness, and a distinct feeling of being overwhelmed by whatever it is you are trying to stay awake for. S

pelling as well as communicating will most likely become difficult as well as thinking in general.
I have over 100 calculus problems due tomorrow. Staying up to work on them has thrown me into a serious Twilight Zone of Sleep Deprivation. Why is the computer screen moving?

Dude, I'm tired, but I want to stay up with her. It'll be some crazy twilight zone sleep deprivation, but totally worth it.
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