Jump to content
IAC Board

Aleksandra Nesic


aleks

Recommended Posts

Hi everybody!

I have been meaning to get on this forum since I met Elisabeth last year!! My name is Aleksandra Nesic, I am currently a Masters student of International Education at the School for International Training in Vermont. Actually, right now, I am doing my practicum at the University of Florida working at the International Center. I also graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Psychology. I've been in the U.S. for a while and I work with international students from all over, so please if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Pozdrav svima,

zovem se Aleksandra Nesic, trenutno studiram Internacionalno Obrazovanje (Masters) u Vermontu. Diplomirala sam psihologiju na Univerzitetu u Floridi. Trenutno sam na praksi na UF-u, radim sa stranim studentima, tako da ako imate pitanja, slobodno pisite. Moj e-mail je aleksn81@yahoo.com

:)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi everybody!

I have been meaning to get on this forum since I met Elisabeth last year!! My name is Aleksandra Nesic, I am currently a Masters student of International Education at the School for International Training in Vermont. Actually, right now, I am doing my practicum at the University of Florida working at the International Center. I also graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Psychology. I've been in the U.S. for a while and I work with international students from all over, so please if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

Pozdrav svima,

zovem se Aleksandra Nesic, trenutno studiram Internacionalno Obrazovanje (Masters) u Vermontu. Diplomirala sam psihologiju na Univerzitetu u Floridi. Trenutno sam na praksi na UF-u, radim sa stranim studentima, tako da ako imate pitanja, slobodno pisite. Moj e-mail je aleksn81@yahoo.com

:)

Cao Aleksandra,

Ja trenutno zivim na Kipru i htela sam da dodjem na Floridu. Imam u planu da upisem Florida Atlantic University u oktobru. Jako su mi potrebne sve moguce informacije. Kako se dobija transcript i sta je to u stvari? Ja sam zavrsila gimnaziju i upisala se na FON ali ga nisam zavrsila. Htela sam sad da se upisem na engleski na Floridi. Molim te posalji mi sve informacije koje imas. Da li bih mogla da radim uz studije? Kakve su mogucnosti za dobijanje stipendija i pozajmica? Nisam bas u najboljoj finansiskoj situaciji i svaka pomoc bi mi dobro dosla.

Hvala unapred.

Mozes da mi pises i na email: marijana972@hotmail.com

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
Cao Aleksandra,

Ja trenutno zivim na Kipru i htela sam da dodjem na Floridu. Imam u planu da upisem Florida Atlantic University u oktobru. Jako su mi potrebne sve moguce informacije. Kako se dobija transcript i sta je to u stvari? Ja sam zavrsila gimnaziju i upisala se na FON ali ga nisam zavrsila. Htela sam sad da se upisem na engleski na Floridi. Molim te posalji mi sve informacije koje imas. Da li bih mogla da radim uz studije? Kakve su mogucnosti za dobijanje stipendija i pozajmica? Nisam bas u najboljoj finansiskoj situaciji i svaka pomoc bi mi dobro dosla.

Hvala unapred.

Mozes da mi pises i na email: marijana972@hotmail.com

Hej cao! Evo pogledaj ovaj njihov sajt sa svim informacijama, i onda mi pisi sa konktretnim pitanjima (ima ovde dosta info, mnogo vise nego sto bih ja mogla da napisem ovde). Transcript ce ti trebati iz osnovne skole, to ukljucuje casove i ocene. Mora biti na engeskom (za to ces morati da nadjes nekog profesora engleskog koji je ovlascen da prevodi transcripte). Onda isto to moras da imas sa FONa. Jel si polozila neke ispite ili ne? Sto se stipendija tice, sve zavisi od univerziteta na kojem se prijavljujes. Posto joces da studiras engelski, ja bih preporucila prvo da ides 2 godine na community college, a onda da se prebacis na university. community college je u principu isti kao i univerzitet, samo to je za nas strane studente mnogo jeftiniji. i imas vecih sansi da radis dok studiras. ja sam bila na santa fe community college u gainesvillu, i onda sam se posle prebacila na university of florida, bez problema. posalji mi e-mail kada budes procitala FAUs sajt. http://www.fau.edu/academic/admissions/Undadmissn.htm

