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Show Make a difference! Build your resume! Hiring Stats Tutors for Fall 2006 Details at www.usu.edu/arc/tutoring Do you have a well-written opinion you want all of campus to know? Driving school helps international students learn American road rules Bv HOLLY ADAMS Senior Writer Most people took driver's education in high school Send letters to the from a big sweaty guy who taught them how to properly editor to use a turn signal when passstatesman@usu.edu ing orange cones. TSC 305, 797-1128 Those who didn't get that kgodfrey@cc.usu.edu j privilege can go to Willie Driving School, where the hubcaps spin and the teacher is Justin Atkinson, a junior majoring in business administration. It is an alternative to the A \ ^ • T V i ^ A ^ ^ A %J... and one of them is affordable traditional way people take driver's education in Utah, said Atkinson, the manager and instructor at the school. In some states, an independent driving school is the Talk lo us today aboul only way to take it, though. designing a program that The class sizes are small fits your lifestyle AND and they are aimed at people your budget. who didn't take driver's ed in high school or need to get their license after moving to Rates as IOAV as $9.00 per the United States, Atkinson month!* said. A large part of the students are international students. The class is smaller so they can ask more questions and it is catered to their needs, Atkinson said, with about 15 people in a regular class. Gayathri Samarasingha, a senior in business information systems, said she went to the driving school last OF NORTHERN UTAH summer. She said she didn't "SeledPlus sample rale (or 24 yeai-oid male. 10-year term Me insurance. S100 000 through Cincinnati Life Insurance Company Ratee may have a license from home in vary depending on qualilicatcns See agent (or detaib. Sri Lanka, so she went to get one. The school was helpful, Samarasingha said, because she needed to learn the rules of the roads. It is different in the United States, she said. Here, they drive on the other side of the road and the steering wheel is on the other side of the car, she said. in concert "I had to start over again," Samarasingha said. Shahriar Kabir, a sophomore in business information systems, said he took the class last semester after hearing about it from a friend. Kabir had a license from Saudi Arabia, so he said he went just to learn the rules of the roads. "Back home, the roads Manon Caine Russell Kathryn and traffic rules are totally different," Kabir said. Caine Wanless Performance Hall He said the biggest difference is traffic lights and Academic Resource Center Good health has itsl LIFE INSURANCE KfiVYTT Jen Luman GR^OUP here, they let two sides at an intersection go at once, but in Saudi Arabia, they only let one. Kabir said he had to get used to that change. The roads are safer in Utah because they drive a lot faster in Saudi Arabia, Kabir said, but the drivers are better there. "There are speed limits there, but no one follows it - even the cops get mad at . you for going slow," Kabir said. The classes work around a college student's busy schedule. Samarasingha said the school was good for her and they worked well with her schedule. She said [Atkinson] was flexible, allowed her to make up classes if she missed and helped her finish as soon as possible. The class was flexible, Kabir said. If he missed a class, he could make it up without a fee. "This was the best place for me because of timing," Kabir said. "I didn't have to take a lot of classes." The driving school is college students teaching college students, Atkinson said, so it is relatable. He said he has taught people in his classes and then been in a class with them. Atkinson said it is less formal because they are the same age and it is easier to deal with. There is no uncomfortable formal structure, he said. For international students who move to Utah, Atkinson said it is a quick, affordable way to get a license. The classes last three weeks and are three nights a week from 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. It costs $200 to take the class. Atkinson said that is a lot cheaper than some of the international students would have paid in their home countries. In some European countries, it will cost thousands of dollars, he said. "It's a really good driving school and it's a reasonable amount," Samarasingha said. A lot of people need a license and don't know where to get fhem, Atkinson said. Anyone interested in the school should call (435) 7558050. It's open enrollment, which means they can start at any time. He said within a week or two of calling a class should start! •~hollyadams@cc.usu.edu 435.753.2624 ext. 2335 Utah State University Presents Guitar Ensembles Tuesday, April 25 7:30 pm Michael Sharp/michaelsharp@cuiiu.edu JUSTIN ATKINSON TEACHES at Willie Driving School, an option for students in Logan who need to get and American driver's license. Admission: $3 General Public FREE for USU students with Valid ID • MEETING THE " F A M " From page 15 ering this career path I'd still counsel you to woke up at 6 a.m. and silently shuffled to the choose English instead. I mean, when was shower before anyone was awake. the last time you saw an engineer with a girlThen, to give the impression of good friend? hygienic habits, I gladly took the three and a But back to my own humilhalf free minutes of bathroom iating life. I went into this ~ • time that morning, turned the weekend thinking that we water on and thought on my were beyond the point where "Parents of the world, I do brilliance. meeting her entire network not date your daughters as I may struggle with eating of aunts and uncles would be meat, building boats, rolling clever way to get close to eggs and being a man in genawkward. It wasn't until about 11 eral, but so far as they're conp.m. Friday night that I realcerned, I can take a shower ized there would be 10 of us in under five minutes. fighting for one shower come And if that's not enough to Saturday morning. impress her family, I don't Fighting for bathroom time know what is. will tear even the closest friends and families Zach Pendleton is a junior majoring in apart. English with a minor in failing to impress Rather than be the next plate of sausage, I girls' parents. Comments and condolences did what any thinking mammal would do: I can be sent to zpendleton@cc.usu.edu •YEAR ONE From page 13 Offer cannot be combined with any other promotions or special rates. 4,^ -One"coupon per room. " j'.".'-\}&;*' Black-out dates': :*-''.' . June 22-25 • Sept 8-9,15-17,20-22 Sept 29-Octf : , , April 27-30 ' V^. -""•>'' www.gofruita.com • 877-6FRUITA schedule sets in, it's really all downhill. People begin to realize that college is not nearly as scary as they may have first presumed, out is rather laid back and mellow. The months begin to roll on and you're getting the hang of things more ana more each passing week with your new group of friends. You become used to the Junction food (if you are lucky enough to live near it), regardless of its lack of good taste and healthy options (with the exception of the fruit and salad bar). "I do miss my mom's cook- ing, the Junction's food is objectable," said Rob Young, a freshman in the flight program. Before you know it, midterms show up and then finals. Oh, what a great time of social seclusion finals turn out to be! You push through again and Christmas break arrives as a welcome relief. Before you know it, the new semester is back up and running and the all-too-familiar' syllabuses are passed out and the regular cycle of college life goes on. So, was it all it was cracked up to be? Well, despite the questionable Junction food, school overload and a general lack of money, college is truly an amazing experience. College is just as much a social experience as it is academic. At no other time in our lives are lessons learned and friends rnade so quickly. The first year of college still stands up to be one of the years in our lives that : will never be forgotten. Tyler Larsen is a\ photographer for the Utah, Statesman. Comments can be, seat to tmlarson@cc.usu.edu |