суббота, 18 октября 2008 г.

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This is my first day in Vancouver.

Right now, me, my mom, and my auntie are eating our dinner (cheese and crackers). My mom is watching Auntie Pennyapos;s slideshow of her trip to the Okanagan, and I am trying to apply online to UBC.

We met up with Devon and her family and did the tour/question answer period thing. I am going to list some things I have discovered.
-For UBC, they donapos;t have early admissions. They try not to use your grade 11 marks as much as possible. You send in your transcript once you are finished your first semester of grade 12, and they base acceptance on that.
-They have automatic entrance awards on a sliding scale based purely on marks which you are automatically considered for upon application. The largest sum (for 95+ averages) is $4000.
-They donapos;t let you have a kitchen. Instead, you get a meal plan and basically eat in the residence cafeteria.
-For engineering programs, you need about an 83 average. For arts programs, 85-87. For sciences or maths, high 80s to low 90s. Pretty tricky stuff....
-Most of the students are encouraged to do in-residence living accomodations. If you are not from the lower mainland, they will automatically provide this for you (its very socialist. It isnapos;t based on marks or anything- just need).
-If I take the Bsc in psychology, it will be significantly less fun than if I do a BA in psychology (basically, Iapos;ll be taking math and physics courses on the side instead of english and arts courses, because the faculties are entirely different)
-There are like a billion students (40 000 or something like that)
-Everything is highly subsidized for students (you get $25 monthly transit passes which regularly cost about $200)
-UBC IS HUGE. HOLY CRAP

weapos;re doing the tour, and its blowing my mind because everything is so big, and there are SO many buildings. But its all really beautiful. It was raining like crazy.

Me and Devon bothered the student services girl for a while about scholarship information and when theyapos;ll show up in Calgary. They are going to be at my school on Nov 4th, and at Olympic park on Nov 8th.

We were like the only ones in the tour group who asked questions. There was a girl from the United States named Annie, and she was apologizing for things like how their banks broke our economy, as well as Starbucks. I told her that it was okay, and that it wasnapos;t her fault. There was also a guy named Ryan from Calgary, and this British girl who had emigrated about 4 weeks ago...

Vancouver is sort of like UBC- it is enormous. I am completely overwhelmed at the prospect of living in this city or going to the university.

Tour finished at about 2:00, so we grabbed lunch at this nice seafood restaurant with Devonapos;s family. We must have stayed there for about 2 hours, just talking and lounging around after we were done eating. I was starting to fall asleep, but Devon talked to me and got my all psyched for model UN (We got the United Kingdom as our country, which is ridiculously lucky of us). Apparently, its the prime place for social studies nerds to get dates... Whatever.
Me and Devon split two desserts.

After that, we went back to Auntie Pennyapos;s Condo. I had a nap.

We went and saw apos;the secret life of beesapos; tonight. It was aapos;ight. Apparently, Dakota Fanning is paid 4 million dollars per movie. She is going to be sooo wealthy...

I love adbusters magazine.

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