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Most universities here are divided into multiple schools based on function. At UVA, for example, there's the college of liberal arts and sciences, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the engineering school, the nursing school, the school or commerce, the architecture school, the medical school, the business school, and the law school.
My sketchy understanding of Oxford is that the divisions are not strictly functional, and that one could get the same degree from several different colleges.
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The University of Toronto in Canada has Oxford-like Colleges to which students belong, reside and participate in one of many smaller communities that make up the whole of the University, but I think it's the exception with North American Universities rather than the rule. You can get any degree from any college although some degrees are loosely associated with a specific college.
At Toronto, originally, they were seperately formed for different Christian denominations- Anglican, Catholic, Methodist etc, and were then amalgamated into one school for convenience. Now, the colleges are more of a social and residential thing, although in some religion still plays a part and the traditions of the colleges are often very strong. It certainly makes a larger University feel less daunting!
As far as I can tell, there aren't many Universities with the old College system in America/Canada and the word "college" can mean the University itself, a functional school or part of a school like Dagonee said or a Community College which is less academic than a University.
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Well, except for what's been said in this thread I don't really know anything about dating or college in Israel. But if you have a chance to study in another country, for the whole degree or as part of a 1-year study abroad program, go for it. Partly because it's a great experience but also for a general principle to help with your collegiate dating: Foreigners are hot.
As soon as you travel to a different country you become more exotic, interesting, and alluring than you were at home. Suddenly you'll have a sexy accent. Obviously that's not going to make you attractive to everyone in the country you're visiting, but it will make you attractive to enough that you'll have an easier time getting dates. I've discussed this principle with enough exchange students both to and from here that I have a lot of faith in it.
quote:As soon as you travel to a different country you become more exotic, interesting, and alluring than you were at home. ...
There's truth to this, you know. I am quite the hottie in Mexico, what with my pale pale skin and all. I like paradigm shifts that make my ugly features into my attractive features. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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quote:I have a personal philosophy concerning dating that many have called be bat-crap crazy for, yet others have told me they see a logic in it.
Either way - I don't actively look for dates. I look for friends. My idea is that I'd rather have a few really good friends that stay friends than a lot of dates with people I don't care about, and will probably never think about again.
I like to build a foundation of friendship, and then if it Goes Any Where, then it does, and that's awesome. But if it doesn't, then you still have some pretty great friends.
Sweetheart, there is a logic to this. You get to have the benefit of female company without the burden and accompanying joys of a solo relationship.
Not that no-committment friendship with the ooposite sex is bad. It's not the same thing, though, no matter how many girls you put on your list. You just don't know what you are missing.
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: Don't forget spelling.
Um, orthography is spelling.
And don't forget a healthy dose of grammar, historical linguistics, and dialectology just to be safe.
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I'm sorry. I thought about it and realized that you were NOT saying what I thought you were saying, so I should probably take down the evidence of cheeky presumption. Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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My tongue was in my cheek -- you just missed it because we don't have a cheeky enough graemlin. I was gently poking fun at JH's highfalutin scrivenary.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: I'm sorry. I thought about it and realized that you were NOT saying what I thought you were saying, so I should probably take down the evidence of cheeky presumption.
I was saying you're hitting on Taalcon. What did you think I was saying? Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: My tongue was in my cheek -- you just missed it because we don't have a cheeky enough graemlin. I was gently poking fun at JH's highfalutin scrivenary.
I should've known. Darn newbies—I don't know your sense of humor well enough yet.
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No Chris Kidd is my real name. I do have another screen name I dust off and use when im feeling a bit wolfish. So Chris Kidd is no pseudo.
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No im not that im aware of since Kidd is an adopted name when i was born. its a bit of a complicated story. i might put in a land mark thread when i reach that magical post count in another 8 years of being at hatrack.
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quote:Originally posted by Enigmatic: Well, except for what's been said in this thread I don't really know anything about dating or college in Israel. But if you have a chance to study in another country, for the whole degree or as part of a 1-year study abroad program, go for it. Partly because it's a great experience but also for a general principle to help with your collegiate dating: Foreigners are hot.
As soon as you travel to a different country you become more exotic, interesting, and alluring than you were at home. Suddenly you'll have a sexy accent. Obviously that's not going to make you attractive to everyone in the country you're visiting, but it will make you attractive to enough that you'll have an easier time getting dates. I've discussed this principle with enough exchange students both to and from here that I have a lot of faith in it.
--Enigmatic
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Unfortunatelly, I think you're right Annie. A part of my compatriots are so stupid to believe all that media said. And all media i know (with an exception) are totally for a discorde between Americans and frenches. But another part of Frenches is not so stupid and knows you are not like TV shows you.
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quote:Originally posted by Annie: I don't know, though, if Americans count in becoming sexy and alluring overseas. I think for the most part, Americans piss people off overseas.
I'm saying this half seriously. Half is not serious, but half is.
I thought about putting in an addendum along these lines, but decided to leave current politics out of it. The principle still applies, the current prevailing attitudes may just be a dampening factor. Even if people don't like what Americans are doing, if they meet one who's travelling abroad there's a good chance they'd want to talk to him/her and ask questions about what it's really like here, etc. That's a great chance to take a stand against war and imperialism to show all sensitive and caring you are. wink-wink. (I'm still waiting for the American flag "We are not ALL jerks" tshirt I ordered.)
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I kind of have an accent. To some people it's my most interesting personality features but since I don't talk much, many people don't notice. Besides, as soon as people find out I'm a 9-year immigrant and not some sort of global traveller it's never so mysterious .
Sometimes, an accent is an asset, sometimes it's a pain.
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Yeah - it's not so much political as social.
Sit near Notre Dame in Paris and count Americans one day. You'll notice you can count them because you can recognize them. They're the ones wearing tshirts with big slogans and pictures, sweatpants and baseball caps. They're the ones talking REALLY LOUDLY in English about stupid things, mostly how no one around them speaks English. The twenty French people around them understand every word that's being said, and you will recognize them by the fact that they're rolling their eyes.
You can spot Americans in Latin America, not just because they're tall and white, but because they're the only ones eating at Pizza Hut. When they're not there, they're getting trashed in bars where they'll down margaritas all night but protest loudly that they don't want any water because "you can't drink the water here."
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Jon Boy: England (near Cambridge), moved nine years ago, but the accent still lingers, although it varies wildly depending on whom I'm talking with and what I'm talking about.
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quote:Originally posted by ElJay: Um, but, you kinda are. Isn't there some sort of truth-in-advertising law that should kick into effect here?
Right, but the shirt can reassure someone, after I've reduced them to tears with scathing insults, offended them with disgusting comments, and kicked them in the shins, that there are others who are not jerks. Nowhere in the statement "We are not all jerks" is a claim that I am one of these Not Jerks.
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