T_T - a i i Page dv 27. 2000 ‘The Lion’'skye - February 27,2006 = Eye On Campus Take A Trip To Higher Education Imagine. You have a three-day weekend and you decide to go snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Or, your roommates call and ask where you would like to have dinner, and you choose Paris. Or, you pack a bag on Friday, hike up the Alps for the weekend, and return for your Monday morn- ing class. : All of these can be possible if you were studying through one of Penn State's Study Abroad programs. Penn State offers over 150 programs in 46 different countries on continents including Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia.. As a former study abroad student, I can't recommend it enough. I left for New Zealand on Jan. 30, 2005. Ten Penn State students, including myself, made a stop in Fiji for a week on our way, (Set up by STA travel, which I highly recommend using for booking flights) and prepared our- selves for five months away from home. Adjusting to the New Zealand lifestyle was very easy because the Kiwi's (The name given to New Zealand's inhabitants) were so welcoming and friendly. Going to school, which they called, "attending univer- sity," took the most getting used to because they treat their classrooms differently. All of my classes were lecture- based and my grade for the whole semester came from one final exam. The greatest part of the university, however, was that I did not have class on Fridays. Just about every weekend, my friends and I traveled all around the country. I joined a hiking club and went on weekend-long trips, sleeping under the stars, rock climbing and sand boarding down huge sand dunes. During my two-week spring break, I traveled the country from top to bottom. This was the most fascinating experience of the whole trip. I went paragliding off the side of a mountain, took a day cruise in a gorgeous bay, hiked up a glacier, and visited the native Maori cere- monies. I could go on about my experience in New Zealand for days, and I could share some of the 1,300 pictures that I took while I was there. There are so many different places that students from Penn State can travel to, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Students who complete a Penn State sponsored pro- gram abroad will remain registered as a PSU student, earn Penn State credits and receive a grade for the courses taken while abroad. The first step towards an amazing semester abroad is to visit the Penn State International Website: www.inter- national.psu.edu. After browsing around and getting an idea of where you might like to study, contact the Office of Peer Advising either by calling (814) 865-7681 or e-mailing peeradviser@ip.psu.edu. Let the peer adviser know that you are from a Commonwealth campus and are interested in learning more about studying abroad. I had the time of my life while studying abroad, and there are so many opportunities out there. I learned so much about a different culture and got to experience a completely different lifestyle. I highly recommend spend- ing a semester of your Penn State career in a beautiful country of your choice. Talk All Night With PSU Delco OWL ; Troop 218 oo By NEIL O’CONOR The following are some of the com- Age 12 ow Nxol06@psu.edu ments from students when asked what Having been on the community “Y Even the professional writer who plies his trade daily is known to occasionally experience writer's block, and may need their associates' aid, or editor's insights to work their way around the problem. Not surprisingly, they liked about the OWL: - "I only have time to work on my papers at night and rarely have the time to make ~ it to the Writing Center during the day, so the OWL helped me a lot to have people look at my work.” Girl Scouts “Why I Want To Be a Scientist” Lion's Eye y Winner MAdn Al -"(How) I could college students, who may or may not have learned all the funda- mentals of the lan- guage, but seldom have had sufficient *“I only have time to work on my papers at night and rarely have the time to make it...during the day’ chat with the instructor, just like we were having a conversation." -"It helped me fix my grammar Marlins” swim team for three years, I am |} very interested in water. I think that being a hydrologist would help my swimming . career progress even further. I would like to help the water get cleaner and safer for everyone. If I could do this, perhaps it would trigger an inter- est in other people. Plus, it is a fun career and a lot of people would enjoy it. If the water were cleaner, more people would swim or do other things in rivers, streams, and the ocean. I would enjoy this job because I love the water and I love the rain. Being a hydrologist would certainly be a good job for me. Science At PSU Delco By Shana Goldson Two significant events were celebrated by Penn State Delco in October 2005 to highlight and promote awareness in the geosciences. World Water Monitoring Day was established to help preserve the purity of our water resources, while Earth Science Week highlighted how geo- scientists explore the Earth. Penn State Delco provided a one-day positive scientific environment of learning about water issues and geoscience careers for Junior Girl Scouts. They were shown a video introducing several geoscience- oriented careers as well as hands-on analyses of the physi- cal properties of water samples. The girls also participated in an essay-writing contest that required the girls to write an essay describing a geo-science career they were inter- ested in exploring. Their motivation for participating in the contest was that the chosen winner would have their essay appear in the Lion's Eye campus newspaper. At the conclusion of the program, the girls gleamed with enthusi- asm as they left PSUDE that afternoon knowing they, would soon be awarded with their science badge. errors in my paper and gave me time after school hours to work on my paper." -"The easy way of communicating between instructor and student. It's almost as if (I was) using AIM, which it seems everyone is proficient in." The OWL is currently open four evenings a week, generally from 6 to 11 p.m. Students must log in by 9:30 p.m. in order to get a response that same evening The online sessions with OWL tutor$ can last from 30 to 40 minutes, depending on use by other students. Following com- pletion of the project, students must down- load and save the papers within two days, or the work is lost in cyberspace. Contact the Writing Center on the sec- ond floor of the Main Building to learn more. practice in its application to warrant expertise standing, may need the guidance of a skilled educator. This reality has given rise at Penn State-Delaware County to the Writing Center and its spin-off, the OWL, a web- based service. OWL is the acronym for On-Line Writing Lab /Virtual Writing Center. Professional tutors, many of whom work regularly in the Writing Center, staff the OWL. Pamela Main, head of the Writing Center and OWL director, recently con- ducted an assessment of the OWL through an e-mail survey of users. : Of those surveyed, a majority said the OWL helped them become better writers and perform better in classes that required writing.
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