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April – Additions to Our College Collection

Dragan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:38:55 +0000

We have several new institutions represented in our Center’s collection of college promotional material.

PACE UNIVERSITY – This institution is located in the state of New York. What we have received are the application procedures and Enrollment guide.

BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE – located in Boston, Massachusetts. You can go through their Student’s Guide to International Admissions.

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE – located in Springfield, Massachusetts. We have the International Student Guide and the checklist for application.

MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD – has sent us the Viewbook and the undergraduate application packet.

PLATTSBURGH, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK – This institution has sent us the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog, estimated cost for the upcoming academic year and other promotional material.

January – New Promotional Material

Dragan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:12:52 +0000

It is not too late to let you know what has arrived to our library in the last couple of weeks. We will have more booklets and other material arriving in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER – Some of you probably know we had organized the presentation for student athletes last week. Those of you who didn’t have any clue what was happening now have the chance to fix it. We have the latest Catalog with all the programs of this institution, leaflets, some posters, Volleyball magazine, freshman package, as well as the material for College of Engineering and Applied Science at this institution. We also received the information about its Global Business Communication Certificate and its LLM programs.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA – We have several applications for international undergraduate students available. All the prices and other necessary details are available in another leaflet.

COTTEY COLLEGE – This institution is located in Missouri. The motto of the institution is “For Women, By Women, About Women”. Along with the fact sheet, we have papers on summer programs, visits to the college, athletics programs and the application for the undergraduate students.

JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY – The fact sheet, information leaflet and prices for this institution are available in our office. There are four campuses in the US and you can determine which one suits you the most.

ST. CATHERINE UNIVERSITY – One whole application package arrived to us from this institution. Enclosed you will find annual expenses list and other necessary information.

CARL BENZ SCHOOL – UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE – This institution is located in Germany and it is specialized in the field of engineering. You can read more about this university, but also see some testimonies of several current students.

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW – This school is a part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. The leaflet we received is about their international LL.M. degrees.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, UC DAVIS – SCHOOL OF LAW – Information bulletin from this institution offers more about their program, orientation in the US and Law Seminar in Germany this June.

EVERGREEN COLLEGE – We have admission information and application for this college, information booklet and the call to visit the campus.

International Education Week and Our Thwarted Plans

Dragan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:39:44 +0000

It seemed to us that the perfect plan was made for the week ahead, but the small three-letter word has thwarted our plans. You must know the word, it is all over the news in Serbia.

The flu season is certainly different this year and with the latest state-wide decision on epidemic protection, counties have the right to decide on the range of measures. Some of our plans for the incoming International Education Week failed to come through since public gatherings are not allowed in some cities. We will not be able to come to the American Corner in Nis, and we suspect that other cities will follow the suit.

We will certainly find some way to celebrate the International Education Week, even if we have to do it from our homes. You can expect some announcement by the end of the week.

In the meantime, check out the web site of the International Education Week.

And What About “Support”? Keeping Your Friends Close

Milica Stankovic — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:40:00 +0000

I thought about it a great deal, and I am pleased to say that I have a few great, real friends. Ones you get to keep for the rest of your life. No matter where we are and however much we may be separated one day, it might sound cliché, but I will always be there for them, just as I believe they would be there for me. What I’m talking about has nothing to do with keeping in touch through Skype: it’s about the idea humankind somehow worn out, exploited and diminished in modern times – friendship. And not in a simple, casual way, like who do you go buy your lunch with or who do you tell your stories to. Best friend is somebody who is in all those stories. It’s a great quote I read somewhere on the net. I’m not at all into those simple motivational slogans, but from time to time some do move me.

Well, this great friend of mine inspired me for this post. It’s one of the things great friends usually do; they keep you questioning yourself about the important tad bits. After she had read my blog, she joked about writing an entry titled “A Survival Kit for Friends of Applicants”, because friends do get a lot of burden to carry. Think of it for a second: all of this you are doing is so grand, important and interesting for you to deal with you will surely tell all about it to your best friend. And when you give up going abroad, the friend will be your shoulder to cry on. When you reconsider and decide to pursue it anyway, the friend will hear you out. When you start crying about leaving your family, your city and the rest of your life, the friend will sit beside you and refrain from lying about how you won’t miss any of it. And after that, when you are all hyped about your test results, the friend will of course celebrate with you and hear out the entire story of your epic success, and pretend s/he hears it for the first time.

If you still can’t see my point, I’ll go further. Your friend maybe knows what s/he will study, maybe s/he doesn’t. Maybe s/he never thought about going abroad, or was never interested, or entirely doesn’t get why you want to leave home in the first place. So really, your entire application story is excess and uninteresting, except a single element – yourself. My point is? Be easy on your friends. They are always interested in your wellbeing, success and happiness. And you have to put them into the process as well, it’s inevitable. But they don’t have to know every detail of your SAT preparation, or the filing of your finances, or fitting into USA school system evaluation. They don’t have to know which college has a greener campus, or where do students have higher test results – to your friends, they are all equally distant (very, very far away). You will need their support, more than ever before. Be aware that sometimes you can get very difficult to handle. Don’t chase your friends away with self-centeredness, the process can get that out of you and be aware when it does. I’m also telling this because, if somebody is not your best friend, he might not want to stand any of it. So, the personal level of admission process is not just about knowing who you are academically-wise, it’s also about finding where you would belong to, and what kind of people you need around.

I made all of the mistakes presented. And yes, I did chase several people away, and freak out some of them. I was caught in fights I still haven’t found purpose of. Amazingly, I did keep some of my people close, and that’s why I was talking about what real friends do.

I have gone so soft right now you could model me in a big red heart easier than you would with soft clay. I think I’ll stop now. I have one more story about friends and how friendship backs you up, but that will wait for another post. Up untill then, I’ll show you some useful guidelines to recognising a friend.

A small fiest of friends. Some just happened to be there. Some will stay forever. As you see, it really made no difference then. Siena, Italy, 2008.

This is what best friends look like after a long day of racing through museums, ice-cream and pancake shops. Vatican, Rome, Italy, 2008.

A textbook example. When you see somebody smiling like this while you're taking the photo, find yourself doing the same, and you cherish that as a memory of its own, well, that's a best friend right there. Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy, 2008.

Yet another textbook example of a friend. If you have been together through everything since your early teens, and can still amazingly stand each other, you know you're best friends. Enginnering Student's NightClub, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009.

Also, there are childhood friends. Priceless. You can sometimes lose contact. Not see each another for a whole year. But time after time, you will meet to catch up. You can never ever forget about one another. It's only natural, you've knoen each other for your whole lives. Costume party, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009.

I think I’ve just melted down because of the nostalgia. So, how come I’m ready to go even when I am very content with everything I have? Well, maybe it’s time for me to move on and become independent of my parents. I certainly have my ambitions in science to drive me as well. And also, there is a lot of amazing people in the World I may come by someday, that would be a shame not to meet.

Sincerely,

Milica Stankovic

Matemati?ka Gimnazija, Beograd

More College Information

administrator — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:48:04 +0000

There are some new college information packages and catalogs in our office this week. We would like to remind you that many of those we have on the premises you can take home with you.

First of all, California State University Chico has sent us its 2009-2011 Catalog. Feel free to come and read about their offer.

Next one in line is St. John’s University. We already have some material from this institution, but this time the material comes from their European program, located in Rome, Italy. This fine institution wanted to remind us of two programs – Master of Arts in Government and Politics and Master of Business Administration.

Columbia College from Missouri has sent us their 2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog and the information about scholarships and awards.

Feel free to browse through the existing material – there is more coming every week!