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It's Saturday.
Mar. 1st, 2003 10:33 pmNot much else to say about today. I woke up. I went to work. Not much cool happened, although I remain perplexed about the lady who asked for a carton of milk, took a straw, and then asked for six napkins. What confuses me even more is that this is not at all abnormal. And yet, I never see any of these people spill or drop anything. What do they plan to do with the napkins? I shudder to think.
The one thing out of the ordinary today was that the last of the four schoolish-type-places (I'd say universities, but one's a trade school) emailed me to let me know they've received my application. If anyone cares, in no particular order, they were:
Memorial University of Newfoundland, at the Grenfell College in Corner Brook, studying Environmental Studies (possible minors: Anthropology and Folklore)
University of Northern British Columbia, studying Environmental Studies (possible minors: Anthropology and Art)
College of the North Atlantic, Environmental Technician program (strangely enough in the same town of 20 000 people as Grenfell)
and, just for a shock of the non-environmental variety,
Acadia University, studying Theatre. Because it'd be fun, and I don't want to make my final, final, final career choice yet.
I KNOW I'll get into the College of the North Atlantic, so I'm definitely moving away, far away from Montreal next fall. It requires 'A provincial high school diploma (check!) with at least a 60% average (check!)', and I have more. I have college level Math, English, Environmental Chem, Env. Bio., Env. Philosophy, and an Env. Geography course. It's also a co-op program, which is cool because I'll get to be out in the field, which is a dream. I like getting all muddy and spending hours sitting on a wet rock waiting for something to move.
Cool thing about Corner Brook, whichever school I go to - summer jobs on whale watching boats exist, and who better than a field ecologist-in-training with enthusiasm, knowledge, and love of whales to hire?
The other schools, I'm sort of keeping my fingers crossed. I'm intelligent, and enthusiastic about the things I love to do, and I would be GOOD at this. BUT - it's impossible to tell all that without an interview, which won't happen. They have my transcript. That's pretty much it. And my CEGEP transcript bites somewhat. Courses which amounted to so much makework - and the makework didn't get done, because I couldn't motivate myself to do it (case in point: Article about the causes of World War One, followed by the assignment: Name two causes of World War One. Useful? Nope. Interesting? Nope. Done? Nope). High school's not all that much better - I failed Morality three times, over a difference of opinion with a professor, in which I stood by my belief. Which in my mind, was better than a pass. There IS a right answer in Morality classes, kids. It just might be the wrong one, is all.
Oh well. So long as I'm OUT by September, I'm happy.
And I'm going to Ottawa this summer for music, and New Hampshire for humpback whales, and St. John's to learn how to sail from my friend Karen (whom I'm repaying with kayaking lessons).
And the guy from First Wave (hotness... hotness...) was on Mutant X tonight. Clean-up in aisle five, please :) (phrase shamelessly nicked from Ariel...)
The one thing out of the ordinary today was that the last of the four schoolish-type-places (I'd say universities, but one's a trade school) emailed me to let me know they've received my application. If anyone cares, in no particular order, they were:
Memorial University of Newfoundland, at the Grenfell College in Corner Brook, studying Environmental Studies (possible minors: Anthropology and Folklore)
University of Northern British Columbia, studying Environmental Studies (possible minors: Anthropology and Art)
College of the North Atlantic, Environmental Technician program (strangely enough in the same town of 20 000 people as Grenfell)
and, just for a shock of the non-environmental variety,
Acadia University, studying Theatre. Because it'd be fun, and I don't want to make my final, final, final career choice yet.
I KNOW I'll get into the College of the North Atlantic, so I'm definitely moving away, far away from Montreal next fall. It requires 'A provincial high school diploma (check!) with at least a 60% average (check!)', and I have more. I have college level Math, English, Environmental Chem, Env. Bio., Env. Philosophy, and an Env. Geography course. It's also a co-op program, which is cool because I'll get to be out in the field, which is a dream. I like getting all muddy and spending hours sitting on a wet rock waiting for something to move.
Cool thing about Corner Brook, whichever school I go to - summer jobs on whale watching boats exist, and who better than a field ecologist-in-training with enthusiasm, knowledge, and love of whales to hire?
The other schools, I'm sort of keeping my fingers crossed. I'm intelligent, and enthusiastic about the things I love to do, and I would be GOOD at this. BUT - it's impossible to tell all that without an interview, which won't happen. They have my transcript. That's pretty much it. And my CEGEP transcript bites somewhat. Courses which amounted to so much makework - and the makework didn't get done, because I couldn't motivate myself to do it (case in point: Article about the causes of World War One, followed by the assignment: Name two causes of World War One. Useful? Nope. Interesting? Nope. Done? Nope). High school's not all that much better - I failed Morality three times, over a difference of opinion with a professor, in which I stood by my belief. Which in my mind, was better than a pass. There IS a right answer in Morality classes, kids. It just might be the wrong one, is all.
Oh well. So long as I'm OUT by September, I'm happy.
And I'm going to Ottawa this summer for music, and New Hampshire for humpback whales, and St. John's to learn how to sail from my friend Karen (whom I'm repaying with kayaking lessons).
And the guy from First Wave (hotness... hotness...) was on Mutant X tonight. Clean-up in aisle five, please :) (phrase shamelessly nicked from Ariel...)
