Will I get into Carnegie Mellon for Engineering?
I am a junior in high school and I was just wondering about my chances at this school. Here are my stats: High school WGPA: 3.4 ( Its extremely bad and Im worried that this will kill my chances) SAT I : 2350 (800 W 800 M 750 CR) SAT II : Math II - 800 Physics - 750 ACT: 34 Captain of the Debate team at his school (Ranked in the top ten debaters in the State) I'v been playing the violin for 8 years. I performed in Belgium and France. Also performed in the Lincoln Center Volunteers at Nursing Home: 150 hours + Volunteers at Hospital: 100 hours + I am expecting to have great recommendations from my teachers and a recommendation from a congressman. I also am currently involved in a research project with an engineering professor at Auburn University. (I will probably get a recommendation from him as well) Ethnicity : Indian Male I want to apply for Mechanical engineering
Higher Education (University +) - 1 Answers
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Aside from your GPA, you should be good for Carnegie...If the reason to your GPA being low is due to a personal reason like family death or depression, explain that in your essay so the admission officers will understand, but hope for the best. Its not impossible to get in with your GPA, but it will be tough. Give it a try
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Has anyone else posted this??? "The cost of human LIFE is too high to pay for cheap labor
Has anyone else posted this??? "The cost of human LIFE is too high to pay for cheap labor"!!!?
editor Discuss This Article AP Headlines Recent Commuter Jet Crashes in U.S. Lone Comair Survivor Pulled From Plane Almanac Predicts an Extra Cold Winter Sports Taveras Runs Hitting Streak to 30 Games U.S. Smothers Australia 113-73 at Worlds France Advances to the Quarterfinals Strange News 128 Students Suspended at Ind. School Father-Son Team Set Watermelon Records Chinese Sex Toys Confiscated in Vietnam Officials say locals swamped by illegals Most at hearing say feds ignore immigration By Tim Whitmire Associated Press Gastonia | A federal effort to enlist local law enforcement officers to help identify and deport criminal illegal immigrants is a mere stopgap in the face of a much bigger problem, officials told a congressional panel Friday. "I and many others strongly disagree with President Bush's policy, or lack of, on illegal immigration," Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph told four House members at a hearing on empowering local law enforcement to combat illegal immigration. "The Congress of the United States has let us down by the lack of action on the illegal immigration issue for decades," Pendergraph told the panel that included North Carolina Republican Reps. Virginia Foxx, Patrick McHenry and Sue Myrick. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform, also attended the hearing at Myrick's Gastonia office. Pendergraph's department last winter signed a memorandum of understanding with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agreement allowed 12 deputies to be trained to screen the immigration status of people arrested in Mecklenburg, home to North Carolina's largest city, Charlotte. The 287(g) program, as it is known, gives local officers access to ICE's database of fingerprints and photographs, which Pendergraph and others say is the only reliable way to identify the immigration status of an arrested person. Since screening began May 1, Pendergraph said, his department has found that most of the immigrants who pass through his jail are here illegally. "So many illegal immigrant criminals have been identified through my 287(g) program, it is causing me a jail space problem," Pendergraph said. Pendergraph's department is one of only seven departments in five states with such agreements and access to ICE's database. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger told the panel his department received approval Thursday to join the program, but Pendergraph said many other law enforcement leaders who have tried repeatedly to participate in it tell him they have been turned down or ignored. An estimated 405,000 illegal immigrants live in North Carolina, McHenry said. Michael Lands, district attorney for Gaston County, said the federal government doesn't have enough agents to handle an illegal immigrant population of that size. "Ultimately, and I mean no disrespect, this is a federal government problem that you need to address," he told the panel. The government's approach to illegal immigrants, Lands said, has been "to wait until they commit a state crime and then determine if it's serious enough to deport them." Souder responded that federal, state and local governments will have to cooperate to improve the system. "Somehow we've got to figure out how to do this together," he said. The mother of a Gaston County teacher who died in a July 2005 hit-and-run crash in Brunswick County caused by an illegal immigrant pleaded with the panel for a solution. Scott Gardner was on vacation with his family when their car was struck by a truck driven by Ramiro Gallegos, who was intoxicated and had a history of drunken driving arrests. Wife Tina Gardner remains in a vegetative state at a nursing home, her mother-in-law Emily Moose said Friday. The couple's two young children are effectively orphaned. "I believe the cost of human life is too high to pay for cheap labor," Moose said, near tears. Gallegos was sentenced earlier this year to 14 to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. "If you break the law to get here, you're not going to respect the law once you're here," McHenry said. That comment, plus a statement by Moose that "millions" of lives have been lost to illegal immigration and a complaint by Foxx that the media obsesses about the number of U.S. deaths in Iraq while saying little "about the people being killed by illegal immigrants every day," appeared to motivate Lands to interject. "I think it needs to be said - and you all know - illegals aren't the only ones out there committing crime," he said. "There's plenty of crime by American-born citizens."
