Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position
I am a true believer of the apothegm- ‘true magic actually happens outside your comfort zone’, and am convinced that studying in a foreign university for a semester, has innumerable advantages. The experiences of working in a completely new environment, amongst students of different upbringings, beliefs, and value systems and most importantly pushing oneself beyond the natural limit is undoubtedly incomparable. Having said that, while I support universities encouraging students to explore different countries, it should not be a mandate in the curriculum.
The primary aim of universities is to ensure an overall personality development as well as a tantamount skill development in the student’s field of study by providing the best resources in the domain. Spending months with completely new faces, in an altogether different country does sound overwhelming at first, but the outcomes speak for themselves.
I come from a background in design, where majority of the learnings happen from the group we work in. Unlike theoretical courses, designing for the real world involves interacting with users, understanding needs, brainstorming about ideas, implementing concepts and failing at them, and eventually prototyping the product to test it with the users. The entire design thinking process involves an amalgamation of art, psychology and science, and having multiple perspectives is extremely important.
This can be elucidated further with an example of my close friend Kushagra, who spent a semester in Purdue University during his pre-final year in college. Kushagra always had an affinity for user research, and wanted to explore more than our university could provide in India. He set out to spend five rigorous months of intense research, from understanding techniques to conducting them in useful areas. This was when he discovered his true calling and went for a Masters degree in the same university right after college. Kushagra now has three published research papers and a patent under his name, and is loving his work immensely. Had he not had the opportunity to venture out of his country, he would have never truly explored his true potential in this field.
While there might be several advantages to this, there is always an other side to the coin. Due to the reverent treatment the students receive after a semester exchange in our country, a number of students consider this as a trend, more than a learning opportunity. To entail similar recognition, they make imprudent decisions and spending exorbitant amounts only to please their peers. Additionally, many universities in India do not completely sponsor an international semester for a student and a large chunk of the expenses have to be entailed by the student. Not every student is financially well off to manage these expenditures, and making this a compulsion would not be the best approach for universities.
I believe universities should definitely offer a semester program in foreign countries, without making it a mandatory affair. Proper orientations and guidance must be provided to students to invest their time and energy judiciously and work towards advancing their careers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, so, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2705.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 497.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44265593561 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12821813456 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587525150905 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 848.7 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.5553517282 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.80952381 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.52380952381 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17021008479 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0480642441884 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0363615286528 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0902641391239 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388828321069 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.77 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 157.0 100.480337079 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 11.8971910112 139% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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