What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports car, driven 21-22, Panini Fualas basketball, hobby, 2 box, full case break, number 19, tiered random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the websites, under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Thank you to everybody for getting this break filled up. I appreciate it. Check one thing really quick, hold on, everybody's also down to two to go on the next Panini one. That is Tyler. I'm taking three. Thank you, Tyler. And then Jared asked taking the pelicans and a couple of select breaks up. Edward, how you doing, buddy? I've been flawless basketball. Let's pull a Uno de Uno, 21-22, flawless basketball, hobby. Here we go. Man, in a minute. So excited again, dude. Stuss this off a little bit. Flawless basketball coming up here, everybody. Here we go. Case number one, or box number one, I should say, of the case. I'll see a Logo Man. You feeling a Logo Man, Sean? Feeling a Logo Man. Smells like a Logo Man in here. I know. Smell on yourself over there. You might be overheating there, buddy. Buddy, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi, adi. That's your new name. All right. Here we go. Turn off 14 of 15. That is going to be Rudy Gaubert. Two-color, two-color for Utah, Benjamin A. Nice one there, buddy. Nice one here is going to be Rookie of the Year, snubbed two of 25, Jalen Johnson on the RPA for the Hawks. Congrats, Atlanta. Or in W. Or, like they're Jason, Matt, and Jerry at All Taken Spots. Cool one here going to the Jazz. Two of three. Carlos Boozer. Love that, man. Carlos Boozer.  He was a baller, especially jazz Carlos Boozer. Awesome. Going to the Trail Blazers. That is going to be a Arvitas Sabonis. Nice one there. Father, of course, of DeMontes, an absolute baller in Portland. Congrats on that Trail Blazers, Thomas C. I can make this next one. This is nasty. Jersey number three of five, Bradley Beale. Game used, two-colored patch auto for Washington. John Z. Congrats, John. Of course, he is the new Phoenix son, but this is awesome. This car is nasty. Three of five, Jersey number on the Emerald. Next up, 10 of 25. That is going to be Jalen Suggs. What's up, Smack? Smack. Nice one there. Jalen Suggs on the rookie auto for the Magic. Good day, Mike. Good day, Mike. That's right. Next up is going to be a nice one here for the Lakers. 22 of 25, Magic Johnson. Grats on that one. Magic Johnson for the Lakers. Grats, L.A. Oren. And then going to Badin R. And the Magic. Franz Wagner. 13 of 15. Rookie auto. You can add this one. Eric W. Picking up a spot in Select. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, Franz. Nice one there. Franz Wagner. Empty, empty. All right, our inner now. I'm going to start here. That is going to be again another Franz Wagner. Two of 20 on the rookie diamond. Nice one, Orlando. Going back again to Badin. Badin. Nice one there, Badin. This one's so sick. This next one. That is going to be Jersey Auto. Eight of 10, James Hardin. Fear the beard. Going to Bradley R. Congrats, Bradley. Eight of 10, incased, James Hardin. Again, first time he's signed since like 2017. Great to see him in some high-end products here. There's a Hardin. Eight of 10. So sick. There's your empty case. Again, guys, we are down to 15 to go on Chronicles now. 15 to go. I got it. Thanks, sir. 15 to go. All right, second box of Flawless of the case here, guys. I'll see a rookie logum in. Yeah, Hardin's the man. Just sold it. Let's go, Edward. Hell yeah, I do. That is going to be a Jalen Brown. Two-color, two-color. Game used for the Celtics. 11 of 20. It's when they're Boston going to Adam K. Grats, Adam. Jalen Brown action. Sick one here. 13 of 15, RPA. That is going to be James Bookknight for the Hornets. UConn legend, James Bookknight. There you go, Charlotte. That'll be going to Badinar. Next up, we've got Momentus. Five of five. That is going to be a Usman Garuba, the goofy Garuber, rookie auto. Rockets is going to be Thomas C. There you go, Thomas. Nice one there, buddy. This is actually pretty cool. Draft gem signatures. That is going to be three of 10, Anthony Simons. Anthony Simons for the Blazers. Nice one, Portland. Oh, what a Thomas C. Grats, Thomas. Yeah, I've seen it all. I've seen it where they didn't even, like, sometimes the seal won't even be on the part where you cut it. It's unreal. Yeah, it's very, very, like, wishy-washy on where the seals are. Two of 25, we've got a Carl Anthony Towns. Nice one there. Two-colored Gameuse patch auto. Yeah, there has been times where it's not even on the, on the ends. Next up, five of 10 going to the Kings. There's White Chocolate. Jason Williams, legendary scripts. Congrats, Sacramento. Going to Bradley. Nice one there, Bradley. This one's sick. Legendary scripts, White Chocolate. Next up is going to be 23 of 25, Carl Malone. Josh Richardson, Miami, four year, 54 million. Good Lord, dude. The mailman going to the jazz, 23 of 25. And nice one here going to Denver. That is going to be numbered 13 of 25. Two-colored Gameuse RPA, Bones Highland. Nice Bones. Congrats, Denver. That is going to Oren W. Nice one, Oren. Gorgeous one there again. Gameuse 13 of 25. Now, of course, say Los Angeles Clipper was involved in a trade during this deadline, but this is a Denver Nuggets card. Empty and empty. Perfect. All right. Going to the jazz, two of 20. Donovan Mitchell on the Diamond card. Nice one there. Congrats to Utah. Be going to Benjamin. I would say you can make that one. Of course. I think it's the only one, too, of all of them. Nice one there. Donovan Mitchell, two of 20. All right. And our final and case card. Excellence, Rookie Otto, two of 15. Jaylen Green. Oh, man. Get that guy out of here. Nice one there, Houston. Thomas C. Picking up the Jaylen Green. Congrats, man. That is awesome. Jaylen Green, two of 15. Excellence, Rookie Otto. All right. Empty case, guys. We'll do a quick recap. It is a pretty quick break, so we'll be able to get through some of this. We've got Jaylen Brown, 11 of 20 for the Celtics patch. Rudy Gobert, 14 of 15 for the jazz. We've got autos now. We're going to be Jason Williams, Carl Malone, Anthony Simons, who's Mon Garuba, Carl Anthony Towns, Magic Johnson, James Bookknight, Jaylen Suggs, Arvita Sabonis, Carlos Boozer, and Jaylen Johnson. Maggaards now. We had a Donovan Mitchell, two of 20 for the jazz. What's up? No, did you show that one? No, I don't know. I don't know. Just a bit of Franz Wagner, two of 20 for the magic. We had a Franz Wagner, 13 of 15 on the RPA for Orlando. Magic again. Nice fronzes. Bones Highland, 13 of 25, two-colored RPA for the nuggets. We had Excellence, Jaylen Green, two of 15 for the rockets. We had a James Hardin, eight of 10 patch auto for the Sixers, and then three of five jersey numbered Bradley Beale, going to the Wizards. It's going to do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got Sa-


What if we were to tell you that a comet is headed to a sky near you? What if we were to tell you that for the first time in over half a million years, this comet will come as close to Earth as the planet Saturn? The mega comet known as 2014, UN271, was identified by astronomers from the Dark Energy Survey who captured astronomical data from the object's known location near Neptune between 2014 and 2018. The object will make its way towards the Sun over the next 10 years, and citizen scientists predict that 2014 UN271 will be the same distance from the Sun as Saturn is by 2031, and this will mark its closest approach to Earth for the first time in a whopping 600,000 years. The comet is currently about 22 astronomical units from the Sun, and one astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the Sun and this represents just under 93 million miles, putting it just slightly closer inward than Neptune is. It is thought that the object is about 230 miles wide, which means it's a small world and it could be classed that way by the minor planet center, however, as it gets closer to the Sun, it is expected to start to display a coma and tail, and this of course will confirm its comet like nature, its size and assumed distance at the time of ignition means it could reach a magnitude of 13, not very bright but still a visible light source, which remains faint from our vantage but easily viewed with binoculars or a small telescope. Pluto is a magnitude of 16 and the Sun is a magnitude of minus 27, for example. Objects are also astounded by the object's orbit, which travels between the inner solar system and the Earth cloud, and the Earth cloud is a vast and mysterious region that is thought to surround the entire solar system, and this object takes 612,190 years to complete one orbit around the Sun. Data shows that the object travelled 7 astronomical units in the past year, and this could put it within 10.9 astronomical units of the Sun by 2031. From now until then, the object is predicted to develop a tail of a comet, as the positive and negative influences between the comet and the Sun react electrically, and of course it's exciting to see what 2014 UN271 will bring in 2031, and if it creates a buzz similar to the interstellar object Amur Amur, which passed through the inter-solar system in 2017, Amur Amur was discovered by a telescope in Hawaii millions of miles away from the object, and Amur Amur did not seem to be an ordinary rock, because after slingshotting around the Sun, it sped up and deviated from its expected trajectory, propelled by a mysterious force that we do not understand. Amur Amur has baffled scientists who have proposed a number of theories about what it could be, and these theories include a cosmic dust bunny, a comet or even an alien craft according to Avi Loeb of Harvard University. However, the latest study about Amur Amur comes from Yale University, and they suggest it's not an alien craft or a space rock, but rather a 35 million-year-old hydrogen iceberg. These findings, which have been published in the pre-print journal Arxiv, and the findings suggest that the object emanated from a giant molecular cloud, which is a type of interstellar cloud that allows the formation of molecules, usually hydrogen, another interstellar visitor made headlines in 2019 when it passed by the Sun, this time it was determined to be a comet, earning the name Two Eye Borisov. The universe is a mysterious place and we shouldn't accept the data being reported by NASA or other space studies as absolute fact. These people doing the research are simply doing that, researching and their brains function just like ours. Our understanding of the heavens seems somehow lost in time, but we have something up our sleeves. An ancient understanding remains in the surviving documents, and ancient civilizations do tell us in no uncertain detail that the observable sky was very different in their time than in the night of ours now. And to begin your eye-opening journey into the hidden truth behind the nature of our existence, seek out the Thunderbolts Project, it's a vital clue in the Saturn myth mystery. Intrigued by Velikovsky's claim that Saturn was once a preeminent planetary god, David Talbot resolved to examine its mythical character. I wanted to know, he wrote, if ancient sources had a coherent story to tell about the planet, and I had no inkling of the spectacular tail hidden in the chronicles, according to David Talbot. In a startling reinterpretation of age-old symbolism, Talbot argues that the great god or the universal monarch of the ancient was not the sun, but the planet Saturn, which once hung ominously close to the Earth and visually dominated the heavens. Talbot's close textual and symbolic analysis reveals the fundamental themes of Saturn imagery and proves that all of them, including the cosmic ship, the island at the top of the world, the Eye of Heaven, the Devolving Temple, were based on celestial observations in the Northern sky. In addition, he shows how such diverse symbols as the Cross, Sunwheels, Holy Mountains, Crowns of Royality and Sacred Pillars grew out of ancient Saturn worship, intending that Saturn's appearance at the time, radically different from today, inspired man's leap into civilization, since many aspects of early civilization can be seen as conscious efforts to re-enact or commemorate Saturn's organization of his celestial kingdom. 