Chapter 39 Part 5: It's jewelry, where is it set?

Dear Teacher Xu: I am a third-year student studying economic law. I have just passed the inter-school exchange program between the school and a famous Canadian college. I will go to Canada to start a one-year study life in September this year.This program does not give us a Canadian degree, but provides credits, so next year I will graduate as a law student in an undergraduate university, which gives me no advantage in life design.At the same time, I am a girl, which puts me at a disadvantage in China's career design. If every life experience is a rock or even a beautiful jade, how to design is the key to making these stones a perfect jewelry.My problem now is that I don't know how I can continue my studies after one year.I am a law student, and the program I transferred to add a one-year exchange program is economics. I don’t know whether I should return to China after one year, or should I continue to study JD in Canada, or strive to directly enter the MBA of this school, and then Or go to America...

I'm quite confused in this.I feel like I've drawn a decent hand, but I'm not going to play it anymore.The subtle pros and cons of this are only understood by someone like you. Please give me some advice. your rock Dear Rock: I think the project given to you by the school is not a good thing. It may cause some potential crises to your academic and career development, and even life development.So I object to you going abroad to study this one-year transfer course for the following reasons: 1. You are a law student.Your normal and healthy development path should be: after graduation, you will be admitted to a lawyer's license and immediately start working in law.In the process of working, after about two or three years, according to the employment status, decide whether to go abroad to study a JD or LLM, that is, a bachelor's degree or a master's degree in law.Whether to go out to study JD for three years or LLM for one year is up to you to decide based on factors such as interest, ability, time, and money.

By the way: If your undergraduate degree in China is not law, you must take the LSAT to apply for JD, but if your undergraduate degree is law, then you can choose one of JD and LLM, and you can obtain a lawyer's license in some states in the United States Qualifications. In this way, you can go abroad as a lawyer with practical experience, financial ability and professional direction, and quickly become a super lawyer across China and the West. But now this project will artificially interrupt this road leading to a magnanimous future, and let you go to another language environment and humanistic environment to brave the thorns and thorns. I am not optimistic.

2. The last year of university is the final assembly process of the knowledge, abilities, thoughts, ideas and pursuits you have accumulated in the past three years.All kinds of fragments and parts about the future that have been contemplated through countless sleepless nights in the past will be assembled in this last year.The fourth year of university is a crucial year to decide where you will work, what industry you will be engaged in, and very likely the direction of your life.At this time, it is obviously very bad to suddenly interrupt this process and learn a project that has no direct causal relationship with this development process.

Different university education systems are like production lines of different products.If you are a car, when it is about to be painted and rolled off the assembly line, it suddenly jumps out of its own conveyor belt and runs to the tractor assembly line, and puts a track on the wheels of the car of your life, becoming an animal that is neither an eDonkey nor a BMW, is it? impossible. Studying abroad will have an astonishing impact on a person in various aspects such as language, culture, life, and emotion.It may be different if you have graduated from university and went abroad or if you are a freshman or sophomore transfer student.Going abroad after graduating from university, you have already completed the complete training of Chinese culture anyway, what you want to go abroad is to stuff yourself into the melting pot of Western culture, and enjoy the personality nirvana that brings you back to life once; After going abroad, I first put myself into the assembly line of Western universities, and after four years, as Western intellectuals with a Chinese background, I went to the world, and then I yearned for the blue sky and pursued my dreams in the gap between Chinese and Western cultures.

But you happen to be in the third year of college without embarrassment.Abandoning the past is too much sacrifice; cultural recasting is not enough metal.If you stay, you will definitely be able to become a generation of young lawyers to develop their career as a lawyer in the Chinese market; if you go abroad, you will be associated with a turbulent life and struggle with countless cultural conflicts. What a beautiful and charming temptation to study abroad!But there are some things in the world, the more beautiful they are, the more poisonous they are.Such as poppies, poisonous mushrooms.When you are about to become a lawyer, sprint for the qualification of a lawyer, and realize your dream of being a lawyer, people suddenly say that you can go abroad. When you are excited, you obviously forgot to ask yourself: Chinese lawyers who are sure to win have no future?

So, this is the fundamental reason why I am not optimistic about this transfer program. 3. I know that you are already on the verge of breaking out, and you have to send it.In this case, the best result for you to go abroad this time should be to return to China immediately after completing this one-year study to continue to study law for one year, to make up for the courses you lost in your senior year, and to fully complete your Chinese Law Degree Education. My suggestion is fundamentally different from the plan your school gives you.My suggestion is to regard studying abroad as a beautiful encounter on your way to study. Since we met unexpectedly, it doesn’t hurt to meet each other with a smile and a toast to invite the bright moon; while your school regards studying abroad as the first time for your university. A remarriage in four years, although you have been in love with your undergraduate for three years, but Canadian universities just blink at you and you like the new and dislike the old, and find another love.And the law degree in your hand that you can get after another year of study and the life and career destination it represents are actually your real spiritual and material protection and your warm home.

