figuringitout

girls from bymr thanx so much u rly helped me out! Smartteen u helped me out 2 but in a different way. not in a mean way but you’ve showed me that i’m right that i don’t belong at tomer devora. thnx 2 all of u 4 ur time and effort! 🙂

Wow OneOfMany thanks sooooooo… much! You answered like all my questions! 🙂 It’s funny because it sounds amazing and sounds a lot like me, but i’m just scared about the workload. I feel like i’ll be unprepared because i feel like my school is pretty easy besides for a few classes. It could be i can handle it and like i’ve said i always love a good challange and i’m dedicated to my work and love to think and question and learn but it’s the tests that scare me. Also, i think i’m okay at reading the meforshim, but i don’t consider myself amazing. I don’t always understand what they are saying. It also says on the pamphlet about Machon Raaya “The highly motivated high school graduate with superior textual skils…” I don’t know what they mean by that part but… I don’t consider my skills superior to most. Maybe superior to others in my class of 11 students but probably not when i’m up against the best. Do you think this would be a problem? Also btw where else did u apply 2?

Thanx so much everyone, you’re really helping!:) ok so calorie you said if i have any questions i could ask and TeachersNotebook you seem like a good source of info as well so i had compiled a list of questions to ask about seminary to people who went to the seminary k so its a lot but if you could answer as much as possible that wud b great it also cud b that some of the questions have been answered already also if u hav any more info to share abt the sem that wud b great! so here goes:

1.What were you or other people at the seminary looking for in a seminary when deciding?

2.How important is the interview/How intense,etc.- reading of rashi?

3.What is the style of teaching? Discussion, lecture, classroom setting, chavrusa??

4.What type of classes are there?

5.Can you choose your classes?

6.How much work is there? Tests?

7.Is the seminary about getting as much done as possible or learning as much as possible out of each thing? Are tests and work a side factor and they really just want the girls to learn or is work a big factor of importance to the seminary?

8.How hard is it? How hard is hard?

10.The girls who go there is their focus on learning more textually or learning more and growing more spiritually?

12.Are they all about the outside or do they focus on the inside as well?

13.How big of a mix of people is it? Is it hard to find your place?

14.Do they go on trips? Do they go to Europe?

15.Are their rules strict? What are some of their rules?

16.Do they have a uniform?

17.What is the status of the dorm?

19.How many meals are given?

plaid, you seem to get what i was saying. thank you for your input.

I heard peninim doesn’t do so much textual stuff they take lots of trips and do hashkafa stuff but what i want all of it.

I thought of another thing to describe my type: i went to raninu going into 9th grade and it was totally not for me it was one of my worst summers not to put down raninu b/c it’s an awesome place but it’s just not my type and the girls who go there are for the most part not my type. I went to sternberg for the next 2 years which i loved so much and was so upset that i coudln’t go last year so i’m a sternberg girl not raninu and i feel like that says something for those who kno the 2.

Calorie, you say that my description fits ateres but ilovetheholyland says seminar sounds like the right choice how am i supposed to kno who is right? what are the differences??

I did look into them but i wanted more opinions and wanted more information because i feel like i don’t have enough. IY”H in november we are having the sems come 2 my school. The thing is i feel like that doesn’t give you enough information because most of the people say the same things and it doesn’t tell you what type of girls go to the sem. Also i have pamphlets for some of the sems but the thing is it sounds really good, but how do i know that in actuality that is what it is?

Oh ya and i should probably tell you i’m more to the chofetz chaim type. i got 2 a all girls skwl it’s not titled bais yaakov but i consider myself to be. I grew a lot at my school but because my school is super small and there are a lot of different types of girls i only had a few friends, awesome ones, but few. I haven’t felt like i belonged there for a long time and same for my friends. Me and 2 of my friends considered switching to BY and one actually did but me and the other didn’t. I don’t know if i fit at this particular BY either. I’m honestly not sure where i belong but that’s what my seminary year is for to really belong! if you need 2 kno anything else to figure out my type, then ask away!!! THANX AGAIN!