How
is the education system in the US different from your home country?
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Abhinand,
India The United States gives you flexibility to take any courses you want. Another thing that it does is, it's just a nice learning atmosphere. I think most of all, the only and the main thing that sets it apart is there's a lot of money allocated to education, so the facilities are good and it's flexible, so you can mix and study anything you want. I always think of America as a place where if you come here and you work hard, you can come up, and in my country, it's very set, so if you do engineering, you can't study medicine, for example. And, I like to study engineering and medicine, and that's something that America allows me to do. |
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Mia,
Finland Here you have a chance of taking a lot of different classes. Let's say that I am a psychology major but I can still take classes in art and work with my create side like that too. You can still try different fields. Versus back home you usually have to decide if you want to become this, you need go that path all the way there. Also, here you still have a chance to change your major. You can try different things and see what you like. That's one positive thing about the education here that you don't really have to make up your mind when you're young. You can try different things and see what you like and can possibly work with. |
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Takeyuki,
Japan I never been an university student in Japan, but from what I heard it's totally different. In Japan, so many students don't even go to class. Just to check attendance if the teacher is requiring that and then go home. And when the test season comes, they just get the notes from serious students, and study for the test only. And they're still passing. It's obvious they don't learn anything, and professors don't even care about that. But in here, if you don't go to class, that's over. You are out of the class. And you've got to learn. |
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Xiaoxue,
China Before I came, I heard that the study program here is very intense. In China, it may be very difficult for you to go through the entrance examination for universities. And then afterwards, things get easier. But here it's different. It may be easier for you to get accepted to a graduate program in the university but afterwards you have to study very, very hard in order to graduate. |
What do you think?
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I think it is great if you are going to one of those top universities in the US ... Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc. But no matter what college or university you go to, the greatest experience probably will be meeting people from all over the world and learning about other cultures.
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The English classes at the community college has really helped me to write in English, to write without spelling errors. I took four English classes, about 12 units of English classes, first ESL, and then a critical thinking class. When I took the classes, I didn't see the connection between speaking and writing essays. But after I took the classes, I realized by writing essays really improved my communication skills also, in English.
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