I want to have a home, a place that rejects the glitz of "studying abroad"... In fact, under certain conditions, it is not impossible to study abroad during college, and it should even be advocated!Those who have the conditions, if they go abroad to study, study abroad, or study abroad for a year at a certain point in the university, and then return to their original school to complete their formal studies, it will definitely be one of the ways and trends for Chinese youth to learn from the West in the future. The only problem is that in view of the huge differences between Chinese and Western cultures, the unequal status of China in Chinese and foreign exchanges (various restrictions mainly on visas), and the huge economic pressure that occurs at the same time as studying abroad, it is currently possible for Chinese students to "why not walk in style" There are not many people who "once back".A trip that consumes too much energy and money is not travel but asceticism.The reason why studying abroad in the middle of university is a dangerous move is the same reason.

Therefore, my above suggestion is actually to give you a compensatory strategy for this dangerous move to study abroad.If you come back to complete your senior year after studying abroad for a year, then the whole situation of studying abroad will become calm and calm. 4. If one year later, "stay in this school and continue to study JD" (in Canada, the legal "undergraduate degree" is called LLB, and the corresponding American degree is called JD), it is an acceptable choice.Having a Canadian law degree is certainly not a bad thing. But the only problem with going this way is that the cost of studying LLB in Canada is very expensive. After three years, it will cost about 100,000 Canadian dollars anyway.Do you have this money at home?I have said many times that studying abroad should consider financial ability.To propose to study abroad, only love is not enough, we must also have money to buy flowers, rings and housing.

Another question about obtaining a Canadian LLB is: where will you work after graduation?I don't think it's good to be a lawyer abroad.Chinese who work as lawyers abroad, especially Chinese who go abroad after adulthood, besides helping people with divorce, at most do real estate settlement and immigration services, which is a low-end species of lawyer carnivores.Go back to your motherland, my lovely China, of course you can become a mainstream lawyer, but if you want to obtain the qualifications to practice in China, you have to start from scratch and re-examine the Chinese lawyer's license.

Instead of this, why not complete the lawyer education in China first, get a lawyer's license, accumulate working experience, save a little money for studying abroad, and then go abroad to study your LLB, JD or LLM?Tall buildings rise from the ground, building up layer by layer.But if you go to Canada to study law, I think it is equivalent to reverse construction, starting from the top.Maybe this is a new technology, but the difficulty and risk, cost and certainty are definitely not as good as my plan.To put it bluntly, it is not my plan, but the basic rules for the success of international legal talents! 5. "Study MBA directly in Canadian schools" is absolutely not advisable.Good schools basically don’t accept people without work experience to study MBA, and it’s not very good for you if you accept it. MBA is management. In most cases, it should be done according to the law. After you have industry experience, you can go for MBA. You are a lawyer, why do you want to study MBA?It's all the fault of studying abroad! 6. "America", why America?America is great, but give me a reason to go to America first!I see no reason for you to go to America.The schools in Canada are enough for you to learn and change for a long time. Why do you want to go to the United States?For many years, I have talked about studying in the United States at New Oriental. One of the basic ideas is: the significance of the United States lies in the top 20 schools and scholarships.If you can't go to those top famous brands (self-funded or scholarship), and at the same time you have to study at your own expense (non-famous schools), then there are countless better and more cost-effective options in the Commonwealth of Nations. The United States is of course good, but Britain and Canada are completely worthy of you! Look, you haven't boarded the plane yet, and this plan to study abroad has already made you dizzy.Once you go to Canada, how come! I am worried. I think I've answered your question thoroughly.In your case, it's actually best not to take this one-year course.It is really unstoppable (even SARS can be contained, the study abroad virus, what can’t be contained?), and we must strive to return to the original school in time to complete your law degree, which is very remarkable in my opinion.Then, according to my thoughts, plan your life leisurely and accurately, and realize your dreams on time. You say you feel "like you've drawn a decent hand, but you're not going to play it anymore".I deeply understand your situation.Because, although you have indeed drawn a hand of cards, if you turn them over carefully, you will find that the king of this deck is Saddam, and the king is Sahaf. Just kidding! Finally, I would like to tell you: the title of your letter is "Experiences are rocks, designs are jewels", this sentence gave me a lot of inspiration.Because, in my eyes, you are already a piece of jewelry, but you don't want to set it anywhere randomly.Your school offering you this program is, in my opinion, setting you up in a place where you shouldn't be. congratulations! Xu Xiaoping