CAN you combine university studies and a Christmas holiday break at the same time? I sure can. I am a senior in French studies here in the University of Maine and I am already booked to a two-week study break in Paris as an exchange student. I’m so excited already, I can feel the rush to my skin just by imagining that I’m on one of the rails in the Eiffel Tower. They say that Paris is a city of lights and I guess this is more pronounced this Christmas season because of obvious reasons. I also can’t wait to practice my French charm to some French girls and greet them a merry noel without passing off as an American. But kidding aside, I admire the intellectuality of these French girls. They can never be underestimated. For that, I consider them the most romantic people on earth and I can’t wait to touch down at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
By the way, Charles de Gaulle International Airport is where a man with no citizenship stayed for more than a decade until he simply vanished. They say the man is now under care with the French Red Cross. His story has sparked a movie starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg simply called The Terminal. It’s not just Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography or John Williams’s score that made me admire the movie, it’s Tom Hank’s character himself and I can’t wait to see where the Terminal Man actually stayed.
I have been in Maine all my life and I admit that I have never been to any busy international airport such as Dulles or Chicago’s O’Hare. When I’ll touch down at Charles de Gaulle, I’ll surely be awestruck as the airport is the busiest in mainland Europe and second busiest in the continent, only being surpassed by London’s Heathrow. I can already imagine this early that Charles de Gaulle will be full of enchanting and dazzling lights and they don’t emanate from the landing lights on the ground nor the tower lights. It’s simply the Christmas lights that I’m looking forward to view. I can already see myself window shopping at the duty-free shops in Charles de Gaulle and tasting myself with a few desserts at their airport bistros such as flan, rice puddings, chocolate desserts, crepes, French toast and a whole lot of others such as strawberry trifle, strawberry shish kebab and exotic fruit saute with ginger and honey. The names of these menus make my saliva drool towards my stomach. Olive may be a staple fruit in France and wine may be their staple drink but there are lots of exotic food here and I can’t wait to taste them all such as frogs’ legs and snails from Bourgogne. To compensate for the taste, they put in lots of butter in the snails which they saute. Or that’s what I’ve heard. Now I’m going to taste them for real.
Surely, you will feel excited and could no longer wait for the time that you will be interviewed for a preparation for your college life. This emotional feeling is normal for fresh high school graduates who were craving to experience the real life of college. However, before the students can enter the college lives there are challenges to face for them to test if they can really manage to go on with the college level. There are preparatory interviews, entrance exams and more. Speaking of the word ‘interview’, there are advices and tips for students to follow so that they will never feel nervous when facing the person who were about to interview and ask them relevant questions.
While you are in the interview waiting room, be calm don’t feel nervous and just be yourself. Don’t try to force yourself opening your resume or application because it might be the cause to make you feel more nervous and uneasy. Be optimistic think of the possibilities that you are one of the best college students they are looking for. Browsing with the college profile is also a great idea to give you more confidence and insights regarding on how to deal with your future interviewee. There are several benefits you can get when browsing the college admissions and the latter mentioned above were just some of the benefits you can get with the college admissions. And if you have doubts and information you want to ask, don’t hesitate of asking some questions about it since it would be for your own benefit again. Don’t mind much about your future college, think that you are still in high school that were enjoying high school activities and fun, this will help you relieve your nervous and gives you point of view that interviewing is just like participating your high school activities.
Ask your friends, parents, siblings or relatives to a mock interview. Show them the best gestures you can show during your final college interview. Don’t just think that it is just your love ones who were interviewing you, consider them as your final interviewee who will possibly ask you some significant and hard questions. After that, ask them if your answers and the way you deliver them are already appropriate enough to become a college student. This strategy could help you better prepare to college, this would also help you not feel shock if unexpected instances will occur during your college interview.
In order for you to show on your interviewee that you are really that genuine pursuing the field of study you are choosing, you can enumerate some possible questions regarding on the profession you want to cater. In this sense this would help you answer the possible question thrown to you by your interviewee. There would be possible questions you made that would be ask by your interviewee and it would never be hard for you to answer them back because you were confident that you were well prepared and confident to answer the question. Make sure that you are well prepared regarding on the dress code you will be wearing. It is important that your suit during your interview is appropriate to see, not too sexy or too formal. Just make sure that you look presentable in the eyes of your interviewee, because it could be a plus factor for you.
After a long journey studies of high school life, the years that spent for the high school studies is maybe enough as a preparation when hopping towards college level. Life in college is quite different in high school. It is more complicated, therefore taking the course should be a serious matter. College is more on serious relationship from classmates, teachers and yourself when taking for any relevant discussions. The higher tuition fees are one factor to remember why students in college should take the chosen courses seriously. Another reason why college should be taken seriously because it is your preparation point when applying for a job in some of the prestigious companies; remember that a person which achieve a college degree is more opportune when looking for a job in the future. Unlike those who have not reach the college level could only have grasp the opportunity of working in a low level industries which definitely offers a small amount of salary.
However, not all high school graduate students could attain college because of some financial problem and forge themselves of working instead of studying. With that reason we could not blame these students; yet there are some ways for these students who were craving to experience life in college even still when they are busy working with their recent job. How then? Maybe you were asking, nowadays there are prestigious universities that offers an online degree courses. This program was established to help students who have less opportunity of paying high rate of tuition fees in the typical Universities. While enrolling in an Online Education has lesser tuition fee since there is no need for a students to pay miscellaneous and among others.
On the other hand, students wanted to venture their studies in a typical school buildings but could not afford the tuition fee and don’t rather want to venture themselves in work could apply for a scholarship. This is a great idea; students could apply for any kind of scholarship available in such a university. However, students wishing to apply for scholarships should always inculcate in their mind the importance of the organization they are applying for. Still studies are more important so students should always participate on whatever events launch from the organization the student are scholar with. To become a successful graduate student, taking the course seriously is all that matters. In college, life is quiet different and more complicated. Unlike during high school days, assignment, projects and programs is too easy for alibis. You can even cheat with your seatmates when examination occur and you can even not listening to your teacher’s discussions. In college make things different; don’t waste time of strolling around the mall and do the jamming since all your actions can be credited. Students could possibly be failed when not taking things seriously; college time is too precious that is why we notice that most of the college students are found bending in the libraries, taking notes for their assignments and reading books for their next lessons. Life in college is more complicated and serious so students should better get ready about it.
