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School's Out

May 22, 2010 – 10:26 am | 18 Comments

On one side, my expe­ri­ence with uni­ver­sity in Canada is pretty good. First, I hope that even­tu­ally I will be able to com­plete a Cana­dian degree, even if the goal seems to be very far away. Sec­ond, it helps me keep a bal­ance with my crazy work envi­ron­ment. Cul­tur­ally speak­ing, it is also inter­est­ing to see how things are taught on this side of the Atlantic Ocean: per­spec­tives, espe­cially on eco­nom­ics, his­tory and pol­i­tics are quite dif­fer­ent from Europe’s.

Another World Is Possible

February 22, 2010 – 11:17 am | 16 Comments

The more I attend classes at uni­ver­sity, the more I feel like I belong in a museum. The big museum of failed and for­got­ten ideals. Move along, noth­ing to see here.

On Campus (Part III)

February 3, 2010 – 12:27 pm | 23 Comments

The Win­ter semes­ter started early Jan­u­ary, but I can’t seem to put myself into study mode. First, there is my very full-time job. I work in an envi­ron­ment where futile things such as eat­ing and sleep­ing are almost frowned upon, let alone study­ing. And then, there is the usual win­ter blues. Hard to walk to class after a full day of work when it’s cold, windy and pitch black.

On Campus (Part II)

December 7, 2009 – 10:56 am | 20 Comments

I have always been fas­ci­nated by North Amer­i­can high schools and uni­ver­si­ties. They seemed to have so many rit­u­als, so many tra­di­tions that I felt we were really miss­ing out in France. Take grad­u­a­tion, for instance. One of the rite of pas­sage in France is the “bac­calau­réat”, the national high school grad­u­a­tion exam. But it quite dif­fer­ent from the North Amer­ica grad­u­a­tion exam.

On Campus (Part I)

November 30, 2009 – 10:41 am | 19 Comments

My oral exam lasted exactly three min­utes. It may have some­thing to do with the fact I wrote in big bold let­ter “I am French !” in answer to the ques­tion “where did you learn French?” in the pre­lim­i­nary ques­tion­naire. The exam­iner was a nice guy and admit­ted there was no point in test­ing me any fur­ther. Phew, thanks.

The Alien Student

November 23, 2009 – 7:50 pm | 31 Comments

At uni­ver­sity, I feel like an alien among students.

when the class started in Sep­tem­ber, and when it was still hot, I felt like a nerd in the mid­dle of a bunch of wanna-be strip­pers. Since when did mini-shorts and back­less shirts become the stu­dents’ uni­form? Gosh, I was once kicked out of class — admit­tedly in high school — because I wore jeans with holes in the knees!

No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom

October 14, 2009 – 11:43 pm | 17 Comments
No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom

I was almost late for my first class.

I had left home on time but I was lost in the huge cam­pus and none of the stu­dents I stopped to ask for direc­tions seemed to know the loca­tion of my build­ing. I even­tu­ally found it, a cou­ple of min­utes before my class was due to start.

The Campus Theory

October 5, 2009 – 7:15 am | 13 Comments
The Campus Theory

I devel­oped a new the­ory.
Canada is a cap­i­tal­ist devel­oped coun­try, with plenty of goods avail­able, a rea­son­ably effi­cient and non-corrupt admin­is­tra­tion and busi­nesses are quite customers-oriented. How­ever, all this change the minute you step foot on the uni­ver­sity campus.