Re: CHAT: University Advice (was Re: A bit of advice)

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:

> > Hmm.  Is IB available?  I bet Canadian schools recognize IB a lot better
> > than most U.S. universities.  I might as well not have taken the stupid
> > IB and gotten the diploma for all the good it did me here.  :-/
> >
> IB is available at certain private schools, like the one I used to
> attend, but then dropped out of because I hated it and my parents
> couldn't afford it (the main reason). I don't know how Canadian schools
> recognize IB.
Completely understandable.  I hated it too, but I came out of it with the
highest score (41 or thereabouts) out of the 20 people stupid enough to
take it (by the end of senior year we *all* hated it).  Bloody expensive,
I was already going to a private school for lack of options in South
Korea (the DoDs school is only for military folks), and now my folks are
going broke because I will (probably) graduate this spring, but my sister
is starting her freshman year.  I really don't know how parents do it,
and the Korean economy crashing my freshman year didn't at all help.  :-(

May your college and financial experiences be better than mine.  :-)

ObConLang: *education* in concultures/conlangs?  Education in mine is
associated with the magistrates, who form the scholarly elite, in Qenar,
though the word for "knowledge" connotes more wisdom/enlightenment (in a
vaguely Zen-ish sense) than book-learning.  Education in Qenar is a
privilege of the wealthy, and there "knowledge" connotes more
philosophy/ethics.

YHL