A storm of students

When you come to Austin all is different. Those differences goes from the size of the things until shapes, foods, greetings, and specially the University of texas (UT).  That University, is so big and fulled of students that is easy to get missed inside there.  If the first day you go to look for a class to attend, maybe you would be in a little trouble, despite of the fact that there is a map that you can pick up from everywhere to return to your way if you get missed.

But what also makes interesting to the university, is the diferences that Argentinians can see between the universities in Argentina and the UT. One of them is the difference about the system of qualification. In My University (Universidad Nacional de Misiones) as same as the huge majority of the state’s universities, they have a system in which you have to take down 2 exams with a 66% of the score, with the possibility of recover only one. If you do not turn down with that score, you will have to take a final exam. In 2 conditions: Free, (A more difficult exam) and regular (An exam less difficult). If you pass at least one exam with a 50% of the score, you have to take the regular exam, and if not, you have to take the free exam. In both final exams, you have to do the 66% of the exam. In Argentina, some classes the attendance care, but in the majority it does not while in UT assign a certain percentage in assistance, assignments, final exam, and intermediates exams. Apart from the qualifications, the professorships lasts 1:30 hs in UT, whereas in Argentina are usually 2:00 hs. 

Moreover, there are lots of clubs in the UT to make differents activities, such as dancing, playing chess, practicing martial arts, that are mostly independent from the politics, while in Argentina those activities are usually provided by the politics aggrupation that are in the university, and some are provided by the universities.  And Lastly, I have to say that UNAM`s colleges are distributed along Misiones, whereas in the UT, you can find in a place all the colleges.

The most important thing in UT, are that it has a lot of  students from different parts of the world. However, it continues being very difficult to me to know how to greet to other people when I just meet them. (Specially with womens). Some cultures, are very cold and they say just “Hello”, other are warmer, and they greet you with a hug and a kiss when. People that are from Asia and Africa are from the first kind of people, whereas some countries in Europe and Latin America usually greets with a Kiss, or two in the cheeks between men and women, and between 2 women. I learnt that by proof and mistake, because the first time that I greet an Asiatic woman, I do it with a kiss in her cheek and she was embarrassed because she didn`t know what to do. So, I had to explain her that Argentinians  usually greet with cheeks.

In Argentina, depending on the zone, there are greets with 2 kisses, or with one. In My province (Misiones) we often greet with 2 kisses as same as Spain. 

But helpfully for me, it was a relief that all the men greet with a handshake.