Immigration - 7 Answers
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Yeah, lol. As far as the last quote...hahahaha. I know their are people born and raised here that commit crime. There is no doubt about that, however, do we need the added extra from people who are not supposed to be here anyway!!! Oh, I see, lets accept crime from illegal immigrants because American legal citizens commit crime too. LOL That is like when a little kid is caught doing something naughty..."Mommy, bobby sneaked a cookie too." Well...now its justified!LOL LOL Bunch of freakin babies...no wonder we are in the state of affairs that we are!
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Aren't you tired of the argument that American's commit crimes, too? Please! How lame! All that blither aside, the illegals have no business and no right to be here. End of discussion.
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Bush and all the politic whore DONT care what happening with this country just thinking how to get vote money and power and remember he need support his brother got vote from anchor babies, they give it away America and just wanna destroy only take couple years. most mexicans do much more criminal look in AZ,CA ,NM,TXjail always full, after they do crime just run to mexico and back couple days with different name , AT LEAST if citizen do crime police easy catch them because they are legal. In their mind all the politics traitor just Fuc k America we dont need more criminal in here include illegal bring it on
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law breaking disrespectful run away cowardly illegal criminals don't care about things. neither do their lovers. deport all illegals. they do enough crime here. after their gone will work on the rest.
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doesn't matter the race everyone commit crime
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I FEEL LIKE SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN ENGLISH!!!!!!!
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Yes, all people commit crimes. But people who are legal members of a society with a trail of records that help identify them tend to get caught when they do so they're less likely to try. And illeagal aliens committed a crime when they remained in the US illeagally, all of them wheather they shoot someone or rob someone or work hard and support a family, they're all in violation of the law.
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editor Discuss This Article AP Headlines Recent Commuter Jet Crashes in U.S. Lone Comair Survivor Pulled From Plane Almanac Predicts an Extra Cold Winter Sports Taveras Runs Hitting Streak to 30 Games U.S. Smothers Australia 113-73 at Worlds France Advances to the Quarterfinals Strange News 128 Students Suspended at Ind. School Father-Son Team Set Watermelon Records Chinese Sex Toys Confiscated in Vietnam Officials say locals swamped by illegals Most at hearing say feds ignore immigration By Tim Whitmire Associated Press Gastonia | A federal effort to enlist local law enforcement officers to help identify and deport criminal illegal immigrants is a mere stopgap in the face of a much bigger problem, officials told a congressional panel Friday. "I and many others strongly disagree with President Bush's policy, or lack of, on illegal immigration," Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph told four House members at a hearing on empowering local law enforcement to combat illegal immigration. "The Congress of the United States has let us down by the lack of action on the illegal immigration issue for decades," Pendergraph told the panel that included North Carolina Republican Reps. Virginia Foxx, Patrick McHenry and Sue Myrick. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Reform, also attended the hearing at Myrick's Gastonia office. Pendergraph's department last winter signed a memorandum of understanding with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agreement allowed 12 deputies to be trained to screen the immigration status of people arrested in Mecklenburg, home to North Carolina's largest city, Charlotte. The 287(g) program, as it is known, gives local officers access to ICE's database of fingerprints and photographs, which Pendergraph and others say is the only reliable way to identify the immigration status of an arrested person. Since screening began May 1, Pendergraph said, his department has found that most of the immigrants who pass through his jail are here illegally. "So many illegal immigrant criminals have been identified through my 287(g) program, it is causing me a jail space problem," Pendergraph said. Pendergraph's department is one of only seven departments in five states with such agreements and access to ICE's database. