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| Al Araam | Oct 22 2011, 04:29 AM Post #251 |
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You've heard it from me before, but Turkey is amazing. Turkish people are amazing. And like most everywhere without native English speakers as a majority, English teachers are in high demand. Also, if that's not enough, there are a damn lot of beautiful Turkish women. Toronto is not Istanbul. Take it from me. Just don't try giving your students homework. That's a decidedly un-Turkish concept. |
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| New Harumf | Oct 22 2011, 10:44 AM Post #252 |
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Teaching ESL is very frustrating for me - I just don't have the mindset for it I guess. I have heard it can be a very rewarding experience but it just isn't for me. Now teaching linguistics, that I would love! |
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| meh | Oct 22 2011, 02:05 PM Post #253 |
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I might be going to Turkey this summer if I am accepted for the Critical Languages Scholarship. |
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| Al Araam | Oct 22 2011, 05:43 PM Post #254 |
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Excellent. Now seems like a very good time to learn Turkish. |
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| NRE | Oct 22 2011, 07:38 PM Post #255 |
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ESL isn't easy at all IMO, I took a class on it and I still don't really understand it and certainly know its not for me. I think my problem is, there are so many competing ideas of how ESL can be taught, each having their own merit. Of course, I also can't speak a second language so ESL would never be for me anyhow. |
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| Ulgania | Oct 22 2011, 08:57 PM Post #256 |
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I'm just imagining everyone dropping everything, college, jobs, etc... and becoming ESL teachers. |
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| Hastine | Oct 23 2011, 11:11 PM Post #257 |
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Heh, I went to Istanbul during the summer for a month, hence my post before and my friend wanting me to come again and stay in the country for good. ^^ I agree, Turkish people are extremely nice, gregarious and hospitable, and the women are nothing to scoff at. Toronto is pretty much dwarfed by Istanbul in terms of size and sheer chaos, but I don't mind it; I'm a big-city person at heart. It's the homesick feelings that would get to me, despite the friends I've made in the country. Turkish is a difficult language, but only because it's so different from Indo-European and Semitic languages. It's like someone took the declension system of Latin, simplified it, then made all of the words agglutinive like in Japanese. I'm trying to learn it right now, but I'm more interested in Arabic at the moment. In addition, homework in general should be an un-human concept. New Harumf: Isn't linguistics a pretty dead-end degree, unless you want to teach it, get into coding or speech pathology? Edited by Hastine, Oct 23 2011, 11:13 PM.
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| New Harumf | Oct 24 2011, 08:26 AM Post #258 |
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Linguistics is no more dead end than other degrees in today's ecomomy, but I would have wanted to teach it, so no. It is not a "career" starter by any stretch of the imagination, but I just enjoy it. Would be the same as a paeleotology degree and an archeology degree I would think. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Nov 22 2011, 08:14 AM Post #259 |
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Telo mentioned that he applied to MIT in another thread. I was just curious where else he and the rest of our younger contingent were interested in going. |
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| Telosan | Nov 22 2011, 11:19 PM Post #260 |
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I am the younger contingent, RD. Everyone else aside from Tori is already in college or past it, I believe. |
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| meh | Nov 23 2011, 02:43 AM Post #261 |
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I think Quaon is in your grade. |
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| Aelius | Nov 23 2011, 08:08 AM Post #262 |
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Stop making us feel old! :lol: On a related note, when I went to the mall to buy Skyrim, I saw a car that said "Class of 2012" from a local high school drawn with that weird foam paint stuff in the windshield, and my first thought was "lolwut?" Aging is strange. |
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| Al Araam | Nov 23 2011, 08:21 AM Post #263 |
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Yessir. My roommate and I were talking about having people younger than we are give their birthdate in line at the liquor store. There's a lot of things that make you feel a little old around. It doesn't help that my roommate's a freshman and brings a lot of freshmen around. Oh well. One of my four roommates may soon be on the way out, so maybe we can find someone else our own age. Preferably not from Jackson, WY, as well.. |
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| New Harumf | Nov 23 2011, 02:49 PM Post #264 |
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You are required to have sex with all female freshwomen he brings around. It is your obligation. It is your duty. P.S. What is wrong with Jackson, WY |
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| Al Araam | Nov 24 2011, 08:15 PM Post #265 |
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Nothing's wrong with Jackson. I'm there right now, actually, spending Thanksgiving with my roommate's family. The "problem" is that a solid 99% of the people I know is SLC are from Jackson, and it would be nice to have a simple way to branch out a bit. |
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| Telosan | Dec 31 2011, 09:29 PM Post #266 |
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With the deadlines for most colleges on January 1st, I spent the past week frantically typing out essays to the point that I'm near certain my insanity cracked in some of them. Many thanks to Porcu for his assistance! My list, as it stands now, is: Princeton U Cornell U Johns Hopkins U Carnegie Mellon Boston College Stevens Institute U of Illinois U of Michigan Lehigh U Rochester Institute That's in order from least to most likely to get in. All those probability calculators, such as Cappex, start giving me good chances with Stevens and below. I'm also looking to apply to Ohio State, but they're not due until 2/1, so I'm taking a break. I'll start hearing back from the earliest in the middle of March. The majority of them, though, are supposed to notify me on April 1st, which kind of seems like I'm being set up for a terrible joke, but whatever. By May 1st, I should know where I'm going. :D |
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| flumes | Jan 1 2012, 05:19 PM Post #267 |
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Pass on Ohio State and look into Ohio's Honors Tutorial College. |
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| Porcu | Jan 1 2012, 05:29 PM Post #268 |
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You can ignore flumes, Telo; Ohio State is where it's at. B) |
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| New Harumf | Jan 2 2012, 11:46 AM Post #269 |
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UM > UI. That is my opinion. Princton is no good for an undergrad. Why no West Coast schools?? |
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| Telosan | Jan 2 2012, 12:11 PM Post #270 |
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I missed the deadline for Berkeley. :sad: Their Regular Decision deadline is the middle of November. Ridiculous. I couldn't find anything else of interest out there, though I suppose I could try applying for transfer next year. |
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| meh | Jan 3 2012, 02:17 AM Post #271 |
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That's ok. You don't want to live anywhere near Oakland anyways. |
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| Quaon | Jan 3 2012, 08:26 PM Post #272 |
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My list: Columbia - deferred early decision Swarthmore - applying early decision II Penn Brown Tufts NYU Georgetown Fordham |
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| New Harumf | Jan 4 2012, 09:12 AM Post #273 |
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Hmm, let us recap: Columbia - BIG money Swarthmore - BIG money Penn - BIG money Brown - Providence?? and BIG money, yuck! Tufts - BIG money, and my cousin is chairman of the English Dept!! NYU - big money. Georgetown - BIG money Fordham - BIG money So unless you are uber rich, you will end up your UNDERGRAD education $100,000 in debt!! Why not go to a GOOD public university for your undergrad and save the uber rich schools for your grad work?? What are you going to major in again, besides accumulating debt?? |
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| Telosan | Jan 4 2012, 04:40 PM Post #274 |
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Could always try to play the "smart kid, poor family" card. A lot of the big name private universities also give sizable grants to large percentages of their students. Had I been accepted to Stanford, I qualified for a grant of 41,000 towards an average tuition of 48,000. |
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| Quaon | Mar 23 2012, 12:59 PM Post #275 |
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Not "uber" rich, but my family is fairly well off. Not something I really like to brag about, but yeah. Anyway, I just got accepted into Swarthmore and will be matriculating. |
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