Cliche title -I know. Moving on :P, this blog will be about the adventures of a new Wilfrid Laurier student in the Business Administration program. I plan to describe the inner workings of university life -from classes, dorms and social fiascoes, to parental disappointment (hopefully not too much) and freshman 15 avoidance advice.
To start off, I want to warn you that I don't plan on giving too much away (I am called anonymous for a reason), however here are a few intro tips so you know where I'm coming from:
1. From Ontario, so I'm not moving that far from my parents (sort of a bummer -will see)
2. Not a native-born Canadian so immigrant notions do pop up from time to time :P
3. Finished a rigorous high school program if I say so myself, so as weird (and possibly arrogant as it may sound -hopefully not :S) I look forward to uni being easier???......... we will see though (fully prepared -but not ecstatic- to swallow my words)
4. I will be living in co-ed dorm/traditional style residence with a single room -so when I describe residence life- keep this in mind :P
5. Honesty being key here, I have to admit that I do have doubts about choosing Laurier. I love the program and Laurier as a school (felt the best here when I came to visit -hopefully frosh week and the commencement of classes will confirm my initial impressions and sweep away any remaining doubts); but as bad as this may sound, I am one who likes to go for prestige and renown. I worked hard in high school to be above the 95% and to stand out EC wise, thinking that I would go to a hard-to-get-into program at a stellar university(and sometimes I feel like Ivey, Schulich, or McGill would have been the better choices > beginning with the fact that they have much more selective admission criteria). I should also mention that my friends don't approve of my choice
-HOWEVER
I still chose it.
Because Co-op/experience is worth more than insane reputation, and the environment at laurier is much more humble than at other schools (big reason). I also believe it is under-rated -perhaps due to its humility. So I hope my gut was right in saying that laurier is the right choice :-)
(if anyone wants to see a full list of arguments on why laurier let me know :)).
-now that I've created some enemies no doubt, I shall end this post by confessing that I am so excited about university that I've been watching "what to bring to university/college" videos on youtube non-stop; I've also finshed about 50% of my packing list :D:D:D (I shall post that later on).
Toodles for now,
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