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So recently we had Tomb Raider up to bat to see if it can break the curse that our video game movie sucked. While it had a valid attempt, pretty much safe to say right now that it struck out. But now we have Rainpaste on Dwayne Narok Johnson. So how did it turn out? Well, let's find out. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's good everyone. I want to thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Rainpaste on Dwayne Narok Johnson. I really do appreciate it. So now we have Rainpage and I remember when I first saw the trailer for this movie a number of months ago I was like oh my gosh wow this is Rainpage. I remember this game way back in the day in the early 90s when I was a little kid. Of course this was an arcade game. I really don't remember this being on any game consoles like Nintendo, Sega Genesis or Atari or anything like that. I strictly remember this being an arcade game. Now to be honest with you I did not play the game that much but the times that I was at the arcade I do remember seeing a lot of other people, a lot of other kids my age, younger, older and all that good stuff playing this game and it was just about a bunch of random giant monsters that was all the size that would just come rushing to the city and just destroying everything in their sight building after building. I mean it was just a concept that really didn't make sense at all. So when you take that concept how are you going to be able to translate that over to a movie? Well the first thing you can do right is you know Cas Dwayne Narok Johnson and you know it's pretty obvious but he was pretty much the best thing of this movie. Like you know when I saw the trailers like I said I remember this when I was a little kid but I was not that excited about it.  So when I was going into this I really had low expectations but you know when the film started off it started out you know running it didn't waste any time. You got a good sense of what was going on and that the technology and biology and things like that you know all the chemistry and makeup and you know this genetic thing and that genetic thing that is pretty serious and not anything that you want to mess around with. I mean very early on in the film you know they set the tone very well and let you know that there is an imminent threat coming and you know you better strap up or you're going to you know be in trouble. Now this movie is being directed by Brad Payton. If you're familiar with his work or not he has worked with The Rock before in 2015 with San Andreas. I did see that film and I did like it a lot of people give that film a hard time but you know for what it was I really did appreciate that film excuse me and something else that I really do appreciate with this film is you have the concept you know of the movie that you know monsters you know get infected with this biochemical weapon they're in laws that go to the city wreck shop destroy everything and we have to stop them. It's a very very simple plot you know in the actual video game it's a very it's even more simple in this movie but nothing is wrong with it. But while I just said I appreciated something something else that I do appreciate with this film besides the plot and the story just being so simple is that the substitute for that was giving you characters that you actually really care about and they actually take time to develop and I'm even talking about the monkeys or the animals I call them a monkey he's a gorilla let's talk about George the the white ape and the white ape or the white gorilla in the marketing material and the trailers in this movie he was freaking fantastic he has such a great relationship with the rock he felt like a real person he really just didn't feel like an animal and I think that's one reason because you know the the gorilla was able to do American sign language so we were able to you know get some type of dialogue from him instead of just a bunch of you know gorilla ape noises so that's just something I really didn't expect is having you know actually caring about the the George the gorilla something else that I found fascinating about George was the visual effects the CGI that went into developing him on screen it was freaking fantastic you know that's never that is something I always pay attention to but that's nothing that I went to this movie thinking that would stand out to me it's like oh I bet this movie is gonna have you know fantastic visual effects that's just nothing that crossed my mind when I was preparing for this movie but when I was actually sitting out watching it I was like you know wow you know they really did do a good job here and what I'm talking to you now I was trying to scroll through to see if I can find what what visual effects studio put this together were whether it was ILM industrial light and magic which is George Lucas's company I don't I can't remember if he sold it or not or whether what a digital those that's the visual effects company that did the CGI the visual effects works for the rebooted Planet of the Ape series that Andy Serkis is most popular for but you know the the effects were great there George was great Dwayne the Rod Johnson was great too he wasn't just some big you know hulking guy you know just in another action movie and you know when you think about it that possibly could get all but not with the rock I mean he's great in everything that he does and there's nothing different here he's great in this movie too another great cast remember I want to talk about that I thought was fantastically was named on me Harris now she first popped on the screen for on the scene for me I said screen on the scene for me I think it was in 2009 with her movie ninja assassin I'm a die hard martial arts fan and yeah niche her name was Mika in the film she did a great job there she did a great job in this film either she was more of the brains that was going on and she is a very very beautiful black chocolate sister from England that I would not mind getting to meet but she did a great job as well she was very smart in the role she was very intelligent I liked her dialogue and the last cast member that I want to list that was also very well is Jeffrey D. Morgan we all know him from Watchmen and of course right now he is Negan in the Walking Dead series which I do need to finish I'm on the last season right now I watched the first episode of the new season but I'm behind right now because I just kind of lost interest in the show but anyway Jeffrey D. Morgan isn't in this movie beating over animals or people in the head with Lucia with Baseball best rapper Bob Ryder his name is Harvey Russell and he works for one of these government agencies and you know he has pride and you can possibly understand how the rock will have pride too you know he's such a big dude and when these two men are you know going face to face trying to have like a penis measuring contest you know it's funny then that that's typical we always get that type of interaction between men you know and uh two big men prominent men and films like this and so that can get oh either but no the film itself is somewhat self-aware and kind of makes fun of itself and they also kind of throw in Naomi Harrison the scene right here too where you know they're both kind of just you know trying to you know see you know who's the toughest things like that and I like the dialogue that is going back and forth in between these two and the attic the added humor that Naomi Harris was able to deliver as well but I said humor that's another great thing about this film is it's funny and I am a stickler when it comes to comedy and movies and action movies like you can throw in many jokes as you want as long as you don't ruin serious moments I'm really not a big fan of jokes doing serious moments while people are engaging in battle in the middle of war in the middle of a showdown or something like that and that's nothing that you have to worry about with this film rempage the humor is you know it lands when it needs to is very clean is very funny I laughed out I didn't just chuckle I remember one time in particular I was one of the loudest people in the theater you know I wasn't trying to be obnoxious or anything like that but the joke was funny you know I laugh my behind off now another thing about this this is an action adventure you know kind of fantasy science fiction and action adventure science fiction you could throw fantasy in there as well and when it comes to movies like this I get really annoyed when there is a forced romance going on and you could possibly imagine that that would happen between the rocks character and his name by the way is David Okoye he is a primatologist his name is David Okoye he has an unsurable relationship with George the intelligent gorilla which I was talking about before that but back to my point what I was saying was you could possibly imagine that there would be some type of forced romance or chemistry in between Naomi Harris and Dwayne Jaroc Johnson but while there is chemistry in between their characters there is also a dash of romance but I like the perfect amount that they add to the film because they don't shove it down your face and they're not just making out and kissing or anything like that for no damn reason you know just you know just for the hell of it I will say that there was not enough time in this movie for their relationship to develop however if there was not a you know big months not month well big animals you know thrashing the city I could see them these two characters if in this movie if they were real that they could possibly you know go on a date or and you know maybe hit something off I mean you know you just had that you know that chemistry there but at the same time you know I bring that up because usually if that's the case you know sometimes director or the writer of a film or project they'll force some romance in he's like is there really time to be making out right now or confessing you'll love each other when you know Chicago is at stake right now what means people could possibly die you know we don't have enough time for that in the film recognize that and didn't do that so that's just another thing that that I do appreciate again I'll just talk about the dialogue again in this movie because it is pretty fun I like people that use their brains I like smart characters of course everybody does and for the most part in this movie we know when things are you know getting kind of heavy and heated you know people do listen to reason like okay I guess what you did say made sense so even though it sounds crazy I mean you are providing some type of evidence so I am going to listen to you so I'm just like man hell yeah this is not just a dumb action movie where monsters are all over the place we actually have characters that I care about and characters that are making sense and not just human characters but animal characters too now of course uh this movie is near perfect but there were just two characters in this movie that I just cannot stand I pretty much despise them I mean they ruin the whole film for me one of them is the sweetest actor Malin Ackerman or Malin