Boston next couple of days

          June 25,2012
          The next days in Boston I think were even better than the first one. Everybody has recovered from their jetlag and are having a blast.  After having a few SAT classes everybody that I have talked to has agreed that the course really nails the important points involving the SAT. I think that our second electives is very good and I have heard no complaints from the people in my class. I think that the afternoon elective course is also really good for putting the application to college into perspective, and alleviating anxiety. 

           June 26,2012

Our group also managed to tour Boston's famous Quincy market, and had dinner at a good seafood restaurant. Followed by us going to see a movie at the theatre just down the road from were our residence halls are. Despite high expectations the movie we decided to see turned out to be boring, but everybody seemed to have a great time. We played an interactive bonding game back at our dorms, which was really great.

June 27, 2012
On this day our group went to Boston college instead of having afternoon electives. Out of the nine colleges that I have toured I can safe fully say that it has been my favorite college so far, touching on all of the things that I look for in a college. These things includes having small classes with only 2% of their classes involving actual lectures, as well as having a solid program for ensuring employment after college. Unfortunately we had to skip our shopping spree on Newbury street due to time constraints, but we have been promised that the opportunity shall arise arise. (Spain beat Portugal in penalty shoot outs, YES!!!)

Boston college!!!

Boston College

Inside Part of Boston College

Boston College Library

Business center of college

June 28, 2012
We had our second SAT test today, and everybody agreed that they felt that they did a lot better. Guess the SAT prep is really kicking in! Today was really cool because we got to have 5 hours of free time, I spent the time exploring Boston and hanging out.

June 29,2012
Today, we followed the usual schedule of classes in the morning and the afternoon. During free time I went into Boston.

First Day In Boston

                                                             First Day In Boston

My first day in Boston was awesome. I am amazed at how good Emerson college is in terms of its facilities, its the dorm rooms, and the food provided by the college are amazing, with breakfast including a wide selection of eggs, sausages and bacon. That night I managed to get my first glimpse into the city that I am staying in by going on an awesome tour about Boston. Our college prep group is really great and everybody gets along with each other really well. In class we also took what for many of us was our first SAT test ( Im anxious to find out how I did) . Our second elective course involved a presentation giving an overview of the many of apsects of college.

Here are some pictures of our first Day in Boston 

Our Beds

As you can see our dorm rooms are truly exceptional and they have quite a lot of space.
The cool things about the Dorms are that while there are only three people to a room all the rooms are connected by a hall, making it a lot simpler to ask other people about homework and stuff.

Here is our cafeteria, it has a buffet with some amazing food and at the back you can make out the Grill which serves eggs, bacon and sausages for breakfest and steak and other meats for dinner. There are also plenty of vegetables and fruit available.

In our SAT Prep course room

We have an amazing group and eveybody has instantly become friends.

Looking forward to watching the midnight release of spider man!!!

Looking Forward to Boston

                                                                               
Looking Forward to Boston!

Erik Strauch Frankfurt, Germany:

My name is Erik and I am a 10th grade student at Frankfurt International School, Germany. I decided to take part in the Abbey Road college prep course in Boston, Massachusetts this upcoming summer for many reasons, the most important one of which is that I believe the course will strengthen skills that will make me a better student, improve my SAT scores and help improve my chances of getting accepted to a university which will be a great fit for me.

Last year, I took the PSAT at my school and scored fairly well. However, I feel that I could have achieved a higher score if I had had more focused time to prepare for the test. The SAT prepatory course that the Abbey Road course offers appears to be ideally designed to achieve this objective. The course will allow me to study intensely and be more focused for a defined period of time rather me trying to prepare for the SAT test during the school year. Like most high school students, between studying for my classes, after school sports and other activities and weekends spent travelling to various sports and Model United Nations competitions, at best I would only have short periods of time to focus on improving my SAT score. Spending two concentrated weeks focusing only on preparing for the SAT test should allow me to bring my score on the SAT to a whole new level through practice tests
and tutoring.

The Abbey Road college prep course will also provide me with the opportunity to visit several universities in the Boston area, which is something I would find difficult to do while living in Germany. This should help provide me with an idea of the characteristics I like and don't like in a university, which will help me when it comes time for me to apply and decide on which university I want to attend. The two week stay in the city of Boston will also provide me with the opportunity to experience Boston first-hand so I can better decide if I would eventually like to live there. However, the main reason why I decided to participate in the Abbey Road college prep course is because the course is designed to provide guidance and teach skills which will be helpful in the college application process which will also give me a chance to begin working on my college essays. This should dramatically lower the amount of stress, which I know I will be under when applying to university.

Although I am a U.S citizen I have never lived in the United States and am therefore very much looking forward to meeting and spending time with other high school students from America. I am also looking forward to experiencing the culture and atmosphere of Boston as part of the Abbey Road college prep course, which I will be able to do as part of my summer experience. It will be interesting to see how it compares to the culture in Frankfurt Germany where I currently live. I am also looking forward to experiencing what living in a college dormitory and on a college campus is actually like. This will also help make my transition to college life bit easier.