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger told the panel his department received approval Thursday to join the program, but Pendergraph said many other law enforcement leaders who have tried repeatedly to participate in it tell him they have been turned down or ignored. An estimated 405,000 illegal immigrants live in North Carolina, McHenry said. Michael Lands, district attorney for Gaston County, said the federal government doesn't have enough agents to handle an illegal immigrant population of that size. "Ultimately, and I mean no disrespect, this is a federal government problem that you need to address," he told the panel. The government's approach to illegal immigrants, Lands said, has been "to wait until they commit a state crime and then determine if it's serious enough to deport them." Souder responded that federal, state and local governments will have to cooperate to improve the system. "Somehow we've got to figure out how to do this together," he said. The mother of a Gaston County teacher who died in a July 2005 hit-and-run crash in Brunswick County caused by an illegal immigrant pleaded with the panel for a solution. Scott Gardner was on vacation with his family when their car was struck by a truck driven by Ramiro Gallegos, who was intoxicated and had a history of drunken driving arrests. Wife Tina Gardner remains in a vegetative state at a nursing home, her mother-in-law Emily Moose said Friday. The couple's two young children are effectively orphaned. "I believe the cost of human life is too high to pay for cheap labor," Moose said, near tears. Gallegos was sentenced earlier this year to 14 to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. "If you break the law to get here, you're not going to respect the law once you're here," McHenry said. That comment, plus a statement by Moose that "millions" of lives have been lost to illegal immigration and a complaint by Foxx that the media obsesses about the number of U.S. deaths in Iraq while saying little "about the people being killed by illegal immigrants every day," appeared to motivate Lands to interject. "I think it needs to be said - and you all know - illegals aren't the only ones out there committing crime," he said. "There's plenty of crime by American-born citizens."
Immigration - 7 Answers
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1 :
Yeah, lol. As far as the last quote...hahahaha. I know their are people born and raised here that commit crime. There is no doubt about that, however, do we need the added extra from people who are not supposed to be here anyway!!! Oh, I see, lets accept crime from illegal immigrants because American legal citizens commit crime too. LOL That is like when a little kid is caught doing something naughty..."Mommy, bobby sneaked a cookie too." Well...now its justified!LOL LOL Bunch of freakin babies...no wonder we are in the state of affairs that we are!
2 :
Aren't you tired of the argument that American's commit crimes, too? Please! How lame! All that blither aside, the illegals have no business and no right to be here. End of discussion.
3 :
Bush and all the politic whore DONT care what happening with this country just thinking how to get vote money and power and remember he need support his brother got vote from anchor babies, they give it away America and just wanna destroy only take couple years. most mexicans do much more criminal look in AZ,CA ,NM,TXjail always full, after they do crime just run to mexico and back couple days with different name , AT LEAST if citizen do crime police easy catch them because they are legal. In their mind all the politics traitor just Fuc k America we dont need more criminal in here include illegal bring it on
4 :
law breaking disrespectful run away cowardly illegal criminals don't care about things. neither do their lovers. deport all illegals. they do enough crime here. after their gone will work on the rest.
5 :
doesn't matter the race everyone commit crime
6 :
I FEEL LIKE SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN ENGLISH!!!!!!!
