... No Future?

Posted by Ronnica on May 28, 2008, 8:02 a.m.

So yesterday I went to an information session at the local college about funding for entry if you're interested in Trades and Technology. Esthiology is considered a trade (I thought that was kinda funny). So anyways, the college was given like, 2 million dollars or something to spend on giving out bursaries to students who want to go into Trades and Tech at the Okanagan College (OC). For most scholarships and stuff, you need good grades or like, a GPA of "over nine-thousand" or something. For this, because there's a lack of tradespeople and stuff, the ONLY way to get the money was if you "show the financial need" AND were hoping to apply at the OC.

Guess what? I TOTALLY QUALIFIED! I pretty much had the $1000 ! There was hope! I was gonna go to college and everything! For the Esthiology course, $1000 would've paid for the first year out of the two years. Unfortunately, the course was only available at the OC in another city >< I'm seriously not moving. I don't wanna pay for school and rent! "Take out a student loan" they say! No fricken way! I don't wanna go into debt! "Get a job" they say! Yeah right, I can hardly handle High school as it is. College-work life would be waaaaay too hard for me. The Spoon says I'm being stubborn. I guess I am.

What sucks the most is I really would've only had to pay possibly $1500 instead of $2500 for the two year course. My first year would've been like, almost free!! I really did loose an opportunity to go to college. Thats what bums me out. Now I gotta go to some lame beauty school.

The coolest thing about Esthiology is that its usually just 2 years, and all you need is English 12. I mean, the best school in Canada is in Ontario or something, and thats all they required. *sighs* I was soooo close to going to college…

HAVE A GREAT DAY! I LOVE YOU GUYS SOO MUCH!!

Edit

I mean really! Wouldn't you rather a diploma that says, "Graduate Of Okanagan College Trades And Technology" than "Graduate Of Miss Sally's Salon" ?!

Lemme know if you're my 9000th hit!!! ^_^

Comments

Castypher 16 years, 4 months ago

Depends on the type of school. One lower-ranked school in my area has a very low tuition, a tenth of more popular schools.

Ronnica 16 years, 4 months ago

The basic price for the program is usually $2000 though. Thats at a college or whatever too.

frenchcon1 16 years, 4 months ago

$3000 = £1750

$2000 = £1100

$1000 = £0650

You Americans have it so cheap over there =o

frenchcon1 16 years, 4 months ago

inb4prostitution

Ronnica 16 years, 4 months ago

I'm not American, I'm Canadian =P

OBELISK 16 years, 4 months ago

You don't need to be an American to go into prostitution, why do you think there are so many asians?

And as much as I will regret saying this in the future, your hit level is OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND!

Alert Games 16 years, 4 months ago

hit level > 9000

and Atni paradise: i think half of the active users arent even american :P we should have a poll

SquareWheel 16 years, 4 months ago

The American vs Canadian currency isn't all that different right now. It's maybe $50 more Canadian for a $3000 course.

1.00 CAD = 1.01362 USD

Source: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi

At 4:52 (GMT)

Cpsgames 16 years, 4 months ago

Hmm so my dirtbike costed me 2,466.45 CAD

taurusmedia 16 years, 4 months ago

Yes. Fear our valuable duck-coins.