Don't wanna hold hands and talk about her plans.

[lithiumlaughter]

Today is 'scare the noobs' day for the Education program on campus.

Okay, okay. Technically, it's a pre-orientation. Their honest-to-goodness orientation comes in August. What happens today is that our current class, who has all but finished save for some paperwork, and next year's class all get together and talk shop for a couple hours. The current

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[chalakchalak]

I've felt (and looked) like I'm 18 for the last four years now.
:'(

If I understand correctly, you're the ones that are going to 'scare the noobs', right?

[lithiumlaughter]

Take comfort -- I look like a physical 13/14 year old, I have to wrangle teens anywhere from 15-18. Fun times.:)

Yep. That's how it works. Only we're really not supposed to scare them; these are the folk who have just been accepted into the Professional Year program. The whole idea is to give the students an eye-on-the-ground view of what they can expect.

[chalakchalak]

Ahh, they're lucky! Not many firms/companies/what have you have programs like that. Usually they just throw you into the fire.

[lithiumlaughter]

Our program is special. Huuuuuuuuuuge support net, right from the day you get your acceptance letter. Lots of time talking with previous grads, lots of contact with your Faculty Associate (basically, the prof who acts as a liaison between you and the campus while you're in immersion and your general lifesaver/angel/hero for the entire year)...I could go on.

Though, as I've said to you, the cost of this year is about the cost of of an entire post-secondary education almost everywhere else. We're actually recognized as the most expensive university in Canada...but also, one of the best. So you'd better damn well get those kind of perks. :)

[chalakchalak]

I would hope so! So I'm guessing (and this is simply from what you've said here) that the graduation ratte must be pretty high. Is this magical instituton focused only on teaching? You make it sound great and I want to take a few classes on teaching Asian languages,

[lithiumlaughter]

Dude. Spot me your e-mail and I can send you some stuff about my University. I don't mind talking about it more specifically so long as it's not a super-public forum like LJ. E-mail is cool.

Either that, or just drop me a line at cat_without_a_grin [at] hotmail [dot] com.

[chalakchalak]

Le cool!

I'll send you my e-mail through a private message then. Yay!