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College Educations, Part II; Now with less sketchiness
Topic Started: Jun 2 2010, 11:24 PM (5,444 Views)
Al Araam
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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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Oct 22 2011, 01:13 AM
My parents have said I should be an ESL teacher, as well as my Turkish friend who is eager to see me in Turkey with all of his (and my) Turkish friends and a Turkish wife. It'd be cool, but I would be incredibly homesick. I'd be better off teaching ESL to students in Toronto, since our multicultural population is huge.
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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Al Araam
Oct 22 2011, 04:29 AM
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.
I might be going to Turkey this summer if I am accepted for the Critical Languages Scholarship.
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Al Araam
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Excellent. Now seems like a very good time to learn Turkish.
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Oct 22 2011, 10:44 AM
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Oct 22 2011, 01:13 AM
My parents have said I should be an ESL teacher, as well as my Turkish friend who is eager to see me in Turkey with all of his (and my) Turkish friends and a Turkish wife. It'd be cool, but I would be incredibly homesick. I'd be better off teaching ESL to students in Toronto, since our multicultural population is huge.
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!
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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I'm just imagining everyone dropping everything, college, jobs, etc... and becoming ESL teachers.
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Al Araam
Oct 22 2011, 04:29 AM
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.
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?
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Oct 23 2011, 11:11 PM
Al Araam
Oct 22 2011, 04:29 AM
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.
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?
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
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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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Nov 22 2011, 08:14 AM
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.
I am the younger contingent, RD. Everyone else aside from Tori is already in college or past it, I believe.
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Nov 22 2011, 11:19 PM
Rhadamanthus
Nov 22 2011, 08:14 AM
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.
I am the younger contingent, RD. Everyone else aside from Tori is already in college or past it, I believe.
I think Quaon is in your grade.
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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
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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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Al Araam
Nov 23 2011, 08:21 AM
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..
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
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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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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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Pass on Ohio State and look into Ohio's Honors Tutorial College.
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Porcu
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You can ignore flumes, Telo; Ohio State is where it's at. B)
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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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Jan 2 2012, 11:46 AM
UM > UI. That is my opinion.

Princton is no good for an undergrad. Why no West Coast schools??
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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Jan 2 2012, 12:11 PM
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Jan 2 2012, 11:46 AM
UM > UI. That is my opinion.

Princton is no good for an undergrad. Why no West Coast schools??
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.
That's ok. You don't want to live anywhere near Oakland anyways.
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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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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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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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So unless you are uber rich
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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