I was in the RLASP, rarely people are in the business program - it's basically an individualized RLASP with more article-reading.
Also, if you have a drive to make connections & network in Moscow, you will manage it in 4 months. I have known people from my program to set up future jobs for themselves in 2 months, others who just ended up staying & working in firms, etc. Depends on how motivated you are. I wasn't, so I just volunteered at a civil rights museum that is rapidly losing all its funding.
It is sometimes hard to meet Russians on these things, though, especially until the weather gets nicer. We had a russian-american club thing and if you persisted with the students then you could meet some fun people, but there is always a portion of the group that shells up and only associates with the Americans. If your Russian isn't to where you want it to be maybe you should do Middlebury, because everyone I meet from a Middlebury program has great vocab, grammar, conversational ability etc.... ACTR - outside of class it's easy to fall back into English unless you're hanging out with Russians (who want to speak Russian with you...).
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Date: 2008-09-28 07:47 pm (UTC)Also, if you have a drive to make connections & network in Moscow, you will manage it in 4 months. I have known people from my program to set up future jobs for themselves in 2 months, others who just ended up staying & working in firms, etc. Depends on how motivated you are. I wasn't, so I just volunteered at a civil rights museum that is rapidly losing all its funding.
It is sometimes hard to meet Russians on these things, though, especially until the weather gets nicer. We had a russian-american club thing and if you persisted with the students then you could meet some fun people, but there is always a portion of the group that shells up and only associates with the Americans. If your Russian isn't to where you want it to be maybe you should do Middlebury, because everyone I meet from a Middlebury program has great vocab, grammar, conversational ability etc.... ACTR - outside of class it's easy to fall back into English unless you're hanging out with Russians (who want to speak Russian with you...).