Ackerman she was in Washbin and also Jake Lacey or Jake Jake Lassie they're in this movie they are the two billionaires that develop this biochemical weapon that is making the animals grow to ridiculous rates and destroy the city and you know mutate and all that good stuff but seeing that they are supposed to be billionaires and behind this company called Energyne you know that just has all this technology they both come across as stupid doofuses I mean well not really Malin's character Claire but her brother yeah her brother Brett Wyden played by Jake Lacey Lassie I don't understand why they had to clue him in the film and why they wrote him that way I mean I don't know I guess they just wanted to have kind of like when I think about it I don't know how serious you would have taken the film if this would have been just some nefarious villain somewhere like I'm going to give my monsters and take over the world well that wasn't serious right there that was kind of like off Inspector Gadget or something like that but what I'm trying to say is why I understand they were trying to give this film a light fun tone that you could possibly take serious they went a little too far with his character in particular making just him just too goofy I mean this like he I mean come on I mean for the most part I mean we do have millionaires and billionaires in this country right now that have a lot of money that are just dumb dumber than a box of rocks but at the same time for the most part somebody that's in charge of this amount of resources please give them some type of intelligence and they didn't and that's pretty much one of the things that I really did not like about this film was their two characters it was it was very annoying and it did bring it down just a little bit but guys what are you here for this is rampage when you got a freaking giant gorilla a flying a wolf and a mixed crocodile alligator hybrid with spikes from hell you know jacking up the city just trying to see that I can't even talk so how did it turn out how did the animals look first of all back to the CGI the CGI was great with George in the beginning it was even greater with George in the end and the rest of the animals too the the visuals in this movie was freaking fantastic I was loving it and you know they had so many close-up shots so you can see the details of the of the creatures but they also had a bunch of shots pulled away a bunch of wide shots to where you can see all the detail as well and see how agile they're moving and the thing is is they give you a nice reveal of the monsters at the end of the movie I mean you get to see George all the way throughout but the alligator crocodile hybrid with the spikes from the depths of hell and the flying wolf they tease you with that throughout the film and it doesn't waste any time either I mean this film is an hour and 44 minutes it could have been an hour and 30 minutes because when they're giving you action here in there throughout the film I mean you're satisfied right but then there's like two sections here so I was like man this section right here is not really necessary you know it's giving me more story and character development and more reasons why you would like to rock and they only harass his character I mean it's some true depth there but you know they you know it's not needed but it's appreciated you know what I'm saying but when they're sampling pieces of you to you throughout the film of the monsters and then they just reveal it in the end and all these wild shots you're like okay wow you're like this is a really damn good movie you're like I'm really enjoying this I mean and like think about it why would these monsters be in the city why would they be trying to climb buildings like why would they do that that doesn't make any sense well the film like it is simple does have a simple plot it gives you a valid reason as to why they're doing it I'm just like okay hey you know suspend my my suspend my disbelief just a little bit here and there and you know hey I'm in for the ride I mean I am enjoying you know all of this and like that's just the visuals but the action itself it delivers I mean I was very entertained seeing them destroy these buildings jumping from here and there seeing the army and all these armed forces just letting loose other ammunition and firearms just giving them other capacity at optimum levels just like you know just you know empty in the clip in tanks and things like that and fighter jets and it's just not stopping them I'm just like man hold up you know I'm really enjoying this you know what I'm saying but then you know it gives you all that and then you think it's over or whatever and this is like you know what the people trying to take them down but it's like okay wait a minute that's not working and I'm not going to spoil it for you here but the Rockfield some type of responsibility for what's going on even though he's not responsible but he is like that is my guerrilla George and I have to save the day I have to save Chicago so with him and George team up verse the other I mean you can like feel the building up and you know it's coming and as it's coming to you somebody may have just jumped on the scene on the screen and was like hey guys all right y'all was patient for the first 75 minutes but I know y'all ready to see these marks to smack down now well here you go five four three two one here you go and enjoy it and then just building them I literally was like sit back I'm like yes bring it to me and I was just eating it all up that like for real for real like I mean I was smiling like I'm smiling right now because going into this movie was such a low expectations and being so entertained by just such a simple plot but you know hey if it ain't broke don't fix it if it's simple hey that's fine whatever you know they really did deliver the goods in this movie with the action from beginning to end you know I was like you know cheering them just like they did one of the action beats while I was like oh snap I actually did that and it didn't bother anybody because they were just as enthusiastic about the film as I was this is a nearly perfect film um I really wish this was filmed with iMAX cameras I really don't mind going to the theater to see this again it was just that good to me I'm not saying that it's the best thing in the world but I was thoroughly entertained by this it is something that I will be buying on home video when it comes out I don't know if I'm gonna be buying it on 4k because it wasn't shot with iMAX camera anything like that but I am very confident that I will be buying this movie on blu-ray in a number of months so I can enjoy it for the rest of time guys if I had to rate rampage out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8.5 out of 10 yes an 8.5 out of 10 only reason I'm not giving this a 9 or 9.5 out of 10 is because those two stupid characters they kind of they were just too dumb and goofy for me and they kind of just put a damper on things but other than that guys I loved it but guys that is just my opinion for rampage starting to rain the white johnson have you seen a rampage or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know down in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me a thumbs up and if you don't that's fine but you can still subscribe to my channel you can also go to my website check me out there and bookmark it and also look me up on social media facebook instagram and twitter all the good stuff is right there at the bottom of the screen and I made it very easy by providing a link to all the good stuff down in the description box below but guys that is just my opinion for rampage I really do appreciate it and before you go don't forget that my name is brandy Keith Avery and that's just my opinion peace


together, we work together and we prosper together. I would like to welcome our international students joining us from around the globe for our Education USA interactive series and a special welcome to our virtual guests from São Paulo, Brazil. I am Krishna Das from Education USA, a United States Department of State network of over 400 advising centers in 170 countries where millions of international students like you each year find information about how to apply to accredited US colleges and universities. Visit our website at educationusa.state.gov to find a center near you. We are here today to provide you with information on how you can explore your options when it comes to studying in the United States. Our panel will look at the differences between programs around the USA, opportunities within the American education system and the diversity in cultures and climates that can be found in US study options. To participate in this chat, please log into the live chat area and ask any questions you may have for us or tweet us questions with the hashtag study in the USA. To help us answer your questions, we have Paul McVeigh, the vice president of a global studies program and Zainab, an international student from Turkey. Welcome Zainab. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you guys being here and Zainab is actually studying in the US currently. Within the chat space we also have other education USA representatives and a current international student also from Turkey, Hatice. They are available to answer any questions we are not able to get to in this particular hour. Let's start off the discussion by going to our viewing party in São Paulo, Brazil. Hi, São Paulo. Do you have a question for us? What's your first question? So I would like to know the difference between a university and a community college. I'm sorry, could you please repeat that question? So I would like to know the difference between a university, a college and a community college. I think the question was what is the difference between a community college and a four-year institution? Paul, I think this is a question that could be directed to you. The essential difference is that the community college is a two-year program where you attain an associate degree. The students then go on from that associate degree to complete the bachelor's degree in two years.  So two plus two or four years. There are many, many other differences. Of course, the community colleges could be smaller, but many community colleges today in urban areas, for example, are bigger than most universities. They are in communities, metropolitan areas or in very rural areas, again, serving the American community in their vicinity primarily. But international students are certainly discovering them very much so. But they're essentially in the degree, no difference. The accreditation, no difference. And the student winds up in the end of four years with the same bachelor's degree, with no qualifications to that degree. So technically, if a student comes to a community college, which is a two-year program, starts up on a two-year program, he or she can move right after that to a four-year institution. No problem.  Could you please tell us a little bit about your experiences? Community college, actually, in US education system, you have two years general education and then two years 300 and 400 levels for your major. And that two years, you can complete community college, I did. It's so important to do this because as an international student, you have to adapt to culture, classes, and everything. After you're done with your two years, you can transfer your credits. Any college in the US that's convenient, they got all your credits, they accept it, and you continue your education. And then move on. Yeah, for me, the difference is an international student. I could say it's so important to go to community college first, complete your general education, and then move on for your institution. So a lot of it depends on what your preferences are.  