Next Time We'll Have A Guest Speaker

Instructors on Planet College strive earnestly to make their subject interesting to their students. One common tactic is a guest speaker. Whatever the subject, the guest is usually an authority, involved in the field, and typically not another instructor. Your instructors use guest speakers to liven up the term which can often, especially around now, become a kind of droning drudgery.

Often when a guest speaker is announced the average students response is,
"Oh good, I can skip class."

If this has been your usual attitude this term go. Go, and listen to the guest speaker. Listen carefully to what they have to say. Guest speakers provide a fresh angle on the course content, often illuminating the subject from the angle of a working professional. And that is they key. Whoever they are, they are probably working in the field. While the subject of the course may not be the field you intend to work in, the guests insights might provide stimulation for your career quest. Their talk may provoke possibilities as yet not considered by you.

Even if you are right now absolutely convinced that you will never work in the field which is the topic of the course, listening to this speaker can at least broaden your horizon. That is why you are on Planet College, among many reasons. This time give the guest speaker a chance, show up and listen, you may find a whole new career possibility.

Cs Overseas.

Often average students dismiss the idea of Study Abroad. Studying anything in another country they feel is beyond their reach. Because average students get average grades, Cs mostly, they dismiss without consideration, the possibility of going away for a semester or even a summer session. This assumption is superficially logical but completely erroneous.

The fact is that practically any student, no matter what caliber, is eligible for some overseas studies. If you don't have a Study Abroad representitive on your campus a web search could locate potential programs for which you are eligible.

Remember that Study Abroad is quantitatively different from Student Travel. You may already know about, may have even taken, tours of other countries. Usually with a group of other students this type of tour is essentially that, touring.

Study Abroad means traveling to another country. Once there you reside there for a period of time while studying some specific subject or subjects. The subjects vary widely, art, drama, television production, hydrology, a local dialect, anthropology, any number of college style courses. You go to class, you do the work you get a grade. Hence, Study Abroad.

If you are now saying, "Oh yeah sure, how am I supposed to pay for it?" see above.