Well its done now, I have made a mock up of a plan for the next 13 months of my life. Let me fill you in.
Sometime in January I decided I wanted to go to school for business. I wanted to go to the Northern Lights College in the Northern BC area. I have been going to that area now for 2 year and have enjoyed it to the point where I would consider living there. So I applied and everything seemed to be going smoothly and I thought it was going to be fairly simple to get in and it has been but there was one obstacle I had to get around first. That was that test I mention a couple times, the CAAT one. I had to do the math portion to prove smrt smart enough. I did it, sent it back, thought I failed horribly, and have been waiting to hear what I scored ever since. That was 4 weeks ago.
Finally one morning about a week ago I got a message on my phone at about 5am here in Hawaii. I was sleeping so I didn’t hear it ringing. It was the school phoning asking me to call them back, so it would have been 9 or 10am for them. Throughout the last week I had tried several time to get a hold of the recruiting office but no such luck. The recruiting officer was either on the phone with someone else or away sick.
Today finally I got through after she left another message for me. It was a funny conversation. There was no anticipation or suspense for the answer it was simply a quick and cheerful “You’ve been accepted and your letter should be in the mail”. As the conversation went on I asked what I scored on the CAAT as I truly thought I would have failed the test or at least got a low grading mark. After franticly looking for the results on her computer she told me that I had scored post-high school, which means I scored at a college level. She said that scoring at a college level is very good and that most applicants only score at a high school level. I guess I need to have a little more faith in my self and my work as yet again I have surprised my self.
My next steps will be sending in the deposit to save my place in the class and to work my tale off saving money, so I don’t have to stress while at school.
As I begin this new adventure I can only imagine all the posts that will come out of it.
Stay Tuned.
2 Hours, 2 Years
It just so happens I have the next two years of my life riding on the next 2 hours. Hmm. Let me fill you in.
I applied for a Business Course out of a College in Northern BC and everything look like it was going smoothly and it would be just a quick thing to do to get accepted as I don’t think this particular program is too popular there. My hiccup came when I sent in my transcript, I thought everything was going to be fine. I needed English 30 and Math 20 (I have a Math 30) the problem came when they told me I didn’t have the right stream of Math 20. To explain I have what the NWT calls Applied Math 20, and 30 which is what I though was equal to BC’s Principles of Math. Principles of Math 11(20) is not the same as Applied it is the same as Math Pure which is the stream above what I have. So if we convert everything to NWT courses, I needed a Math Pure 20 to get in. I don’t have that…..
But I wasn’t out of the race yet. In about 30 minutes I will be writing a CAAT Canadian Adult Achievement Test to see if I am smart enough for the course. I sure hope so because if not I don’t get in! I have seen example test and it don’t seem hard at all. The things that really worry me are the fact I can’t use a calculator even for just simple math, that should be such a big deal except I’m apparently not very confident in myself. The other thing which I think contributes to my lack of confidence is that I have been out of school for over a year now. As I looked throw some practice exams I thought to myself I probably could have done this test with my eyes closed last year and done pretty well but now that I have been out of it for a while, I haven’t done math very often. I brushed up on must stuff and now I just need to do it!
Wish me luck!
