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...social club does not define him any way.”Schwartz himself is less quick to dismiss the question, stressing his extensive involvement in other organizations outside the Fly, but also framing his membership in the club as an opportunity to “bridge divides” within the student body and reach out to a wide range of student groups. It’s a stance that his friends in the Fly readily endorse. “[Final clubs are] another group of people that need representation that he knows,” said Fly member...
Good ol’ Soviet intrigue just doesn’t entertain like it used to. In “Chess,” two world-class players at the end of the Cold War find themselves caught within an ever-growing game of politics and trickery, a game that fails to amuse. Though propelled by strong individual singing and the occasional catchy tune, “Chess,” which ran this weekend at the Adams House Pool Theater, never escapes the boring confines of its rigid and outdated black-and-white plot...
...Students tend to become friends with the people they associate with the most: their classmates and housemates. These are usually other Americans or foreigners who can speak English and are familiar with American norms. In effect, students create an American bubble in another country. They live, study, and socialize within a group of comparatively similar people...
...existing mainly within this safe social space, students studying abroad drastically reduce their ability to understand another culture. Whenever they experience something significant, it is filtered and interpreted by several different like-minded perspectives. Such experiences themselves are limited because, in another university environment, students tend to drift toward a lifestyle similar to the one they practiced at home. The standard class-study-party triad rebuilds itself with a more interesting background. There is little opportunity for interaction with locals and local culture, other than with shopkeepers and teachers—relationships that will always be one-sided...
...work first; you’ll need your employer’s vouching when applying for a work visa. If you want an informal job, then seek one in person after you arrive—just searching for a job itself can be insightful. This type of quest falls within the sphere of ordinary struggles, which unlike study, is the one of transformative cultural experiences...