#20Questions with Egyptian Fulbrighter Michael Jacob for International Education Week

October 26, 2017
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00:00 hey Michael how's it going hi I'm good
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how are you doing well are you ready for
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your 20 questions uh okay yeah depends
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but yeah keep it keep it going where are
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you from I'm from Egypt where are we now
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we're at the George Washington
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University in DC what do you do for fun
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in Washington DC I just go check out new
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restaurants eating your food go out with
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friends shopping sometimes how many
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times have you gone abroad oh that's
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that's my very first time here I mean in
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the States
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Wow what do you want to tell your
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friends back home about the United
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States that's a really cool place you
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guys and I already miss you so she'd all
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come if you could be any animal what
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would you be and why I'm not really
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inclined to be an animal but I would
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definitely be my cat because she sits
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all day doesn't nothing worry about
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nothing I mean who doesn't like that are
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you here through a specific program yeah
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I'm gonna Fulbright it's a student
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exchange program that gets people from
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all over the world to America and vice
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versa on study abroad brought programs
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tell us about something crazy that we've
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happened to your so far well I came late
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at night
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and I'm very bad with cooking so and I
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had promised my roommates that I'm gonna
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cook for them the next day
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so I started grading the onion because
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that's what we do in Egypt and then I
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didn't Rick I didn't realize that I was
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actually grading my hand so here days I
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bled to death what advice do you have
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for someone who is learning English I
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would say what helped me was watching a
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lot of movies and a lot of TV shows and
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songs it gave me the accent at least how
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many roommates do you have I have three
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what are you studying I'm studying
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international education if you could
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have dinner with any three people who
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would they be so I like acting and
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singing and I study international ads so
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I would have dinner with Anne Hathaway
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Beyonce and someone
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the US Education Department what is
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International Education mean to you well
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to me it's it's the word that actually
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describes it is is inclusive because it
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includes everyone it tackles a lot of
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issues about inequality in education all
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over the world but professionally it
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will qualify me to maybe teach abroad
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work at international student offices or
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work on the development of education in
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developing countries like Egypt how is
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the United States similar to Egypt it's
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really not but I mean that's the thing I
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mean it wouldn't be worth it if you go
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to a country that is similar to yours so
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it's a good experience in a new one what
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do you think of the food here it's good
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I like it pretty much but I still miss
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my mom's cooking do you have any hidden
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talents I guess I could sing I look and
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I hear oh okay like a circle in a spiral
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like a wheel within a wheel
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Neverending go beginning on an ever
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spinning wheel Libby there you Lenny hey
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it's Mary
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with the Rudy we of correct
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never mind I forgot it let's keep going
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what's your favorite class comparative
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it international Edie what's your
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hardest first same one with better
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international education has anything
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surprised you about US culture well my
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answer is gonna be a little different
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from most international students I have
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been like introduced to the culture way
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before I came here because I used to
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watch a lot of TV shows I used to watch
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Grey's Anatomy how to get away with
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murder and Friends so this all gave me
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like a him insights about the American
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culture way before I was here so I
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wasn't really surprised but I'm getting
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the experience one last question
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what advice would you give to someone
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who wants to study abroad in the United
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States well in Egypt we really care
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about transcripts but that's not really
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what defines you so it's important but
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it's not the most important thing I mean
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if you get a call for an interview this
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means they want to see something that is
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not on your application which is you
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your personality so a lot of people can
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have your grades but no one can have you
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so make sure to be yourself make sure to
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be your own I mean comfortable in your
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own skin I guess that's all I can say
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and I really have to run now sorry I
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have a bot thanks Michael or every class
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bye

 

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