Currently enrolled back into school for Open studies. Will be registering for the University of Calgary. To take adult mature student. (I did lousy in High School, and my first year of college here at Mount Royal).
If there is advice I'd like to give... DO NOT FUCK AROUND please! those F-s will haunt you, you may retake the course, but they'll still be there. I fucked around. I'm 30 and wandered in academic limbo.
Advice two, take advantage of the gym facilities, go running once a week, if you have a spare day, or swimming. It's free, if not it's just 5 bucks as you're a student. Beats paying 60 bucks a month right?
Take up an extra circular activity, it'll help your chances to get a scholarship for the subsequent year. Infact, if you're in the health services, and or social services majors, the place you volunteer at would definatly likely give you an internship for your praticum. I myself am a regular volunteer at the Homeless Shelter. Write for the School paper. These will impress your employer, especially if you have a bunch of friends on your facebook, and latter on they may know someone who might be able to help you get a job, or do some side extra circular like entrepreneurial business, as you guys grow older. (Ie investing your huge paycheck you get from your new job. You guys pool together, and grow).
Take up a part time job, it makes beer club money, easier to come by.
Above all, take pride that you are bettering yourself and bettering the world by being a young professional who has many many years of rewarding work ahead of them building country.
OR you can do what I did, fuck around in the first year and spend the next 10 years or so trying to convince them to let you back in, and in the mean time work shit jobs while you try and pay off student loans.
