Why I chose the classes I’m taking

-
Taking classes in French with French students has been the best part of my study abroad experience so far because I am being challenged everyday. 

French students at my university usually take 12-13 classes a week and they only have 3 years instead of 4 years. 

Picking my classes was quiet hard at the beginning because I didn’t know if they could count but I made sure to email my advisors at UMass and make sure that the economy classes I was taking will count towards anything. 

My economy course are my favorite and I specifically chose them because learning  political and economic terms because that was one of my mail goals aside from becoming fluent. My future goals consist of moving to France, which won’t be much of a huge change and problem for me because i have a lot of family members here, and hopefully start with a traineeship for the European Union and go to graduate school afterwards. 

I hope that by coming to France and studying economics and politics of the European Union, I will be better be able to understand what they do.


I was looking at classes to take at UMass that centered around the European Union and I couldn’t find any. This is very disappointing because I was hoping to continue learning more about it. Despite this, i will continue to work on it on my own. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What's so different at "la fac"?

-
While sitting in one of my classes last week, I started to realize just how different the classroom environment is at my school here in Paris compared to UMass. In this post, I will be talking about some of the differences that I see and how I feel about it. Since most of my classes are in one building (Halle aux Farines), this is the only building I can write about because I haven't walked around and explored the other buildings. I'm not used to having all my classes in one building because, at UMass, it would at least take me 5 minutes to walk from one class to another.  In this building, men and women share the same bathrooms. Yes, there are separate bathrooms but students at the school decided that there's no need for separate bathrooms so anyone can go where they like, which is pretty cool and different! Another difference is that most professors at Diderot don't give out a syllabus, so you have to pay attention the first week of classes to know and und...
Read more

Musée d'Orsay

-
Image
I was in a one week French intensive program with my university and we went to Musee d'Orsay. I never really appreciated art until the guide told us the history and the context behind some of the painting and sculptures. These are the paintings and sculptures that I found interesting and fascinating.
Read more

Budgeting while abroad

-
Budgeting is probably one of the most important things I recommend everyone to do before studying abroad. This will help you decide what you want to prioritize and if you actually have enough money to do everyone you want to do. Before I left, I told myself that I would spend around 20 dollars a week on food/snacks, and I do spend that much a week but somethings I decide to spurlge and I end up spending around 50 a week.  Budgeting takes time and you really have to think about everything and take EVERYTHING into consideration. Remember that you don’t have to have the exact numbers but make sure to be at least realistic and reasonable.  For example, if you want to travel you can’t just think about the price of the ticket. You also have to think about where you will stay, what you will eat there, and even souvenirs you may want to buy. The problem with not budgeting is that you can start spending money on random things and when you don’t count where the money is...
Read more