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What kind of job can be found if an international student does two master's programs, one in Education(Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and another in Accounting? Working in educational institutes as an accountant? Helping to manage language programs? Are there such opportunities for international students? Any ideas?

Actually, money is not my biggest concern. Surrounded by Chinese classmates, it seems as if I were having a class taught by a foreign teacher in China. I feel like I won't have the feeling of going abroad and enough chance to practice my oral English. I may meet a lot of Americans at other settings, but I'm afraid it would be hard for me to have deep discussion with them if they were not my classmates. Adapting myself to a new environment (both life and study) is not easy. I am wondering whether I'll have enough time and energy to get away from the usual social circle of the Chinese graduates at Penn GSE(amost all Chinese) and find new friends to talk and share stories. U Penn as a whole is fantastic, but how can I enrich myself academically and embrace more about the American culture when most of my fellow classmates are Chinese? If I decided to come to U Penn, what should I do so that I can practice my oral English and have a real feeling of what America is? By the way, I am a Chinese girl. Better not use "he".

You said that "Also I personally would not want to be where the closest major city is San Fran. That's more northern california, and everything I find alluring about CA is in the south. " What do you mean specifically by saying that? Why is northern California less alluring?

Oh, I see. Anyway, thank you for your advice.

Simply hope to get more replies. Then what's your take? Which one is better?

I applied for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages(TESOL) for Fall 2001and for the time being, I've got two offers from Monterey Institute of International Studies and Penn GSE, respectively. Which one is better if I want to stay in the States and work for a while as a Chinese teacher? 1.locationMIIS:The Monterey Institute of International Studies is located on the scenic Monterey Peninsula, 130 miles (210 km) south of San Francisco and 345 miles (555 km) north of Los Angeles. UPenn:Philadelphia, PA 2.program difficulty MIIS(MA)>UPenn(MEd) 3.faculty MIIS(8): from UCLA,USC,Columbia,McGill,Lancaster,U Wisconsin-Madison UPenn(10): from UCLA,UPenn,Stanford,U Wisconsin-Madison,Georgetown,Edinburgh 4.students MIIS: 23, 15% international students(data of last year) UPenn:around 70, 90% Chinese 5.reputation MIIS:A graduate school of Middlebury College(top 5 Liberal Arts College),famous for translation&interpretation programs UPenn:Ivy League,famous for Wharton 6.certificate tracks MIIS:Teaching Foreign Language, Computer-assisted Language Learning, Language Program Administration UPenn:Business Communication 7.funding MIIS: $13,000 per year UPenn: $6500 scholarship + $3500 graduate assistantship (only for first-year) My goal for graduate studies: be able to speak English in a native-like way, lay a solid foundation in applied linguistics, be able to teach Chinese as well as English to speakers of other languages,get a better understanding of American society and culture. Could you give me some suggestions? Which one shall I choose?