TimNDansMom
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Dan went to Waterloo today to check out everything, with his friend who has been accepted into the Architecture program. They also went last fall so he's seen the campus before.
I had fallen asleep this afternoon and didn't even know that he had come home and gone to his room. When he suddenly appeared, I was surprised to find him home. He looked quite upset.
First of all he didn't like the residence room they looked at, at Waterloo ~ Village I. He said the painted cement block walls reminded him of our local jail (went on a tour there once). He said he started to feel unsure as he walked around the campus too. I know there's a new computer course that interests him but is not open to his Fine Art program. He spoke to someone at the Faculty of Arts and she said he may be able to get in if the class isn't full. I had been in Waterloo yesterday and dropped by the Faculty of Arts and spoke to the same person.
He had had his heart set on going to Western and he doesn't seem to be able to get past the fact that he didn't get accepted. Plus he really like the "cozy" residence we looked at there.
From what I can see, the Fine Art at Waterloo and the Visual Arts at Western are similar. He seems to think there is more potential for computer design at the Western program. I guess I'll have to phone to find out for sure. We had already discussed with him that for the "hands on" experience he could go to college for Interactive media and design, after university. Carleton offers a combined course with Algonquin, which he got accept in, but I think it's a more technical program because it has maths and physics, which he doesn't really want to take anymore.
I was going to take the acceptance papers over to the OUAC in Guelph and the residence office at Waterloo, myself, tomorrow. But now I might be going on Monday, the cut-off day to submit everything, or I might not.
Maybe he'll sleep on it and feel better in the morning or maybe make up his mind over the weekend, what he wants to do next year.
I had fallen asleep this afternoon and didn't even know that he had come home and gone to his room. When he suddenly appeared, I was surprised to find him home. He looked quite upset.
First of all he didn't like the residence room they looked at, at Waterloo ~ Village I. He said the painted cement block walls reminded him of our local jail (went on a tour there once). He said he started to feel unsure as he walked around the campus too. I know there's a new computer course that interests him but is not open to his Fine Art program. He spoke to someone at the Faculty of Arts and she said he may be able to get in if the class isn't full. I had been in Waterloo yesterday and dropped by the Faculty of Arts and spoke to the same person.
He had had his heart set on going to Western and he doesn't seem to be able to get past the fact that he didn't get accepted. Plus he really like the "cozy" residence we looked at there.
From what I can see, the Fine Art at Waterloo and the Visual Arts at Western are similar. He seems to think there is more potential for computer design at the Western program. I guess I'll have to phone to find out for sure. We had already discussed with him that for the "hands on" experience he could go to college for Interactive media and design, after university. Carleton offers a combined course with Algonquin, which he got accept in, but I think it's a more technical program because it has maths and physics, which he doesn't really want to take anymore.
I was going to take the acceptance papers over to the OUAC in Guelph and the residence office at Waterloo, myself, tomorrow. But now I might be going on Monday, the cut-off day to submit everything, or I might not.
Maybe he'll sleep on it and feel better in the morning or maybe make up his mind over the weekend, what he wants to do next year.