토론토 컬리지별 위치 안내.

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토론토 컬리지라고 하면 많은 학생들 UT(University of Toronto)를 제외하고 조지 브라운 컬리지를 떠올린다.

그리고 실제로 나의 주변에도 많은 학생들이 조지브라운 컬리지를 다니고 졸업을 했다.

그 이유는 조지 브라운 컬리지가 다른 컬리지에 비해 보다 깊은 역사와 전통을 가지며 퀄리티가 높아서이기보다 다운타운 내 위치하여 교통이 편리하여 많은 학생들이 가는 게 사실이다.

세네카 컬리지의 경우 1호선(옐로우라인)의 종점인 핀치 스테이션(한인 타워)에서 버스를 타고 30분가량 이동하여야 하며, 센테니얼 컬리지의 경우 핀치 스테이션에서 버스를 타고 세네카 컬리지를 지나 종점까지 가야 한다. 버스로 이동거리는 1시간가량 소요된다. 거기서 또 한 번 센테니얼 컬리지로 들어가는 버스로 환승하여야 한다. (15분 소요)

지하철로 이동한다면 2호선(그린라인)의 종점에서 다시 3호선(블루라인)으로 갈아 탄 뒤 또 한번 버스를 타고 15~20분가량 이동하여야 도착할 수 있다. 

즉, 조지브라운 컬리지의 최대 장점은 위치이다. 

 

많은 학생들이 North 쪽에 거주한다는 전제하에 조지 브라운 컬리지는 1호선 옐로우 라인을 타면 30분 이내 도착한다. 그리고 세네카 컬리지 역시 핀치스테이션에서 버스로 30분가량 소요된다. 하지만 센테니얼 컬리지만 유일하게 외딴 지역에 덩그러니 있다. 

버스의 가장 큰 단점은 겨울이 길고 눈이 많이 오는 캐나다에서는 이동 시간이 기약이 없다는 것이다. 그나마 조지 브라운 컬리지의 경우 1호선으로 이동이 가능하여 TTC trouble 이 있다고 한들 그나마 버스보다는 나을 것이다. 

그래서 다들 조지브라운 컬리지를 위치적인 부분으로 선택하는 경우도 많다. 그리고 호텔 조리학과가 유명하다는 소문은 들었지만, 캐나다 토론토에서의 취업은 무엇보다 인맥 싸움이니 특정 컬리지를 졸업하였다고 하여 취업이 잘되는건 아니다.

 

아무래도 많은 한국 학생들이 졸업을 하고 재학중인 컬리지가 토론토 생활에 있어서 분명 도움이 될 것이다. 

 

혹시나 토론토 컬리지 중 어느 학교가 더 좋은지 알아보고 선택을 하고자 하는 학생이 있다면 심플하게 생각하고 결정하길 바란다.

 

 

아래는 조지브라운 컬리지 입학 시험 OR 반배치 시험에서 나오는 리딩 파트중 일부이다. 

 

In this passage, an amateur theater group called the Laurel Players is putting on its first production. 

 

(1)The Players, coming out of their various kitchen doors and hesitating for a minute to button their coats or pull on their gloves, would see a landscape in which only a few very old, weathered houses own seemed to belong; it made their homes look weightless and impermanent, as foolishly misplaced as a great many bright new toys that had been left outdoors overnight and rained on.

 

(2) Their automobiles didn't look right either-unnecessarily wide and gleaming in the colors of candy and ice cream, seeming to wince at each splatter of mud. they crawled apologetically down the broken roads that led from all directions to the deep, level slab of Route Twelve. 

 

(3) Once there the cars seemed able to relax in an environment all their own, a long bright valley of colored plastic and plate glass and stainless steel-- KING KONE, MOBILGAS, SHOPORAMA, EAT--but eventually they had to turn off, one by one, and make their way up the winding country road that led to the central high school; they had to pull up and stop in the quiet parking lot outside the high-school auditorium. 

 

 

(4) "Hi!" the Players would shyly call to one another.(5) "Hi! ... (6) "Hi! ... (7) And they'd go reluctantly inside. 

(8) Clumping their heavy galoshes around the stage, blotting at their noses with Kleenex and their frowning at the unsteady print of scripts, they would disarm each other at last with peals of forgiving laughter, and they would agree, over and over, that there was plenty of time to smooth the thing out.

 (9) But there wasn't plenty of time, and they all knew it, and a doubling and redoubling of their rehearsal schedule seemed only to make matters worse. 

(10) Long after the time had come for what the director called "really getting this thing off the ground; really making it happen, it remained a static, shapeless, inhumanly heavy weight; time and time again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes, in the apologetic nods and smiles of their parting and the spastic haste with which they broke for their cars and drove home to whatever older, less explicit promises of failure might lie in wait for them there. 

(11) And now tonight, with twenty-four hours to go, they had somehow managed to bring it off. 

(12) Giddy in the unfamiliar feel of make-up and costumes on this first warm evening of the year, they had forgotten to be afraid: they had let the movement of the play come and carry them and break like a wave; and maybe it sounded corny (and what if it did?) but they had all put their hearts into their work. 

(13) Could anyone ever ask for more than that? 

 

From Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road 01989 by Richard Yates. Originally published in 1961. 

 

As soon as i saw the Manhattan map, i wanted to draw it. i should be able to draw the place where i lived. So i asked Mom for tracing paper and she got it for me and I brought it into pointed the light right down my fort and i on the first map in the Hagstrom Atlas-- downtown, where Wall Street was and the stock market worked. The streets were crazy down there; they didn't have any kind of streets and avenues; they just had names and they looked like a game of Pick- Up Sticks. But before i could even worry about the streets, I had to get the land right. Manhattan was actually built on land. Sometimes when they were digging up the streets you saw it down there-real dirt! And the land had a certain curve to it at the bottom of the island, like a dinosaur head, bumpy on the right and straight on the left, a swooping majestic bottom. 

 

9. In the passage, the use of "crazy, dinosaur head," "bumpy 'straight, and "swooping serve mainly to emphasize the 

A. narrator's serious approach to mapmaking 

B. narrator's frustration with drawing 

C. irregularity of downtown Manhattan 

D. ways in which a landscape can change over time

 

The life of Edith Wharton is not an inspiriting rags- to-riches saga, nor is it a cautionary tale of riches to rags -riches to riches, rather. Born Edith Newbold Jones, in January of 1862, into one of the leading families of New York, the author maintained multiple establishments and travelled in the highest with a style, host of servants, augmenting her several inheritances by writing best-selling fiction. In the Depression year of 1936, when two thousand dollars was a good annual income, her writing earned her a hundred and thirty thousand, much of it from plays adapted from her works. Yet her well-padded, auspiciously sponsored life was not an easy one. The aristocratic social set into which she was born expected its women to be ornamental, well-sheltered, intellectually idle agents of their interwoven clans, whereas Edith was an awkward, red-haired bookworm and dreamer, teased by her two older brothers about her big hands and feet and out of sympathy with her intensely conventional mother, née Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander ---a mother-daughter disharmony that rankled in Edith fiction to the end. 

 

Adapted from John Updike, "The Changeling, a review of the biography Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee. c 2007 by Condé Nast. 's

 

10. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the passage?

 A. Biographical incidents are recounted chronologically. 

B. An author's life is connected to various themes in her work. 

C. The works of two authors are compared and contrasted. 

D. A list of advantages is followed by a list of disadvantages.