With the big difference being that with the start at a community college, you save hugely in tuition. The tuition, for example, at a community college usually about a third of the closest regional university. So you save a tremendous amount of money taking that pathway without risking the end product, the bachelor's degree. So it does a little cheaper if you go to a community college. Much cheaper. Much cheaper. So that's another option which many of you may wish to consider looking at a community college and then going towards a four-year institution. Let's go to another question from Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, do you have a question for us? Yes. What are the benefits of liberal qualification? I believe the question was what is the qualification required to apply to a community college or a four-year institution or for a student to come to the United States? Well, the great advantage of a community college in the United States is there are really no qualifications that you need. It's an open admission philosophy. So in other words, any student who wants to try higher education, regardless of age, regardless of background, has that opportunity. And thus, in a community college, you will find people of all ages, but primarily the traditional college age and all backgrounds, different countries, and so forth. I would say that that's the primary response I would give. Is that what you completed your high school and then you came here, Zana? Yes. It's open admission. That's great because you don't have to worry about SAT or other exams that are challenging for you.   When you go to four-year university, your classmates are Americans. And that scares you a little bit because you don't know anything about the culture or education system. That prepares you to academic life, maybe grad school as well after. So the community college basically helps you to sort of adjust, to adapt to a larger institution. We have a number of other questions, online questions. We'll come back to Sao Paulo later in the program, but now let's go to some of our live questions coming from our online viewers. And online viewer asks, what is the first step I should take when finding the right US program for me? Paul, would you like to answer that? Sure. I think that considerations like the subject that you think you want to study initially is a main motivator. But then I think you should consider seriously the region of the country and the size of the institution that you're interested in.  You may be more comfortable in a city environment rather than a country environment. A liberal arts college versus a research university, for example, will have a whole different dynamic. So doing your research on those particular kind of characteristics is very important. I said at the outset, though, the major is very important because it could be that a university has particular specialization and reputation in something like psychology, which Zenep has studied or biology, whatever it may be. And you want to start to lay the foundations for your education as soon as possible, thinking ahead to where you might want to go to graduate school and so forth, what you want to do with your degree. So location motivated by that concern is something you really should think about very carefully. That's good to know. Zenep, did you do a lot of research before applying to the school where you went to? Yes. I searched area and I talked with my friends about who has been through this process, who have been through this process. And I chose DC because my dream was studying psychology in the US and we have here American Psychological Association and I thought I can do my intern there and I can go grad school here as well. For instance, if you're going to study political science, it's a good place too.  So the key is to find the right fit that's good for you and that serves your purpose from a long-term perspective. I came in actually as an international student as well and I had all these different options to choose from and I was kind of confused. So what I did was I went to the education USA center closest to me and I actually met with an advisor who gave me tremendous insights on how to focus and then that gave me a very good idea on which college to go to and what kind of degree I should pursue. And so I would strongly urge you to find an education center close to you and meet with an advisor who should be able to provide you with lots of insights because they're a wealth of information because many of them have come to the United States as students and gone back and are doing student advising. And to find a center near you, go to our website at www.educationusa.state.gov. Let's go to the next question. We have a question for Zennab again. Zennab, how long did you spend studying what program to go to and was it a hard decision? For me, it wasn't that hard because I knew I wanted to study psychology. However, choosing a place is hard. Choosing a school is hard. But I chose community college first and it's a great way to start your education in the US for me because my friends already advised me about that going to college and then complete your education. Decision, it wasn't that hard but the process, learning English process, it was long because you have to learn English really well to study your academic life. First, it was frustrating and then I thanked my professors and teachers because college is so serious and you do a lot of writing in American education and it requires a lot of writing, reading and it's so intense program. That's why decision, it wasn't hard but the process of learning English and starting my major, I should say it was kind of hard for me but I went over it. Yeah, I'm glad. Let me just add that I think what Zennab said is very true for most international students and that student asking earlier about the differences in the community college and so forth, open admission may suggest that if we take anybody then there's no quality but the fact is those courses have to measure up exactly to what the university expects so the students are successful when they enter their third year courses at the university. That's very important to us and it in a way gives you insight into the process of what the community college is doing is helping students succeed at achieving their goals so anybody can come in the front door but not everybody gets out because that success is measured by how well you do in your classwork, how well your English skills and your classroom skills have been developed over time but when that happens you're very prepared for the university. So the key is study hard and also Paul on that particular note do you have any advice for our students as to what programs or rather what they should prepare for before coming to the United States? Well certainly doing as much as possible to improve your English language skills not just in reading and listening but in writing. I think that it served the student well if they would then when they come to the United States not be so anxious to begin the degree program but like Zaynep takes some time with ESL even if it's one semester, it's an adaptation process. ESL is a special language. And in that way they are, let's say adapting but they're also learning the classroom culture of the United States. They're at the community college in most cases most of the community colleges have these language programs and that allows you to get a feel for the atmosphere of the college itself and as you progress through the English as a second language classes you can begin to take the classes in your major. So it's an easy kind of seamless overlapping process. So it's a smooth transition. Yeah. Great that's good to know. Let's go to our next question. Question is the online viewer asks I am done with my application process for fall 2015 what should be my next step? Paul, what do you think? Well, assuming that that application is moving through successfully and you don't yet know the answers to the questions of whether you're getting in or not. I would say start to do research on the living circumstances where you plan to go. What kind of support systems the university itself has. In other words, don't stop the comparison process. I would assume you have applied to maybe two or three different places. If that's the case, go deeper in your research about the relative, let's say merits of each institution so that when let's say you're accepted by two of the three institutions, let's say you can then have a much sounder basis for decision finally. So always keep your choices. Yeah, have extra choices. EducationUSA is still a good resource. You can find a lot of information online not just about the institution but about the region that you'll be in, et cetera. Yeah, again, for information, go to our website at educationUSA.state.gov. You should be able to find a lot of these information on for the questions that you have. Let's go to our next question. An online viewer asks what is the difference between a state university and a private one? Well, all right, I guess it's a broad question. It's a very broad question, exactly. When we say state university, it is an institution that is publicly funded, taxpayer dollars for the most part are used for the basis of operation but they are also seeking grants and so forth. So state university is usually a large place. These generalities are not gonna hold up in every case but when I then look at a private institution, we tend to think of a smaller institution. Now, of course, the Ivy Leagues and similar kinds of institutions are quite large but, and they're research-oriented but private institutions are also liberal arts colleges where they could be as small in enrollment as two or 3,000 students. So these very small institutions can be very supportive of a student's aims. You can get to know your classmates and professors very, very well but there are also private institutions that are very, very large. So a state institution, publicly funded, tends to be large because they need that tuition base, that revenue base and there may be, therefore, more impersonality to the environment compared to the private one. I had a couple of questions regarding that, Paul. Is a state university, in terms of cost, is it number one, is it cheaper than a private school? And number two, do you have community colleges that are community colleges considered state institutions? Community colleges are public institutions primarily. Of the 1,200 that are in the United States, I would say about 1,100 are public. So for all practical purposes, they're state institutions but they're not universities, as we said before. But I would say that with the state, yeah, I think that would answer the question. Okay, thanks Paul. Let's go to the next question. What makes the process so long? I'm assuming the process over here, the viewer is basically asking how, the application process, applying to a US university, going through the whole sort of myriad things that one has to go through, going through the application, going through getting in touch with, getting your letters of recommendation and your transcripts, et cetera. I think, Paul, you can answer that and then Zena, you could probably get into how long it took you and then we can discuss that. Let me again compare community colleges to universities because the application process for community colleges is automatic, being open admission. Do you want to explain to our viewers what open admission is? Yeah, I guess it does need some explanation. The process, let's say the foundation, the governing principle of the creation of community colleges was to create as much opportunity for the public of