7 :
Yes, all people commit crimes. But people who are legal members of a society with a trail of records that help identify them tend to get caught when they do so they're less likely to try. And illeagal aliens committed a crime when they remained in the US illeagally, all of them wheather they shoot someone or rob someone or work hard and support a family, they're all in violation of the law.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Need Help with Civil War Questions
Need Help with Civil War Questions?
What were the major military turning points in the Civil War? Compare Army nurses effort and organization in the South to that of the North. Discuss "Cotton Diplomacy". How did Southerners perceive diplomacy as a war measure? Would a different policy by Britain and France have made any difference in the course of the Civil War? Why? Why not? Note: All questions are about the Civil War. I am a idiot when it comes to history, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
History - 3 Answers
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Military turning points in the Civil War: the Union capture of Fort Donelson, TN; the Union Capture of New Orleans, LA; the Union capture of Vicksburg, MS; the Union capture of Chattanooga, TN; the Union capture of Atlanta, GA. You will have to compare and discuss, my impetus is to answer.
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British or French intervention on the side of the South would have recognized the South as an Independent nation and sovereign nation at that. At the time Russia would not have wanted to see that happen as it assumed (correctly) that the UNITED states was a deterrent to British colonialism of the time and we would check Britain or France as per the Monroe Doctrine of the time...Although overtures were made to both countries at the time and neither would oblige the south, they couldn't, Britain had other problems in the world at the time and could not commit to a southern intervention and France was not militarily capable at the time and a response by either would have been the first world war.....very likely and who knows what response Russia would have had against British intervention? All out war? hard to say since it never happened but there was a great southern sympathy going on in GB at the time since the loss of cotton from the south caused 1/3 of the southern half of GB to go unemployed and nearly starve...just not enough to intervene as northern diplomacy was highly effective at the time!
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Gettysburg was a huge turning point during the war it cost a huge amount of life totaling 53.000 but it proved how close the union came to losing the war on the 2 of July 1863 if it hadn't of been for Chamberlain and the twentieth Maine the South would of won the war. If Britain hadn't abolished slavery they would of joined up with the Confederacy and with the British fleet the war would gone a lot differetly not sure about France though.
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What were the major military turning points in the Civil War? Compare Army nurses effort and organization in the South to that of the North. Discuss "Cotton Diplomacy". How did Southerners perceive diplomacy as a war measure? Would a different policy by Britain and France have made any difference in the course of the Civil War? Why? Why not? Note: All questions are about the Civil War. I am a idiot when it comes to history, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
History - 3 Answers
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Military turning points in the Civil War: the Union capture of Fort Donelson, TN; the Union Capture of New Orleans, LA; the Union capture of Vicksburg, MS; the Union capture of Chattanooga, TN; the Union capture of Atlanta, GA. You will have to compare and discuss, my impetus is to answer.
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British or French intervention on the side of the South would have recognized the South as an Independent nation and sovereign nation at that. At the time Russia would not have wanted to see that happen as it assumed (correctly) that the UNITED states was a deterrent to British colonialism of the time and we would check Britain or France as per the Monroe Doctrine of the time...Although overtures were made to both countries at the time and neither would oblige the south, they couldn't, Britain had other problems in the world at the time and could not commit to a southern intervention and France was not militarily capable at the time and a response by either would have been the first world war.....very likely and who knows what response Russia would have had against British intervention? All out war? hard to say since it never happened but there was a great southern sympathy going on in GB at the time since the loss of cotton from the south caused 1/3 of the southern half of GB to go unemployed and nearly starve...just not enough to intervene as northern diplomacy was highly effective at the time!
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Gettysburg was a huge turning point during the war it cost a huge amount of life totaling 53.000 but it proved how close the union came to losing the war on the 2 of July 1863 if it hadn't of been for Chamberlain and the twentieth Maine the South would of won the war. If Britain hadn't abolished slavery they would of joined up with the Confederacy and with the British fleet the war would gone a lot differetly not sure about France though.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Long Distance Relationship Problems
Long Distance Relationship Problems?