a da te pitam, sto FAU?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hej cao! Evo pogledaj ovaj njihov sajt sa svim informacijama, i onda mi pisi sa konktretnim pitanjima (ima ovde dosta info, mnogo vise nego sto bih ja mogla da napisem ovde). Transcript ce ti trebati iz osnovne skole, to ukljucuje casove i ocene. Mora biti na engeskom (za to ces morati da nadjes nekog profesora engleskog koji je ovlascen da prevodi transcripte). Onda isto to moras da imas sa FONa. Jel si polozila neke ispite ili ne? Sto se stipendija tice, sve zavisi od univerziteta na kojem se prijavljujes. Posto joces da studiras engelski, ja bih preporucila prvo da ides 2 godine na community college, a onda da se prebacis na university. community college je u principu isti kao i univerzitet, samo to je za nas strane studente mnogo jeftiniji. i imas vecih sansi da radis dok studiras. ja sam bila na santa fe community college u gainesvillu, i onda sam se posle prebacila na university of florida, bez problema. posalji mi e-mail kada budes procitala FAUs sajt. http://www.fau.edu/academic/admissions/Undadmissn.htm

a da te pitam, sto FAU?

Cao Aleksandra,

Apsolutno si u pravu sto se univerziteta tice. Odlucila sam se za Palm Beach Community College iz razloga sto je znatno jeftiniji. Razlika u ceni je ogromna, a vec sam sa njima pricala i rekli su mi da posle zavrsene dve godine mogu da se prebacim na FAU. Nije mi jasno zasto mi treba transkript iz osnovne skole, zar nije samo iz srednje? Sa FON-a necu nista uzimati zato sto nista nisam polagala. Skoro se sve kockice slazu polako. U petak polazem TOEFL i tu nece biti problema. Za SAT cu morati malo vise da se spremam jer je i engleski tu dosta ozbiljnjiji, a i svu matematiku sam zaboravila. Wish me luck!

Za stipendije jos nista nisam pronasla i to me malo brine. Oni su mi odgovorili da je za strane studente malo veci problem da dobiju stipendiju ali mi nista konkretno nisu odgovorili, pa se ja i dalje nadam. Takodje su mi rekli da cu moci da radim u njihovim novinama i da posla na kampusu ima dosta. Jos jednu stvar sam htela da te pitam u vezi financial statement. Da li taj novac mora da stoji na americkom racunu stalno i da li to neko kontrolise?

Sto se smestaja tice, ja cu morati da nadjem neki stan u Boca Raton-u jer je College tamo, a prilicno je skupo. Probala sam da trazim odavde i nisam uspela da nadjem nista ispod $700 mesecno. Imas li neki save t sto se toga tice?

Nadam se da te ne mucim puno sa svim ovim pitanjima. Ovo je za mene veliki korak i nadam se da ce sve do kraja biti dobro.

Marijana

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Cao Aleksandra,

Apsolutno si u pravu sto se univerziteta tice. Odlucila sam se za Palm Beach Community College iz razloga sto je znatno jeftiniji. Razlika u ceni je ogromna, a vec sam sa njima pricala i rekli su mi da posle zavrsene dve godine mogu da se prebacim na FAU. Nije mi jasno zasto mi treba transkript iz osnovne skole, zar nije samo iz srednje? Sa FON-a necu nista uzimati zato sto nista nisam polagala. Skoro se sve kockice slazu polako. U petak polazem TOEFL i tu nece biti problema. Za SAT cu morati malo vise da se spremam jer je i engleski tu dosta ozbiljnjiji, a i svu matematiku sam zaboravila. Wish me luck!

Za stipendije jos nista nisam pronasla i to me malo brine. Oni su mi odgovorili da je za strane studente malo veci problem da dobiju stipendiju ali mi nista konkretno nisu odgovorili, pa se ja i dalje nadam. Takodje su mi rekli da cu moci da radim u njihovim novinama i da posla na kampusu ima dosta. Jos jednu stvar sam htela da te pitam u vezi financial statement. Da li taj novac mora da stoji na americkom racunu stalno i da li to neko kontrolise?

Sto se smestaja tice, ja cu morati da nadjem neki stan u Boca Raton-u jer je College tamo, a prilicno je skupo. Probala sam da trazim odavde i nisam uspela da nadjem nista ispod $700 mesecno. Imas li neki save t sto se toga tice?

