{"id":16,"date":"2011-05-16T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T00:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplechara.wordpress.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-05-16T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T00:28:59","slug":"paris-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Paris VII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since students have \u201cfull immersion in Paris university life\u201d with the SBC JYF program, I\u2019ll be taking a few classes in one of the Paris universities as a real French student (!!!). I\u2019ll also probably take a few that are geared toward the SBC students, offered by Sweetbriar, because they seem really interesting too.<\/p>\n

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The Paris 7 Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, I\u2019ll be studying at Universit\u00e9 Paris Diderot<\/a>, or, Paris 7. I decided to read a little about it before getting there; it\u2019ll help me feel more prepared, I guess. The closest comparison I can find to the University of Paris system is the Texas A&M University system. It was a little confusing at first, but I think I understand it now\u2026<\/p>\n

The University of Paris, which people had often referred to as the Sorbonne, was founded in the 12th<\/sup> century. Over 800 years later, in 1970, the University was dissolved and 13 autonomous universities (Paris 1-13) were formed from it. Now, the Sorbonne basically refers to the historical building, and some of the Paris universities have \u201cSorbonne\u201d in their name, but it doesn\u2019t refer to the same thing as it did just 50 years ago. It\u2019s pretty cool that Paris universities are based in so much history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Grand Moulin Building of Paris 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paris 7, which is actually celebrating its 40th anniversary<\/a> this year, teaches a vast range of courses: there are classes in arts, literature, languages, social sciences, humanities, science & technology, and in medicine and dentistry. According to its website, it\u2019s the only multidisciplinary university in Paris to have a broad \u201crange of degrees in Humanities, Medicine, and the Sciences,\u201d and they\u2019re known for their research too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so excited to study there! It\u2019ll definitely be different from Rice\u2026there\u2019s 26,000 students in comparison to Rice\u2019s 5,000. And, there are 6,000 international students. It\u2019s weird that I\u2019ll be an \u201cinternational\u201d student, right? That\u2019s more than Rice\u2019s undergrads and grads combined. Their website also says that there are Circus Acrobatics and Jazz Gymnastics for possible student activities. Hm, new sport for me? Paris 7 also has the largest university library in Paris, so I\u2019ll probably be studying there sometimes, just to see what it\u2019s like.<\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s a little about Paris 7! We all know universities obviously aren\u2019t the same feel as the website makes one think, so we\u2019ll see how it goes. When I get there, I\u2019ll be sure to write about my reaction to the thousands of students there (I\u2019m foreseeing a *deer in headlights* look for the first few days)\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since students have \u201cfull immersion in Paris university life\u201d with the SBC JYF program, I\u2019ll be taking a few classes in one of the Paris universities as a real French student (!!!). I\u2019ll also probably take a few that are geared toward the SBC students, offered by Sweetbriar, because they seem really interesting too. So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[68,161,194,208,216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}