Hello, I have a very detailed question/topic... I am involved in a long distance relationship and I love her very very much! I'm a Canadian citizen (25 yrs) and my girlfriend is a French citizen (28 yrs). I don't speak french, she speaks really good English though. I met her a long time ago online back in 2001 and we've been dating for about a year and a half. We only get to see each other about 2 to 4 weeks per year which really tough! The lack of physical contact is very difficult and she really needs that, I do too of course but I have more patients than her I believe to wait for the next time to see each other. She is on the stressing out and feels like she wants to give up on me now because it is too hard to make this long distance relationship work. I keep telling her to be strong and not to worry things will be ok and we can make it. We are very happy together and we have shared many great moments together but us being apart is killing our relationship and it's very sad. :( I've gone to see her in July 2009, Sept. 2009, Dec. 2009/Jan 2010 for Christmas and New Years, and I was there again in Sept. 2010. She has come to see me in Oct. 2009 and she is coming to see me again Dec. 17, 2010/Jan. 2011 for Christmas and New Years this year. She feels that although we love each other very very much... when she goes back home to France our relationship will come to an end. I want to make any effort I can possible to keep the relationship alive. She is a student in France to become a nurse. She is in her first year of the three year course. So, she is stuck where she is for 3 years. Myself, I have no college or university education, only a high school diploma. I am willing to move to France to be with her. She says for me not to because I should go to college and take care of myself first. A friend of mine he suggested why don't I get a job to work at McDonalds or something like that and work there for a little like 6 months or so and then ask for a relocation to work at a McDonalds in France, that way I would be able to have a workers permit over there. I'm not sure how well that would work since anyone can get a job at McDonalds. The job relocation would help to get a long stay visa. I know that a nation would rather employ their citizens before they ever employ an immigrant based on skills and trade qualifications. I don't know what to do! I don't want to move on from her, she is a great person and a really lovely girl. She agrees if I were living with her in France that would be great but because I'm not there it's too hard. She has gone through moments like this before where she has doubts about our relationship and every time she has doubts I'm always there to reassure her and make her feel ok again, but this time I'm worried it could be over this time when she goes back to France in Jan. 2011. :( I think one of the problems in our long distance relationship is that we don't have a plan on what we are going to do in the future to do with our relationship. Thanks for reading!
Singles & Dating - 3 Answers
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wow. mostly all i can say. This seems complicated. as i dont want to be all over ur personal business and all i'd say that ur friends suggestion is fine but i wouldnt so that. Think about it. you've wasted your life at school to do what? work at mcdonalds? u should go to college in france DUH! Go to for example the univeristy of Lyon though i dont know if theres an english section. Search for english colleges in france and go there. apply to all of the colleges that would best suit you and help your relationship then choose between the colleges where you got accepted and see which would be better. Otherwise there's always your friends suggestion. But dont just think about her think also about YOU and YOUR future. What if this relationship didnt work out at the end? then you would have lost EVERTYHING. So i recommend you take my advice and: xxGood Luckxx
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You're right. You definitely need a plan about how far you are taking the relationship, and since she is the one who is going to school I think you should be the one to accommodate her. Yes, find a job, get a transfer to France, and let her know what you're planning to do to keep the relationship alive. I think you have it figured out now you need to put the plan to action. Oh btw, I wouldn't settle for a job at McD's. find something that pays better, and something with better hours. Europe is a little more expensive than Canada.
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Damn thats a hard situation my friend. I am also in a long distance relationship but luckily she is only an 8 hour flight away. I am able to visit her once a month. You are right, you both need to have a real talk about the future. That would be the first and most important step. Going to France will be a huge step though because you have to make sure you can support yourself and have a plan in place if things go wrong. Maybe apply for a working holiday visa. Those are usually easy to get for anyone up to 30 years of age and last for 1 year. During that year you can see if things are working out well there. Good luck.
