Brazil and the Paradox of Higher Education

  • Working... and sick :(
    Rafael Juliano | July 9th, 2010
    Somehow, no matter how much you prepare for a trip, or how well you feel, the unexpected is exactly that:  unexpected! I have come down with an annoyingly strong cold.  Though I was sick for only three-four days, the lasting consequences...
  • First Part of the Internship: Data-gathering
    Rafael Juliano | July 2nd, 2010
      This past week I was to interact with students, interview them on their thoughts regarding the Vestibular (the standardized university admissions test), to learn more about what the current situation is,and how it affects them as students....
  • Culture with Culture: 'Weathering the Storm'
    Rafael Juliano | June 26th, 2010
    ARRIVAL: Part of taking an internship outside of the United States is to know the very meaning of flexibility, in many different situations. I am only too well aware of the "make a profit off the tourist" routine, used by business people and your...
  • Rafael Juliano
    Introduction: On the Search for Equality in Brazilian University Admissions
    Rafael Juliano | June 23rd, 2010
    Hello!  My name is Rafael Bento Juliano.  I am one of the 2010 Richard Smoke Fellowship scholars selected by the Watson Institute, in Brown University. The fellowship is for an internship at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, (...