For all of the summer my plans were to take a year off and then maybe go to Kelowna for audio engineering, but I also had a desire to go to normal university and get a degree in history and become a teacher, but I wasn't super hot on that idea.
School started last Tuesday and my friends went off to school and I was pretty much one of three people I know who wasn't going to school and I had a lot of time alone to think about what I wanted to do, and I decided to go to school... the only problem was, application deadlines were in May and June, tuition was due on Sept 1st, and I hadn't even applied yet!
Apparently that's no biggie? I did the online application last night, and walked into the registrar's office today. The conversation went as follows:
me: hi I was just wondering if it was too late to go to school here
registrar: nope
me: okay yeah I did the online application thing
registrar: alright come back at 11:30
I'm accepted?! Just like that? What the hell were people freaking out in grade 12 for if all it took was this? She took a look at my transcript, circled a few A's and B's, and said "yeah, you're good. Congratulations!"
So now I'm an official student of the University of Northern British Columbia!
Feeling pretty good :)
Sep 12 2006, 1:00 pm
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Elation
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Excellent!
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Don't go to school. Fight THE MAN instead.
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Nice mate! :( for not coming to Kelowna though. :****(
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Awesome, 'Tezz, grats!
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Congratulations! =)
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Caramonmajere it is not ruled out entirely! This is a probationary semester... I'm buying some recording equipment and doing a few demos for some local bands and some demos for myself and other projects I'm involved in to see where my passion lies! Do not count it out entirely :O
Elation, Caramonmajere, ZeroCrash, Wiz: thanks! :) Ben G: Oh, believe me, I am. <s>SUBTLY</s>!!!!! | |
Most people don't know that you only need about a 2.0 GPA to get into most universities and institutes in B.C. Prestigious ones like SFU or BCIT are a bit more picky, though. Nonetheless, congrats! The big issue is for the popular courses like Math, Engineering, and the like -- for those courses, you need to apply early or the seats will be filled by the time you try to get in, and students with better grades receive preferential treatment.
The only reason I'm still holding back on applying to UBC (not UNBC) is because I honestly don't know math well enough to tackle Computer Science comfortably. My 3/5 on my CS Advanced Placement test (3/5 = "can consider a career in computer science") was due primarily to my complete lack of knowledge on the best and worst-case numbers of iterations of various algorithms (you know, O(n), O(log n) and all that crap) and secondarily due to the fact that I wasn't taught half of the stuff that was on the test! If my transcript would arrive some time soon (I put in an order on Thursday last week and it was supposed to be delivered within 2-5 days...), I could see how it looks and see if there's any other high-school equivalencies I should be registering for through the local adult education program, just to make sure my transcript looks beautiful come next year... | |