College and University

13-08-2007

 College life

College life

After graduating from your high school life, you will really feel the excitement to hop on to the college life. Though some are afraid not to go on but they are challenge to make the things they have not done during their high schools. Life in college is quite different from high school. Of course there are still those sickeningly assignments that awaits you, it could be inseparable by your side wherever you go, even when you are working already. You will realize afterwards that doing assignments could be a helpful way to enhance your capability in doing the things properly especially if you are working already.

Yes, college life is more complicated than in high school. During high, school all naive ness, weirdness and messes can be accommodated, but not anymore in college. Here in college, things around are more serious. You have to accept that the assign tasks your professor given to you is harder than you think in high school. But these professors would not give you tasks they think lapses of the capability of your brain couldn’t hold on. Of course they still assign those they think you can dwell with. Challenges in college are quite squeezing but fun, you are push to do the task well so that you can have the accomplishment you wanted and your parents too.

There could be more tests while in college, the most important factor is to make sure that you are cordial to accept it, if you don’t have enough patience and perseverance there could be 50-50’s that you could not pass the challenges. In college, different strategies will emerge. You should know how to dwell with it, or else you will be like a dead meat. Admittedly, college is quite tiring, not to mention your horrible instructors who keep on asking creepy questions. How terrible it may feel right? You will definitely learn to stand own your own, because unlike in high where you can cheat homework from your classmates, college could not possibly like high school.

They said, continuing college is just a mess of time. Yes it would be for those who don’t want some changes in their life, but take note that gaining knowledge from universities are more likely gaining pearls in the abyss of the ocean. Knowledge is the only treasure you can have for the rest of your life even until death, and no one could grasp it from you. Just take the challenge and think that you can make it. Others wanted to go on but have been thwarted by the hindrance of being poor. Being poor actually is not totally the reason why you can’t go on with the challenge, if you are really wanted to, there are many universities who offers scholars for those who cannot afford the tuition fees but could have taken the examinations they offer. It’s probably fun being in college, you will meet different kind of races and culture especially if you are somewhere in the other part of the world just to accomplish your goal, and meeting with unusual people seems already a challenge for you aside from the lessons of your instructors. These people could help you nurture your owns identity and perseverance.


02-08-2007

 All about Georgetown

Georgetown

GEORGETOWN is the most premier Jesuit University in the United States and arguably, the world. People in the field of international studies are bred here and eventually become heads of think tanks and government policy making advisers in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1789 by Rev. John Carroll and is the oldest Catholic university in the country.

Its current chair is Edmond Villani, the first non-priest to be the head of this university. Georgetown University is divided into four undergraduate schools and as stated earlier, its strongest points lie in the field of international relations. It also excels in law and medicine. It has three campuses all located in the DC area and a small one located in Qatar. Aside from the Qatari campus, Georgetown University also maintains Villa Le Balze in Italy and a similar research facility in Turkey. The main campus is more than 100 acres in size and houses 59 structures, including coed student dormitories.

Architecture is strictly Gothic and Georgian. It also has fountains, a cemetery reserved for Jesuits, gardens, the Dahlen Quadrangle, the Red Square, the Healy Hall and the Southwest Quadrangle. The Southwest Quadrangle student dormitory can accommodate 907 students. It has an expansive dining hall and an underground parking garage. Among the noted alumni of Georgetown University are King Abdullah of Jordan, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, former US President Bill Clinton, John Cardinal O’Connor, Reagan presidential adviser Pat Buchanan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former CIA director George Tenet, former White House counsel John Dean, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Sen. Patrick Leahy, controversial and convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, Miami Heat’s Alonzo Mourning, Denver Nuggets’ Allen Iverson and former NBA star Patrick Ewing. Former dropouts include former US President Lyndon Johnson, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis and former presidential daughter Luci Baines Johnson-Turpin.

Georgetown currently has almost 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students and its most famous college is the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. It was named after its founder, Jesuit priest Edmund Walsh. A student enrolled there leads to a degree in Foreign Service. Majors include international politics, international history, culture and politics, international economics, international political economy, regional and comparative studies and science, technology and international affairs. Its graduate programs are embedded in the Kennedy School of Government, Elliott School of International Affairs, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, online university and University of Sussex in England. The major in culture and politics itself delves in literature, anthropology, history, philosophy, fine arts, religious studies, cultural anthropology, humanities and social and political thought. One such course under anthropologies is consuming drug foods: chocolate, sugar and coffee.

Most of the students in Georgetown do not come from Washington, DC itself. Sixty four percent are white and the rest are either Asian, black or Hispanic. The male-female ratio is break even and although it is a Catholic university, only half of the students are Catholic. It is also the first US university to employ a full time imam.


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