The Minuteman

The Official Newark Academy Newspaper

Newark Academy Definitions

10. The IB Program (n): 1.) Something that makes you do a ridiculous amount of work for no discernible reason.

Example:

Guy 1: That dude just made me carry a stack of bananas up 1,000 stairs and feed them to Karl Friedrich Gauss, the prince of mathematics.

Guy 2: What an IB Program.

A gathering place for intellectualism and enlightenment

9. One of the 40’s (n): 1.) A cultural oasis

Example: Yeah, I did my term abroad in one of the 40’s.


8. F (n): 1.) Any grade below an 89

Example:

Jim: I just got an F on that paper!

Bob: Really? Me too…What was your number grade?

Jim: I got a freaking 88!

Bob: Well isn’t that great? I got a 56.

Jim: Well this is awkward . . .