Nadam se da te ne mucim puno sa svim ovim pitanjima. Ovo je za mene veliki korak i nadam se da ce sve do kraja biti dobro.

Marijana

Ok drago mi je da si odlucila za community college. Sto se stipendija tice, poslacu ti spisak nakih sajtova/organizacija koje mi preporucujemo stranim studentima za stipendije (sutra posto nisam na poslu sada). Sto se stana tice, da, juzna florida je dosta skupa (kod nas ovde u Gainesvill-u mozes naci i za ispod $300 mesecno i to odlican stan!). Uglavnom international student advisors imaju liste stanova koji oni preporucuju stranim studentima, pitaj njih a ja cu da se raspitam odavde jer imam neke drugove i drugarice dole oko boca raton-u, ft. mayers-u....

Financial statement: ne to ne mora da bude u americkoj banci i niko ga ne kontolise. Ti ces izvaditi potrvdu iz banke u srbiji (mora biti na engleskom i sa pecatom banke) da imas $XXXXX kod njih. To je dovoljno da ti skola izda i-20. Jedino bi bilo pametno da ti taj novac stavis u americkoj banci, jer kad placas za casove skuplje ce biti da ides preko western union nego li da platis direktno sa racuna odavde. toliko za sada, pisi ako imas druga pitanja, a ja cu ti poslati sajtove za stipendije sutra. cao! :lol:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ok drago mi je da si odlucila za community college. Sto se stipendija tice, poslacu ti spisak nakih sajtova/organizacija koje mi preporucujemo stranim studentima za stipendije (sutra posto nisam na poslu sada). Sto se stana tice, da, juzna florida je dosta skupa (kod nas ovde u Gainesvill-u mozes naci i za ispod $300 mesecno i to odlican stan!). Uglavnom international student advisors imaju liste stanova koji oni preporucuju stranim studentima, pitaj njih a ja cu da se raspitam odavde jer imam neke drugove i drugarice dole oko boca raton-u, ft. mayers-u....

Financial statement: ne to ne mora da bude u americkoj banci i niko ga ne kontolise. Ti ces izvaditi potrvdu iz banke u srbiji (mora biti na engleskom i sa pecatom banke) da imas $XXXXX kod njih. To je dovoljno da ti skola izda i-20. Jedino bi bilo pametno da ti taj novac stavis u americkoj banci, jer kad placas za casove skuplje ce biti da ides preko western union nego li da platis direktno sa racuna odavde. toliko za sada, pisi ako imas druga pitanja, a ja cu ti poslati sajtove za stipendije sutra. cao! :lol:

Hval puno na svemu. U petak polazem TOEFL, pa sam sad preokupirana time. Bez obzirak koliko znam engleski, opet imam tremu. A posle toga treba da se spremam za SAT koji je 5-og maja. Pitanja uvek imam bezbroj. Pisacu ti o svemu sto me zanima. Volela bih i da se vidimo u avgustu kad stignem na Floridu.

Javicu ti se kad mi posljes sajtove za stipendije ako mi jos neke informacije budu potrebne. Nadam se da ces imati vremena da mi pomognes.

Hvala jos jednom.

Cao:)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Wow Aleksandra - it is great to have you on board. I was at a conference in Portugal for the last week and of course I heard that "some girl you met at NAFSA is on the forum really knocking out the questions". I immediately realized it was you. Thanks a great deal - your signing up as alumni could not have been more timely.

Now I am going to spin around the forum a bit and see what you have been up to. It is great to see you here. Are you going to be at NAFSA again this year? I would love to see you again. In fact, there is some tour offered in Florida and I may ask if I can do that one simply so that I can see you.

Have you met my dear one - Anna Carrol yet? She is also working on a Masters at SIT. I will write you an e-mail later today with a bit of blah blah - but I did want to throw out a public recognition of your great work here on the forum and reinforce your credentials.

Once again, thanks much - great to have you here.

Elz

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Wow Aleksandra - it is great to have you on board. I was at a conference in Portugal for the last week and of course I heard that "some girl you met at NAFSA is on the forum really knocking out the questions". I immediately realized it was you. Thanks a great deal - your signing up as alumni could not have been more timely.

