"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Baruch

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I am live in the states almost 5 years so my english isnt that bad. But whenever it comes to writing papers in college, i end up dropping the class because i could never complete the essay.

are there any books\guides that would help me in organizing and writing a paper for college classes?

thanks in advance
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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why dont you take an english composition course in your college (in mine its required anyway). if you're having problems with writing,talk to the professor, they're usually very helpful.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Originally posted by Levex
why dont you take an english composition course in your college (in mine its required anyway). if you're having problems with writing,talk to the professor, they're usually very helpful.
Excellent advice.
 

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Try On Writing Well by William Zinsser. You can find it, and other similar books, online at Amazon.com, at your local bookstore, or at your college bookstore.
 

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reading a lot helped me, especially with broadening your vocabularly.

and just making sure you cover your grounds with your thesis.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Your university should have a free special tutoring program for International Student that have problems with English. At lest mine has.

You might want to look into that.
 

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I was in nearly the same position as you, except I was the best student in my English class.

I spent 5 years in the US, so logically my writting kind of sucked. SO I just started reading a lot of a books, there was I time where I'd read a book per day.

Basically what you should do it, it'll help more than anything, is head over to a library, get yourself a book that has also a tape recording of someone narrating it.

Then sit at home with a dictionary and listen to the tape while reading the book simultaneously (pause the tape when you have to look in the dictionary obviously).

What I found is that this increased my vocabulary, my writting skills AND my pronounciation 500%.

ALSO, as someone else mentioned, talk to the teachers. LET THEM KNOW you're from a foreign country and English "so good not so", that way they'll be much more giving & considerate when grading your papers.

Sit at home and try to write an essay in your native language. If you still have a hard time, then your problem isn't with the language -- it's your writting skills (it doesn't really matter what language it's in, it's how you collect and put your thoughts together).
 
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