the United States as possible. This was for the most part back in the 1960s but it goes back even before that. So the idea is that opportunity at any level of your adult life, after any circumstances, is there for you to take advantage of higher education. In that way, the open admission policy allows for there to be no barriers on the front end, as few requirements, no transcripts, for example, unless you've gone to another institution of higher education before and then maybe those courses can transfer in as U.S. courses. But you also have no requirements of SATs, no letters of reference. What you do have to have is a high school diploma or be 18 years old. In general, that satisfies that question. That's good to know. Zainab, how long did it take you to apply? How long did the process take you when you applied to come to the United States? I first got my I-20. I-20 is a documentary that proves you're going to school in America. And that's provided by the college school? Yeah, college school. I got my I-20 first from language school. I spent three months there and then I transferred to NOVA. It actually took me maybe one year, one and a half year, actually to start my credit classes This is after you came to the United States? Yeah, before in my country, visa process are easy. It took me three months to decide and get my visa and everything and enter the U.S. And you had applied to the university and the college while you went in Turkey? While I was here, but it doesn't matter because websites are so helpful. They have due dates. If you prepare your documents and everything before the due dates, it will be fine. Thank you, Sanna. So the key is get all your documents in order, get them ready, apply before the deadline, and then your process will also be smoother and easier. Let's go to another question. Just keep those great questions coming in using the chat or on Twitter using the hashtag study in the United States of America. Let's go back to Sao Paulo now for a couple of more questions. Sao Paulo, do you have a question for us? Sao Paulo? Is it possible to transfer from a community college to a top university? Sao Paulo, could you please repeat that question? Is it possible to transfer from a community college? The question is, is it possible to transfer from a community college to a regular for your institution or a university? Zainab, you have gone through this process. I think they asked a top university. To a top university. Actually, yeah, you can. If you have four point of GPA, you can transfer because they look your GPA and recommendation letters. Actually, I transferred a really good university from community college. They have guaranteed admissions. Community college and public schools, public universities, some of them have guaranteed admissions. You can go directly, you know, be a junior from that school, but you can also apply different places. I applied for school and it was a good school and I got in and I got scholarship. You were a very good student. Yeah, I study hard. And it's a myth that you can't get scholarship. The fact that if you have, you know, if you study hard and you have good GPA and everything, they give you a scholarship when you transfer to. Paul, do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, actually, it's, we have many students that go to some of the best universities in the United States and I'll make a distinction for the student in Brazil. You know, while we have guaranteed transfer admission agreements with certain universities, some of those are with some of the best universities in our region and on our state. At the same time, a good student, I would say, can go almost anywhere in the United States but it's the decision of the university, whether they want to accept them. With a guaranteed transfer agreement, students are saying, from this community college, we will accept you under these circumstances and usually that involves a high grade point average for the best universities. So the key is, I mean, if the student has good grades, good letters of recommendation, he or she can, there's no limit as to where he or she can go.  And that includes the Ivy Leagues, colleges like Georgetown, Stanford, et cetera. There could be any cases, yes. That's good to know. Sao Paulo, Brazil, do you have another question for us? Can I do research as an undergraduate student? Sao Paulo, could you please repeat that question? Can I do research as an undergraduate student? Can you do research as an undergraduate? I think the question was, can you do research as an undergraduate student? Zina, have you, in your area, you did psychology? Yeah. And were you, I'm sure there was certain amount of research that you had to do? Yeah, if your professor has lab and you ask them if they would like to work with you, they can, you know, offer intern for you and you can work with them, do research. And actually, you can do some publications with them as a co-author. And you have, we have honors program in here. If you are in the honors program, you have capstone. You do individual research and then you prepare your like thesis or something. And a lot of options here depends on you and what do you want. So a lot of it depends on the student.  Unlike the graduate program where you can sort of, you know, you can do research or you can do work with a professor.  Is that common across the spectrum? It depends on, as you said, it depends on the student's initiative. I think that it is characteristic of some universities and some programs. It just depends on what your research is in that they are more open or closed to undergraduate participation in research. But on the whole, I think that everyone would agree that if the undergraduate is showing the initiative, desires to be involved in research, those professors will allow that to happen. That's excellent. So there has to be a good rapport. You have to create that rapport with the professor and show your interest that you are interested in going, you know, the research direction. And again, there's a wide range of program type. So some are naturally more hands-on than others, but generally speaking. But there are all these opportunities that are available. We have a lot of more questions coming in from our online viewers. A online viewer from Brazil actually asks, what level of English does one need to participate in a program in the US? Xenop, this is right up your alley. If they, there are some requirements. It depends on the university. If they are familiar with TOEFL, they- TOEFL is the test of English in the foreign language. Test of English in the foreign language, yeah. It's about 80 from over 120. But if you go to community college, you take an English proficiency test and then according to your score, they put you in a level.  If they say no, that means no. It's not like they trying to longer make it longer your process or something. When you go to, you know, academic life, you understand that you need strong English because you're, you know, like, you have a lot of, as I mentioned before, you have a lot of writing, reading, yeah. It's an intense program. Paul, is it possible for a student to sort of practice his or her English apart from the opportunities that are available at the university from official capacity, maybe with other student groups? Or is that something you recommend? Of course, yeah. It happens naturally, I think.  It's so much easier. But if they have, you know, the end result in mind where they're trying to excel in English, whether it's academic English or it's street language, you know, they have to practice that.  It's gonna be, I think, much more successful. And I would just add to what Zedep has said in that regard that while many students are ambitious to begin their academic program as quickly as possible and to finish it as quickly as possible, that is sometimes, if not always, a misguided goal because they really need to improve their English and their understanding of the American educational classroom system to the extent that they will be successful. So when Zedep refers to being, let's say, she's saying, no, you're not ready. What she's talking about is our interest in maintaining your successful preparation. So a student may think they're ready, but the professors will say, no, you're not quite ready. You need to do X, Y, and Z. So it's not about holding you back to make more money. It's to make sure you are prepared enough to be successful. And that's where the emphasis, I think, in the American system in general, certain community colleges is placed. And I think that's one of the wonderful things about the American system is that you're able to become a pretty well-rounded individual. It's not just the academic part, but it's the extracurricular activities in many, many forms. Which, you know, that's the advantage you have. And actually, talking about the classroom culture, we, our next webinar is also talking about, it's going to be focusing on the classroom culture. It's on the 20th of November. But let's go to our next question. How can I find out more information about a particular university? Great question, because there are so many resources out there. Of course, you can always go to our website at www.educationusa.state.gov and get lots and lots of information. Is there any other information that you suggest that they sort of research in terms of funding out the university? Well, certainly the university's website.  You can look for, if you're comparing universities, you did say in your question, particular universities. So I felt you may have one in mind. In that case, I would say delve into the website of that particular institution very carefully. But in comparison, you might look at other universities or colleges in that same region or with the same major that you have in mind.  Most of it is online now, thankfully. And so I think you just have to take the time to dig through it.  Zina, how did you find out about this particular university that you went to? I talked with my friends. My two friends, they have been through this process and they finished university here. I asked them and they actually said, you need to go to the website and search. And they can actually call and ask questions directly to them and email them if they have any questions. Because in the beginning, you feel uncomfortable with your English and you hesitate to ask questions. But if websites are so helpful because they update all the time, yeah. So the key is, I think what both of you are saying is that do your research before, you know, there are a lot of options out there, lots of information out there, and the key is do your research and that'll help you in terms of figuring out where you want to be. I might add that I think most universities would be happy to put a student in touch with students from their own country in order to have a conversation about their particular points of view. If that makes a difference, it doesn't always have to be important, but it could be important. That's good to know. Let's go to our next question. The question is, how can I find out if my degree from my country will be recognized in the US to continue on to a postgraduate degree? I think the online viewer needs to know whether, suppose he or she has already has gotten a degree from a particular country, whether he or she can continue on to graduate program in the United States. That question has to be addressed by the institution that you want to have your graduate degree from. In other words, you have to ask that particular question of the institution you want to go to because they will have different answers. Almost all of them will have a independent evaluation of a transcript, your undergraduate transcript. So having the degree from another country's