Now I am going to spin around the forum a bit and see what you have been up to. It is great to see you here. Are you going to be at NAFSA again this year? I would love to see you again. In fact, there is some tour offered in Florida and I may ask if I can do that one simply so that I can see you.

Have you met my dear one - Anna Carrol yet? She is also working on a Masters at SIT. I will write you an e-mail later today with a bit of blah blah - but I did want to throw out a public recognition of your great work here on the forum and reinforce your credentials.

Once again, thanks much - great to have you here.

Elz

Perfect timing on both ends I think! IAC forum has been long overdue on my to do list! And Wow to you as well! You guys are doing an amazing job on here and it's so good to see how many people/alumni are helping out! So yes, besides a million and one things I am working on at the moment, I couldn't help but add IAC to my plate as well!

Yes, I will be at NAFSA this year, I am actually presenting on Thursday ("Student Services for Dummies: From Theory to Practice") and I have a poster session on Friday ("World Citizenship Program") so stop by!! And let's also plan to meet up for lunch or dinner and catch up!? I'll be there from Monday-Friday. When do you think you'll be down in Florida (is it for NASPA)? If you do make it, please let me know, I'll arrange for you to meet with people at the University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College, get a tour, maybe make some connections with people and all that jazz!

I'll reply to your personal e-mail regarding other things but also wants to have a short public reply here! It's good to be part of this truly great forum!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 7 months later...

Cao svima,

I'm back Elisabeth! Sorry again, I've had yet another transition in life :rolleyes: I just moved to DC to get a taste of non-profit world in the "nations capital" and start my PhD applications.

(I'll write in English for Liz :) I wanted to thank Sasha (under PhD in Humanities) for such detailed explanations and to note that I do agree very much with what he had to say. Let me preface this by saying just very briefly that I've been studying in the US for quite a while now, BS in Psychology from the University of Florida and a MA in International Education from the School for International Training in Vermont, now looking for a PhD program in IEd. here in DC (George Mason probably). I've had the pleasure of meeting Elisabeth at several conferences here in the US and hopefully again next year in DC (you coming Liz, right?!) :)

To add on to Sasha's experience, I would also recommend that you look at professors status on advising PhD students. Some professors already have a lot of students that they are working with and even if you try to get in touch with them b/c you are really interested in their work, they will not respond, not b/c they don't like you, but b/c they don't have interest in getting more people. This was a direct advise from somebody at George Washington when I went to an open house. This professor said that he generally gets 100 e-mails per day from prospective students. The best avenue for this would be to contact the admissions office within the specific department and write them asking about professors and their status on grad students. Of course, all of this is subjective to the institution and the department itself (some admissions offices never write). But this should be a big sign to you if you are looking at the school and you have no contact with the admissions office, something is fundamentally wrong there and you should probably go for another place.

Same with the financial aid/scholarships/fellowships. I agree that there is big misconception about funding. Almost every PhD student is funded one way or another-- some through fellowships, some through being a Teaching Assistants or Research Assistants or Resident Advisers or what have you. Each dept. has it's own funding basically and depending on how much grant money they allocate for their students (sometimes depts lose grants too and it is probably one of the scariest and worse things that can happen to a grad student...) but anyhow, you have to do a very through research on funding opps and get firm info on all of it before you decide to go for a specific program/dept/university. Also, regarding the rankings, and this is from being in the field of international education and higher ed. administration for several years, we've been seeing a very interesting trend-- more and more students go for the programs that 1) give most funding, 2) have really good curriculum, 3) have diverse student/faculty body, etc, rather then "i'm going to columbia law school b/c it's one of the top schools in the country". it's actually ranked 6th overall, but if you look at other criteria, for example, "finding a job after graduation" i think columbia law school is no longer on the top 10. Princeton review gives good overview of these things so I'd suggest you look there and see what is important to you.

I have personally been very much involved in higher education admissions, advising and whatnot and now looking at the PhD programs, I have a more of a critical perspective when it comes to "TOP" rated schools. There have been number of articles published on this topic as well, so I'd recommend you look at what FITS YOU the best, rather then going to a TOP school. Remember, you'll be there for 5 years, immersed into your work and you should be able to enjoy it and love every minute of it, not just be there b/c it's a top school but not the right fit for you.

i tako to je to za sada. i'll try to answer some questions on other posts.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...