One BIG question has been cycling through my mind for the past 2 weeks:
UVIC or UBC
UVIC is local, it's most certainly more affordable to go to, I'll have people I know there, it's not a bad university to go to, I can get advice on which professors to sign up for, the campus isn't too big so I won't get lost (well theoretically anyhow), they started Co-ops which is what I want to get into in 3rd year and they have an all round better astronomy department complete with 2 observatories. They also offered me a fair-sized entrance scholarship.
This is the school that I should logically go to and that's what the part of my brain who aces tests says I should go.
It makes logical sense to go to UVIC
UBC is "foreign" in that its a new environment in a new city (not because its practically Asia over there) that I've had little contact with. It will be an adventure, something new and exciting that suits the new and exciting chapter that will open in my life. I will be 'alone' for the first time (no family, not a whole lot of familiar faces). It is a very good university, one of the best in Canada with a decent astronomy department. Their campus is very advanced and modern. But they didn't offer me any scholarships so I'd be entirely dependent on loans, bursaries and whatever I've made so far.
Something at the university connected with me when I went there that I didn't feel when I went to UVIC. It's something I can't really describe, it'd be like describing colour to a person who has been blind all their life. But I definitely feel strong about UBC.
It is highly likely that I will go into a large student debt.
This is the school that I want to go in my...heart I guess, I don't say that alot
It feels right to go to UBC (of course not saying that it's a good or bad feeling)
I can't decide which university to go to and the opinions and choices I've been suggested aren't helping me either.
All my friends and younger people in general are suggesting that I follow my feeling/heart/dream and go to UBC
My parents and most adults I talk to are in favour for UVIC since it makes more sense to go.
This decision is tearing me apart because I'm afraid of making the wrong choice. Where I go shapes what I do for the rest of my life and if I pick the wrong one, how will that affect my life?
The logical side of my brain is battling the touchy-feely part of my brain and its a stalemate because every point for a university I come up with, I shoot it down with a counter point.
Being wrong is one of the few things that really ticks me off. But getting small stuff wrong like questions on a midterm or test, those things are small fry, they don't matter in the big picture. Screwing up a really BIG decision of my life, that would REALLY tick me off.
I just want to get it right but
I am still lost as to where to go and the deadline is running up fast
As much as I love UBC, UVic is just... better... for you expecially theyir astronomy department is top notch while UBCs is adequite. Plus UVic offered you a scholarship while UBC seems to not want you as much.
ReplyDeleteI've been to both schools before and I think UVic is better.
Plus you can always change your mind and use the money you saved by using a UVic scholarship to switch into second year university at UBC.
Well personally for me I'd follow my heart and go to UBC... But you could always just go to UVic and then transfer to UBC if you don't like it :P Maybe you can get a scholarship FROM UVic (I really dunno how the scholarship system works...) But if you do the same old same old you'll get bored haha (derp....) But yeah~ it's completely up to you! Just do what you think will be the best for you :3 and if it isn't... Change it 8D
ReplyDeleteYou should go to UVIC, as I assume you want to go somewhere else for your graduate program. UVIC has a small community and is quite docile compared to UBC. I advise that you go to UVIC and if you feel like you still want the feel of UBC switch during your graduate program.
ReplyDeleteIMHO go uvic and do your undergrad. then ubc for your majors. so you wont be piled with student debt.. while being able to experience the ubc environment. think rationally to much heart can hurt in the long run.
ReplyDeletehow did i end up with the adult and older people group anyways?
same for me when i decided to move. was it as nice as i thought it would be. no. but theres also the good things that came from it.
look. you can never make the right decision. just a better decision, a more intellectual one. cause murphys law... sometimes i wonder how things would be like if i never left. most likely dead eh?
anyways im here if you wanna talk about it.