institution doesn't necessarily translate as an American bachelor's degree. It usually does, but it just depends. Then I think if you have, let's say, not completed an undergraduate degree, but you have some credits from an undergraduate institution, then those may transfer in as US credits to either a community college or a university. So again, looking at the graduate goal, you have to really address that question to that institution. They have different answers. Zena, you were able to transfer many of your high school credits to the community college and then on to the university that you went to, correct? Yes, I applied with my high school diploma. Okay, of course that was at the undergrad level. Let's go to our next question. Can you share some of the common reasons people get rejected from colleges apart from the standardized tests and school scores? I'm assuming by the standardized test, you could go into SATs, that's a Scholastic Aptitude Test or ACT or the GMAT or the GREs. Do you, any of you can answer this? I mean, do you know of people who've gotten rejected or why do you think people get rejected and what's the reason for that, Paul? Well, of course it depends on the institution you're applying to. The most competitive institutions have the advantage of sitting back and deciding what the makeup of the class should be, how many international students and from where in addition to the US students. So, and it can even come down to a particular school if you've applied to a business school. They can also have in mind, what kind of mix of talent and backgrounds and experience do we want to put together? In other institutions, it isn't as particular as that. It could be that they want so many international students from certain places, but they also want, you know, a certain quota of US residents. So it would just depend, but those are some of the reasons why you may be rejected because there are others that they feel are offering more competitive credentials. Xenob, what has your experience with standardized tests been like? I studied for TOEFL. Okay. And it is hard and it's really, you know, assess your English level. But because community colleges are open admission, they accept you and they have another test for assessing your English, English proficiency test. Actually, I took ESL classes and I didn't deal with standardized tests and scores because English classes helped me to improve my English enough for academic schools. And Krishna, it's important to point out also that when you then transfer to the university, they don't ask for the SAT scores or the things that you would have applied with. I see. They take your transcript from the community college and your degree and you go in automatically. That's very interesting to know. Thank you both. Let's go to the next online question. The viewer asks, can I choose a university in any state in the United States if I meet the requirements? Paul, you can answer this. Zennab, you had applied to different schools. The answer is yes. The answer is yes. Okay, you have your answer. Let's go to the next question. What are the difficulties that I will face at the beginning of the program? Zennab, I think this question is right up your alley. Yeah, my answer is ready English. Are there any other issues that you thought were difficult when you first came into the country, into the program? In my case, I didn't know even a word in English, and culture was so new to me, but when you start your process learning the language and interacting with people, you came over easily that process. I mean, the most, actually it's yeah, culture and language. Now, did you sort of spend time with a lot of your American classmates, or how did you make that sort of transition easier? I had good Korean friends because I was in the ESL class. You don't have American friends at that point. But yeah, with Korean friends, I tried avoid my Turkish friends, not to speak Turkish all the time. Yeah, I tried my best to improve my English, speaking, writing, everything. That's good to know. Yes, Paul. Christian, I would add that it depends on where the student is from. This question may have come from Brazil, but let's say a student comes from Asia. In Asia, they are taught respect for their professors in a way that I don't think you find anywhere else in the world. So that they are more likely not to speak up in class. They are very respectful of the faculty. And I bring this up because in the US system, as you probably know, in the classroom culture, it's much more dependent on the student's initiative. Students are expected to speak up in class. They're expected to disagree and take a more, not antagonistic stance, but one that is more questioning. So the give and take of the American classroom can sometimes be, at the beginning, a challenge for the international student, in some cases. So that's another difference that many of these, it's basically a lot of cultural differences and academic differences, so it all ties in together. That's good to know. And again, talking about the American classroom culture, we're going to be discussing that next month on the 20th of November. Let's take another question from Brazil. The viewer asks, is studying in the US expensive? That's a question for either of you. Zena, I think I'll start with you because you are a student who has come from Turkey who has paid to study, and so how do you sort of, what do you think? It's expensive, but if you, for instance, in my case, I went to college for the first two years and then I transferred my credits for your institution and they accept all my credits. And it went really fine. If I went straight, if I started straight, directly to the four year institution, it would have been, you know, more expensive than, you know, two years you pay for general education. Community colleges are not that expensive, but four year institutions, because we're out of state. Okay. Yeah, institutions are a little bit higher than in state institutions. Would you like to explain to our viewers as to what in state and out of state tuition is number one and number two? I believe that studying in the US is still cheaper than studying in many other countries. I think so, in some cases. Depends on, again, the type of university you want to go to, public or private. But, you know, the in state tuition is based upon the resident of, let's say, a given state that is paying taxes, for example, or their parents are paying taxes, and so that tax base is used to support the educational system. And the out of state tuition is simply making up the difference of that tax base. So it's not that the university or college is making a lot of money so much, it's that they're making up that difference. But they're only those two tuition sources, the in or out of state. I think there may be some institutions that have another international student level. But again, I think the important question, if you have a concern about expense, then the pathway through the community college should be very, very seriously considered. As Zanip has said, the tuition is much lower to go through a community college, where let's say at my institution, it's about $10,000 for a whole academic year. At her institution now, it's about 40 to $45,000. So you just compare the two, you're talking about 25% of the total. Over four years, that's a huge saving. It's almost like getting an automatic scholarship. I think that was a great, great, that's great information. And it's good to know again, go to our website at www.educationusa.state.gov, and you will have information on which college it's to look for, how much they charge, et cetera. Let's go to our next question. I am halfway through my degree program in electro-mechanical engineering in my country. What would I need to do to finish my degree in an American university? Well, you're applying as a transfer student, but from an international destination. So I think, again, the conversation is between you and the institution that you want to go to, and it may be a comparison of two or three institutions that you're making. But in any case, you can transfer those credits in. I would say, look at the electrical, or the electrical magnetic, sorry, mechanical engineering program at the institution that you want to go to and see how they compare for yourself. Because you may be asked, what do some of your courses, your credits from the international institution mean? And so the better you can speak to the comparisons and the way in which they match, the better off you will be. Excellent. Well, let's go to our next online question. A viewer asks, what if I change my mind about my program and want to study something else instead? Can I change my program? I think this was a question that came up earlier, something similar. Zena, would you like to answer the question then we can go to Paul? Yeah. Actually, first two years, you're taking general education courses, and then you're focusing on your major. Right. You have two years actually to decide what you really want to continue. And my case, as I told you before, I would like to study psychology and I got my general education courses and then I continue in that field. But if I changed my mind, I could really, after two years, you can't take another class. Maybe it's gonna take you one more semester to finish it. Or you can do double majors or you can do majors and minor. And that's one of the wonderful things about the American system, education system where you can do double majors because, for example, I had applied for my program in business and in marketing and I ended up doing a double major in human resources management and with a minor in marketing and also another major in higher education administration. So those permutations and combinations are possible and that's one of the great things about the American education system. Paul, would you like to add to that? Sure, you have a chance to gain some experience and taste, let's say, a little bit of the, I wouldn't say the culture, but the specifics of a particular major or area of interest. And in that way, you can decide whether that really is for you or not or whether you're on the right track. Sometimes students, they'll say they're interested in public relations or journalism. When in fact, they want to be in the managerial pathway and so it becomes more like public administration. But you have a chance to sample enough of the other courses to make that decision. Let me point out something that's even more important and that is with every degree, in the first two years, you have a number of electives. So you have your required courses, which may be general education or leading to your major, but then you also have 18, 24 elective hours. It's in that way, you can experiment because you are kind of free to choose supplemental interests that may be toward a double major. So I'm a business major. I'm not required to take marketing or finance in the first two years, but I want to take marketing and finance. I want to see if I like that. You can do that. Or creative writing, if you want to improve writing skills or anything else. So you have a chance to build a broader base that shows you are a more diversified intellect when you then put your credentials forward to the university you want to go to. So you can maneuver within the system and go major or minor in whatever you like. That's good to know, Paul, and thank you, Xenom. Another viewer asks, if I earn a university degree in my country, can I still go to a community college and then enroll in a university? I think that's a great, great question because some, you know, that's one of the wonderful things I think about the American Educate System. There's no limit to as to when you can come and join a community college or a university. Would you like to add to that? I'll just start. We have, in fact, many students that take that pathway. They have their credentials, their degree from another country, but they want to adapt a little bit to the US system or they may have to improve their English language skills or they may want to sample the way in which a particular class is approached, say, in their field. So they may have a whole degree with much experience intellectually and in subject matter, but they haven't applied it through the American system. So students that in that situation may come for a semester or a year to a community college just to be able to adjust to then go on and be better prepared for the university culture later. Xenom, did you have any classmates who had worked for a while or other international students and would then join the program with you? Yeah, one of my friends, she got her engineering degree in her country and then she came to the US and she was studying architecture. She's gonna be architecture here and it's a good experience even though you're planning to go to grad school, before going to grad school, just sitting in the class, community college class and seeing an adjusting culture and language, everything. It's a good way to continue. So there are lots of different opportunities out there.  