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!
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I Think About It
Did you know that I have been out of school for all most a year now. Scary I know. Well recently I have been thinking about it a lot. My future, my past and where I am today. I believe that working over the last year has been an excellent decision. I say decision not because if I wasn’t working I would be lazing around at home, but because if I wasn’t working I would have gone and done some sort of schooling. I think that would have been a bad decision, over the last 4 years I have had no idea what to do in life. Go do a trade in something I don’t really like, go do 2 years getting a degree I don’t want, I had no clue.
Having finished school and not gone right back into it puts you in a simulated version of real life. Yes I worked a full time job and took it on like any other person but I didn’t quite have the same responsibilities at home. No Mortgage, Heat, Electrical bills or even food for that matter, just simply my phone and truck. Deciding to take out some money to buy a semi decent truck at the age of 16 was one of my wonderful learning experiences. I borrowed some money and I had to pay it back plus interest. Okay I will do it and I am doing. At the time I was in school and only working part time so my payments are small and so for that fact 2 years later I’m still paying it but no matter. I have learned many thing with this truck and loan. I learned how to expect the unexpected and how to properly deal with it instead of blaming it on others. Trucks brake, it happens there is nothing we can do about it. I learned how to manage the money I had so if something did happen I was able to get it fixed in a timely manner with out being stranded, now these fixes have been minor but they prepare you for the worst.
Having been thinking about school a lot I realize how much I do miss it. I know they say you don’t know how much you actually liked school until your out of there but I did. School was fun for me, I like challenges. I was by no means paper smart. I didn’t take the top English or Math classes instead I did the Applied classes. In grade 12 I seemed to really do well in them. In my English call I had one of the best teachers in my opinion. For reasons I can’t explain I could just understand him better than other teachers. I shared his views on things, like being on time class. Man, that guys was is my idol. I seemed to always have an answer or an opinion for him. He is who I want to be someday, someone with class and style but still not afraid to get his hands dirty and do anything to get a job done. Thank you Mr.Curren!
Onto math, this was odd. I don’t think I was smarter than anyone else in the class but because for some strange reason I understood it better than the teacher I was able to surpass many of the mates. We were working with these child like workbook and the teacher seemed to not really go through it before teaching our class therefore she was much like us. I would fly through lessons with decent grade and get ahead of the class and then relax.
The reason for me thinking so much about all this lately is that I have decided to more or less go to school in the fall. I am looking in to taking a Business Management course which will only take me one year. It will be a big step for me not because it is school but because I will be going into something I don’t know and I will have to adjust out of my comfort zone for a short while. Not only that, it is a tough decision for me to make about what to go to school for.
It will be fun. “Live life with no regrets”
