캐나다 토론토 컬리지 9월 온라인 강의 진행하면 실습은 어떻게? 에세이 샘플.

캐나다 토론토 컬리지의 많은 한국 유학생들이 코로나로 인해 3월 중순부터 시작한 온라인 강의로 인해

한국으로 돌아가 다음 학기를 기다리고 있다. 

토론토 컬리지의 모든 곳이 9월 학기는 온라인 강의가 확정되었으나 가장 큰 문제는 실습이다. 

조지 브라운 컬리지의 인기 있는 학과인 조리 학과, 그리고 공과 계열로 유명한 센테니얼 컬리지의 경우 실습이 많은 비중을 차지한다. 

일부 학과의 실습은 오프라인으로 진행 하기에 실습을 위해 한국에서 캐나다로 입국해야 하는 경우가 발생한다.

거기다 학생비자는 캐나다 입국이 가능하다고 하지만 혹여나 비행기 이동 중에 코로나 감염에 노출이 될 수도 있다는 불안감도 든다.

아무래도 한국보다 코로나에 대한 노출이 크며 진료 또한 한국처럼 원활하지 않아 신경이 쓰인다. 

그리고 가장 중요한 거주지의 문제이다. 학생 비자라도 거주지가 명확해야 입국이 가능하다는 얘기가 있다.

온라인 쇼핑몰에서 청바지 구입하듯이 온라인 캐스모를 통해 집을 계약하여 거주할 주소지를 만들어 놓고 와야 하며 학교도 드문드문 가는데 매달 나가는 월세 또한 부담이 된다. 

그렇다고 등록금을 감면해주는 것도 아닌데 이럴 때는 정말 인터내셔널 학생에 대한 배려가 없다는 게 참으로 안타깝다. 

 

어쨌든 피할 수 없다면 즐겨라 라는 말이 있듯이 이 모든 역경을 감내하여 더욱 열심히 공부하는 기회로 전환시켜야 한다. 

 

토론토 컬리지 입학시험이 아닌 패스웨이 과정 수료나 아이엘츠 점수로 입학 허가를 받았더라도 토론토 컬리지 반배치 고사는 무조건 쳐야 한다

토론토 컬리지 입학 자체 시험 또는 반배치고사(반배치시험) 중 학생들이 꺼려하는 라이팅, 즉 에세이 작성에 대해 꾸준히 준비하는 것이 좋다.

 

많은 사람들이 영어 서적을 읽는 것이 좋다고 하니 매일 영어 서적을 읽어 보는 것을 추천한다. 

 

아래는 스마트 폰의 선두두자 애플의 창업자 스티븐 잡스가 하버드 졸업식에서 연설한 유명한 연설문이다. 

 

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

 

when I wan 17, I read quote that went something like: " if you live each day as if it was your last, someday you will most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked my self: if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" and whenever the answer has been " no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

 

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. you are already naked. there is no reason not to follow your heart.

 

 About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor in my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. it means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as possible for your family. it means to say your goodbye.

 

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and int my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I am fine now.

 

this was the closest I have been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept.

 

 No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. and yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. it is Life's change agent. it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

 

your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. they somehow already know what you truly want to become. everything else is secondary.

 

when I was young, there was an amazing publication called the Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. this was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid camera. it was sort of like Gooble in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

 

Stewart and hos team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue it was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath is were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." it was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. and I have always wished that for my self. and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.