insights from lebanon

thoughts from my two months abroad and other personal reflections

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freshman-in-france asked: Hi! I've just applied to study abroad at AUB for Fall 2012 and I was wondering how long it took them to respond to your application?

i apologize for just now answering this. i did not know i had any messages! i hope i’m not answering too late, but i applied without my undergrad university’s help and the process was arduous. you may have to follow up with emails if you have not received too much information. when i arrived in beirut, my application hadn’t even been processed (the application fee, etc.) so if you are applying on your own, make sure to follow up. i hope you’ve heard back though! not sure when this was asked…

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Anonymous asked: Whats the average class size in the american university of beirut? I wanna apply for a summer course but I can't apply if the class sizes are like more than 40 students in a class. I prefer smaller classes.

i’m so sorry i just saw this! for some reason my messages weren’t coming up on the dashboard. when i was there (only for a summer study abroad) one class had around 40 students while the other had only 10. on aub’s website, it says the student to faculty ratio is 13:1. i’m sure like most universities, the lower level classes will have a large number of students and it decreases over time. sorry i can’t be more helpful, but i hope i’ve provided some info!

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#KONY2012: Turning activism into action

by Marc Sabbagh

“The game has new rules…the people of the world see each other and can protect each other. It’s turning the system upside down. And it changes everything.” Indeed it does. From the current uprisings in the Arab world, to the use of social media in elections, we are seeing a fundamental transition in how diplomacy is conducted.

The recent KONY 2012 video posted online by Invisible Children (which went viral this past week) reveals that the phenomenon of social media activism is not only impacting authoritarian regimes where voices are struggling to be heard. On the contrary, social media has the potential to affect any country in the world. It is undoubtedly changing the global political landscape as information is indeed becoming power.

(Source: marcinlebanon)

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