Archive for May 2008
college or university? and eric.
college looks much more appealing honestly in terms of an experience: low teacher to student ratio, active student bodies, engaging students….
however…..
universities have a lot more facilities, more majors, more options and choices, more opportunities and clubs, more people, bigger library, better professors possibly….
the major question i think i really need myself to answer is…
when i come out of an institution, do i want have a good experience…or when i come out of an institution, do i want a nice sounding degree from a nice sounding school?
i may be asking this question in a more biased form that i would prefer it to be because it sounds like “DUH EXPERIENCE”. well a college experience can’t exactly be quantified, only felt. a degree on the other hand, can be through examinations and junk. maybe i should be more optimistic, that universities will get an equal amount of experience and a nice sounding name? and i mean, universities CAN have low teacher to student ratios, it varies from one to another…
choosing a major at this age is not a wise choice at all, as it seems as though most things are set in stone. when most uni books tell that it’s not, don’t you feel like you’re kinda wasting your time if you switch major 3 or 4 times?! i feel like i do at least, because i’m a person who likes to choose something, and work towards it, not to have pitchfork paths which ultimately lead to a drug rehabilitation centre.
i talked to eric about my problem, and he seems to understand where i’m coming from because he’s thought about it for a long time too when he was applying to uni’s and colleges. at first he was just like “apply for uni’s, they get your parents off your back.” i explained to him about my inner struggle and he clicked immediately. he talked about the college and university thing PRECISELY to how i thought about them. it’s weird. two people thinking on the same level at the right time. well actually it’s not weird, it’s very comforting. it’s not like as though i’m alone with ten hundred university guides piled on the table. there’s someone who’s thought of all the problems and managed to get through this struggle with all limbs intact.
i’m honestly kinda scared of him leaving for the UK, since it means: less eric + less conversations = less happiness = less laughs= stressed joyce. :0( i should present this equation to him, he’ll probably laugh. oh well, i’m not going to dwell on it until he needs to leave.
we’re making sushi in july! why july? because chishio (alumni from li po chun from japan) will be in hong kong and he’s teaching eric and me make sushi. i’m supposed to bring canadian recipes so we can make something before that. he and stefan (another alumni, from slovakia) were making macedonian food yesterday. according to him, his ambition is to “invite everyone to [his] house to cook their national food”. i laughed so hard when he said that. i thought it was really cute. i told him it was a lifelong ambition and he laughed really hard too. :0)
i am ready for kanata. and some weerez, baby!