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Hello, I have a very detailed question/topic... I am involved in a long distance relationship and I love her very very much! I'm a Canadian citizen (25 yrs) and my girlfriend is a French citizen (28 yrs). I don't speak french, she speaks really good English though. I met her a long time ago online back in 2001 and we've been dating for about a year and a half. We only get to see each other about 2 to 4 weeks per year which really tough! The lack of physical contact is very difficult and she really needs that, I do too of course but I have more patients than her I believe to wait for the next time to see each other. She is on the stressing out and feels like she wants to give up on me now because it is too hard to make this long distance relationship work. I keep telling her to be strong and not to worry things will be ok and we can make it. We are very happy together and we have shared many great moments together but us being apart is killing our relationship and it's very sad. :( I've gone to see her in July 2009, Sept. 2009, Dec. 2009/Jan 2010 for Christmas and New Years, and I was there again in Sept. 2010. She has come to see me in Oct. 2009 and she is coming to see me again Dec. 17, 2010/Jan. 2011 for Christmas and New Years this year. She feels that although we love each other very very much... when she goes back home to France our relationship will come to an end. I want to make any effort I can possible to keep the relationship alive. She is a student in France to become a nurse. She is in her first year of the three year course. So, she is stuck where she is for 3 years. Myself, I have no college or university education, only a high school diploma. I am willing to move to France to be with her. She says for me not to because I should go to college and take care of myself first. A friend of mine he suggested why don't I get a job to work at McDonalds or something like that and work there for a little like 6 months or so and then ask for a relocation to work at a McDonalds in France, that way I would be able to have a workers permit over there. I'm not sure how well that would work since anyone can get a job at McDonalds. The job relocation would help to get a long stay visa. I know that a nation would rather employ their citizens before they ever employ an immigrant based on skills and trade qualifications. I don't know what to do! I don't want to move on from her, she is a great person and a really lovely girl. She agrees if I were living with her in France that would be great but because I'm not there it's too hard. She has gone through moments like this before where she has doubts about our relationship and every time she has doubts I'm always there to reassure her and make her feel ok again, but this time I'm worried it could be over this time when she goes back to France in Jan. 2011. :( I think one of the problems in our long distance relationship is that we don't have a plan on what we are going to do in the future to do with our relationship. Thanks for reading!
Singles & Dating - 3 Answers
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1 :
wow. mostly all i can say. This seems complicated. as i dont want to be all over ur personal business and all i'd say that ur friends suggestion is fine but i wouldnt so that. Think about it. you've wasted your life at school to do what? work at mcdonalds? u should go to college in france DUH! Go to for example the univeristy of Lyon though i dont know if theres an english section. Search for english colleges in france and go there. apply to all of the colleges that would best suit you and help your relationship then choose between the colleges where you got accepted and see which would be better. Otherwise there's always your friends suggestion. But dont just think about her think also about YOU and YOUR future. What if this relationship didnt work out at the end? then you would have lost EVERTYHING. So i recommend you take my advice and: xxGood Luckxx
2 :
You're right. You definitely need a plan about how far you are taking the relationship, and since she is the one who is going to school I think you should be the one to accommodate her. Yes, find a job, get a transfer to France, and let her know what you're planning to do to keep the relationship alive. I think you have it figured out now you need to put the plan to action. Oh btw, I wouldn't settle for a job at McD's. find something that pays better, and something with better hours. Europe is a little more expensive than Canada.
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Damn thats a hard situation my friend. I am also in a long distance relationship but luckily she is only an 8 hour flight away. I am able to visit her once a month. You are right, you both need to have a real talk about the future. That would be the first and most important step. Going to France will be a huge step though because you have to make sure you can support yourself and have a plan in place if things go wrong. Maybe apply for a working holiday visa. Those are usually easy to get for anyone up to 30 years of age and last for 1 year. During that year you can see if things are working out well there. Good luck.
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