Monthly Archive for March, 2006

More questions

Coming year will be the last year of my study, so I will have to do my final project. As it is called ‘final project’, it actually has to be the LAST thing I do. But as my trip to the USA will take place in my last semester, this isn’t really possible if I want to finish my study within the standing four years.

So I went to a study counselor to ask if it was possible to change the contents of the semesters. And, luckily, as long as I had already earned enough credits, that was no problem.

Then there was my second question: Is it possible to earn credits with my semester in The States? In my opinion, this won’t have to be a problem, because I only have to earn 15 NL credits in that semester instead of 30, since I worked ahead. So even half a US semester would cover that. AND, where classmates followed topics which had nothing to do with our study, I always chose relevant topics. That must be an advantage.

The counselor also thought this wouldn’t be a problem, but we didn’t put anything on paper, so this probably will become a little challenge when I return…

Thorough

Now it became time to focus me on the courses. I had my list of universities, so what would I like to be doing in those places if I would be stated there? I started to go through all the websites. Sometimes it was harder to find the list of courses than other times. Eventually I visited all the websites. One university offered very cool topics like ‘Editorial and Column Writing, where the climax at other universities was ‘Writing for Publication’, yay.

I listed all those courses and started to wonder how many I should choose. Twenty courses listed for one university and than checking the box ‘Yes, I would you consider alternate courses with similar course content’ was maybe a little bit overdone? And so it was. In a regular semester you handle about twelve credits, and an average course represents three credits. So I had to decrease my lists drastically. If I would have knew that before…