Sao Paulo, do you have a question for us? I would like to know if international students can work on campus and if they can work after graduating. The question I believe was, can international students after the graduate work? Well, maybe we could probably go a step further and find out whether can international students work during their school years or how does that work? Well, there are different things that could be said, but I think Xenip will have a better example when we get to her. The student under a student visa is really not permitted to work outside of the university or the college they're attending. That does mean though that, let's say in my case, I could hire those students to work within the university or the college. So yes, you can work, but under limited circumstances, under the umbrella of the institution itself. However, once you graduate with a degree from a community college or and a university, you have a year of optional practical training or OPT, which is available to you under your visa. So if you have completed one degree, you have one year of OPT available to you. If you take two degrees, such as you take the two plus two path through the community college, you actually can have two years of OPT. And I think that's exactly what Xenip is attempting to do now. Yeah, I graduated on May and then I applied for OPT and I got my OPT. OPT is on practical training. Yes, practical training. I got my OPT card and I have one year right to work in the US. I think the idea of the OPT is that you get practical training in the area that you have sort of measured in so you get experience in that particular area. It's a great opportunity to get experience before you go to your country or move on to your grad school path. So a student who is, let's say, seeking to go back to their country with an international degree can also go back with international experience and advanced English language skills. So if you put the whole package together, it could be six years, bachelor's degree and two years of work in the US. And that's a great opportunity for them to do the degree and get practical experience and then go back to the country with all the skills. Great, let's go to another question, Sao Paulo. Do you have another question for us? Sao Paulo? I would like to know that did volunteer work working off campus? The question was, is it okay for an international student to be involved in volunteer work outside campus? Zena, have you been able to work outside campus? I mean, volunteer work, community work. Yeah, you can do volunteer work, but you can't work.  So you can go and work for a nonprofit organization or a local community group. Actually, me and my friend, we did a lot of volunteer work during our study because my major is psychology and I need to do this kind of stuff. That's great. Paul, does the, do the colleges and universities offer that opportunity? For sure, yeah, quite a bit. The idea of internships are very valuable to international students, all students, really, to have some practical experience. Sorry. No, please go on. Well, the internships and, not apprenticeships so much, but having opportunity as a student to experience the work culture that they might be going to is very, very possible within many, many majors. Okay. Now, I think we are pretty much running out of time. I would like to thank our online viewers for joining us at this chat and special thanks to Sao Paulo for joining us. Thank you so much, Sao Paulo. Let me, again, thank Paul McQuaid and Zainab for joining us. It's been a truly, truly a delight to have both of you here. Hope you've answered many of your questions. Continue throwing out those questions because we still have people, answering your questions online and do continue sending us those questions. Again, go to our website at www.educationusa.state.gov for further information on studying the USA. Tune into our next program on the 20th of November. The program is on classroom culture and I think many of those questions were on, there was a few questions on classroom culture. Again, thank you so much for joining us. Goodbye.


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, returning home from a visit to Turkey, brought with him five commanders of Ukraine's former garrison in Mariupol, forced to live in Turkey under the terms of a prisoner exchange last year. The commanders, lionized as heroes in Ukraine, led last year's defense of the port, the biggest city Russia captured in its invasion. Thousands of civilians were killed inside Mariupol when Russian forces laid the city to waste during a three-month siege. The Ukrainian defenders, who held out in tunnels and bunkers under a steel plant, were finally ordered by Kiev to surrender in May last year. Moscow freed some of them in September last year in a prisoner swap brokered by Ankara, under terms that required the commanders to remain in Turkey until the end of the war.


let's explore how to find whether a salt is acidic, basic or neutral. To do that, we need to first understand this idea of strong acids and bases and weak acids and bases. What are they? Well, strong acids and bases are the ones that dissociate completely when you put them in a solution and weak acids and bases are the ones that dissociate partially when you put them in the solution. For example, if you consider acids like HCL or H2S4, if you put them in, you know, put them in water, for example, then you will see that HNC will completely dissociate to give you hydrogen ions and chlorine ions. Same would be the case over here. Hydrogen ions and the sulfate ions would completely dissociate and that's why we call them as strong acids. Similarly, if you take bases like NaOH or calcium hydroxide, you will see that they would completely, this, for example, would completely dissociate into Na2 ions and OH- ions and that's why these are called strong bases. On the other hand, if you take acids like acetic acid or H2CO3, which is called carbonic acid, if you put them in water, we'll see that not all the acetic molecules will dissociate to give you H plus ions and CH3CO minus ions. You'll see only some of them will dissociate and same is the case over here. That's why we say they dissociate partially, therefore they are weak acids and same is the case with bases. Like, for example, if you have ammonium hydroxide, when you put them in a solution, it doesn't completely dissociate. You'll get only very few OH- ions and NH4 plus ions and that's why they're called weak bases. Now, of course, there are a lot of strong acids and, you know, a lot of examples for this, but these are the most common ones that if we remember, we'll be able to answer most of the questions on whether the salt is acidic, basic, or neutral. Alright, so with that in mind, let's just take an example of a salt and see how to identify whether it's acidic, basic, or neutral. So for the first example, let's consider this salt. It says ammonium chloride. Okay, how do we know whether this is an acidic salt or a basic salt or it's a neutral salt? The way I like to think about it is remember that salts are created by combining acids and bases. So the reaction is some acid and some base combines to form the salt and water, right? That's the acid-based neutralization reaction. Now, if it turns out that this acid was strong and the base was weak, then the acidic medium dominates and therefore this would be acidic salt. On the other hand, if it turns out that a strong base reacted with a weak acid, then the basic would dominate and then this salt would be basic. And if it turns out that both of them were strong or both of them were weak, then this would be just neutral. Neither of them would dominate. Does that make sense? So all we need to figure out is whether these are strong acids or weak acids and strong bases or weak bases. How do we do that? How do we figure out what these acids and bases were? And the way I like to think about it is let me just dissociate these and see what we get. So if I dissociate NH4Cl, I get NH4 plus and Cl minus ions. And if I dissociate H2O, I get H plus and OH minus ions. And now I can go back and I can say, look, H must have been with Cl to begin with so that you got HCl. So I know that the acid over here must have been HCl. And similarly, NH4 plus must have been with OH minus. And therefore, my base must have been NH4 OH, ammonium hydroxide. And so now I identified what acid and what base combined to give me this. And now I just need to check which is strong and which is weak. You can see that the acid is the strong acid and the base is a weak base. Ammonium hydroxide is a weak base. So we have a strong acid combining with a weak base, which means acidic medium acid dominates. And therefore our salt is acidic. Cool, right? Okay. Why don't you try? Here's a sodium carbonate salt. Your goal is to figure out whether this is acidic, basic or neutral. Try the same method, pause the video and see if you can get a shot first. All right, let's let's do it. So again, some acid and base must have combined to give you the salt and water. We need to identify which acid and which base for that. Let me just dissociate these. You get Na plus and CO32 minus. I know that the Ca32 minus because that's the reason why it's combining with 2 Na. And similarly, H2O becomes H plus and OH minus. Now I just go back. Oh, Na plus must have been with OH minus, right? Because positives and negatives, right? So therefore my base must be NaOH and my acid must be H2CO3. So my acid must be H2CO3, which is the carbonic acid, which is my weak acid. And my base must be NaOH, which is a strong base. Strong base, weak acid base dominates. Therefore, this salt must be basic. Okay, here's the third one. Pause the video and get a shot. All right, let's go. Acid and base must have combined to give you salt plus water, neutralization reaction. Let's dissociate them and I get Na plus, SO42 minus, H plus and OH minus. H plus must combine with SO42 minus. So this must be H2SO4. That's my acid and that's a strong acid, sulfuric acid is a strong acid. And NaOH. Oh, sodium hydroxide. I have a strong base. This time I have a strong acid combining with strong base. Neither of them dominate, which means this must be a neutral salt. Similarly, if we had a weak acid combining with a weak base, we will again get gotten a neutral salt. And this is how we can identify whether a salt is acidic, basic or neutral.


