M’s experience because I did move from Japan a couple of years ago. I agree with her in that we faced challenges because of the language barrier. I did not learn English until I moved here so it was hard to adapt to the new culture. Although we are in a similar
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you can.” Now I realize what that means. Last year as a junior‚ it was my first year taking AP classes. I had taken honors classes before so how hard could it be? But I soon realized that the differences between my underclassman and upperclassman experience would be very
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My experience with words goes way back. Much like Sherman Alexie‚ I was very young when first exposed to words‚ so young I can’t remember there being a time before books were a part of my life. I imagine my mother was was reading to me since my first day of life. She would read me story after story in the quiet hours before bedtime‚ stories about fantastic creatures and magical places. I never wanted the stories to end. Before I could fully understand words I had loved them. When I finally grew
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My experience in teaching has mainly been in the role of teaching assistant for various courses at McGill University. I believe that academic teaching and mentoring is a challenging endeavor. To be effective as a teacher and as an advisor‚ I will encourage the following skills that I have learned and applied at McGill as a teaching assistant. During my senior graduate years‚ I took a leadership role in the Expert Systems in Electrical Design (ECSE 549) course‚ which included the opportunity to
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My experience with failure came with athletics. For my whole life I have always been involved in sports like soccer‚ tennis‚ basketball. When I was in the fourth grade I joined a swim team and that was the first and really only sport that I stuck with; swimming came naturally to me‚ and it was something that I could do year round and I loved every minute of it. However‚ once I was in high school I stopped swimming and joined my high school’s cross country team. My dad was a runner all throughout
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As an Immigrant‚ there were many challenges I faced whether it’s related to language or understanding the culture. My family moved to United States of America when I was in 6th grade. I was always told by my parents that building a successful career is very important. This idea of building a successful career never stuck in my mind until the junior year of high school when I all sudden all the teachers and counselors started talking about going to college build a career in a field that you were interested
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" Hey kids we need to talk about something‚" mom says. My brother‚ and I look at each other strangely. Ethan asked "what do you need to talk to us about mom?" Divorce the legal dissolution of a marriage. This is what happened to my parents in August of 2009 they got divorced. It was a very big challenge for me to face. At first it was just a separation which happened in 2007 then slowly turned into a divorce. I was young so I did not understand a lot of it. After the divorce I had to change
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At my age‚ few people can genuinely claim that they have had a life-changing experience. And after a morning jog one Saturday morning‚ I became one of these fortunate people. Spending countless weekends in the park down near my house‚ I’ve always enjoyed jogging around the river the most. It’s probably because the river runs through the edge of the park‚ where the old trees act like guards‚ muffling the sounds of the city around them. Or is it because of the woman? The one who always sits at the
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It was in the middle of July when we got the email that my Uncle had been diagnosed with cancer. When we got to his house he looked ok but he said he was in pain. Once we went to the hospital he had to go in to chemotherapy and radiation. One day when we went to the hospital we learned that he did not have enough white blood cells at the moment due to the treatments. He had to wait for a few days and during those days he was in pain. Steven was having troubles with eating so that started to become
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off. Actually my family has the royal line in it. Through my father I am‚ in fact‚ a descent of Prophet Mohammad‚ and my Grandfather was the Head of the Sunni faith in large parts of Iraq and the Moslem world. The leadership is handed down through family but neither my father nor his older brother would take on the role when he died. Instead it was passed on to a cousin. Through my father I am also descended from the most traditional of Iraqi aristocracy‚ one of the nine families that originally ruled
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