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

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, September 9, 2000, 2:02
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