Handout April 28, 2011

Handout: Dialog
ENG 31106
Professor Gleason
Ms. Ayse Keskin Saglam
April 28, 2011

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This in-class workshop activity will be evaluated and awarded class credit points. If you do the exercise fully, you will receive full credit (15 points).
S1: so. i see that you're from Hartland Michigan [S2: yes ] this is, right up the road
S2: mhm, like forty minutes from here [S1: yeah ] mhm
S1: okay, and uh, you say that you're interested in prebusiness and economics
S2: i was i don't think that i am anymore
S1: okay cuz you write a lot about international business.
S2: mhm i wro- i w- i'm interested in the um, international aspect, [S1: uhuh, uhuh ] more, of a um, of a, program or whatnot so, like the international, business i was gonna do, it's a really, you know open field, you know like all that stuff but i don't, think that that's what i wanna do anymore, so
S1: okay so what, what changed your mind and what has it been changed to?
S2: um, i, don't know if i wanna sp- like i wanna experience like you know, cultures and and the world and and [S1: mhm ] everything and and business would be get me th- to these places but i don't know if i wanna spend all my time behind a desk, not really enjoying where i am, you know, like having to d- work with numbers all the time and like, not really being out, doing something a little more interesting maybe like flavorful in any case so, i thought about um, i don't know if i, i mean even if i, ugh i just don't think business is and i, i have lots of other interests like um, that are a little bit more like, paleontology or astronomy or [S1: oh ] international religion or uh not religion international relations, so, those things i wanna_ i think i'm gonna concentrate more on, i don't think i wanna do the business.
S1: have you done any digs or anything like that?
S2: no i'm really like dinosaurs like fascinate me like that stuff fascinates me but i don't know if that's like a career choice yet but i, was looking through the course book and i know they offer like a w- half a term class or something, [S1: one of those ] that if i had space [S1: geology short courses ] mhm [S1: mhm ] that i could, like, take and see if i, if it was worth it that i should go into, [S1: mhm ] you know more depth or if that was just sort of like okay, i l- i like it but i don't wanna, like study that so i don't know.