Marie

If you are wondering what to do during this thanksgiving break beside eating and passing out full of mashed potatoes and gravy… go to the movie and watch Twilight!!!

If you are into reading ( and you should be ^_^) go ahead and read the book and then, go to the movie!!! it’s like one of the best movie i’ve ever seen!

I’m not going to talk about what is it about to spoil it for those who haven’t seen it yet! but i will sure give a hint: there so many hotties ( both guys and girls) so go check it out!!!

after Thanksgiving, and maybe after going to see Twilight, don’t forget to go back to homework… if you are me and have finals coming up like in a week, you better get to the books and study!!! a lot of papers are due, presentation to be done and accumulative finals!

Keep your head up! i know Christmas coming up is a very exciting thing… and it’s hard to concentrate! but school is very important… so people good luck with finals and happy thanksgiving!

stay warm

If you wonder who are those people? that’s of course me, marie, your favorite blogger (hehehe) and bakha (sorry if i spell your name wrong) ^_^ but ya this picture was taken today in the student center!!! well you might wonder why marie looks so formal? well it’s not my typical casual clothes! i was wearing this because i had to participate to a fashion show!

well you see, this week is the international friendship week here at iwcc and there’s a bunch of events every day in honor of the international students, and also for people that are just interested in other countries. 

Tonight was the fashion show ( a show where different students were allowed to present traditional coustumes from their countries! it was really fun and i learnt from it!

Well if you want to know what i’m wearing, it’s a coustume from Jelisco Mexico, that was owed by a very special lady! it’s a very elegant coustume and it feat me!!! the reason i’m wearing it!! hehehe

anyways it’s cool that here at iwcc a lot of cultures get together in a special whole week to just celebrate and honor their country!!! yeah for iwcc!

Monday november 10, 2008 I, Marie can proudly declared i had a great day :D  yup it’s a big deal because usually, mondays are stressful for everyone ( let me know if you like mondays)

The thing about mondays is, it’s the first day of the week ( according to the french calendar hahaha) it’s also the day when one try to adjust to everything after a nice weekend! it’s not always easy to wake up early and go to class when the night before you slept till 4:00pm ( me ^_^).. also homework and everything is due on mondays!!! and monday nights is the time for more and more homeworks!!!!

anyways, today is supposed to be worse because i had a microbiology exam!!! honestly that class is hard ( for me) but again it’s one of my favorite classes because it’s super interesting!!!

I then woke up earlier than usual and review for the exam; then went to my first class which is statistic!!!

First sign of a great day: my class got cancelled ( nope i’m not lazy, but i’m not gonna cry about it… ^_^) really, it was good because i had more time to review for microbiology!

then after reviewing, i went to microbiology class and supriseling i felt like the exam was takable! for once since i started taking this class i actually felt like the exam is easy!!!

After class i then found out that i got accepted into the university i wanted to go to!!! sweet thing right?!?

right now i’m just chilling and very happy for this amazing monday! (no homework!!!) if you had a bad monday hopefully reading this blog will make you feel better! or just think tomorrow is a new day and it would be brilliant for you!!!!

stay warm!

last thursday here on campus we had a transfer fair! for someone who has never gone to a transfer fair before, i was pretty much impressed! so many universities…they were all sitting at different table/stations and each station had the name and the symbol of the school they were representating. 

Luckily enough, the top five universities i was considerating were there! even though i have already applied to some of them… it was the opportunities to touch base with the representants and learn more about the schools and also, it was the time to pick up application copies from schools i haven’t applied to yet and filled them out!!!

Talking about that, there’s something called deadline, and if you are interested in nursing or any carrier that is not general education, you better at least apply a semester in advance… don’t wait til the last month to consider schools! trust me, i learnt the hard way!!!

The thing that really bothers me is the fact that, it took me forever to determine what i really wanted to do in the future!!! chosing a carrier is not easy because there so many options to consider! the top one that i think about before anything are:

• am I going to find a job after my education? in other words what’s the job outlook on the carrier?
• am i able to embrace that carrier? for example if you want to be a nurse, you better like science and do well in it, and you better like people and blood and needles… (just kidding, well not really! ^_^)
• Do i see myself doing that kind of job for the rest of my life?
• the location is important too, for example if i ever decided to move to another country/continent, can i still do that kind of job
• and how long would it takes me to complete my education?
• and finally, how much would i be making?

so then, when all of those are fulfilled, then you have a major, and now that you have a major! what kinda degree do you want to owe? an associate? a bachelor? a master,  a phD…

beyond associate, you need to go to a 4 years universities!!! so you have to transfer! that’s when deadlines and requirements settles in…

For some people it’s not hard to transfer because for day one they know that after high school they would go to iwcc and then to iowa state for their  bachelor in accounting and they would work for the local bank or whatever…

but for others?  we search from school according to the majors they offer…

so if you are a freshman and want to tranfer and you don’t have any clue where you want to go yet! hmmm it’s about time to figure that out! talk to your advisors, go online, search schools, visit schools and so forth!!!

good luck to all of you and stay warm!