STUDY IN MALAYSIA VS. STUDY ABROAD BY CRYSTAL W 4 Dec 2012 Should I study in Malaysia or should I study abroad? What are the plus and minus of studying locally or overseas? If similar questions have crossed your mind‚ keep reading. Study in Malaysia Pros (+) More forgiving in overall cost / expenditure For many‚ this reason is strong enough to study locally. Free from the weight of ‘currency exchange’‚ and familiar with the food (e.g.: mamak for good affordable food) and accommodation
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Source 1 TITTLE: I’m so homesick! Freshman Blues and Psychological Growth How to help your college freshman cope with being homesick. Published on September 4‚ 2010 by F. Diane Barth‚ L.C.S.W. New York University ‚ Langone Medical Centre SUMMARY: Fitting in and balancing social / academic life as a freshman can be stressful. Not only would have one came out from the nest of their parents or guidance it also means getting into a new social life and altogether making a new family as times
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Returning to College after Winter Break For most of winter break‚ I was pretty excited to come back to school‚ but when the day finally arrived‚ I’ve got to admit‚ I was suddenly homesick. I hadn’t left yet‚ but I felt sick‚ really sick. Everything I ate shot back up‚ and it got to the point where I couldn’t eat anything‚ and yet I still had troubles keeping my insides from coming back up. I was supposed to head back later that Tuesday night‚ but instead I went to the doctor and found out I had
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Homesickness in International Students The transition from living at home to college is looked upon as a positive event in a student’s life. Along with this new environment comes a loss of the old and more comfortable surroundings. Homesickness is a separation reaction akin to grief‚ where the individual concentrates on what is missed from the old environment. Homesickness can be defined by a sense of loneliness‚ depression‚ emotional distress and a preoccupation with and longing for home. This
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Boarding schools are better than day schools in the all round education of the child A day school is one in which the child goes to school in the morning and returns in the evening to spend time with the family while in a boarding school the child lives in the school and studies there and visits his family only a couple of times a year during the vacations. I go against this statement as in boarding schools‚ children will have to learn on their own which means they will not learn everything they
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Hi‚ I am an international student from Czech Republic and I am applying for college preparatory boarding school in USA. This is my short essay (100-200 words)‚ topic is "Tell us about yourself and why you would like to become a part of our school family." My story is similar like the story of thousand of other children: My father struggled with alcohol and drug problems which caused him to leave my mother and me‚ so I grew up with only my mother. Nevertheless‚ I realized what I want from my
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Johannes Hofer as an equivalent to the German term Heimweh‚ which means homesickness (Tierny). Because of that‚ the word homesickness and nostalgia are closely linked to each other and are sometimes used interchangeably. Like many others‚ I will tackle both homesickness and nostalgia; namely their history‚ their effects‚ people’s views on them and how important they both are as emotions. The history of nostalgia and homesickness is a fascinating one; dating back to the late 17th century. Whereas nostalgia
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Part II (Appendix C) will measure homesickness. Parts I and III were formulated by the researchers themselves and Part II was patterned from an original homesickness questionnaire (Appendix B). Part III (Appendix D) will assess the extent and purpose of use of various web-based communication tools. The Homesickness questionnaire developed and was tested for content validity by Archer‚ Ireland‚ Amos‚ Broad‚ & Currid‚ L. (1998) will be used to measure homesickness. The questionnaire consists of 33
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(UKCISA). Studying abroad for a lot of these students is a privilege‚ however it can be a stressful experience for various reasons. There are plenty of challenges‚ other than language barrier‚ that these students face‚ like major culture shock‚ homesickness‚ and financial difficulties. One of the most obvious difficulties for an international student is culture shock. Culture shock is the result of moving from an environment that is familiar to one that is not. Adjusting to new food‚ people‚
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always been mentioned as an unavoidable issue for these students who are far away from their motherland. But language is not the only problem faced by international students in the UK. There are many difficulties such as differences in learning and homesickness. Language can be the main problem for all the international students even if the student is a native speaker of English‚ such as Americans‚ Australians and Indians. The reason is that students who come from an English-speaking country can be
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