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Glee Posted 21 years ago
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College students who delibrately flunk courses
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00 In my country, some senior students in college would deliberately flunk certain courses to stay in school. These courses would be really easy ones, like PE. They prefer spending a fifth or even a sixth year in college to serving in the army upon graduation. We call such practice "delay graduating" and these students "the fifth-year college students." I wonder if there is any English equivalent for the practice or these students. 02 br
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00 In my country, some senior students in college would deliberately flunk certain courses to stay in school. These courses would be really easy ones, like PE. They prefer spending a fifth or even a sixth year in college to serving in the army upon graduation. We call such practice "delay graduating" and these students "the fifth-year college students." I wonder if there is any English equivalent for the practice or these students. 02 br
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0 I suspect that you're speaking about Russian students 05 0 00 If yes, I think it will be difficult to find an appropriate equivalent in English... 010id 1
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0 Sometimes I was called a 'professional student'. I fiddled about in tertiary education for seven years. I didn't flunk anything, though; I just didn't put together the appropriate credits. 02 br
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0 Thank you both for the reply. 02 br
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00 I guess the cultural differences really make it hard to find equivalents in languages, but "professional student" would probably be the closest term in meaning. Thank you, Mister Micawber. 02 br
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00 And I've always thought of my own country as having a not really advanced but quite liberal democratic governmen
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00 I guess the cultural differences really make it hard to find equivalents in languages, but "professional student" would probably be the closest term in meaning. Thank you, Mister Micawber. 02 br
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00 And I've always thought of my own country as having a not really advanced but quite liberal democratic governmen
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0 An academic butterfly - flitting and sipping through courses? 0-
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0 Hi, Pieanne and Abbie, thanks for the alternatives. 02 br
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00 But could you please explain or define what a "tourist student" is, Pieanne? I've never heard of such a term before. I don't suppose it's the same as a student who goes on a short-term study tour abroad, is it? 0-
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00 But could you please explain or define what a "tourist student" is, Pieanne? I've never heard of such a term before. I don't suppose it's the same as a student who goes on a short-term study tour abroad, is it? 0-
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0 Well, I'm afraid it's totally made up... That's what my student fellows used to call me back in our university days, but because I always looked perfectly relexed before taking an exam, not because I flunked courses! 02 br
00 I remembered the term, and I thought it would fit the general idea: a registered student, but who acts like a tourist, "visiting" a lecture here and there, now
00 I remembered the term, and I thought it would fit the general idea: a registered student, but who acts like a tourist, "visiting" a lecture here and there, now
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0 I see. Then, it's like "a amateur student." Thanks for taking extra time to answer the question. 0-
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