To use Activity Completion, it must first be enabled at the site level. To check whether Activity Completion is enabled, navigate to the site administration menu. Select Advanced Features. Navigate to Completion Tracking. Ensure Completion Tracking is enabled. Navigate to the course you wish to use Completion Tracking within. We must first set Completion Tracking at the Activity Level. To do this, navigate to the Activity you wish to set Completion Tracking for and select Edit. Select Edit Settings. Open the Activity Completion drop-down menu. From the Completion Tracking drop-down menu. Select either Students can manually mark the activities completed or Show activities complete when conditions are met. By selecting Students can manually mark the activities completed. Students will have a checkbox that they can mark to indicate that they have completed the activity. By selecting Show activity as completed when conditions are met, you can set specific criteria which must be met in order for the learner to complete the activity. As this particular activity is a chat session, the only criteria available is for the student to have viewed the activity. You can set this as the criteria by selecting the checkbox. Additionally, you can set an expected Completion Date by selecting Enable and the date that you prefer. Once you're happy with the settings, select Save and Return to Course. Let's take another look at Completion Tracking using the forum. Select Edit, Edit Settings. Open the Activity Completion drop-down menu. From the Completion Tracking drop-down menu, select Show activities complete when conditions are met. I now have the option to set the conditions for Activity Completion. As this is a forum, I would like to set a condition that the student must post one discussion or reply in order to be marked as complete for this activity. I'll also set an expected Completion Date. Once you're happy with the Activity Completion settings you have created, select Save and Return to Course. So far in my course, in order to have the activity be completed, my learners must view the chat session and post a discussion or reply on the forum. Additionally, I would like all learners to receive a particular grade in the quiz prior to completing the course to set this Completion setting. From the Edit drop-down menu, select Edit Settings. From the Activity Completion drop-down menu, select Show activities complete when conditions are met. Select the criteria you would like to associate with the Activity Completion. I would like to set a criteria that the student must receive a grade in order to complete this activity. Once you're happy with the settings you've made, select Save and Return to Course. Lastly, I'd like all learners to complete the course evaluation prior to completing this module. To set this criteria, from the Edit drop-down menu, select Edit Settings. From the Activity Completion drop-down menu, select Show activities complete when conditions are met. The criteria I will set is viewers completed if the feedback is submitted. Select Save and Return to Course. Lastly, I'd like to set a manual completion criteria for the OHS mock audit. To do this, from the Edit drop-down menu, select Edit Settings. From the Activity Completion drop-down menu, from the Completion Tracking drop-down menu, select Students can manually mark the activity as completed. Select Save and Return to Course. As the course evaluation is the last activity students will be completing. I'll move this to the bottom of my topic. Conditional activities allow you to restrict access to particular activities, resources or topics until specific criteria has been met. Conditional activities allow you to create learning pathways which learners must follow in order to complete a course. For example, you can set a conditional activity that a student must read a forum prior to attempting a quiz before submitting their feedback in order to complete a course. This is done using Restrict Access. In order to use Restrict Access, it must first be enabled at the site level. To do this, navigate to the Site Administration menu. Select Advanced Features. Navigate to Restrict Access. Ensure Restrict Access is enabled. Select Save Changes. The Restrict Access option will now appear within the Activity and Resource Edit settings. Navigate back to your course. We can now set Restrict Access settings for individual activities. Let's see how Restrict Access works when applied to activities. From the Edit drop-down menu, select Edit Settings. The Restrict Access drop-down menu is now available. Select Add Restriction. You are able to choose from a range of restriction types. I'd like to set an Activity Completion restriction, so I'll select Activity Completion. From the Activity Completion drop-down menu, I'd like to select that the learner must have completed the question and answer session with a Workplace Health and Safety representative prior to posting in the forum. From the drop-down menu, you can select whether or not the learner must have or must not have completed the activity or whether they need to have received a particular grade. I'd like my learners to have been marked as complete, so I'll leave that as a setting. Once you're happy with the setting, select Save and Return to Course. You can see that a message now displays that the activity is not available unless the question and answer session has been completed. I'd also like to make a Restrict Access setting that the quiz cannot be completed unless the learner has made a post on the forum. To do this, from the Edit drop-down menu, select Edit Settings. Scroll down to Restrict Access. From the Restrict Access drop-down menu, select Add Restriction. Select Activity Completion. Select the activity from the drop-down menu. As you remember, we have already set an Activity Completion setting that the learner must post on the discussion forum in order for the activity to be marked as complete. Once you're happy with your settings, select Save and Return to Course. Lastly, I'd like to restrict access to completing the course evaluation until all activities have been completed. To do this, from the Edit drop-down menu, select Edit Settings. Navigate to Restrict Access. Select Add Restriction. Select Activity Completion. Select the activity from the Activity Completion drop-down menu. Once you're happy with the settings you have selected, select Save and Return to Course. As you can see, we've now created a pathway that learners must follow in order to complete the course. First, the learner must participate in the chat session with the WHS representative. Then, they will receive access to the forum where they must make one post. Then, they are able to complete the introduction quiz where they must receive a passing grade. Then, they are able to complete the course evaluation. I can now configure my course completion settings. Course completion shows if a course has been completed and allows trainers and learners to track their progress towards completion. It is best thought of as a reporting function. Let's set up our course completion settings now. From the course administration menu, select Course Completion. From the completion requirements drop-down menu, you can select the criteria that must be met in order for the course to be marked as completed. You have the option to select whether or not all conditions or any of the conditions are met. I'd like all conditions to be met. You now have the option to select the conditions for course completion. The conditions include activity completion, completion of other course, date, enrollment duration, unenrollment, course grade, manual self-completion, and also manual completion by others. For example, a teacher can mark the course is completed. I'd like to set completion criteria based on activity completion. From the activity completion drop-down menu, I can select the activities that count towards the course completion. From the condition requires drop-down menu, you can select whether all selected activities must be completed or any of the selected activities must be completed. I'd like all selected activities to be completed. Once you're happy with your settings, select Save Changes. You can view course completion from the reporting menu. From course administration, select Reports, course completion. Yet this report allows you to track learners progress through the course.


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