Yang - 09:04am Oct 11, 2005 (#1 of 11)

En lisant les réponses pour école, je remarque que les étudiants americains ont mis l'accent sur les instruments qu'on utilisent à travailler dans l'école. Mais les fraçais ont senti plustôt l'amitié et la vie commune dans l'école, vue qu'il y a seulement deux étudiants de MIT qui ont parlé de "friends". Par contre,les réponses pour le famille a montré qu'il y a pas mal de gens qui ont cité la relation avec les membres de famille. Je veux savoir si vous sentez moindre d'importance de relation humaine à l'école que à la maison? Ou plutôt c'est difficile de faire des amis à l'école? Une autre chose que je ne manque pas de citer, c'est qu'il y a 5 français qui ont cité polytechnique, alors que seulement une personne de MIT a cité MIT. Ne sentez vous pas la fierté de être admis à MIT? Ne êtres vous attachés à votre école? L'école est pour vous seulement un lieu pour apprendre? Je crois qu'on peut faire beaucoup autres hoses que travail.


Gilles - 09:07am Oct 11, 2005 (#2 of 11)

Salut, sur l'ensemble nos réponses se ressemblent mais il y a quelques points qui m'intéresse: _ pourquoi le mot flag? _ les uniformes sont pour les écoles privées uniquement? _ les études sont dures au MIT?

Have a nice day

Gilles


Gilles - 09:13am Oct 11, 2005 (#3 of 11)

Ne tenez pas compte du niveau de français de mon voisin chinois, posez lui plutot des questions sur l'état de sa chambre.....


Lise - 09:30am Oct 11, 2005 (#4 of 11)

En lisant les mots américains sur l'école, on a l'impression que l'école n'est pas un endroit très chaleureux, l'idée de difficulté revient souvent tout comme celle de test et pas en France. Les études sont-elles tellemet dures au MIT qu'on en oublie le côté 'sympa' de l'école, à savoir retrouver ses amis...? Avez-vous beaucoup de pression?


Kyungmin - 12:09pm Oct 11, 2005 (#5 of 11)

A general response to some questions above:

Of course, as students at Ecole Polytechnique, we hang around with friends and have fun doing various things such as sports. Also, we are definitely proud of being at MIT and many students and alumni support the school; the alumni association is active in helping the school and the students.

There are many good universities in America, but the education at MIT has a reputation of being especially difficult and fast-paced. I think that that's the reason why many students associate words like "work" and "hard" to school.


Viviana - 05:44am Oct 13, 2005 (#6 of 11)

When lookig at the responses from MIT and Polytechnique students, I noticed that the French students associate school more with the present and the things they do while at the university. It seems as if they enjoy their time in the school more than the American students. The American students usually respond with education, hard, and tests, which I can understand since you can't do anything else at MIT unless you get all that stuff out of the way (and it seems as if once you do manage to get something out of the way, even more comes your way). Also in response to the questions: I think some of the responses, such as uniforms, are from students who associate school with high school. At least in my case, when school comes to mind, I think of high school. If it had said "university", then my responses would have been different.


Octavian - 09:24am Oct 13, 2005 (#7 of 11)

Like Viviana, I have also associated school with "high school" and "general school". I guess these remind me of my friends and the of Romania. My answers would have been totally different if the word "university" were used instead of "school".

It is interesting that although "Ecole Polytechnique" (sorry for the lack of accents) is in every sense a university, it is called "ecole". In Romania,there is a very clear distinction between school (1->12th grades) and university.

I am sure that everybody at MIT is proud to be here and the reason MIT is rarely mentioned in responses is because people did not associate MIT to school.


Yang - 11:13am Oct 13, 2005 (#8 of 11)

Les pauvres, courage pour vos travails. Mais n'oublie pas profiter de la vie commune dans l'université. Quand tu commence à travailler, tu auras peu de chance de jouer.


Iordanis - 11:31pm Oct 13, 2005 (#9 of 11)

I agree that the university in the States seems to be much harder than the one in France, and certainly harder than the one in Greece. However, don't forget that getting into the Ecole is really tough and competitive and you probably have spent a couple of years of hard work in order to do so. On the other hand, american high school doesn't strike me as that hard, nor the SATs as a difficult exam.


Gilles - 12:34pm Oct 20, 2005 (#10 of 11)

Salut, je me pose des questions sur le MIT. Vous êtes à combien de kilomètres de Boston? Est-ce que la vie est cool là-bas? En général, comment occupez-vous vos week end? Je suis entrain de réflechir à un stage aux USA et ces réponses pourront m'aider.

Merci

gilles


Lisa - 12:27pm Feb 20, 2006 (#11 of 11)

We are right across the river from downtown Boston- about a 10 minute walk.

On the weekends, we go shopping, watch movies, just hang out with our friends, play sports, sleep, maybe a museum, go out to dinner, go on trips (to new york city, to go hiking, etc.). There are also a lot of fraternities at MIT so there are usually parties every night. Some weekends, people will just stay in and do work.

Lisa